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  • Bram Stoker

    Bram Stoker

    Monsters inhabited every part of Bram Stoker's life. The Irishman who created Dracula was also as the personal assistant of the overbearing Shakespearean actor Henry Irving. Many see Irving as the model for the Transylvanian count. Find out more through Stoker's correspondence.

  • Mark Twain Letters

    Mark Twain Letters

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was quite simply an institution, and in many ways still is. Taking his pen name from a boat man's cry, he was never more serious than when he was being comic. Find out about one of America's greatest satirists through his letters.

  • James Connolly Correspondence

    James Connolly Correspondence

    Commandant of the Dublin Brigade during the Easter 1916 Rising, James Connolly was a tireless worker in the Socialist cause and was in contact with many influential thinkers of his time (Eleanor Marx Aveling, for one). He also travelled extensively raising funds for unions in the USA and Ireland. Find out more through his letters.

  • Éamonn Ceannt Family Correspondence

    Éamonn Ceannt Family Correspondence

    A staunch advocate of Irish culture and language, founding the Pipers Club and a prominent member of the Gaelic League, Éamonn Ceannt was also a revolutionary. He was one of the seven signatories of the Irish Proclamation in the 1916 Easter Rising. After his execution his wife and sisters were prominent in creating the new Irish State. Discover more through their correspondence.

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Letters on this Date

  • From Price, E. Hoffmann To Lovecraft, Howard P. (1935)
  • From Hooker, J. D. To Darwin, Charles Robert (1864)
  • From Gogh, Vincent van To Gogh, Theo van (1885)
  • From Clemens, Susy (Olivia Susan) To Clemens, Clara L. (1892)
  • From Scott, John To Darwin, Charles Robert (1862)
  • From Richardson, Hadley To Hemingway, Ernest (1938)
  • From Brown, Stephen J. To O'Brennan, Lily (1947)
  • From Gardner, Carol Hemingway To Hemingway, Ernest (1928)
  • From Darwin, Charles Robert To Dana, J. D. (1853)

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Letter writing is a rich and ancient form of communication. It offers deep insights into the thoughts, feelings and experiences of people from every walk of life in a more immediate way than almost any other medium. As well as the content of letters, the set of circumstances surrounding a letter's creation, transmission and reception tells a story in itself.

Data visualisation strives to make sense of the large and complex, condensing and clarifying complicated data in a single image. It can achieve an impact that words simply cannot replicate.

Visual Correspondence uses data visualisation to makes sense of a person's life through their correspondence. Who they wrote to, who wrote to them, when and where - these flashes of detail unveil a rich narrative about people and our past through images.

As well as providing tools to visualise huge collections of correspondence, in bringing together detail on 165327 letters from 56 collections, Visual Correspondence provides a new way to explore the letters themselves. Links to the full text of the letters are provided were possible and added information helps put the letters in context. Hopefully in exploring this site, you will start to see correspondence in a new way.

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Niall O'Leary Services accepts no liability in respect of the accuracy of data on this website. All data on this site is presented as is and visitors use it at their own risk. Outside of metadata no letter content has been used on this website. All letters and detail on all people's letters are listed.