Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo These were made manually by

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

finger jointed sides and a cardboard bottom

Cards are 4 1/16" x 3 1/16"

it went through the mail after all

pointing in every direction and meeting with more hearts in the middle

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo These were made manually byThis 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