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Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700.

In 1980, Sotheby’s manuscripts expert Peter Beal launched his Index of English Literary Manuscripts (London: Mansell), whose first volume, 1450–1625, contained an important entry on Bacon’s writings in manuscript.

This massively expanded online version provides extensive coverage of extant manuscript copies of works by Bacon (and 235 other early modern authors). While its coverage of Bacon’s letters is incomplete, its tracking and descriptions of copies of Bacon’s other works are indispensable.

The Correspondence of Francis Bacon.

Created at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters by Alan Stewart with Patricia Brewerton, Andrew Gordon, Jan Broadway, and Harriet Knight, this online resource makes searchable (by name and word) a new census (manuscript and printed) of letter