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Locked Letters in Art and History

Before the Common Era

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1500–1599

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1600–1699

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1700–1799

LISIEWSKA, Anna Dorothea The Arrival of the Love Letter 1760s

LISIEWSKA, Anna Dorothea The Arrival of the Love Letter 1760s

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Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

1800–1899

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1900–1999

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