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The article gives information of four unpublished letters by the English poet, Christina Rosetti to Lady Victoria Welby. In the first letter, Rosetti asks Welby for her feedback on her books which were helpful to her. In the second, she speaks of the incident narrated by Lady Welby and in the third they discuss reaction of other orthodox readers to the liberal thinking that marks “Links and Clues". The fourth is the note of thanks to Welby for the papers sent by her.

'Escape from the Dead Letter Office: Smuggled Birds and the Paperless Body in the Americas' brings together Eduardo Galeano's Century of the Wind, Carolina Maria de Jesus' Child of the Dark and Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the scrivener' in an analysis of dead letters. The essay suggests the metonymic relationship between textual and physical bodies. It traces a motif of paper - recycled newspapers, stolen archives, incinerated codices, paper money, letter-writing campaigns - in order to investigate the ways in which marginalized communities are exiled from the world of letters. This 'paperlessness' serves as a prophecy for more terrifying disappearances, and the theoretical contributions of Jacques Derrida, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Karl Marx, Roberto González Echevarría, and Lisa Sánchez González inform the analysis. The article itself commits to paper the resourcefulness of individuals and organizations in procuring paper for communities under siege. It seeks to bring the material aspect of literacy into clearer focus by investigating the ways in which paper circulates and is robbed of circulation, how paper is consumed literally and figuratively, and why the weight of paper can be the measure of its value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the additional evidence about the books of Baldassarre Castiglione, a Renaissance author in Italy. The author states that there are three more documents that appeared concerning Castiglione's acquisitions of books. These papers are to be found in Cassetta 6 of the Archivio Castiglioni, in the Archivio di Stato at Mantua. He adds that the documents consist of two letters together with a list of payments and expenditures, which a Mantuan merchant Benedetto Adelardo Da Porto addressed to Castiglione in 1523. Furthermore, the author says that the first of these papers is drafted on September 12, 1523 and the others are written around two months later.

The article presents information on examination of papers in questioned documents. The tests used in the scientific examination of questioned documents are many and varied. One examination may concern a specimen of typewriting and the determination of the make and model and perhaps the year of manufacture of the typewriter. The tests used to establish this involve the precise measurement of the shape and size of the letters, and their comparison with known standards. The problem may involve deciding whether two samples of handwriting were made by the same person. One of the most important matters is that involving the establishment of the difference or identity of two or more samples of paper stock. Tests were performed with the Herzberg and the Lofton Merritt stains. Small samples were cut out for this experiment. This would not necessarily be required as the procedure can readily be modified to be used as a spot test on the original sheet. This technique proves to be quite valuable as a corroborating demonstration that specimens of paper from questioned documents are either similar or dissimilar.

A previous paper published in this journal proposed a model for evaluating the location of fingermarks on two-dimensional items (de Ronde, van Aken, de Puit and de Poot (2019)). In this paper, we apply the proposed model to a dataset consisting of letters to test whether the activity of writing a letter can be distinguished from the alternative activity of reading a letter based on the location of the fingermarks on the letters. An experiment was conducted in which participants were asked to read a letter and write a letter as separate activities on A4- and A5-sized papers. The fingermarks on the letters were visualized, and the resulting images were transformed into grid representations. A binary classification model was used to classify the letters into the activities of reading and writing based on the location of the fingermarks in the grid representations. Furthermore, the limitations of the model were studied by testing the influence of the length of the letter, the right- or left-handedness of the donor and the size of the paper with an additional activity of folding the paper. The results show that the model can predict the activities of reading or writing a letter based on the fingermark locations on A4-sized letters of right-handed donors with 98 % accuracy. Additionally, the length of the written letter and the handedness of the donor did not influence the performance of the classification model. Changing the size of the letters and adding an activity of folding the paper after writing on it decreased the model's accuracy. Expanding the training set with part of this new set had a positive influence on the model's accuracy. The results demonstrate that the model proposed by de Ronde, van Aken, de Puit and de Poot (2019) can indeed be applied to other two-dimensional items on which the disputed activities would be expected to lead to different fingermark locations. Moreover, we show that the location of fingermarks on letters provides valuable information about the activity that is carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs. The William Gropper papers which are considered as the largest among the collections in William Gropper papers are included in the different papers that came to the Archives through the New York Office. Arnold Friedman's papers were also given to the Archives. The illustrated envelope and letter written by Alexander Calder to Andrew Gagarin is one of the added acquisitions of the Archives.

A letter is presented from Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti to Jean-Baptiste Roger Fauchon d'Henneville regarding the order of the latest gilt-edged paper.

The article discusses about the illustrated letter paper published by W. H. Rock in Great Britain. Almost 7,000 examples of illustrated letter papers were issued by Rock, each has a small vignetted topographical view which was printed from an etched steel plate. It is asserted that Keith Smith has 2,800 illustrated letter papers, the largest private collection in Great Britain. Smith has now made his collection available through a compact disk. It carries a short essay about the history of illustrated letter paper, as well as notes on the most important makers of them.