The Maria Edgeworth Letters Project (MELP) is a digital scholarly resource that creates a unified, searchable database of letters written by the author Maria Edgeworth. It is designed for researchers, students, and anyone interested in historical correspondence, compiling materials from more than 30 archives worldwide into a single accessible platform.

• Collaborative Digital Edition: The project is built through a collaborative effort, utilizing crowdsourced transcription and involving a team of general editors and digital specialists to ensure accuracy and scholarly rigor.
• Fully Searchable Database: Once complete, the platform will allow users to search across the entire corpus of letters, enabling efficient research and discovery of specific topics, correspondents, or historical contexts.
• Centralized Global Archive: It aggregates letters held in disparate international collections, providing a centralized point of access that eliminates the need to physically visit multiple archives.
• Open Access Transcriptions: Corrected text transcriptions and their encoding are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution license, promoting open scholarship and reuse.
• Beta Development Phase: The project is actively in development, with editors reviewing and correcting transcriptions to build towards a public-facing website, indicating a commitment to data quality.