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- It is a historian's dream -- and for an international team of researchers, an exciting but exacting task: to pore through the piles of undelivered correspondence from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
The trunk belonged to a Dutch couple in the Hague, who served as postmaster and postmistress in the city between 1676 and 1707. It was donated to a postal museum in 1926, but its contents remained unexamined until now.