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About the Project

This website is funded by a British Academy small research grant. It is the first stage in the publication of the first ever edition of the Collected Letters of Humphry Davy and his Circle, edited by a team of Davy scholars. The editors possess, and have permission to use, a typescript of 763 letter transcriptions prepared by the late June Fullmer, one of Davy’s foremost biographers.

Enquiries made of archives worldwide have identified further letters not known to Fullmer. The grant has enabled us to visit these archives and transcribe the new letters, each of which has then been added to the database.