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0.0
Course Components:
Lecture
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Course Attribute:
University Connected Learning
Description
What do Queen Elizabeth I, John Donne, and Sir Frances Walsingham have in common? They all used letter-locking! Discover how paper folding techniques such as seals, slits, tabs, holes, and string were used to secure letters in a time before envelopes were mass-produced. Get some hands-on experience by creating your own replicas of this beautiful correspondence art used by musicians, poets, merchants, aristocrats, and spies.