Show inventor of envelopes it Is somewhat curious that aitch a simple contrivance as tho the envelope should be a comparatively modern invention ven tion As a matter of fact it Is just years since a paper manufacturer of brighton named drewes invented envelopes for letters in their present form even then it was some considerable time before their use became at all general not in fact until somewhere about the year 1850 before this date as many who are living now will remember a letter written only on ono side was folded in two then in three sealed with a wafer or sealing wax and addressed on one of the blank sides |