02 March 2010
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Posted by: King's College
The archival document presented this month is a Victorian rebus-letter from the
collection of William C. Green, who came up to King's in 1851. The letter was written by Green's sister-in-law Mary Tovey to Green's daughter
Jeannette.
A "rebus" is a type of word puzzle that uses pictures to symbolize words or
parts of words. Sometimes the picture is a literal representation of the word
and sometimesit is a short visual pun. Today they are most often seen in coats
of arms and children's activity books.
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