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Letters and Diaries

To find published collections of letters and diaries available at the UW Libraries search the UW Libraries Catalog using the search terms: correspondence or diaries. This search will also find letters and diaries housed in Special Collections.

This is just a selected list of digitized letters and diaries available on the web.

		Abraham Lincoln Papers - correspondence and other papers
		Adams Family Papers - includes correspondence of John Adams and John Quincy Adam's diary
		Darwin Correspondence Project - letters to and from Charles Darwin
		DoHistory - early 19th c diary of a midwife Martha Ballard
		Frederick Douglass Papers - correspondence and other material
		George Washington Papers - correspondence and other papers
		James Madison Papers - correspondence and other papers
		Journals of Lewis and Clark - journals from the 1803-1806 expedition
		North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 - transcriptions of mostly published material
		Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database - letters, diaries and other material from early settlers
		Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - journals from the Pacific voyages and other material
		Samuel F.B. Morse Papers - letters and other material
		Thomas Jefferson Papers - correspondence and other papers
		Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers - letters and other material
		Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive - poet's WWI letters and other material
		William Lyon Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893-1950 - diaries of the Canadian Prime Minister