Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester figures at table with blue eyes behind them

with blue eyes behind them and a terrifically painterly face

with sumi ink characters on the front and back covers

8 3/16" t x 6 1/8" w x 3/8" d

and Helen Frankenthaler

Evocative, Never Opened 1929 Letter to R.F Lovelee, Seneca Hotel, Rochester figures at table with blue eyes behind themThis 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