Distant Writing has been a collation of small pieces acquired over a long time. The use of printed sources from the nineteenth century has the defect of being unverifiable; although checks have been made, all manner of authorial and compositors' errors might have crept in, let alone the writer's own contributions; corrections and comments are therefore welcome.
There are some obvious gaps in this history of British telegraphy; any detail however small on the lives of James Sealy Fourdrinier, Robert Grimston, Nathaniel John Holmes, Edward Highton, William Reid, George Saward and Henry Weaver will be very much appreciated by the writer.
Distant Writing has written for ease of use so the massive irritation to readers of reference notes has been, rightly or wrongly, forsaken.