TYPEWRITTEN LETTERS
Preference Varies In Britain (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, Sept. 16. A leading international fountain pen company, in an effort to find out whether there is general acceptance of typewritten personal letters instead of handwritten ones, asked several prominent people their opinion with varying results. Sir Alec Guinness said he disliked typewritten replies, but that his heart went out to people he knew to be busy who bothered to reply to invitations in their own hand. Sir Harold Nicholson said all letters, apart from letters of condolence, should be typed. “Those who are offended by receiving typewritten letters have backward minds.” Pamela Hansford Johnson said that to reply to personal invitations by typewriter was bad manners and Jacquetta Hawkes’ comment was: “I am interested in what is written and not in how it is put down.” Further investigations by the firm showed that handwriting was no longer taught as such in many British schools and that the standard of handwriting had declined among the young. It also found that women were much better writers than men.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29002, 17 September 1959, Page 9
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