Historic Locked Letters found in the British Library
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Letterlocking: A Letter from William Yelverton to John Paston I, England (1443–1460) (UH0062)
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Letterlocking: Elizabeth I’s two-piece locked Royal Commission, England (1580) (UH0596)
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Letterlocking: A letter from Edmund Clere to John Paston I, England (1455) (UH0065)
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Letterlocking: The Paston Letters: The oldest Valentine, England (1477) (UH0066)
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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: John Donne's tuck-and-seal letter to Sir Nicholas Carew, England (1625) UH0030)
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John Donne's pleated letter to Sir Robert Harley, Alt. Folding 1, England (1613) (UH0031)
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Burghley to Sadler concerning the arrest of Mary Queen of Scots, England (1584) (UH0041; UH6267)
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Elizabeth I to Sir Ralph Sadler: Triangle lock, England (1584) (UH0015)
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Letterlocking: Pt. 1: Spiral Lock with slits parallel to fore-edge, England (1600s) (UH0018)
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Elizabeth I: England's most dangerous prisoner, Mary, Queen of Scots, England (1584) (UH0013)
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Friar John Mowth letter to John Paston I, sewn with covered seal, England (1466) (UH0103)
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Robert Devereux’s spiral-locked letter to Queen Elizabeth I, England (c.1590) (UH0094)
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Letterlocking: Queen Elizabeth I of England, Triangle lock (1584) (UH0042)
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Letterlocking: John Donne's triangle-locked letter to Sir Robert Cotton, England (c. 1602) (UH0028)
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Letterlocking: Detail, Triangle lock with slit perpendicular to fore-edge, England (1584) (UH0015)
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Letterlocking: Walsingham’s anti-spy letter to Sir Ralph Sadler, England (1584) (UH0132)
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Letterlocking: Poggio Bracciolini’s two-piece locked letter, Italy (1455) (UH0157)
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Letterlocking: The John Donne Lock, England (1601/1602) (UH0027)
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Amalia von Solms’s Holograph Letter to Eleonore de Volvire: A Letter of Condolence (1670) (UH0025)
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Elizabeth Stuart Deciphering Sir Thomas Roe’s Letter: Cryptography, Constantinople (1626) (UH0026)
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Elizabeth Stuart’s letter to Henry Rich: A Sign of Intimacy, The Hague (1636) (UH0024)
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Sir Francis Nethersole and Elizabeth Stuart: A Secretarial Letter, The Hague (1628) (UH0021)
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Letterlocking: A Tiny Spy Letter: Constantijn Huygens to Amalia von Solms, Neer (1635)
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Robert Devereux’s pleated letter to Queen Elizabeth I, with a paper lock, England (1590s) (UH0008)
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Elizabeth I: England's most dangerous prisoner, Mary, Queen of Scots, England (1584) (UH0013)
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Pt 2. detail inside spiral lock w/ slit parallel to fore-edge, England (1600s) (UH0018)
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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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Elizabeth I to Sir Ralph Sadler: Triangle lock, England (1584) (UH0015)
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