Letters
The Unsent Letters of a Boston Printer
In a basement at the American Antiquarian Society, the unpublished correspondence of a forgotten Boston printer reveals what a working life looked like before the telephone.
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Letters
In a basement at the American Antiquarian Society, the unpublished correspondence of a forgotten Boston printer reveals what a working life looked like before the telephone.
Time
For thirty-three years, a deaf court reporter named John Burley transcribed Boston's Suffolk Superior Court in a personal shorthand only he could read. His notebooks have been searched for since 1894.