Linking about: Full-text correspondence databases, online

(Note: this list only includes free sites that offer full-text access.  Most feature both images and transcriptions.)

• Fred B. Brian: WWII-related correspondence of an Illinois Weslyan University professor.
• The Carlyles: correspondence of both Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
• Carolus Clusius: correspondence of a well-known sixteenth-century botanist and physician.
• Darwin Correspondence Project: the letters of Charles Darwin.
• Thomas Eakins Letters: correspondence of the American painter.
• Fenian Brotherhood Collection: includes correspondence from members in Ireland, the USA, and elsewhere.
• Hiro Higuchi Papers: letters of a Hawaiian WWI army chaplain to his wife.
• Abraham Lincoln Papers: massive collection of Lincoln's letters and other writings.
• The Linnaean Correspondence Project: includes letters to and from Carl Linnaeus.
• William Penn Brooks: correspondence relating to Brooks' activities in nineteenth-century Japan, where he helped establish an agricultural college.
• A. & L. Tirocchi: clients and friends of an early twentieth-century dressmaker.
• Timothy Vedder Letters: a Union soldier describes various wartime experiences to his family.
• Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project: Anna Jameson and Harriet Martineau.
• The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler: letters to and from the late-Victorian painter.
• Wisconsin Pioneer Experience: letters, diaries, and other papers of nineteenth-century Wisconsin settlers.