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The Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose is made up of unpublished letters transcribed from originals, about 300,000 words in all, and offered in plain text and HTML versions. The letters, held by the John Rylands University Library, date from the period 1761–90. The project was made possible by funding from the John Rylands Research Institute, which allowed Linda van Bergen and Joana Soliva to work part-time on the transcription of the material.
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John Rylands University Library: Legh of Lyme Muniments: Special Collections website: http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data2/spcoll/legh/
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van Bergen, L., Denison, D. (2007). A corpus of late eighteenth-century prose. In: Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H.L. (eds) Creating and digitizing language corpora. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230223202_10
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