From the Railway and the Countess

hat can we tell from any envelope or cover that comes into our sight, or possession? With names of writer and receiver, and an address and place of despatch from the postmark, hopefully quite a lot. Research by written word or website can do much more, but often with a gap or an uncertainty. No one ever expected their ‘private’ letters and correspondence to be seen by others in their lifetime, and usually it was not. However,