All that is clear from her letters is that for this single woman in her ‘moth-eaten sweaters and slacks’ books are friends and companions, and antiquarian books especially so. She loves ‘inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins’; she rejoices in the way that the books sent by Marks & Co. ‘open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.
Saturday, July 18, 2020
The romance of reading …
… Literarily a love affair | Spectator USA. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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