Update README.md

README.md

@@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ MarineLives is a volunteer-led collaboration for the transcription and enrichmen
 records from the C16th and C17th. The records provide a rich and underutilised source of social, material 
 and economic history.
 
-We have two datasets available to researchers working on Early Modern English in the late C16th and
+We have three datasets available to researchers working on Early Modern English in the late C16th and
 early to mid-C17th
-1. Ground Truth [420,000 tokens]
+1. Hand transcribed Ground Truth [420,000 tokens]
 2. Machine transcribed and hand corrected corpus [4.5 mill tokens]
+3. Hand transcribed Early Modern non-elite letters [100,000 tokens]
+
 
 Dataset 1 is a full diplomatic transcription, preserving abbreviations, contractions, capitalisation, punctuation, 
 spelling variation, and syntax. It comprises roughly thirty different notarial hands drawn from sixteen different
@@ -36,3 +38,8 @@ HCA 13/57; HCA 13/58; HCA 13/61; HCA 13/63; HCA 13/68; HCA 13/71; HCA 13/73; HCA
 We are working on a significantly larger version of Dataset 2, which (when complete) will have circa 30 mill tokens
 and will comprise fifty-nine complete volumes of Admiralty Court depositions made between 1570 and 1685. We are targeting
 completion end 2025.
+
+Dataset 3 is a full diplomatic transciption of 400 Early Modern letters, preserving abbreviations, contractions, 
+capitalisation, punctuation, spelling variation, and syntax. It comprises over 250 hands of non-elite writers, largely men
+but some women, from a range of marine related occupations - mariners, shore tradesmen, dockyard employees 
+- written between 1600 and 1685