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, Edward Highton, William Reid and George Saward will be very much appreciated by the writer.