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Letterlocking: René Milleran’s independently folded "tuck-and-seal," France (1690, 1742) (UH0068)
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XMT scan animation of a diamond-shaped letter from the Brienne Collection (DB-2004) (UH0166)
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XMT scan animation of 10 letters (UHs 44, 175, 5371, 166, 218, 219, 217, 46, 119, 134, and 48)
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Inexpensive DIY Book Cradles: How to make an inexpensive book cradle from one Tyvek™ envelope
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Document security: Filza simple filing system, Italy (1660s) (UH0003)
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Document security: Filza filing system with tie and lace point, Italy (1660s) (UH0002)
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Letterlocking: Paulus Constantinus Phrygio’s letter to Willibald Pirckheimer, Europe (1514) (UH0039)
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Joseph Scaliger’s spiral-locked letter to Francisco Donzà, Europe (c.1593–1606) (UH0078)
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Accessible edge medley (UH0081, 0082, 0083, 0084, 0086, 0092)
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John Coke’s sliced-triangle attached-lock letter to Sir John Bankes, England (1638) (UH0075)
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Phil Warwick’s cut-triangle wrapped locked letter to Sir John Bankes, England (1638) (UH0074)
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Letterlocking: Fold + Tuck, Madrid, Spain (2016) (UH0108)
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Elizabeth I to Sir Ralph Sadler: Triangle lock, England (1584) (UH0015)
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Elizabeth Stuart Deciphering Sir Thomas Roe’s Letter: Cryptography, Constantinople (1626) (UH0026)
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Lucy May Schofield's "Pis'ma-treigol'niki = Letters of triangles," England (2013) (UH0016)
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Robert Devereux’s pleated letter to Queen Elizabeth I, with a paper lock, England (1590s) (UH0008)
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Iron Gall Ink: A Quick and Easy Method (UH0022)
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WWII Prisoner of War (POW) Letter from a Son to his Mother, Oran, Algeria (1944) (UH0037)
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Spies and secrets: Gall Invisible Ink (reveal: Copper II Sulfate or Iron II Sulfate) (1657) (UH0033)
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Amalia von Solms’s Holograph Letter to Eleonore de Volvire: A Letter of Condolence (1670) (UH0025)
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Letterlocking: The John Donne Lock, England (1601/1602) (UH0027)
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Elizabeth Stuart’s letter to Henry Rich: A Sign of Intimacy, The Hague (1636) (UH0024)
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Secret Writing Techniques: Container Egg for secret messages (1579) (UH0035)
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Sir Francis Nethersole and Elizabeth Stuart: A Secretarial Letter, The Hague (1628) (UH0021)
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Spies and secrets: Artichoke Juice, Invisible Ink – a Witchcraft Potion? (1656) (UH0034)
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Intelligencer Simeon Foxe’s Dagger-Trap Pleated Letter sent from Venice, Italy (1601) (UH0072)
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Letterlocking: Pt. 1: Spiral Lock with slits parallel to fore-edge, England (1600s) (UH0018)
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Brienne Postal Archive: André le Maistre’s Pleated Letter to Father Bougais, France (1702) (UH0048)
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Letterlocking: John Donne's tuck-and-seal letter to Sir Nicholas Carew, England (1625) UH0030)
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Brienne Postal Archive: A pleated letter from a nun to her mother, France (1691) (UH0044)
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Burghley to Sadler concerning the arrest of Mary Queen of Scots, England (1584) (UH0041; UH6267)
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Letterlocking: A letter from Edmund Clere to John Paston I, England (1455) (UH0065)
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Letterlocking: MIT's Founder William Barton Rogers letter to his father, USA (1826) (UH0055)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: "Triangle Inside" (UH0045)
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Weronika Gralak locked letter to Władysława Kerbaczewska, Poland (1957) (UH0053, UH0020)
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Brienne Postal Archive: Gold-flecked seal "Rectangle Inside," Europe (1690–1711) (UH0050)
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Letterlocking: Hexagon format, Japan (UH0059)
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Empress Maria Theresa's Letter to Cardinal Ignazio Boncompagni Ludovisi, Austria (1775) (UH0061)
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Letterlocking: John Donne's triangle-locked letter to Sir Robert Cotton, England (c. 1602) (UH0028)
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Brienne Postal Archive: Hate Mail?: A diamond-shaped letter, Europe (1690–1711) (UH0051)
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Letterlocking: A letter with an attached lock, Italy (1603) (UH0057)
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Letterlocking: Triangle Format, Japan (UH0058)
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Spies and secrets: Alum Invisible Ink (1600s) (UH0036)
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Donne's triangle-locked letter to Sir Robert Cotton, alt ending 1, England (c. 1602) (UH0028)
