From The Phillips Family
Like Roy Herbert in review of The Pencil: A History, I had grave misgivings
about the interests of such a lowly item (Review, 26 January). When my children
attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started
to devise a list of silly museums – corn plasters of the world, Peruvian
nose flutes, or some such other daft idea.
But what a revelation it turned out to be. It was thoroughly well laid
out, with fact-sheets for the kids – including free pencils – exhibits dating
from the earliest times to the present day and the entrance was through
a mock graphite mine. We gave them full marks for originality.
The Phillips Family Brighton East Sussex.
