Day: January 13, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: “Singapore, withal, right on the equator!”

As a young man of 26, printer Alfred North was so full of passions, doubts and pronouncements of great surety that, though his pen yielded constrained, constant little lines, his thoughts could hardly be whittled into expression, even through the long, looping sentences that filled page upon page of his correspondence.  This was especially true…