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16/02/2022
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01/10/2021
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I had a go at locking a letter myself recently in a workshop that the pair organised at MIT, making a "triangle lock". This particular one wasn't found in the Brienne Collection, but was a technique used from the 1400s to the 1700s across Europe and England.
17/06/2021
17/06/2021
Many of the letters were everyday correspondence, but collectively they paint a detailed picture of life in Europe during the 1600s. "The letters represent the thoughts, cares, and dreams of a cross-section of society: there are missives by ambassadors, dukes and duchesses, merchants, publishers, and spies, but also by actors and musicians, ordinary lovers, struggling refugees, and by women as well as men," write the researchers who have been studying the collection.
The collection had been kept by a married postmaster and postmistress called Simon Brienne and Marie Germain, who lived in the Netherlands. In the 1600s, the recipients of letters had to pay to receive them, so for various reasons – poverty, relocation or death – letters often failed to reach their destination. Many had the words "niet hebben" scribbled on them in Dutch, which means "refused". The couple and their employees kept them in the hope that recipients might eventually shell out, hence the trunk's nickname: “the piggy bank” (spaarpotje). Inadvertently, they had compiled one of the richest epistolary archives of the period.