Preferred label

Locked letter                

Alternative label

Letterlocked  

Scope note

A writing substrate secured to become its own envelope using letterlocking manipulations, rather than being put in a container such as an envelope or wrapper.          

Parent concept

Letter       

uh-linked-data/concept/219        

Related concept                                                     

Letterlocking (process)       

uh-linked-data/concept/1

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/317