The Society of Fellows invites you to a lecture and workshop, Unlocking the Secrets of John Donne's Letters.
Presented by Jana Dambrogio, FAAR'08, MIT Libraries and Dr. Daniel Smith, Lincoln College, University of Oxford.
Lecture
Monday, 23 February 2015
Houghton Library, Harvard University
5:30pm - 6:30pm, Edison & Newman Room
There will be a reception after the lecture.
Lecture and Workshop
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
MIT Libraries, DIRC, Room 14N-132
Lecture: 12:05pm - 1:00pm
Hands-on workshop: 2:05pm - 4:00pm
Register for the workshop here.
The lecture will unveil the secrets of letterlocking, and discuss the implications of re-sealing the letters of seventeenth-century poet and preacher John Donne. The hands-on workshop will teach participants to letterlock with paper - to fold and secure letters as people did before (and after) the invention of the envelope.