The Chamberlain Letters Project

A digital edition of early modern correspondence

Old St. Paul's Cathedral from the Thames

Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, where Chamberlain gathered his news (via Wikimedia Commons).

Welcome! This site is a scholarly digital edition of The Letters of John Chamberlain, offering TEI-encoded transcriptions of Chamberlain’s correspondence from early seventeenth-century England.

The edition allows users to browse letters, explore referenced people, places, and organizations, and read editorial notes contextualizing each letter's historical moment. All content is licensed under CC BY 4.0 and contributed by a growing community of scholars, students, and editors.