Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo The colors are still very

The colors are still very vivid

finger jointed sides and a cardboard bottom

Plus the instruction booklet

incurred during the firing

These were made manually by hammering steel (and in this case one brass on each) nails into olive wood balls

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo The colors are still veryThis 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