Letter from the Sell Collection
![Letter from John to William Sell](https://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/44529/images/Sell.jpg)
The letter displayed to the right is from the John M. Sell Civil War Collection. To build an MLA-style citation for this letter, you might fill the practice template out like this:
![](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/44529/images/sell-mla-practice-template2.jpg)
Full Citation
The citation would look like this in your works cited list:
Sell, John M. Letter to William Sell. John M. Sell Civil War Collection, 3 November 1861. Box 1, Folder 3, Special Collections and Archives, Universtiy Library, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles.
See the MLA Handbook pages 30-36 for more information.