Library dilemma: found the note below in the stacks. Disregarded the instructions of our colleague from 104 years ago. Awaiting consequences...

I'm writing a book on the history, literature, & aesthetics of the Post Office. I use to teach a class called Post Office Stories. Just dug out the syllabus if anyone's interested.

can people stop putting down subjects such as english lit, film, media stories, music, languages & art (etc), without them you wouldn’t be able to communicate, understand other cultures, or be entertained.

I see English Lit is trending for being "useless". I have an MA in English Lit and Mathematics and I just want to throw my two cents into the ring (or however it goes...) 1/

Word of the day (again) is ‘quiddling’ (18th century): busying oneself with entirely trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.

Ashbery. “Sometimes a word will start it, like / Hands and feet, sun and gloves.”

2021 brings the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante... “Welcome to what forever hurts you most! / But you – a living man – cannot cross here. / My only business is to shift the dead..” (‘Hell’, Canto 3, trans. Alasdair Gray)

Bear cub catching snowflakes.

Word of the day is 'whiffler' (17th-century): a chronically indecisive and evasive person who swings from one course of action to another.

I'd like to sleep till winter's gone . . .

Shelley

Here are some of London’s original city gates, drawn in the 1770s.

A quick blog about our new Elizabeth Gaskell & Charles Dickens digital collection on our shiny image viewer! Manchester Digital Collections: rylandscollections.com/2021/02/08/pla… @UoMSpecColl John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Charles Dickens in colour and moving! This is pretty amazing. MyHeritage #DeepNostalgia

First time in the Cathedral library today. Lovely space with lots of books, beautiful artwork and soft furnishings. It overlooks the River Thames. I saw a fish 😸

Developer buys pub. Developer is refused planning permission. Developer demolishes it anyway -in breach of planning laws and in spite of the fact it was being considered for Grade II listing. Period of public uproar. Developer is ordered to rebuild it brick-by-brick. Glorious.