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Ym raed Yssac

Ym raed Yssac

A coded letter from one of history's greatest authors

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Shaun Usher
Jan 06, 2023
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Autograph letter signed, 8th January 1817. The Morgan Library & Museum, MA 1034.6.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the letter above had been written either in gibberish or a foreign language. However, this is, in fact, a charmingly coded message sent playfully to an eight-year-old girl named Cassandra in 1817, by a loving aunt whose name you may reco…

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