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Letterlocking: Rectangular Pinwheel locked letter, Italy (c.1600s) (UH0056)
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Letterlocking: Rowe Triangle Letter, Connecticut USA (c.1940s) (UH0054)
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Daniel Starza Smith discussing the #SignedSealedUndelivered Project on BBC TV
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Letterlocking: The Paston Letters: The oldest Valentine, England (1477) (UH0066)
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Catherine de'Medici’s spiral-locked letter to Charles IX or Henry III, Europe (1500s) (UH0043)
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Letterlocking: WWII Russian Soldier Triangle Letter with Drawing (c.1940s) (UH0063)
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Letterlocking: Queen Elizabeth I of England, Triangle lock (1584) (UH0042)
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Letterlocking: The Letterlocking Love Bug/Lorraine’s letter, USA (1960s) (UH0038)
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Letterlocking: Desiderius Erasmus' Tucked Triangle Lock, Europe (1517) (UH0064)
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John Donne's pleated letter to Sir Robert Harley, Alt. Folding 1, England (1613) (UH0031)
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Brienne Postal Archive: "I wish you 100,000 good nights...," diamond letter, Holland (1694) (UH0047)
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Letterlocking: Russian WWII Soldier Triangle Letter, Russia (1944) (UH0052)
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Bey Mahmud ibn Muhammad's removable locked letter to President James Madison, Tunis (1817) (UH0040)
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Letterlocking: A Letter from William Yelverton to John Paston I, England (1443–1460) (UH0062)
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Family correspondence… in a letterpacket, The Netherlands (1706) (UH0155, UH3003, UH3004, UH3005)
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Letterlocking: The Nonagon: Japan, Korea, and The Netherlands (1700s-Present) (UH107)
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Letterlocking: A rare spiral lock, France (1638)
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Charles II, King of England’s Coded Letters to the Duke of Ormond, England (1640s) (UH0076)
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Musician Jean Baptiste de Crous’ "rectangle inside" locked letter, France (1698)(UH0141)
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A letter folded, tied, and placed in a wrapper, Europe (1702) (UH0049, UH0097)
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Letterlocking: John de Vere’s rolled or folded letter to John Paston II, England (1469) (UH0145)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: John Smith’s letter wrapper, France (1699) (UH0069, UH4036)
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Sir Francis Walsingham’s Triangle-locked Letter Written in Code, England (1587) (UH0077)
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The Chapel Fold: Elisabet Selis to her son, a theatre troupe dancer, France (1701) (UH0099)
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Mother’s Day Lovebug, USA (2021) (UH0251)
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Document Security: Albus Dumbledore’s Will, England (1997) (UH0178)
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Brienne Postal Archive: Sibling salutations sealed with a green heart, France (1703) (UH0142)
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Letterlocking at home! Three simple models (no special equipment needed) (UH0246)
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Anne de Sainte-Aldegonde’s locked letter to her father Jean Desurlis, Tournai (1699) (UH0173)
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A POW letter: A son’s diamond-locked letter to his father, France (1689) (UH0166)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: A partially opened pleated letter, France (1701) (UH0119)
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Letterlocking: Poggio Bracciolini’s two-piece locked letter, Italy (1455) (UH0157)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: Diagonal Rectangles, France (1695, 1700) (UH0071, UH0251)
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Elizabeth I’s holograph spiral-locked letter to Henry III, King of France, England (1570s) (UH0131)
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Letterlocking: Beethoven’s folded letter to Karl Holz, Europe (ND) (UH0161)
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Letterlocking: Mary Queen of Scots’ last letter, a spiral lock, England (1587) (UH0135)
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XMT scan fly-through animation of 11 letters (UHs 44, 46, 47, 48, 119, 134, 166, 175, 217, 218, 219)
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Letterlocking: Ministry of Magic Memo, England (1990s-present) (UH0176)
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Regulus Arcturus Black’s locked letter to the Dark Lord, England (1979) (UH0177)
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Letterlocking: Walsingham’s anti-spy letter to Sir Ralph Sadler, England (1584) (UH0132)
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Letterlocking: John Donne’s blue-edged letter to Sir Edward Herbert, England (1615) (UH0174)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: The tiniest undelivered letter, France (1690–1711) (UH0070)
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Covert communications: An exiled Huguenot minister’s undercover letter, Europe (c.1700s) (UH0144)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: A locked pleated letter (1689) (UH0143)
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Trickett's Tickets: Continental Congress Bookbinder and his Blank Books Made in the USA, 1775-1780.
