Helsinki Corpus of Scottish Correspondence (1540-1750)

This corpus contains personal correspondence from 1540 to 1750. the corpus consists of transcripts of original letter manuscripts. The texts are reproduced without any modernisation or normalisation. Language-external variables such as date, region, gender, addressee, hand and script type have been coded. The writers originate from fifteen different regions of Scotland. A fifth of the correspondents in the corpus are women. The corpus is available through the concordancer Korp.