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by hinkley 1912 days ago
If you can color match, probably.

Rumor has it that Cardinal Richelieu's men had ways to read wax sealed documents.

How many of these documents have multiple layers of meaning embedded in them? Steganography, euphemisms, inside jokes, shibboleths, what have you. I wonder how many things these letters say that we simply cannot read.