Research Guides: ENGL 070: Poetry Project: Research and Development (SC): Letters & Correspondences

Finding Published Letters

The easiest way to consult correspondence is through published letters already in our holdings. Explore our holdings by searching Tripod for letters. Use the filters in the left sidebar to refine results by library, physical or digital, date range, or subject.

Local Letters & Correspondence

Triptych: Digitized Letters & Correspondences
Many of the letters in physical archival holdings of the tri-colleges that have been digitized. Use the faceting in the left sidebar to limit by collection of interest.
Tri-College Archives & Manuscripts
Database of collection guides describing archival and manuscript collections at Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described are physically available in our respective reading rooms, and not digitally available through the web.

Databases with Correspondences

We also subscribe to a number of databases that contain letters and correspondencs that you may find useful. Finding letters written by poets will be the (exciting) challenge.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 90,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The collection now includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Electronic Enlightenment
Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.
Sixties: Primary Documents & Personal Narratives, 1960-1974
Provides a searchable collection that brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics.
Gale Biography in Context
While this does not include letters per se, a great place for general biographical information.

Digitized Letters & Correspondence

The Browning Letters
While we have most of these in print, it is useful to see the original writing.
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
- The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas.
The Walt Whitman Archvie
Here you will find transcriptions and page images of Whitman's poetry manuscripts.
Correspondences from The Rossetti Archive
The Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain.
Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online
NINES is a federated search across a number of related digital projects around the nineteenth century. It includes access to curated digital correspondences to major poets including Swinburne, Blake, Dickinson, Hunt, Arnold and Arnold.
Phono Post
A digital archive of recorded audio messages sent through via post sponsored jointly by Princeton, the Einstein Foundation and the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School.