Erasmus and the Renaissance Republic of Letters

The first volume of P. S. Allen's edition of the letters of Erasmus, the Opus Epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami, appeared in 1906. Although Allen died in 1933, before the series was completed, the remaining volumes of letters were seen through the press by his wife H. M. Allen and his colleague H. W. Garrod, with the last one, volume 11, appearing in 1947. Finally in 1958 an Index volume was published, completing this edition, which had already become a mainstay of Renaissance scholarship.