Letters and diaries (transcribed only)

Legacy page, last updated 14 March 2026.

Edition

Salutations

1717 transcribed items, over 900,000 words, plus 1485 untranscribed, are now in Manchester Digital Collections (MDC). The corpus is also freely available for non-profit use: please fill in our simple online form for offline access to diplomatic and normalised text files.¹ See an overview of our editorial practices here.

Individual letters and diaries

The table below, too long for convenient online browsing, is one entry point to MDC.² Type in the search box to filter the table by any part of a name, date and/or reference ID. Clicking a column header re-sorts the table. To jump to the desired item in MDC, click its reference ID in the first column. Once in MDC, click View more options > Transcription (diplomatic). Transcriptions are still available on this site as well, accessed by clicking in the second column instead. [Internet Explorer not recommended; use another browser.]