Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter

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Join us at the MIT Museum as we welcome scholars Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith to discuss their new book, Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter.

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MIT Museum, Gambrill Center

314 Main Street
Building E-28
Cambridge, MA 02142
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Area 2, East Cambridge, and The Port

Dates and Times

الجمعة, يونيو 13 6مساء – 8مساء

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The presentation will be followed by a letterlocking making activity. 

Before the invention of the gummed enevelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking — the ingenious process of securing a letter using a combination of folds, tucks, slits, or adhesives such as sealing wax, so that it becomes its own envelope. 

Learn more and buy tickets here: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/letterlocking-the-hidden-history-of-the-letter 

digital graphic promoting the event. It reads "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter." Letterlocking is in red while the rest of the title is white. The background is black. The speakers' headshots appear below the title, side by side. The MIT Museum logo is in white in the bottom right corner, and the museum's address is in the bottom left corner.
الجمعة, يونيو 13 6مساء – 8مساء
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Last updated أبريل 14, 2025.

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