The British Library has paid £32,000 for poet Wendy Cope‘s email archive. A far cry from stacks of personal letters, but seemingly the natural progression of things. According to Cope herself, many of the emails “are not interesting at all”. (via @BookBench)
Library Buys Poet’s 40000 Emails
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This headline is misleading. The amount paid was not just for the e-mails. It was for her entire archive, which includes 15 boxes of paper manuscripts as well as emails.
great!!!