Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester figures at table Please indicate at checkout which

Please indicate at checkout which you would like--though I suggest buying the pair

with sumi ink characters on the front and back covers

I love early watercolored lettering and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world (and have also been kind of obsessed with sun dials lately) so just swooned when I saw these

I haven't found much on the Walter Addison who made this trivet

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester figures at table Please indicate at checkout whichThis envelope alone feels like a novel to me and what better name for a heroine (in my mind the addressee is a young woman) than R. F. Lovelee? This R. F Lovelee presumably was staying at the Seneca Hotel, built in 1847 in the French Renaissance manner, and by the 1920s Rochester's largest hotel, with over 500 rooms. But if this letter, mailed two months before the stock market crash that would launch the Great Depression, ever reached her, it appears