Visual Correspondence
Analysing Letters through Data Visualisation
Elia Kazan: Selected Letters
A cultural giant of the Twentieth Century, Elia Kazan directed productions like 'On the Waterfront' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' for the stage and screen. He worked with writers such as John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller, as well as actors such as Marlon Brando, James Dean and Robert De Niro. Find out more about his life through his letters.
Patrick H. Pearse Letters
Before 1916, Padraig Pearse was an educational innovator, a writer, a powerful orator and advocate of the Irish language. After 1916 he became synonymous with the Easter Rising in Ireland. Find out more about his life through his letters.
Thomas and Kathleen Clarke Letters
Thomas Clarke was one of the key architects of the 1916 Easter Rising, while his wife Kathleen was a founder member of Cumann na mBan and became Dublin's first female Lord Mayor. Find out more about them both.
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.
Letters on this Date
From Whitman, Walt To Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor (1867)
From Richardson, Hadley To Hemingway, Ernest (1921)
From Whitmore, Franklin G. To Bartlett, Matthew H. (1887)
From Riley, James W. To Nye, Edgar W. (Bill) (1891)
From Gogh, Vincent van To Gogh, Theo van (1886)
From Wandrei, Donald To Barlow, Robert H. (1936)
From Weir, John Jenner To Wallace, Alfred Russel (1893)
From Cochran, James To Hemingway, Ernest (1951)
From Darwin, Charles Robert To Hooker, J. D. (1845)
More letters for 22nd January
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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