And I would be interested in knowing about commercial services which
can render faint pencil writing readable. In this case it is the
personal account of a trek westwards from a POW camp in occupied
Poland in the closing weeks of WW11 written by an uncle of mine.
Bill Forster
UH Press
>The snip below is forwarded on behalf of Mark Powell, not on this
>listserv, and he is referring to documents kept by his G'father
>whilst a POW on the Death Railroad. If anyone would recommend a
>service off campus that he could approach in order to do
>restorations, in Britain, I think he would be very grateful. Please
>reply direct to Mark, e-mail address is above.
>Many thanks
>Alec
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>>I also have a number of photographs/post
>> cards that my grandad managed to keep with him during captivity
>>and which he wrote on the back in pencil (one of
>> them in particular has an account of some of the many atrocities
>>that took place) . Sadly, either my grandad or a
>> member of the family had these pictures stuck down into an album
>>and now there is a great deal of gum and card
>> covering the writing. For years I have planned to have the back
>>of these pictures restored but haven't known where
>> to send them. Also I think that the writng needs to be recorded
>>.The pencil writing is extremely faint and very small.
>> If you could help me in this matter I would be very grateful.
>>
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