interesting BBC radio 4 talk about the long-lost ‘cobden-sanderson’ doves typeface, thrown into the thames river one hundred years ago and presumed lost forever…
see also this related post on the me blog from february last year… (many thanks to my mate dominic davies for the tip)
(thanks to Field-Marshall ‘JLD’ Strijbosch for the tip)
this is a fun story: how a hand-drawn map got this letter delivered to a remote farm in iceland
…instead of a postal address or a recipient’s name, the sender had drawn a map of where they believed the farm to be, together with the following, in English: “Country: Iceland. City: Búðardalur. Name: A horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and three kids and a lot of sheep!” The sender had also added a further clue to the intended recipient: “the Danish woman works in a supermarket in Búðardalur.” The letter had been written and sent from the Icelandic capital Reykjavík by a tourist who had stayed at the farm but who obviously did not know the address. And, extraordinarily, it arrived at the right place…