Don’t Forget to Write! Why Letters and Cards Are More Important Than Ever
Your handwriting may be rusty, but we say: enough with the Zooms. Foster some real connections by putting pen to paper
Source: Montblanc
Next door to the Hamburg factory where luxury-goods manufacturer Montblanc produces its fountain pens and other writing instruments, you’ll find an “autograph library.”
There, enshrouded in glass as part of a permanent exhibition in what is known as Montblanc Haus, are the signatures of authors, artists, musicians, and other notable people—some known for using Montblanc pens, others not. They’re found on handwritten letters from the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein, Ian McKellen, and Karl Lagerfeld. The idea isn’t to tantalize with saucy secrets as much as to revel in less-ephemeral ephemera from a time before handwritten communication began its long digital erasure.