2,600 Undelivered Letters From Hundreds Of Years Ago Are Finally Being Read
- 8 years ago
Researchers from around the world are currently in the process of cataloguing, translating and transcribing 2,600 letters kept locked in a trunk since 1707.
A trunk of 2,600 undelivered letters recently became an unintentional archive— offering a substantial look at many facets of 17th century European life.
Music professor Rebekah Ahrendt was studying a theater troupe from the Netherlands when she came across an old notice describing a trunk of undelivered mail.
Her curiosity and tenacity paid off and Ahrendt eventually found the trunk containing letters sent to The Hague between 1689 and 1707.
The accidental archive was compiled by husband-and-wife postmasters who held onto the mail in hopes that one day the reci
A trunk of 2,600 undelivered letters recently became an unintentional archive— offering a substantial look at many facets of 17th century European life.
Music professor Rebekah Ahrendt was studying a theater troupe from the Netherlands when she came across an old notice describing a trunk of undelivered mail.
Her curiosity and tenacity paid off and Ahrendt eventually found the trunk containing letters sent to The Hague between 1689 and 1707.
The accidental archive was compiled by husband-and-wife postmasters who held onto the mail in hopes that one day the reci