Large volumes of correspondence pose problems of accounting, storage, digitization, assessment of informativeness, and importance of information. The experience of individual researchers and collectors can be useful in developing recommendations for creating and using reference information on individual components of documentation received by mail. This article examines the envelopes regarding Native Americans kept by scholars in Gomel. The analysis of the appearance and characteristics of individual elements of the envelopes can constitute a subdiscipline of source studies.

Categories: Зьнешнія адносіны, Культура, Нацыя Беларусы