The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence

Letter collections

The PCEEC is made up of 84 files, each containing letters from a single edited collection (or in a few cases from two related collections). This is a subset of the collections that make up the CEEC. All the collections contain the same letters as in the CEEC except for Clifford, Henslowe, Oxinden, and Royal2, which contain a subset of the original (due to copyright restrictions).

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Collection Allen
Filename allen
Date range 1579-1593
Number of letters 4
Word count 5,070

Edition: Letters of William Allen and Richard Barret, 1572-1598. Ed. by P. Renold. Catholic Record Society, 58. Oxford: Oxonian Press. 1967.


Collection Arundel
Filename arundel
Date range 1589-1680
Number of letters 78
Word count 19,202

Edition: The Life, Correspondence & Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, "Father of Vertu in England". Ed. by Mary F. S. Hervey. Cambridge: The University Press. 1921.


Collection Bacon
Filename bacon
Date range 1569?-1594
Number of letters 380
Word count 139,004

Edition: The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey. Ed. by A. Hassell Smith, Gillian M. Baker and R. W. Kenny. Norfolk Record Society, 46, 49 and 53. Norwich: Norfolk Record Society. 1978 and 1979, 1982 and 1983, 1987 and 1988.


Collection Barrington
Filename barring
Date range 1628-1632
Number of letters 191
Word count 63,934

Edition: Barrington Family Letters, 1628-1632. Ed. by Arthur Searle.Camden Fourth Series, 28. London: Royal Historical Society. 1983.


Collection Basire
Filename basire
Date range 1651-1666
Number of letters 12
Word count 7,068

Edition: The Correspondence of Isaac Basire, D.D., Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham, in the Reigns of Charles I. and Charles II., with a Memoir of His Life. Ed. by W. N. Darnell. London: John Murray. 1831. [CEECS]


Collection Bentham
Filename bentham
Date range 1560-1561
Number of letters 16
Word count 4,102

Edition: The Letter-Book of Thomas Bentham, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1560-1561. Ed. by Rosemary O'Day and Joel Berlatsky. In Camden Miscellany 27. Camden Fourth Series, 22. London: Royal Historical Society. 1979.


Collection Brereton
Filename brereto
Date range 1520?-1539?
Number of letters 25
Word count 9,748

Edition: Letters and Accounts of William Brereton of Malpas. Ed. by E. W. Ives. Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 116. Old Woking, Surrey: Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 1976.


Collection Browne
Filename browne
Date range 1653-1681
Number of letters 64
Word count 20,778

Edition: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Vol. IV: Letters. Ed. by Geoffrey Keynes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1964.


Collection Bryskett
Filename brysket
Date range 1581-1583
Number of letters 10
Word count 8,961

Edition: The Life and Correspondence of Lodowick Bryskett. Ed. by Henry R. Plomer and Tom Peete Cross. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1927.


Collection Cecil
Filename cecil
Date range 1586
Number of letters 6
Word count 1,634

Edition: The Bardon Papers. Documents Relating to the Imprisonment & Trial of Mary Queen of Scots. Ed. by Conyers Read. Camden Third Series, 17. London: Royal Historical Society. 1909.


Collection Cely
Filename cely
Date range 1474-1488
Number of letters 149
Word count 51,478

Edition: The Cely Letters 1472-1488. Ed. by Alison Hanham. Early English Text Society, 273. London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1975.


Collection Chamberlain
Filename chamber
Date range 1597-1625
Number of letters 71
Word count 69,349

Edition: The Letters of John Chamberlain. Ed. by Norman Egbert McClure. American Philosophical Society, Memoirs, 12, Parts I-II. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 1939.


Collection Charles
Filename charles
Date range 1634-1678
Number of letters 9
Word count 2,964

Edition: Five Letters of King Charles II. Ed. by the Marquis of Bristol. In Camden Miscellany 5. Camden Original Series, 87. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1864/1968. AND Letter of the Council to Sir Thomas Lake, Relating to the Proceedings of Sir Edward Coke at Oatlands. Ed. by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. In Camden Miscellany 5. Camden Original Series, 87. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1864/1968.


Collection Clerk
Filename clerk
Date range 1458?-1590
Number of letters 13
Word count 3,876

Edition: Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries from the Archives of Southampton. Ed. by R. C. Anderson. Publications of the Southampton Record Society. Southampton: Southampton Record Society. 1921.


