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Why are they typewritten, with corrections? Did somebody find them years after the typewriter was invented and transfer them from handwritten archives?
by mixologic 11y ago
Why are they typewritten, with corrections? Did somebody find them years after the typewriter was invented and transfer them from handwritten archives?
- genericuser 11y agoYes someone transferred the newspaper archives to digital copies at some point, as the article states. "Hirst told the Guardian the digitisation of newspaper archives had been like “opening up a big box of candy”, allowing as it did Twain’s articles to be tracked down in a way that was not possible when archives were all on microfilm."
- swamp40 11y agoWhen they were written (in 1865), he was only 10 years away from getting his first typewriter. >> Hartford, March 19, 1875 Gentlemen: Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not even divulge the fact that I own a machine. I have entirely stopped using the Type-Writer, for the reason that I never could write a letter with it to anybody without receiving a request by return mail that I would not only describe the machine but state what progress I had made in the use of it, etc., etc. I don't like to write letters, and so I don't want people to know that I own this curiosity-breeding little joker. Yours truly, Saml. L. Clemens