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SUMMARY:Signed\, Sealed\, & Undelivered: A 17th-c Postal Treasure Trove Rediscovered
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin the international and interdisciplinary team of 
 researchers on the Signed Sealed\, & Undelivered Project who will present 
 their work in a morning session filled with short presentations related to 
 the 17th-century postal chest filled with an extraordinary archive: 2600 
 “locked” letters\, none of which were ever delivered. The letters are 
 uncensored\, unedited\, and 600 of them even remain unopened. The team will 
 describe their work preserving\, imaging\, transcribing\, and identifying 
 letterlocking formats that will reveal its secrets for the first 
 time-even\, we hope\, those of the unopened letters- only at MIT Libraries. 
 \n\n\n\nIn 1926\, a trunk of letters was bequeathed to the Museum voor 
 Communicatie in The Hague\, then as now the centre of government\, 
 politics\, and trade in The Netherlands. The trunk belonged to one of the 
 most active postmaster and post mistress of the day\, Simon and Marie de 
 Brienne\, a couple at the heart of European communication networks. The 
 letters sent from all over Europe to recipients  who would have also also 
 paid postal and delivery charges. Postmasters usually destroyed such 
 “dead letters”\, but the Briennes preserved them\, hoping that someone 
 would retrieve the letters – and pay the postage. The trunk freezes a 
 moment in history\, allowing us to glimpse the early modern world as it 
 went about its daily business. The letters are uncensored\, unedited\, and 
 600 of them even remain unopened. The archive itself has remained virtually 
 untouched by historians until it was recently rediscovered. \n\nPresenters: 
 Dr Rebekah Ahrendt (Yale University)\, Dr Nadine Akkerman (Leiden 
 University)\, Jana Dambrogio (MIT Libraries)\, Dr David Mills (Queen Mary\, 
 UK) Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Lincoln College\, University of Oxford)\, Dr 
 David van der Linden (Groningen University)\n\nBrienne.org * 
 #SignedSealedUndelivered * #PreserveTheFolds\n\nLight refreshments will be 
 served beginning at 9:30am.\n\nEach attendee will receive locked letter 
 models to take away.\n\n\nSamberg Conference Center\n\nDining Room #5\, 6th 
 floor\nMIT\, Chang Building (E52)\n50 Memorial Drive\nCambridge\, MA 
 02139\n\nsambergconferencecenter.mit.edu
LOCATION:E52 - 6th Floor - Dining Room 5
ORGANIZER;CN="Jana Dambrogio":MAILTO:jld@mit.edu
CATEGORIES:Presentations
CONTACT;CN="Jana Dambrogio":MAILTO:jld@mit.edu
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URL:https://libcal.mit.edu/event/2309079
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