Collection Clifford
Filename cliffo
Date range 1490S-1568
Number of letters 75
Word count 24,432

Edition: Letters of the Cliffords, Lords Clifford and Earls of Cumberland, c. 1500-c. 1565. Ed. by R. W. Hoyle. In Camden Miscellany 31. Camden Fourth Series, 44. London: Royal Historical Society. 1992.
Note that the PCEEC does not contain the full set of Clifford letters contained in the CEEC.


Collection Conway
Filename conway
Date range 1640-1680
Number of letters 98
Word count 57,946

Edition: The Conway Letters. The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their Friends. 1642-1684. Ed. by Marjorie Hope Nicolson. Revised ed. by Sarah Hutton. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1992.


Collection Corie
Filename corie
Date range 1666-1671
Number of letters 13
Word count 4,626

Edition: The Correspondence of Thomas Corie, Town Clerk of Norwich, 1664-1687. With His Annotations to Edward Browne's Travels and Other Memoranda. Ed. by Robert H. Hill. Norfolk Record Society, 27. Norwich: Norfolk Record Society. 1956.


Collection Cornwallis
Filename cornwal
Date range 1613-1644
Number of letters 192
Word count 61,608

Edition: The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis, 1613-1644. Ed. by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke. London: S. & J. Bentley, Wilson, & Fley. 1842.


Collection Cosin
Filename cosin
Date range 1617-1695?
Number of letters 84
Word count 37,855

Edition: The Correspondence of John Cosin, D.D., Lord Bishop of Durham: Together with Other Papers Illustrative of his Life and Times. Parts I-II. Ed. by George Ornsby. Publications of the Surtees Society, 52, 55. Durham, London and Edinburgh: Surtees Society. 1869, 1872.


Collection Cromwell
Filename cromwel
Date range 1523-1540
Number of letters 93
Word count 44,386

Edition: Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell. Vols. I-II. Ed. by Roger Bigelow Merriman. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1902.


Collection Derby
Filename derby
Date range 1523-1540
Number of letters 44
Word count 44,386

Edition: Correspondence of Edward, Third Earl of Derby, during the Years 24 to 31 Henry VIII. Ed. by T. Northcote Toller. Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, New Series, 19. Manchester: Chetham Society. 1890.


Collection Duppa
Filename duppa
Date range 1650-1660
Number of letters 76
Word count 28,410

Edition: The Correspondence of Bishop Brian Duppa and Sir Justinian Isham 1650-1660. Ed. by Sir Gyles Isham. Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society, 17. Lamport Hall: Northamptonshire Record Society. 1951.


Collection Edmondes
Filename edmonde
Date range 1592-1599
Number of letters 23
Word count 20,522

Edition: The Edmondes Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Envoy from Queen Elizabeth at the French Court. Ed. by Geoffrey G. Butler. London: Roxburghe Club. 1913.


Collection Elyot
Filename elyot
Date range 1528-1536
Number of letters 11
Word count 7,201

Edition: The Letters of Sir Thomas Elyot. Ed. by K. J. Wilson. Studies in Philology (Text and Studies, 1976), 73 (5): ix-78. 1976.


Collection Essex
Filename essex
Date range 1675-1677
Number of letters 44
Word count 25,206

Edition: Selections from the Correspondence of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, 1675-77. Ed. by Clement Edwards Pike. Camden Third Series, 24. London: Royal Historical Society. 1913.


Collection Ferrar
Filename ferrar
Date range 1613-1659?
Number of letters 38
Word count 17,126

Edition: The Ferrar Papers Containing a Life of Nicholas Ferrar, the Winding-sheet, an Ascetic Dialogue, a Collection of Short Moral Histories, a Selection of Family Letters. Ed. by B. Blackstone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1938.


Collection Ffarington
Filename ffaring
Date range 1547-1554
Number of letters 16
Word count 6,125

Edition: The Ffarington Papers. The Shrievalty of William Ffarington, Esq.; A.D. 1636: Documents Relating to the Civil War: And an Appendix, Containing a Collection of Letters Taken from the Ffarington Correspondence between the Years 1547 and 1688. Ed. by Susan Maria Ffarington. Chetham Society, 39. Manchester: Chetham Society. 1856.


