CELL are delighted to offer as a free and open-access download the latest issue of our online journal, Lives & Letters.

This is a special issue, guest edited by James Daybell of Plymouth University and Andrew Gordon of the University of Aberdeen, entitled New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Correspondence. The issue contains eight wonderfully varied articles as well as an incredibly useful and comprehensive select bibliography on early modern correspondence compiled by the editors – a vital resource for researchers!