Unlocking History Number (UH#)

UH0083

Original

John Keats letter to Fanny Brawne

Model and research notes

MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box 27.

Letterlocking Unique Video Number(s) (LUV #s) & Instructional Video(s) URL

LUV083 https://youtu.be/TSG9VWCseGg  

LUV244 https://youtu.be/70rtrUf-UoE

Instructional video info transcription

Forthcoming

Letterlocking category Number (LC #)

LC30L

Letterlocking format Number (LF #)

4RW

Security score

Low

Assessment of Confidence in assigning LC#

Attested

Substrate

Paper

Dimensions

Forthcoming

Opened (in mm):       

Letterpacket (in mm):  65mm x 115mm

Manifestation

Opened

Distinctive letterlocking style(s)

Hybrid lock

Locking Mechanism

Hybrid-lock (Tuck and Lock-SA)

Security enhancements

Under/over exposed seal 

Letterlocking category formula (shorthand)

LC30 

Fold + Tuck + Adhere + Lock-SA 

(F + T + A + LSA)

Letterlocking manipulation sequence (shorthand)

Fold + fold + fold + tuck/lock-SA + adhere + adhere

Locking instructions

Forthcoming

Images 

Forthcoming

Images: View: address side; reverse side

Images: Download: address side; reverse side

Foldable(s)

Forthcoming

Step-by-steps 

Forthcoming

Substrate map

Forthcoming

Virtual unfolding results

NA

Manipulations

Forthcoming

Writing: NA

Postal: NA? Hand-delivered?

Opening: Seal tears 

Filing (Storage, Display): NA

Repair: Mends?

Damage

NA

Features

Dirt on panels/ in crease

Article(s)

NA

Book 

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

Citation for the letter(s)

Original UH0083

John Keats to Fanny Brawne (1820). John Keats Collection, (1814–1891). Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Keats 1–6, MS Keats 1.71.

Model

MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box 27.

Video

LUV083

Jana Dambrogio and the Unlocking History Research Group, "An accessible edge hybrid-lock, John Keats’ letter to Fanny Brawne, England (1820)”, Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Unlocking History numbers 0083/Letterlocking Unique Video number: 083. Filmed: September 2016. Duration: 1:07. Posted: February 2020. URL: https://youtu.be/TSG9VWCseGg. Accessed: March 4, 2025.

LUV 244

Jana Dambrogio and the Unlocking History Research Group, “Hybrid lock-SA and Fold and Adhere Medley.” Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Unlocking History numbers 0081, 0082, 0083, 0084, 0086, 0092/Letterlocking Unique Video number 244. Filmed: September 2016. Duration: beginning at 1:18. Posted: February 2020. URL: Accessible edge. Accessed: March 4, 2025.