Collection Fitzherbert
Filename fitzher
Date range 1608-1610
Number of letters 10
Word count 11,271

Edition: Letters of Thomas Fitzherbert, 1608-1610. Ed. by L. Hicks. Publications of the Catholic Record Society, 41. London: Catholic Record Society. 1948.


Collection Fleming
Filename fleming
Date range 1650-1680
Number of letters 136
Word count 39,833

Edition: The Flemings in Oxford, Being Documents Selected from the Rydal Papers in Illustration of the Lives and Ways of Oxford Men 1650-1700. Vol. I. Ed. by John Richard Magrath. Oxford Historical Society, 44. 1904.


Collection Fox
Filename fox
Date range 1497?-1519
Number of letters 21
Word count 10,554

Edition: Letters of Richard Fox, 1486-1527. Ed. by P. S. and H. M. Allen. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1929.


Collection Gardiner
Filename gardin
Date range 1528-1554
Number of letters 58
Word count 31,785

Edition: The Letters of Stephen Gardiner. Ed. by James Arthur Muller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1933.


Collection Haddock
Filename haddock
Date range 1657-1673
Number of letters 12
Word count 5,657

Edition: Correspondence of the Family of Haddock, 1657-1719. Ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson. In Camden Miscellany 8. Camden New Series, 31. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1883/1965.


Collection Hamilton
Filename hamilto
Date range 1648-1650
Number of letters 7
Word count 1,091

Edition: The Hamilton Papers: Being Selections from the Original Letters in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon Relating to the Years 1638-1650. Ed. by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Camden New Series, 27. 1880.


Collection Harley
Filename harley
Date range 1625-1666
Number of letters 77
Word count 24,915

Edition: Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, Wife of Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Knight of the Bath. Ed. by Thomas Taylor Lewis. Camden Original Series, 57. London: Camden Society. 1854.


Collection Hart
Filename hart
Date range 1561-1578
Number of letters 3
Word count 2,139

Edition: John Hart's Works on English Orthography and Pronunciation (1551, 1569, 1570). Part I. Ed. by Bror Danielsson. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. 1955.


Collection Harvey
Filename harvey
Date range 1573
Number of letters 4
Word count 9,759

Edition: Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey, A.D. 1573-1580. Ed. by Edward John Long Scott. Camden New Series, 33. London: Camden Society. 1884.


Collection Hastings
Filename hasting
Date range 1573-1609
Number of letters 40
Word count 21,846

Edition: The Letters of Sir Francis Hastings 1574-1609. Ed. by Claire Cross. Somerset Record Society, 69. London: Somerset Record Society. 1969.


Collection Hatton
Filename hatton
Date range 1601-1681
Number of letters 76
Word count 33,831

Edition: Correspondence of the Family of Hatton Being Chiefly Letters Addressed to Christopher First Viscount Hatton, A. D. 1601-1704. Vols. I-II. Ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson. Camden New Series, 22 and 23. London: Camden Society. 1878.


Collection Henry VIII
Filename henry8
Date range 1528
Number of letters 8
Word count 1,629

Edition: Die Liebesbriefe Heinrichs VIII. an Anna Boleyn. Ed. by Theo Stemmler. Zürich: Belser Verlag. 1988.


Collection Henslowe
Filename henslo
Date range 1600S
Number of letters 3
Word count 553

Edition: "Forgeries and One-Eyed Bulls: Editorial Questions in Corpus Work". Ed. by Jukka Keräaut;nen. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 99 (2): 217-226. Helsinki. 1998.
Note that the PCEEC does not contain the full set of Henslowe letters contained in the CEEC.


Collection Holles
Filename holles
Date range 1587-1637
Number of letters 136
Word count 66,367

Edition: Letters of John Holles, 1587-1637. Vol. I. Ed. by P. R. Seddon. Thoroton Society Record Series, 31. Nottingham: Thoroton Society. 1975.


Collection Hoskyns
Filename hoskyns
Date range 1601-1629
Number of letters 34
Word count 12,368

Edition: The Life, Letters and Writings of John Hoskyns, 1566-1638. Ed. by Louise Brown Osborn. Yale Studies in English, 87. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1937.


