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Writing by hand took time and skill long ago, before letters were written with pens dipped in ink, with fountain pens or typewriters or via e-mail on computers. Most of us still can write with a ...

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The writing desk of David Cornwell, better known by his nom de plume John le Carré, will go under the hammer at Lyon & Turnbull’s Modern Made sale at the Mall Galleries in London on April 28th.

"I am completely half afraid to think," Flann O'Brien wrote in The Third Policeman. What the famously acerbic writer would think about people rummaging about in his desk, we'll never know; but for ...

One Antiques Roadshow guest and her partner were astonished when a barely opened brass box turned out to be worth a lot of money. The guest didn't really know what it was she had been gifted once on ...