The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence

Word and token count information by period

The periods are those used by the Helsinki Corpus, the PPCME2, and the PPCEME.
Period Date Word count Token count
M3 1350-1419 19,505 684
M4 1420-1499 364,317 20,039
E1 1500-1569 309,220 11,056
E2 1570-1639 910,675 44,067
E3 1640-1710 555,415 29,185
Wordcounts for individual files can be found in the information on the letter collections.