Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo and I've got it sitting

and I've got it sitting under some heavy books to flatten it further

The colors are still very vivid

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

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

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester blood photo and I've got it sittingThis 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