Donald Rumsfeld making a handwritten list of "15, 20, 25 things that could go wrong" in Iraq just before the invasion would be a negative-6.
"The portal makes sending a handwritten card as easy as an email," says Wong.
"Make a follow-up call, meet for coffee, or send a handwritten note," says Morris.
Handwritten notes, with or without invisible ink, will doubtless make a long overdue comeback.
The prime minister, who lost the sight in one eye as a child and sees poorly from the other eye, makes a point of sending a handwritten letter to the family of every British soldier who has died in Afghanistan — 232 so far.
The IAM Handwriting Database 3.0 includes contributions from 657 writers making a total of 1539 handwritten pages comprising 5685 sentences, 13,353 text lines and 115,320 words.
I've also seen some teenagers who make handwritten cards, take a picture of them with their phone, then send that.
Handwritten notes are making a comeback, but not strictly as a means of communication.
So this is a one-way epistolary novel, and thus an interesting tease; we are left wondering what an American wife-killer on Death Row might make of handwritten accounts of English teenage shenanigans.
In another practice, computer screens regularly froze, requiring receptionists to make extensive handwritten notes until the screens unfroze.