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Letterlocking: Virtual unfolding, exploded view of letterpacket layers (Brienne Collection DB-1538)
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Letter from Cornelis Steijn to his mother on paper torn out of a blank book, Europe (1696)
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Alt ending: Queen Elizabeth I’s holograph spiral-locked letter to Henry III, England (1570s)(UH0131)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: A letter written between two Catholic women (1698) (UH0134)
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A hybrid lock: Robert Kearsley Dawson’s Letter to William Conybeare, USA (1842) (UH0084)
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Letterlocking: Shakespeare props, Merchant of Venice, Antonio to Bassanio: “the body of my friend”
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Letterlocking: Josephine Baker’s letter to Simone Dauthieu, Monaco (1971) (UH0229)
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Fold & adhere: Isabella Stewart Gardner locked letter to Mrs Rockwell, USA(c.1886) (UH0092)
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Opera gossip, banned books discussed in an accessible-edge locked letter, France (1690s) (UH0081)
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An accessible edge hybrid-lock, John Keats’ letter to Fanny Brawne, England (1820) (UH0083)
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Catherine de’ Medici’s concealed spiral-locked letter to Raimond de Beccarie (c.1570) (UH0224)
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Letterlocking: A spiral-locked letter to the Duke of Buckingham, Europe (1624–1625) (UH0080)
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A Folded Census Registration of the 金啓周 Kim Family, Busan, South Korea (March 1837) (UH0170)
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What is letterlocking? USA, (2019) (UH0000) (LUV0252)
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A world first! Virtually unfolding a sealed letter (Brienne Collection DB-1538) (UH0218)!
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Letterlocking Documentary: "What is Letterlocking?" (UH0067)
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Growing and flattening animation of unopened letter (Brienne Collection DB-2199) (UH0046)
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Letterlocking: A spiral-locked letter from a lady to Sir Francis Walsingham (1588) (UH0079)
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Growing and flattening animation of an unopened letter, (Brienne Collection, DB-1538) (UH0218)
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Document-locking: Fold + lock-O +adhere: A Bitcoin paper wallet, USA (2009) (UH0167)
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Mary Queen of Scots Spiral Lock Trivia Debut on BBC Have I Got a Bit More News for You (2021)
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Shakespeare props, Twelfth Night, Malvolio’s letter: “By your leave, wax” (2019) (UH0225)
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Letterlocking: An accessible edge hybrid-lock, Lambelle, France (1808)
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Shakespeare props, Merchant of Venice, Jessica to Lorenzo: “do it secretly”
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Hybrid-lock or fold and adhere: Isabella Stewart Gardner to Ms Sinkler, USA (1915) (UH0086)
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A censored aerogramme letter from Tatsuo Ohashi 大橋達夫 to Shotaro Ohashi大橋勝太郎, Japan (c.1940s)(UH0101)
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Brienne Postal Archive: A two-piece locked letter from Cosimo III de' Medici, Italy (1701) (UH0164)
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Maaggriet Opper’s letter to her husband ​​Willem Bauest Jagger (c. 1777 and 1821) (UH0230)
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Letterlocking: Unlocking History’s Launch Little Book of Locks (2021) (UH6089)
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Catherine de'Medici's Spiral-Locked letter to her son, Europe (1500s) alt technique (UH0043)
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Jana and Terra from MIT’s Wunsch Conservation Lab on Nick Sikellis's The Intangible Podcast (2023)
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Elizabeth I to Sadler: Triangle lock w/slit perpendicular to fore-edge, England (1584) (UH0015)
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Triangle-shaped Masonic Lodge meeting invitation, La Vertueuse, 25 August 5796 (UH0171)
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Hedi Kyle's accordion-folding technique, USA (August 8, 2023)
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Malta Notarial Archives: A letter written in Moroccan dialect, Malta (date unknown) (UH0221)
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Incorrect fold sequence: Jane Austen’s signed letter to Cassandra Austen, England (1799) (UH0168)
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Phillis Wheatley’s tuck-and-seal locked letter to Obour Tanner, USA (July19, 1772)
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Message in a Bottle: Liesbet Raens’ undelivered letter to her husband, Antwerp (1533) (UH6127)
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Corrected folding sequence: Jane Austen's roll-folded locked letter to Cassandra, England, (1799)
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Uncle Derchey’s tucked, locked, and sealed cautionary tale, France (1699) (UH0096)
