Eric Rasmussen is reluctant — really, really reluctant — to draw any big conclusions from his newly unearthed manuscript that might have been written in pen and ink by William Shakespeare. Even so, ...

If you want to own a piece of scientific history, you don’t need a science degree – just some sharp bidding skills and a very large chunk of money. A handwritten page from the conclusion of Charles ...

Once an essential life skill, writing by hand is now saved for special occasions like wedding invitations. Sometimes, we do it when we need to scribble down a quick note. As we observed generational ...

Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan wrote his first script draft for The Empire Strikes Back (though his was certainly not the first draft) by hand, and recently donated those handwritten pages to the ...

An extraordinary collection of priceless manuscripts of naturalist Charles Darwin goes online today, including two rare pages from the original draft of On the Origin of Species. These documents will ...

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These days, almost all works of literature are written on computers, from the first inklings saved in a .doc called "notes," to the final, emailed-out draft. They're even, increasingly, read on ...