Digitisation of the Mary Hamilton Archive: Letters

The following is an example of a digital image of one of the original manuscript letters, produced at The University of Manchester Library.

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Reproduced by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, the John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester

All letters will be transliterated using TEI and XML-conformant mark-up, including header information with background on the letter.

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The development of the annotation scheme is described in more detail in Kindlimann, Moira. 2014. The Digitisation of Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Letters. Unpublished Litentiatsarbeit: University of Zurich.

A list of letters that will be digitised can be found here

Other Hamilton letters are being transliterated in a separate project at the University of Manchester (principal investigators: Prof. Dr. h.c. David Denison and Dr. Nuria Yáñez-Bouza click http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/research/projects/image-to-text/ for details.