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Peter F., you wrote:
"What a prodigiously detailed account. All written by hand with a quill, I
guess."

Probably. There was a US Civil War historian, Shelby Foote, who gained fame
following a multi-part tv documentary in the US about fifteen years ago --it
turns out he could speak on-screen almost as well as he could write! He had
written several very long books on the Civil War, and, famously, he did all
his writing with a dip pen. He said it helped to focus his thoughts, and I'm
sure it also helped him to step back in time a bit. Of course, he still had
to make life bearable for his editor, so at the end of a day of writing, he
would take his hand-written pages and transcribe them with his manual
typewriter.

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