Heroic journals
All laud to Labaume, going to such heroic lengths to write his journal. I will have to introduce this makeshift...
Shaping words and forming letters
It’s unusual to read such a detailed comment on the act of writing by hand. But once you have the...
The Magic Ink-Pot
Always on the hunt for treasures among forgotten children's books, I came across this one by chance when I was...
Inkhorn in one hand, pen in the other
Orlando enjoys a portfolio career, as a courtier, a diplomat, a landowner, a lady under house arrest, but throughout, he-she...
The loss of a journal
How many notebooks, journals or letters have been swept away by circumstance, carrying the minutiae of memory with them? Leigh...
Spirit of Dance
In developing a companion website dedicated to love of life and the joys of sharing it, I sifted thousands of...
Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England....
Of pens and pencils
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This is a charming account of negotiating communist bureaucracy at the height of...
Schoolboy sketches
Maurice Cramer was a Geneva schoolboy who joined his classmates in August 1870 for a school trip to discover Champéry. ...
Well, well, well – dragons amid clouds
On a joyous day walking around the Art Institute in Chicago, I spotted this beautiful, pristine celadon writing box with...
Ink-blue water
As the logos on this website testify, I'm an ink-geek, and love inky similes. Here is another...
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