“Thought you’d like this,” says my son Ben: Jefferson’s Portable Ivory Notebooks. I do. Thanks, Ben.
The Jefferson notebook attracted a flurry of interest in 2005, during the salad days of the hipster PDA. Everything old is new again, and again.
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Thomas Jefferson’s handwriting
[You can buy a brass and ivory notebook here. The pages look like piano keys. Ouch.]
Monday, August 5, 2013
Thomas Jefferson’s PDA
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Trying to imagine something like this for Cicero, only as small lead cards lined with beeswax (bees's''s wax?). :)
ReplyDeleteThe wax tablets I’ve seen look pretty stylin’.
ReplyDeleteI thought Garner’s Modern American Usage would have an entry for beeswax. But no soap, or beeswax.