Electronic Enlightenment founding corpus project

Base texts for the EE Edition of Correspondences

Electronic Enlightenment's “founding corpus” is drawn from the following scholarly base-texts [editions marked * are still in preparation]:

  • Addison, Joseph. The letters of Joseph Addison. Ed. Walter Graham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941. Print.
  • * Amaduzzi, Giovanni Cristofano, Maria Maddalena Morelli. Il Carteggio tra Amaduzzi e Corilla Olimpica, 1775–1792. Ed. Luciana Morelli. 2 vols. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2000. Print.
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science. Gentlemen of Science: Early correspondence of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Ed. Jack Morrell & Arnold Thackray. London: Royal Historical Society, 1984. Print.
  • * Baglivi, Giorgio. Carteggio (1679–1704): Conservato nella Waller Collection presso la University Library "Carolina Rediviva" di Uppsala. Ed. Anna Toscano. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1999. Print.
  • Bayle, Pierre. Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Ed. Elisabeth Labrousse & Antony McKenna et al. 5 vols. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999–2007. Print.
  • Bentham, Jeremy. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Ed. J. H. Burns et al. 12 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968–2009. Print.
  • Boswell, James. Letters of James Boswell. Ed. Chauncey Brewster Tinker. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924. Print.
  • Boyle, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Boyle. Ed. Michael Hunter, Antonio Clericuzio & Lawrence Principe et al. Trans. David Money & Teresa Bridgeman. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001. Print.
  • Burke, Edmund. Letters of Edmund Burke: a selection. Ed. Harold J. Laski. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922. Print.
  • Clairmont, Claire, Charles Clairmont, Fanny Imlay Godwin. The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin. Ed. Marion Kingston Stocking. 2 vols. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Print.
  • Congress, First Federal. Correspondence: First Session. Ed. Charlene Bangs Bickford et al. 3+ vols. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004–. Print.
  • Cowper, William. The letters and prose writings of William Cowper. Ed. James King & Charles Ryskamp. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979–1986. Print.
  • Defoe, Daniel. The letters of Daniel Defoe. Ed. George Harris Healey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955. Print.
  • Descartes, René. The correspondence of René Descartes. Ed. Charles Adam & Paul Tannery. Trans. John Cottingham et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Print.
  • Dodsley, Robert. The correspondence of Robert Dodsley, 1733–1764. Ed. James E. Tierney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Print.
  • Fauquier, Francis. The Official Papers of Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia 1758–1768. Ed. George Reese. 3 vols. Charlottesville: Virginia Historical Society, 1980–1983. Print.
  • Ferguson, Adam. The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson. Ed. Vincenzo Merolle et al. 2 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995. Print.
  • Fitzhugh, William. William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake world, 1676–1701: The Fitzhugh Letters and Other Documents. Ed. Richard Beale Davis. Charlottesville: Virginia Historical Society, 1963. Print.
  • * Galiani, Celestino, Guido Grandi. Carteggio (1714–1729). Ed. Franco Palladino & Luisa Simonutti. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1989. Print.
  • Gay, John. The letters of John Gay. Ed. C. F. Burgess. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Print.
  • * Grandi, Guido, Jacob Hermann. Carteggio (1708–1714). Ed. Silvia Mazzone & Clara Silvia Roero. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1992. Print.
  • Gray, Thomas. Correspondence of Thomas Gray. Ed. Paget Toynbee & Leonard Whibley. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. Print.
  • * Guglielmini, Giambattista, Canterzani, Isolani, Matteucci, Bonfioli Malvezzi, Caldani, Calandrelli, Bonati. Carteggio: De diurno terræ motu. Ed. Maria Teresa Borgato & Alessandro Fiocca. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1994. Print.
  • Gustavus III. Gustave III par ses lettres. Ed. Gunnar von Proschwitz. Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 1986. Print.
  • Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard, Richard Kirwan. A Scientific Correspondence during the Chemical Revolution: Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau and Richard Kirwan, 1782–1802. Ed. Emmanuel Grison, Michelle Goupil & Patrice Bret. Berkeley: University of California, 1994. Print.
  • Halley, Edmond. Correspondence and papers of Edmond Halley. Ed. Eugene Fairfield MacPike. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932. Print.
  • Helvétius, Claude Adrien. Correspondance générale d'Helvétius. Ed. David Smith et al. 5 vols. Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1981–2004. Print.
  • Hobbes, Thomas. Thomas Hobbes: the correspondence. Ed. Noel Malcolm. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Print.