Collection Hutton
Filename hutton
Date range 1566-1633
Number of letters 83
Word count 25,340

Edition: The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. With a Selection from the Letters, etc. of Sir Timothy Hutton, Knt., His Son; and Matthew Hutton, Esq., His Grandson. Ed. by J. Raine. Publications of the Surtees Society, 17. London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, William Pickering; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes. 1843.


Collection Jones
Filename jones
Date range 1651-1660
Number of letters 62
Word count 33,877

Edition: Inedited Letters of Cromwell, Colonel Jones, Bradshaw and Other Regicides. Ed. by Joseph Mayer. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, New Series, 1. Liverpool: Adam Holden. 1861.


Collection Jonson
Filename jonson
Date range 1600?-1631?
Number of letters 16
Word count 3,798

Edition: Ben Jonson. Vol. I. Corrected edition. Ed. by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1954.


Collection Knyvett
Filename knyvett
Date range 1620-1644
Number of letters 45
Word count 27,355

Edition: The Knyvett Letters (1620-1644). Ed. by Bertram Schofield. London: Constable & Company. 1949.


Collection Leycester
Filename leycest
Date range 1585-1586
Number of letters 95
Word count 67,788

Edition: Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, During His Government of the Low Countries, in the Years 1585 and 1586. Ed. by John Bruce. Camden Original Series, 27. London: Camden Society. 1844.


Collection Lisle
Filename lisle
Date range 1533-1539
Number of letters 16
Word count 5,774

Edition: The Lisle Letters. Ed. by Muriel St. Clare Byrne. Vols. I-VI. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1981.


Collection Marchall
Filename marchal
Date range 1440?-1476
Number of letters 12
Word count 4,834

Edition: The Marchall Letters. Re-edited by Jukka Ker(a-umlaut)nen, Terttu Nevalainen and Arja Nurmi. MS. Public Record Office, SC1. Published in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler. 1999.


Collection Marvell
Filename marvell
Date range 1653-1677
Number of letters 18
Word count 10,616

Edition: The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell. Vol. II: Letters. Ed. by H. M. Margoliouth. 3rd ed. Revised by Pierre Legouis. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1971.


Collection Minette
Filename minette
Date range 1662-1669
Number of letters 27
Word count 7,748

Edition: My Dearest Minette: The Letters between Charles II and His Sister Henrietta, the Duchesse d'Orl(e-acute)ans. Ed. by Ruth Norrington. London: Peter Owen. 1996.


Collection More
Filename more
Date range 1505-1535
Number of letters 45
Word count 36,942

Edition: The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More. Ed. by Elizabeth Frances Rogers. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1947.


Collection Original 1
Filename origin1
Date range 1418?-1529?
Number of letters 43
Word count 23,176

Edition: Original Letters, Illustrative of English History; Including Numerous Royal Letters: From Autographs in the British Museum, and One or Two Other Collections. Vol. I. Ed. by Henry Ellis. 2nd edition. London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard. 1825.


Collection Original 2
Filename origin2
Date range 1520?-1586
Number of letters 43
Word count 16,867

Edition: Original Letters, Illustrative of English History; Including Numerous Royal Letters: From Autographs in the British Museum, and One or Two Other Collections. Vol. II. Ed. by Henry Ellis. 2nd edition. London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard. 1825.


Collection Original 3
Filename origin3
Date range 1580?-1665
Number of letters 33
Word count 9,955

Edition: Original Letters, Illustrative of English History; Including Numerous Royal Letters: From Autographs in the British Museum, and One or Two Other Collections. Vol. III. Ed. by Henry Ellis. 2nd edition. London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard. 1825.


Collection Osborne
Filename osborne
Date range 1652-1657?
Number of letters 87
Word count 71,100

Edition: The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Ed. by G. C. Moore Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1959/1928.


Collection Oxinden
Filename oxinde
Date range 1607-1642
Number of letters 175
Word count 63,717

Edition: The Oxinden Letters 1607-1642. Being the Correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham and His Circle. Ed. by Dorothy Gardiner. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. 1933.
Note that the PCEEC does not contain the full set of Oxinden letters contained in the CEEC.


