The letter had been lost for 450 years. It’s envelope had gotten stuck under the inside flap of an old ledger box. No museum archivist had noticed it until Will Sainsbury came along to do a little research of his own.
I must have edited that scene fifteen to twenty times, before it occurred to me that a letter written in the era of Elizabeth the First would probably not have been enclosed in an envelope,
Back in ancient days of BCE, Babylonians and Chinese people are known to have provided protective wrappings for some communications. It’s not totally beyond the realms of possibility others throughout the ages sometimes protected something important.
But we better just fold up Will’s letter, seal it, and push it in under the lid.
More on Envelopes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pushing-the-envelope-144581278/
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