Collections & Correspondence
The correspondence drawer marked Sundays
A family filing habit arranged letters by when they were answered, rather than who had written them.
Late nineteenth centuryRead
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A catalogue on the backs of envelopes
An inexpensive filing system made a private collection usable without pretending that its order had been settled for good.
Early twentieth centuryRead
Collections & Correspondence
The forty-six keys of Marlen House
A board of labelled keys outlasted the doors it was meant to explain.
Interwar yearsRead
Collections & Correspondence
The parcel that stayed unopened
The contents of a returned parcel mattered less to its recipient than the instructions written on the wrapping.
Mid-twentieth centuryRead
Collections & Correspondence
The road map with no roads
A delivery clerk drew the district as a sequence of useful landmarks, leaving the ordinary road network largely implied.
Post-war yearsRead
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