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Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: Lock and Seal, France (1699)

Modelled after the Museum voor Communicatie's Brienne Collection, DB-2180 with permission. This is one of the few examples in the Brienne collection of the letterlocking category fold + tuck + lock-O + adhere. Rather than stabbing through the packet and lacing the paper lock through it, the letterlocker cinches the paper lock around the open edge of the letter-packet, affixing it to each side with warm sealing wax. In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk of letters was given to the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague, then as now the center of government, politics, and trade in The Netherlands. The trunk belonged to some of the most active postmasters of the day, Simon de Brienne and Marie Germain, a couple at the heart of European communication networks. The chest contains an extraordinary archive: 2600 "locked" letters sent from all over Europe to this axis of communication, none of which were ever delivered. In the seventeenth century, the recipient also paid postal and delivery charges. But if the addressee was deceased, absent, or uninterested, no fees could be collected. Postmasters usually destroyed such “dead letters”, but the Briennes preserved them, hoping that someone would retrieve the letters—and pay the postage. Hence the nickname for the trunk: “the piggy bank” (spaarpotje). 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. Our international and interdisciplinary team of researchers has now begun a process of preservation, digitization, transcription, editing, and identification of letterlocking categories and formats that will reveal its secrets for the first time—even, we hope, those of the unopened letters. The research team comprises Rebekah Ahrendt, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University; Nadine Akkerman, lecturer in English at Leiden University; Jana Dambrogio, the Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator at MIT Libraries and co-general editor of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL); David van der Linden, the NWO Veni Fellow and Lecturer in History at the University of Groningen; Daniel Starza Smith, Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1500–1700), King’s College London, England, UK and co-general editor of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL); and Koos Havelaar, curator of postal history at the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague. We have news! Since this filming, our team of 11 researchers worked together to read an unopened letter virtually – the words and the folds – for the first time, without ever breaking its seal. What does the letter say? Head to our website https://www.letterlocking.org to learn all the details and celebrate the launch of letterlocking! Read our findings in our Nature Communications article, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21.... Visit our Dataverse, our open repository for data collected for this project: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataver.... Produced by MIT Video Productions (MVP). Directed and demonstrated by Jana Dambrogio. Funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries. Special thanks Ayako Letizia, MIT Libraries Conservation Associate; Annie Dunn, former MIT student; Emily Hishta Cohen, MIT Libraries Intern and Graduate Student, The Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Barry Pugatch and Ramon, MVP staff; Mary Uthuppuru and Brien Beidler book conservators in private practice and associate editors of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL); and Simone Felton. Cite as: Jana Dambrogio, et al. : “Brienne Postal Archive: Lock and Seal”, Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Filmed: October 2016. Duration: 3:40. Posted: October 2016. Video URL: [Use URL below]. Date accessed: [Date]. Copyright 2016. Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T). All rights reserved. The following copyrighted material is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... Contact the M.I.T. Technology Licensing Office for any other licensing inquiries NB: Letterlock responsibly. Be mindful of open flames or hot tools in the workspace. @letterlocking http://www.letterlocking.org http://www.libraries.mit.edu/preserve http://www.brienne.org Follow our collaborators @misswalsingham @NWOHumanities @MITLIbraries @LeidenHum @dcvanderlinden @muscom_nl The URL link for this video: http://bit.ly/brienne2