17th Century Correspondence : A fountain of information found and examined.
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
July 27, 2016 5:10pm CST
A old postmaster and his wife kept a lot of letters that were not picked up. In that time period, apparently, the postage was paid by the reciepient. For this reason, amongst others, letters were not always received.
Anyway, they did some sort of fancy scan to uncover some of the secrets! I would love to be able to re-discover these letters. It didn't actually state the language used but I imagine it would have / could have been a mixture of Dutch, French, perhaps even Flanders and Spanish (as spoken in Spain).
English perhaps, but am not so sure about The Netherlands and spoken language in that time period.
An old trunk holding more than 2,600 undelivered letters from the 17th century was discovered, and its contents are shedding light on what life was like back then.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
27 Jul 16
One they were able to examine was from one brother to another. The advisement was NOT to cross through Paris, in fear his brother might end up snatched up by the Army for service. I wonder if the brother did cross through Paris?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
27 Jul 16
@Inlemay Not a hard put task as I am naturally curious! 
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@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
27 Jul 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum you see, I have you wondering now too
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@chrisandmark (606)
• United Kingdom
28 Jul 16
Oooh, that sounds very intriguing!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Jul 16
I think I could spend an entire afternoon just looking through such things. I'm naturally a curious person, but absolutely enthralled with anything historic I can touch or see.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Jul 16
I could imagine spending hours just looking through them all. Of course I'd be afraid they'd be too fragile to hold.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
27 Jul 16
I would be curious about the hand writing, any wax seals, the signature styles, the paper itself.
@JESSY3236 (22287)
• United States
28 Jul 16
That's cool. My mother had found some letters (not that old though) in a house she was going to paint.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Jul 16
That must have been neat. I wonder why people leave things like that.
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@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
28 Jul 16
do you think that it is good not delivering letters. Totally a great crime.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Jul 16
In Today society, yes. Of course back then there were no such rules to govern the postal carriers.
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
13 Aug 16
Imagine all the sad stories hiding behind some of those letters. I have a feeling some of them are love letters that never got a reply.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Jul 16
Imagine all of the first hand experiences we'd be privy to!
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