Established in 2009, we are a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Oxford with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. We are using digital methods to reassemble and interpret the correspondence networks of the early modern period.

We also curate an archive of epistolary Resources, and maintain an active Blog. Our continuing objective is to develop EMLO into a union catalogue increasingly representative of the early modern Republic of Letters as a whole, an invaluable research tool for those confronting epistolary data on all scales, and a platform for the collaborative reconstruction of the correspondence cultures of the early modern world.