What a beautiful (if somewhat sad) collection of letters...
Check out: 19th Century Post: a mourning cover & miscellany collection. This website has a lot to offer! The miscellany part includes a great blog with a variety of interesting art & ephemera (including many painting and photographs of the fashions of the day), and the rest of the site is devoted to mourning covers (envelopes), which were an art form all their own in the 19th Century. You always knew it was bad news when you received a letter with black-trimmed edges or a black seal of wax. Click on the image at the left to see some details on this English example from 1872, then go browse the rest!
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