Collection Paget
Filename paget
Date range 1547-1563
Number of letters 40
Word count 25,430

Edition: The Letters of William, Lord Paget of Beaudesert, 1547-1563. Ed. by Barrett L. Beer and Sybil M. Jack. In Camden Miscellany 25. Camden Fourth Series, 13. London: Royal Historical Society. 1974.


Collection Parkhurst
Filename parkhur
Date range 1569-1575
Number of letters 92
Word count 34,797

Edition: The Letter Book of John Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich Compiled during the Years 1571-5. Ed. by R. A. Houlbrooke. Norfolk Record Society, 43. Norwich: Norfolk Record Society. 1974 and 1975.


Collection Paston
Filename paston
Date range 1425-1519?
Number of letters 519
Word count 234,098

Edition: Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Parts I-II. Ed. by Norman Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1971 and 1976.


Collection PastonK
Filename pastonk
Date range 1603-1627?
Number of letters 83
Word count 29,626

Edition: The Correspondence of Lady Katherine Paston, 1603-1627. Ed. by Ruth Hughey. Norfolk Record Society, 14. Norwich: Norfolk Record Society. 1941.


Collection Pepys
Filename pepys
Date range 1663-1680
Number of letters 80
Word count 42,476

Edition: The Letters of Samuel Pepys and His Family Circle. Ed. by Helen Truesdell Heath. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1955.


Collection Petty
Filename petty
Date range 1676-1681
Number of letters 46
Word count 22,408

Edition: The Petty-Southwell Correspondence 1676-1687. Ed. by Marquis of Lansdowne. Reprints of Economic Classics. New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers. 1928/1967.


Collection Plumpton
Filename plumpto
Date range 1461-1549?
Number of letters 118
Word count 36,531

Edition: Plumpton Correspondence. A Series of Letters, Chiefly Domestick, Written in the Reigns of Edward IV. Richard III. Henry VII. and Henry VIII. Ed. by Thomas Stapleton. Camden Original Series, 4. New York: AMS Press. 1839/1968.


Collection Pory
Filename pory
Date range 1610-1632
Number of letters 4
Word count 6,084

Edition: John Pory: 1572-1636. The Life and Letters of a Man of Many Parts. Ed. by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1977.


Collection Prideaux
Filename prideau
Date range 1674-1680
Number of letters 10
Word count 7,571

Edition: Letters of Humphrey Prideaux Sometime Dean of Norwich, to John Ellis Sometime Under-Secretary of State, 1674-1722. Ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson. Camden New Series, 15. London: Camden Society. 1875.


Collection Rerum
Filename rerum
Date range 1483-1509?
Number of letters 19
Word count 5,914

Edition: Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores. Or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages. Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III. & Henry VII. Vols. I-II. Ed. by James Gairdner. Published by the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. 1861, 1863.


Collection Royal 1
Filename royal1
Date range 1585-1596
Number of letters 28
Word count 14,157

Edition: Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI. of Scotland; Some of Them Printed from Originals in the Possession of the Rev. Edward Ryder, and Others from a MS. which Formerly Belonged to Sir Peter Thompson, Kt. Ed. by John Bruce. Camden Original Series, 46. London: Camden Society. 1849.


Collection Royal 2
Filename royal2
Date range 1612?-1614?
Number of letters 2
Word count 229

Edition: Letters to King James the Sixth from the Queen, Prince Henry, Prince Charles, the Princess Elizabeth and Her Husband Frederick King of Bohemia, and from Their Son Prince Frederick Henry. Ed. by Sir Patrick Walker and Alexander Macdonald. Edinburgh: The Maitland Club. 1835.
Note that the PCEEC does not contain the full set of Royal 2 letters contained in the CEEC.


Collection Rutland
Filename rutland
Date range 1490?-1503
Number of letters 6
Word count 1,127

Edition: The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, G.C.B., Preserved at Belvoir Castle. Vols. I-II. Ed. by H. C. Maxwell Lyte. Historical Manuscripts Commission, Twelfth Report Appendix, Part IV. London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Byre and Spottiswoode. 1888.


Collection Shillingford
Filename shillin
Date range 1447-1448
Number of letters 17
Word count 13,526

Edition: Letters and Papers of John Shillingford, Mayor of Exeter 1447-50. Ed. by Stuart A. Moore. Camden New Series, 2. New York: Johnson Reprint Company. 1871/1965.


