Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England....
Write me some moon-letters
The love of letters, maps and handwriting all bundled into one exuberant quotation. Â I now need to figure out the...
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...
Straight as an avenue of poplars
When was the last time you received - or wrote - an 18 page letter? Â I think I have managed...
The Wuthering Heights manuscript
While visiting the Bronte Parsonage, I was touched by a project led by the artist Clare Twomey, to celebrate the...
The pleasure of paper post
One of the greatest pleasures of Christmas, for me anyhow, is the sending and receiving of cards, one of the...
Postcards from the future
Enjoy this charming project which invited children aged 5-12 to design and write postcards from the future,...
A blank-book for thoughts
Having had several detailed discussions with my brother on what constitutes acceptable paper for note-books or letters, I felt sympathy...
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...
Schoolboy sketches
Maurice Cramer was a Geneva schoolboy who joined his classmates in August 1870 for a school trip to discover Champéry. ...
The scrutiny that precedes reading
Yes, there is that small ceremony that precedes the reading of a letter, particularly a hand-written one delivered by post. ...
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