Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester antique French skittles with a couple of tiny

with a couple of tiny hairline cracks that don't go all the way through and some dryness to the wood

Gay at bottom seems all about those tail feathers

indicating that it was held (and dipped into) quite a lot

I believe this one was done by the same young girl as the miniature watercolor of two women I just listed

and making this seem all the more like a specific portrait of a specific place at a specific time

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester antique French skittles with a couple of tinyThis envelope alone feels like a novel to me and what better name for a heroine (in my mind the addressee is a young woman) than R. F. Lovelee? This R. F Lovelee presumably was staying at the Seneca Hotel, built in 1847 in the French Renaissance manner, and by the 1920s Rochester's largest hotel, with over 500 rooms. But if this letter, mailed two months before the stock market crash that would launch the Great Depression, ever reached her, it appears