The persons available in the ehd data stock and marked with the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="http://www.dnb.de/DE/Standardisierung/GND/gnd_node.html">GND-URI</ref> can be retrieved via <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="http://edition-humboldt.de/api/v1.1/beacon.xql">http://edition-humboldt.de/api/v1.1/beacon.xql</ref> as a list in <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BEACON">BEACON format</ref> and can be linked automatically in external digital offers. It is possible to limit the list to persons who are mentioned in the letter text or who are correspondence partners (see table below).