Collection Signet
Filename signet
Date range 1410?-1422
Number of letters 93
Word count 15,029

Edition: The Signet Letters of Henry V. In: An Anthology of Chancery English. Ed. by John H. Fisher, Malcolm Richardson and Jane L. Fisher. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1984.


Collection Smyth
Filename smyth
Date range 1580?-1641
Number of letters 33
Word count 10,346

Edition: Calendar of the Correspondence of the Smyth Family of Ashton Court 1548-1642. Ed. by J. H. Bettey. Publications of the Bristol Record Society, 35. Gloucester: Bristol Record Society. 1982.


Collection Stiffkey
Filename stiffke
Date range 1600?-1609?
Number of letters 3
Word count 899

Edition: The Official Papers of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Norfolk as Justice of the Peace 1580-1620. Ed. by H. W. Saunders. Camden Third Series, 26. London: Camden Society. 1915.


Collection Stockwell
Filename stockwe
Date range 1602-1611
Number of letters 83
Word count 26,503

Edition: The Miscellaneous Papers of Captain Thomas Stockwell, 1590-1611. Vols. I-II. Ed. by J. Rutherford. Southampton Record Society, 32, 33. Southampton: Cox & Sharland, Ltd. 1932 and 1933.


Collection Stonor
Filename stonor
Date range 1420?-1483?
Number of letters 129
Word count 38,006

Edition: The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483. Vols. I-II. Ed. by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. Camden Third Series, 29 and 30. London: Camden Society. 1919. AND Supplementary Stonor Letters and Papers (1314-1482). Ed. by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. In Camden Miscellany 13. Camden Third Series, 34. London: Camden Society. 1923.


Collection Stuart
Filename stuart
Date range 1588-1611?
Number of letters 71
Word count 31,578

Edition: The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart. Ed. by Sara Jayne Steen. Women Writers in English 1350-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1994.


Collection Tixall
Filename tixall
Date range 1650?-1680?
Number of letters 40
Word count 11,544

Edition: Tixall Letters; Or the Correspondence of the Aston Family, and Their Friends, during the Seventeenth Century. Vol. II. Ed. by Arthur Clifford. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1815.


Collection Verstegan
Filename versteg
Date range 1592-1617
Number of letters 21
Word count 15,493

Edition: The Letters and Despatches of Richard Verstegan (c. 1550-1640). Ed. by Anthony G. Petti. Publications of the Catholic Record Society, 52. London: Catholic Record Society. 1959.


Collection Wentworth
Filename wentwor
Date range 1597-1629
Number of letters 96
Word count 41,403

Edition: Wentworth Papers 1597-1628. Ed. by J. P. Cooper. Camden Fourth Series, 12. London: Royal Historical Society. 1973.


Collection WeSa
Filename wesa
Date range 1632-1642
Number of letters 7
Word count 4,320

Edition: Four Letters of Lord Wentworth, Afterwards Earl of Strafford, with a Poem on His Illness. Ed. by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. In Camden Miscellany 8. Camden New Series, 31. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1883/1965. AND Papers Relating to the Delinquency of Lord Savile, 1642-1646. Ed. by James J. Cartwright. In Camden Miscellany 8. Camden New Series, 31. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1883/1965.


Collection Wharton
Filename wharton
Date range 1642
Number of letters 8
Word count 8,068

Edition: "Letters from a Subaltern Officer of the Earl of Essex's Army, Written in the Summer and Autumn of 1642." Ed. by Sir Henry Ellis. Archaeologia 35: 310-334. London. 1854.


Collection Willoughby
Filename willoug
Date range 1520?-1549?
Number of letters 34
Word count 10,838

Edition: Willoughby Letters of the First Half of the Sixteenth Century. Ed. by Mary A. Welch. In Nottinghamshire Miscellany No. 4. Thoroton Society Record Series, 24. Nottingham: Thoroton Society. 1967


Collection Wyatt
Filename wyatt
Date range 1520?-1549?
Number of letters 29
Word count 10,838

Edition: Willoughby Letters of the First Half of the Sixteenth Century. Ed. by Mary A. Welch. In Nottinghamshire Miscellany No. 4. Thoroton Society Record Series, 24. Nottingham: Thoroton Society. 1967