INVENTOR OF ENVELOPES.
It is somowhat curious that such a simple contrivance' as the envelope should bo a comparatively modern invention. _ As a matter of fact, it is just a hundred years since a paper manufacturer of Brighton named Brcwes invented envelopes for letters in their present form. > Even thon it was some considerable timo before' their use became at all general, not, in fact, until somewhere about'tho year 1850. . ' B,efore this date (as many who are living now will remember) a letter, written only on one side, was folded in two,, tlieu in three, sealed with a wafer or sealing wax, and addressed on one of the blank sides.— "Gaulois."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 11
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111INVENTOR OF ENVELOPES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 11
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