Letterlocking: Charles II, King of England’s Coded Letters to the Duke of Ormond, England (1640s) (UH0076) from duke video hot Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after Charles II, King of England’s letter to the Duke of Ormond (1640s), Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS Clarendon 98, fols. 94/95.nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnThe Bodleian Library retains a cache of thirty-six letters sent from King Charles II of England to the Duke of Ormonde between the years 1641 and 1646/47. Charles II wrote in plain text or numerically coded messages