Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England....
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
Those were the days, when you could flaunt and vaunt through the thrill of the quill.
The investment of...
Keats on hand-writing
Keats' letters are treasures - he is every bit as fine a correspondent as he is a poet. Here he...
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...
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...
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...
Of berries and wine
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive...
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...
Roughing out poems
Hand-written notes and journals have a magic to them. Durrell is a favourite poet and his house in Greece was as...
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