so i’m ~20 hours deep into rnd for a regency/victorian era letter project, and my god is it so fun. about 5-6 hours of it has just been drafting my actual letter on my laptop and writing it on paper, and the rest of the time was purely research. so many websites and archives and pdf copies of old books.
so i know i said regency AND victorian, so lemme explain real quick. project started off as regency, since a friend and i were talking about love for history and i sparked this project idea and just had to do it. then as i started my research into everything, i had a big decision to make regarding historical accuracy and geographical location of where my friend and i live. i wanted to fold the letter regency style, but a lot of the information i was gathering was victorian era AND if i chose to include an address on the letter, where we live didn’t exist in the united states yet and only came to be towards the late 1800s, but then that would mean letter folding wasn’t much of a thing anymore and people just used envelopes and i didn’t like that vibe as much. but also using a united states address probably wouldn’t be as historically well for regency too. THEN i also wanted to add a poem but the ones i find and quite liked ended up being from very late victorian or early edwardian eras so i just had to suck up my minor faults of accuracy to history and just make it as close as i can while still being an enjoyable gift to said friend.
anyways, here’s some of my progress and trials and practice! lots of cursive practice (yes i already knew cursive but it wasn’t as pretty as i desired), lots of dip pen and wax sealing practice. not pictured is my hours of letter drafting and research into how to talk/write like the time period.
and yes, that is mr darcy’s letter to lizzie that i recreated as practice (i knoww he wouldn’t have sealed and wrote like that because he had big boy money but just shut up)
