Letterlocking: John Donne's pleated letter to Sir Robert Harley, England (1613) (UH0031) from hot bl Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after Donne’s letter to Sir Robert Harley (7 Apr 1613), British Library, Add. MS 70001, fol. 124r–v.nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnThe pleated letter variation, common in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, is relatively easy to make, and it produces one of the most attractive locked letterpackets. Among other writers from the early modern period, Elizabeth I and her fav
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