Welcome to Electronic Enlightenment

Sample letters

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Essential access to the philosophy and writing of the founders of the modern world . . .

EE offers unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.

Academically researched and verified links allow you to follow the trail of letters across people, place and time in a way simply not possible until now.

EE is a scholarly research project of the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford that has taken ten years to develop.

What does EE allow me to do?

Access over 50,000 letters and documents online.
Cross-search letters between more than 5000 correspondents including writers, scientists, philosophers and politicians.
Research letters, annotations and supporting materials with over 20,000 cross-references between the documents.
Follow the expanding network of links to other online resources, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.

EE will be updated each year with further critical editions and previously unpublished correspondences.

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