Contents to date
- Nearly 6,000 correspondents
- Over 53,000 letters and documents
- Over 80,000 document sources — citing manuscripts and early editions
- Nearly 230,000 scholarly annotations
- Many languages — English, French, German, Italian, etc.
- A network of external links to other online resources
- Twice yearly updates — both published and previously unpublished correspondence
Current functionality
- Search and browse — by writer, recipient, date, location
- Printer-friendly layout — for letters, people, annotations
- User-friendly help pages — context specific
Subscriber and contributor services
- Excellent customer and technical support
- Detailed usage statistics
- Get involved — contribute new letters or suggest new correspondents
Available in 2009
- Free MARC21 records
- Static URLs — at the level of documents and corrrespondents
- Citation export to bibliographic software
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