Letterlocking: Sir Francis Nethersole and Elizabeth Stuart, sometime Queen of Bohemia: A Secretarial Letter, The Hague (1628) from model number of this device Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after Sir Francis Nethersole’s letter to Queen Elizabeth Stuart (16/26 May 1628), Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 79 E 234, fols. 1–2. Shown with permission.nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnWriting an early modern letter was often a co-operative enterprise, and a queen might just as well delegate the entire job to her secretary. Here Sir Francis Nethersole prepares a letter for Elizab
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