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I’ve been thinking about typewriter stationery and carbon copies lately, as has our friend Joe Van Cleave. Has anyone used or had NCR paper stationery made for themselves?

I tried some half-sheet stationery at the International Printing Museum not long ago and that seemed like a lovely way to write and keep copies of typewritten correspondence. 

Of course recommendations for designers and printers for personal stationery is welcome here too. 

I watched the fascinating documentary Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal (Magnolia Pictures, 2015) last night. An hour and thirteen into the picture, William F. Buckley Jr., who is known to have used a Royal HH and an Olivetti Lettera 32, can be seen abusing what appears to be a Hermes 3000 portable typewriter.

William F. Buckley in a white shirt with a sweater over it and wearing his signature glasses begins a new line of writing on a Hermes 3000 typewriter

Bill Buckley typing on a Hermes 3000 typewriter at the end of a line.

Bill Buckley's fingers typing out an article on the mint green keys of a Hermes typewriter

Smith-Corona Marchant (aka SCM) not only made typewriters, but they also manufactured index cards! They apparently had an office supplies group in Marion, Indiana.

I can’t wait to take some of these for a spin in my Sears Cutlass.

A pack of 100 3x5" index cards with the corporate logo SCM sits on top of a burgundy Sears Cutlass typewriter.