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Photo of a hand holding a folded piece of paper with another strip of paper piercing through it to form a locked letter. The paper lock reads: This is a paper lock, now a papered seal with signet impression. The sealing wax acts as an adhesive.
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Jana Dambrogio holds a model of a highly secure locked letter; one used by Queen Elizabeth I of England, her spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, and poet John Donne in the 16th-century. Dambrogio reverse-engineers historic originals to figure out how they once folded and secured shut to become their own envelopes. Students participated in a letterlocking workshop led by Dambrogio on session 12. (Image courtesy of Jana Dambrogio and Sarah Manguso. Used with permission.)
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