THE photograph of the late Maurice Smith (The Press, July 22) must have puzzled many of today’s young web-wise paperback explorers: wall-to-wall ceiling-high shelving crammed with such curious artefacts.
These first became popular during the first century AD, and. many examples are still be found in the Yorkshire Museum.
The past is a foreign country, and there Maurice sits among his treasures smiling benignly as though he loved them all, and with not a coffee cup nor a drink dispenser in sight. I think Ronald Willis might have explained.
William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.
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