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How to cite this web-edition as a whole

Bess of Hardwick's Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550-1608, ed. by Alison Wiggins, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann and Graham Williams, University of Glasgow, web development by Katherine Rogers, University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute (April 2013), [date of access], http://www.bessofhardwick.org

How to cite an individual letter transcript

ID 100, Bess of Hardwick to James Crompe, 8 March [1560?], in Bess of Hardwick's Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550-1608, ed. by Alison Wiggins, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann and Graham Williams, University of Glasgow, web development by Katherine Rogers, University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute (April 2013) [date of access], http://www.bessofhardwick.org/letter.jsp?letter=100

How to cite a web-essay

Graham Williams, 'The Language of Early Modern Letters: A Reader's Guide', in Bess of Hardwick's Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550-1608, ed. by Alison Wiggins, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann and Graham Williams, University of Glasgow, web development by Katherine Rogers, University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute (April 2013) [date of access], [url for the contents page of the essay]

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© British Library Board (Cotton Caligula C. iii, fols. 561r-62v [ID 197]; Lansdowne 34, fols 4r-5v [ID 162]; Lansdowne 71, fols 3r-4v [ID 163]; Additional 24783, fols 113r-14v [ID 160]; Additional 12506, fols 209r-10v [ID 161])

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Content

This web site brings together Bess of Hardwick's correspondence and aims to be complete, accurate and accessible. Additions and revisions will be made annually and details can be found at Forthcoming Updates. The current site, released April 2013, comprises:

• xml transcripts of 234 letters to and from Bess of Hardwick (transcription and xml mark-up by Alan Bryson, Anke Timmermann, Alison Wiggins and Graham Williams)
• Colour images of 185 letters from 8 archives, libraries and repositories
• 234 letter summaries and 90 biographies of correspondents (by Anke Timmermann, Alison Wiggins and Graham Williams): 22,708 words
• Background essays ('The Material Features of Early Modern Letters: A Reader's Guide' by Daniel Starza Smith, 18,017 words; 'Bess of Hardwick's Life in 12 Letters' and 'Editing Bess of Hardwick's Letters' by Alison Wiggins, 18,743 and 23,394 words; 'Tutorial: Reading Early Modern Handwriting' by Alison Wiggins and Graham Williams, 7,744 words; and 'The Language of Early Modern Letters: A Reader's Guide' by Graham Williams, 11,347 words): 79,245 words
• 6 podcasts written and produced by Anke Timmermann: 39:48
• Batch files containing all the XML transcripts of the letters - BessXML_v1_0.zip or BessXML_v1_0.tar.gz
• Batch files containg all the letters as PDFs  - BessPDF_v1_0.zip or BessPDF_v1_0.tar.gz.