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Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last
From The New York Times, 9 March 2023. Bryn Stole reported from London, Berlin and Oldenburg, Germany.
In a love letter from 1745 decorated with a doodle of a heart shot through with arrows, María Clara de Aialde wrote to her husband, Sebastian,…
Mary Queen of Scots: Secret letters written during imprisonment decoded
Reported by the BBC website on 8th February:
Secret letters written in code by Mary, Queen of Scots, during her imprisonment in England have been uncovered and decoded by a team of cryptographers. The documents, which were believed to have…