About

This is the weblog of Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, husband and wife authors and book-collectors. Christina is the former librarian of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, England. Wayne is Assistant Librarian at the Chapin Library of rare books at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. They are well known as scholars devoted to J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur Ransome, and the artist Pauline Baynes. Further biographical and bibliographical information may be read on their website.

Blog design is by Wayne, customizing the free Vigilance theme from WordPress. The custom heading font is Castellar. The heading background image is a detail from a pattern paper wrapper.

We welcome comments to our posts, but reserve the right to delete those not reasonably pertinent.

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