A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED ENVELOPE AND LETTER SHEET OR POSTAL MEMORANDUM FORM
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATON left by Angelo Cipriano Baronio at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd October 1874.
I, ANGELO CIPRIANO BARONIO, of 19, Salisbury Street, Strand,
London, W.C., Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED ENVELOPE AND LETTER SHEET OR
POSTAL MEMORANDUM FORM," to be as follows:-
I take half a sheet, say, of large post, and which I propose to fold in
3 divisions horizontally, and devote each of the portions to the following
purposes in the following manner :-
On the back of the upper portion the address of the sender may be
printed, and space left for the superscription or name and address of the
person to whom it is intended to be sent and for the postage stamp;
this portion I may call A. Thus the addressed face of the upper
portion, when the sheet lies open, is intended to be downward, and the
middle and lower portions are intended to be written upon.

page_text: The lower portion is intended to contain the date line and first portion
of the letter, which may be written upon to the bottom thereof; this
portion I will distinguish as B.
The middle portion or division, which I will designate as C, is intended
to be inscribed or occupied with the continuation of the letter (the
beginning of which was written upon the portion B), and to contain the
signature of the writer.
The line forming the horizontal fold between the middle and lower
portions, or C and B, is to be perforated or semi-divided..
The top edge of the upper portion is on its upper face gummed, for
the purpose of securing the sheet when it has been written upon,
and so forms the envelope; it being remembered that on the back of
this upper portion A is the name and address of the sender (which is
intended to be printed) and the name and address of the person to whom
it is intended to be sent is written (or it may be printed). The two
edges or sides are now folded inwards, and the two written faces of B
and C are folded over and brought together, and then the portion A
is folded over upon the back of B, and the gum is moistened and
caused to secure the parts together, and the letter is then ready to
be dispatched either for delivery by hand or (when stamped) by post.
:
When the letter is received and has to be opened the lower portion of
the letter (with a line of perforations) is ripped along what formed the
division between the middle and lower portions, and thereupon, when
the letter is opened out so as to be read, the portion B forming the
beginning of the letter is at the top, and the conclusion of the letter on
the portion C is then at the bottom, or in its proper place for the
portions of the letter to be read continuously, the two portions A and B
remaining gummed together back to back at the top of the opened letter.
By making the horizontal line of perforations at the upper part of the
sheet between the portions previously described as A and C, the letter
or communication may be begun at the top of the blank sheet im-
mediately under the line of perforation, and be continued throughout
to the bottom of the sheet, or it may be extended over to the back of
the portion previously designated as B, and on the sheet being folded

page_text: vertically inward at each edge, it may then lie folded into 3 or 4 folds
or horizontal portions, according to the size of the addressed flap, which
is made in proportion to the size of the sheet and the number of folds,
and on the upper or addressed portion being gummed it is to be folded
over and caused to adhere, as previously described, and so forms the
envelope.