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Hi, As Don and Bert pointed out (thanks!), the DALF project has developed a customisation of the TEI markup scheme for the encoding of correspondence materials. At the project website (http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/index.htm), you can find * a customised DTD: http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/dalfdoc/DTDfiles.html * accompanying documentation: http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/index.htm A major part of this modification involved the extension of the TEI header with elements for letter-specific metadata. The most important ones are: * <letIdentifier>: information concerning the identification of the letter within its holding institution (country, settlement, repository, collection, identification number) * <letHeading>: a structured description of bibliographical information of a letter (author(s), addressee(s), place, date of writing) * <physDesc>: a description of the physical appearance of the letter (formal typology, dimensions, materials used, aspects of layout) * <envOcc>: occurrence of envelope ... with further header provisions for detailed records of the contents, history, subdivisions and additional information, and text elements for the encoding of letter-specific textual phenomena (postscript, print fragments, calculations,...). Your specific problem could be addressed in the DALF model using the <placeLet> element inside <letHeading> (http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/dalfdoc/DALFheader.html#letHeading). Ron -- Ron Van den Branden Wetenschappelijk attaché Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie (CTB) Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (KANTL) Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium e-mail : [log in to unmask] http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/ron.htm