More On The Weird And Wonderful Career History Of L. E. Waterman

[Vintagepens]

It's taken a while, but you can now read Lewis Edson Waterman's Long Strange Trip.

 

Stranger than fiction -- did you know that the books the young Waterman was peddling were those of Fowler & Wells, leading promoters of Victorian quackery (Phrenology, food faddism, Spiritualism, and more)? And that he was a keen supporter of phrenology to the end of his life? Further, that he spent his early years in New York promoting a weightlifting fitness system?

 

There's yet more to come, believe it or not.

[RMN]

Interesting read. Quite a job researching all this.

 

 

D.ick

[kirchh]

Great stuff, David, and clearly a result of a great deal of focused effort.

 

This is required reading for anyone with an interest in the early history of the fountain pen.

 

More!

 

--Daniel

[GTOZack]

I remember my old french head chef, he grew up writing with WM's and other french based pens, he once told me that waterman was quite a madman, a genius madman at that