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12002	People
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560	Organisations
105	Repositories

8	Catalogues
60529	Letters
65447	Letter Versions
9332	Images
26249	Comments
15782	Related resources

Welcome to a new union catalogue of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century correspondence, now in public beta!

Created by the Cultures of Knowledge Project with generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Early Modern Letters Online — EMLO — is a combined finding aid and editorial interface for basic descriptions of early modern correspondence. This public prototype combines calendars of eight contributing collections. However, with the continuing addition of metadata on letters — manuscript, printed, and digital — by other individuals, projects, and repositories, EMLO aims to become the first freely available union catalogue of these often elusive documents. Search or Browse our existing collections, and find out how you can Contribute...

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Search across abstracts, keywords, incipits, excipits, transcriptions, and enclosures, e.g. 'Spider' or 'Mathematics'. Search is not case sensitive. ! Please note that EMLO is a catalogue first and foremost and that full-text transcriptions are currently only available for the Lhwyd and Selden collections.
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Record of the Week

Record of the Week: Carmelite Capers Part of my work on the Bodleian card catalogue involves identifying people mentioned in the abstracts and when two friars, going by the names of ‘Joan: Mario, and Julio Cesare’, appeared on my screen in a letter dated 14 February 1614, the temptation to find out who they were proved too great to resist; little [...]
( 7-May-2012 )

Catalogue News

Gender and the Digital Silo: CofK at Situating Early Modern Science Networks Workshop I’ve recently returned from the Situating Early Modern Science Networks workshop at the University of Saskatchewan in a chilly but sunny Saskatoon. Hosted by Dr Lisa Smith (who we met when she gave an excellent paper on Hans Sloane’s correspondence in our 2011 seminar series), the two-day event (12-13 April) saw scholars from the UK, Canada [...]
( 2-May-2012 )