Visual Correspondence

Analysing Letters through Data Visualisation

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  • Albert Einstein Letters 1921

    Albert Einstein Letters 1921

    By 1921, Albert Einstein was already a household name. As his fame grew, his circle of correspondents also expanded. Find out more about his life and social circle through his letters.

  • Ezra Pound

    Ezra Pound

    A close friend of writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound was instrumental in getting these writers (and many others) published and promoted. And of course he was a major poet in his own right. Find out more about his letters.

  • Seán MacDiarmada Letters

    Seán MacDiarmada Letters

    Together with his close friend, Thomas Clarke, Seán MacDiarmada was crucial to the 1916 Easter Rising and a signatory of the Irish Proclamation. Discover more through his correspondence.

  • 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.

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Letters on this Date

  • From Wallace, Alfred Russel To Wallace, William Greenell [ARW's son] (1890)
  • From Dunn, Peter To Ross, Alan (1990)
  • From Meyer, Meiko To Connolly, James (1902)
  • From Clemens, Samuel L. To Clemens, Clara L. (1884)
  • From Hooker, J. D. To Darwin, Charles Robert (1866)
  • From Lister, Hermione To Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst (nee Borthwick) (1955)
  • From Ross, Lillian To Hemingway, Ernest (1949)
  • From Hotchner, A. E. To Hemingway, Ernest (1953)
  • From Clemens, Samuel L. To Webster, Charles L. (1886)

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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.