Preferred label

Wrapper

Alternative label

Stampless cover; Cover; Address wrapper; Stampless folded letter; Stampless folded cover; Under cover        

Scope note

A container, usually made of paper, formed to fit around one or more items, (e.g. letters, locked letters, enclosures), and then addressed and secured for delivery. The rest of the wrapper substrate remains blank.        

Parent concept

Container        

uh-linked-data/concept/65        

Related concept  

Letter-wrapper        

uh-linked-data/concept/221

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/594