Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Illegible handwriting of a visitor to Innerpeffray Library in 1878

Page of a handwritten register with an illegible entry and the line John Russell, Monzie.

When some self-important reception-desk outfit presses too insistently for my passport details, I deliberately write in the same hand as this charming visitor to the Innerpeffray Library in 1878. Kindred spirits find one another even across the centuries

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