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The EE Home page – welcome to EE!

Introduction to what EE is & what it does

About EE includes lists of current correspondents and editions included

A list of all writers and recipients featured in EE

Each has dates (if known) and a brief description

Browse – a good place to start

Sort alphabetically or by date of birth

View all whose last name begins with…

Narrow your results

Correspondent’s Page – biographical details

View a list of their letters or correspondents

A short biography

External links of interest

DOI citation for the individual

Number of letters in EE

Key facts about their life

Clicking on a letter on the Correspondent’s page brings up that letter

MORE on this page later…

Quick Search – simple and fast

Search by the name of the writer or recipient …

… carry out a simple word search …

… or find a letter matching a source edition reference

Search – a world of possibilities

Find words, exclude words

Search by people ...

... by place ...

... and by date

Match source edition reference

Finally, sort your results

Select the language

Search by category

Your Results – your link to the letters

Source edition and publisher

Location and date of writing

Hotlink to the document

Document Page – full text & links

Tab easily to enclosures, related documents, and translations

META sidebar gives access to details about the letter, its writer and its recipient

Print or email, or have a chat in the Coffee-house

META calculates the writer’s and recipient’s ages, and even the day of the week

Click here to go to Correspondent’s page (as seen earlier)

... and multiple further links to the Oxford DNB and other related online resources

Information on address, postmarks and any original annotations

Information on manuscripts and early print editions...

... with links to the holding archives

Full citation of the source edition...

... with links to volume details and prelims

Call up the textual, editorial or linguistic notes

Note calls in the text call specific notes

Advice and help on technical support and managing your account

Subscriber services – for users and librarians

One of the menu choices from the public pages

Links in the notes let you call up related letters and documents