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Brienne Postal Archive: A letter to the Count of Argenson, France (1689) (UH0175, UH5371)
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11-year-old Emily Dickinson's roll-folded locked letter to her brother, USA (May 1, 1842)
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Daddy can't pay your debts forever!: A locked letter, France (1706) (UH0098)
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Burgetta Quack’s letter to ​​Johannes Elderveld, ​​Doesburg, The Netherlands, (c. 1800) (UH0231)
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Henri Christophe’s tuck-and-seal letter to Toussaint Louverture’ Haiti (1802)
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Jacques Sennacques’s virtually unfolded letter to his cousin, France (1697) (UH0217)
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Brienne Collection: A virtually unfolded letter to Madame Collin, France (c.1690–1720) (UH0218)
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Lieutenant D'Alban, a nonagon-shaped letterpacket, & a Masonic suitcase, 1798 (UH0220)
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Brienne Collection: A virtually unfolded letter to Madame de Mesgral, France (c.1690–1720) (UH0219)
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Brienne Postal Archive: Monsieur Pillard’s letter to Mr. Blondelle, Holland (1698) (UH0234)
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Brienne Postal Archive: Adriaan Boreel’s pentagonal-shaped letterpacket (c.1703) UH0091
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Letterlocking: Love bug – numbered foldable version, USA (2020) (UH0038)
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Devereux to Elizabeth inspires prop letter in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (c. 1590s) (UH0130)
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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: A letter to Monsieur Michel Richel, France (1690) (UH0235)
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Letterlocking: Little book of Locks for Shakespeare Prop Letterpackets (2019) (UH0245)
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Surprise: It's Happening! Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter. Pub date: March 4, 2025
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Phillis Wheatley’s rolled, tuck, and seal letter to Obour Tanner, USA (1774) (UH0227)
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Did the independent folds of Ira Aldridge’s letter once contain an insert? Ireland (1835) (UH6181)
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Letterlocking: It's A Wonderfold World: Thanks a Million!, USA (2021)
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Dove Tales: A token in a lovelocked letter, Holland (c. 1700) (UH0159, UH5919, UH5920, UH5921)
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Reengineering Broken Books (RBB) 2015
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切封 Kirifu: Ōtomo Sōrin’s, 大友宗麟letter to Wakabayashi Danjonojo 若林弾正忠, Japan (1569) (UH0169)
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Friar John Mowth letter to John Paston I, sewn with covered seal, England (1466) (UH0103)
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Tomaso di Levrieri’s triangle locks & tuck-and-seal letters, Venice (1586–90) UH0004, UH0011, UH0106
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Letterlocking: Elizabeth I’s two-piece locked Royal Commission, England (1580) (UH0596)
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The first letterlocking video (2005): The triangle lock, Italy (1580s) (UH0001)
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Letterlocking: A Tiny Spy Letter: Constantijn Huygens to Amalia von Solms, Neer (1635)
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Elizabeth I: England's most dangerous prisoner, Mary, Queen of Scots, England (1584) (UH0013)
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Letterlocking: Yo El Rey, two-piece lock: paper band and shaped-papered seal, Spain (1732) (UH0017)
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Document Security: Document in a Textile Bag, Italy (1578) (UH0010)
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Triangle-shaped paper lock with slit perpendicular to the fore-edge, Italy (1494) (UH0005)
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Letterlocking:"Tuck-and-Seal," Italy (1580s) (UH0011)
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Pt 2. detail inside spiral lock w/ slit parallel to fore-edge, England (1600s) (UH0018)
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Letterlocking: Detail, Triangle lock with slit perpendicular to fore-edge, England (1584) (UH0015)
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Letterlocking: "Pleated" Letter with Wrapped Silk Floss, England and Europe (1580s) (UH0009)
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Triangle lock with slit parallel to the fore-edge, Europe and England (1560s-1700s) (UH0004)
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Filza-simple filing system 1660s Italian
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Filza. Filing system with tie and lace point 1660s Italian
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Letterlocking: Marie Antoinette’s Letter with a Removable Paper Lock, France (1782) (UH0012)
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Letterlocking: "Pleated" letter, sewn shut with silk floss, England and Europe (1580s-1780s (UH0007)
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