Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: A Pleated Letter from a nun to her mother, France (1691) (UH0044) from locked arms Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after the letter DB-1465 in the Brienne Collection, Sound & Vision,) with permission. nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnThis letter demonstrates that female correspondents were as ubiquitous in the seventeenth century as male authors. This letter, written in the summer of 1691, was sent by a nun to her ailing mother. Apparently the mother has previously complained of her lamentable state,