  • Hume, David. The letters of David Hume. Ed. J. Y. T. Greig. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932. Print.
  • Hume, David. New letters of David Hume. Ed. Raymond Klibansky & Ernest C. Mossner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954. Print.
  • * Kant, Immanuel. Briefwechsel. 2nd ed. Ed. Otto Schöndörffer, rev. Rudolf Malter. 2 vols. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1986. Print.
  • * Le Clerc, Jean. Epistolario. Ed. Maria Grazia & Mario Sina. 4 vols. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1987–1997. Print.
  • Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Ed. E. S. de Beer. 8 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976–1989. Print.
  • Mackenzie, Alexander. The journals and letters of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Ed. W. Kaye Lamb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Print.
  • * Moro, Anton Lazzaro. Carteggio (1735–1764). Ed. M. Baldini, L. Conti, L. Cristante & R. Piutti. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1993. Print.
  • * Muratori, Lodovico Antonio. Edizione Nazionale del Carteggio di L. A. Muratori. Ed. Paolo Castignoli, Anna Burlini Calpaj et al. 46 vols. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1975–. Print.
  • Nelson, William. The Correspondence of William Nelson as acting Governor of Virginia, 1770–1771. Ed. John C. Van Horne. Charlottesville: Virginia Historical Society, 1975. Print.
  • Pendleton, Edmund. The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734–1803. Ed. David John Mays. 2 vols. Charlottesville: Virginia Historical Society, 1967. Print.
  • Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784–1821 (formerly Mrs Thrale). Ed. Edward A. Bloom & Lillian D. Bloom et al. 6 vols. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989–2002. Print.
  • Pope, Alexander. Correspondence of Alexander Pope. Ed. George Sherburn. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. Print.
  • Price, Richard. The Correspondence of Richard Price. Ed. W. Bernard Peach & D. O. Thomas. 3 vols. Durham NC & Cardiff: Duke University Press & University of Wales Press, 1983–1994. Print.
  • Reid, Thomas. The Correspondence of Thomas Reid. Ed. Paul Wood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Print.
  • Reid, Thomas. Letters from Reid and the University. Ed. Alexander Broadie & Paul Wood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Print.
  • * Riccati, Jacopo, Antonio Vallisneri. Carteggio (1719–1729). Ed. Maria Laura Soppelsa. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1985. Print.
  • * Riccati, Jacopo, Giovanni Poleni. Carteggio (1715–1742). Ed. Maria Laura Soppelsa. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1997. Print.
  • Richardson, Samuel. Selected letters of Samuel Richardson. Ed. John Carroll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. Print.
  • Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau: édition critique établie et annotée par R. A. Leigh. Ed. Ralph A. Leigh. 52 vols. Geneva, Madison, Banbury, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1965–1998. Print.
  • Scott, David. The Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, relating to Indian Affairs, 1787–1805. Ed. C. H. Philips. 2 vols. London: Royal Historical Society, 1951. Print.
  • Sheridan, Betsy. Betsy Sheridan's journal: letters from Sheridan's sister, 1784–1786 and 1788–1790. 2nd ed. Ed. William LeFanu. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960. Print.
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Ed. Cecil Price. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Print.
  • Smith, Adam, Adam Ferguson, et al. "'This very awkward affair': an entanglement of Scottish professors with English lords", ed. D. D. Raphael, D. R. Raynor, I. S. Ross. SVEC 278 (1990): 419–463. Print.
  • Smith, Adam, Joseph von Windisch-Grätz. "Adam Smith and Count Windisch-Grätz: new letters", ed. Ian Ross & David Raynor. SVEC 358 (1998): 171–187. Print.
  • Smith, Adam. The Correspondence of Adam Smith. 2nd ed. Ed. E. C. Mossner & Ian Simpson Ross. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Print.
  • Stanhope, Philip. Lord Chesterfield: letters. Ed. David Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.
  • Steele, Richard. The Correspondence of Richard Steele. Ed. Rae Blanchard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941. Print.
  • Sterne, Laurence. Letters of Laurence Sterne. Ed. Lewis Perry Curtis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. Print.
  • Swift, Jonathan. The correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Harold Williams. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963. Print.
  • Taylor, Simon. The letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765–1775: Camden Miscellany 35. Ed. Betty Wood et al. London: Royal Historical Society, 2002. Print.
  • Voltaire, François Marie Arouet. Correspondence and related documents. 2nd ed. Ed. Theodore Besterman. 51 vols. Geneva, Banbury, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968–1977. Print.
  • Warton, Thomas. The Correspondence of Thomas Warton. Ed. David Fairer. Athens, GA & London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Print.
  • Young, Edward. The correspondence of Edward Young: 1683–1765. Ed. Henry Pettit. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Print.

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