Rebekah Ahrendt is excited to announce a new project she has been working on titled “Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered.” The project is an international public-private partnership between researchers from five leading universities — Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Leiden, Groningen, and Oxford — and the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague. The project centers on an archive of undelivered letters — many of them unopened — sent from across Europe to The Hague between 1689 and 1707. There are 2,000 opened letters and 600 letters that are still sealed. These letters were acquired by the museum in 1926, in the original trunk once belonging to Simon de Brienne and his wife, Maria Germain, who were postmasters in The Hague from 1676 until 1707.
Click here to visit the project’s website.
Links to recent articles:
YaleNews article
The Guardian
British Academy
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https://twitter.com/letterlocking/status/662221936324444160