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Show , ( First Known Envelope Is in British Museum The first envelope of which there is any knowledge Inclosed a letter sent May 16, 1696, by Sir William Turnbull to Sir Jarnes Ogilvie. The epistle dealt with English alfa.lrs of state, and, with its covering. Is carefully care-fully preserved In the British museum. muse-um. At that period, and long afterward, It was the general custom to fold letters let-ters and seal them with wafers of wax. As a matter of tact, It is still fashionable to use sealijag wax on the flaps of envelopes. Muny people now living can remember the time when the old method of sealing -was still in use. A reference to a 'Tether with an envelope" en-velope" Is found in a poem written by Dean Swift In 1726. |