Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester antique French skittles both from auctions—one of this

both from auctions—one of this size sold at Skinner in 2016 for $246

with a mix of banded patterns at the center

Gay at bottom seems all about those tail feathers

ollowed the establishment of the U

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester antique French skittles both from auctions—one of thisThis envelope alone feels like a novel to me and what better name for a heroine (in my mind the addressee is a young woman) than R. F. Lovelee? This R. F Lovelee presumably was staying at the Seneca Hotel, built in 1847 in the French Renaissance manner, and by the 1920s Rochester's largest hotel, with over 500 rooms. But if this letter, mailed two months before the stock market crash that would launch the Great Depression, ever reached her, it appears