Excess update: It seems I am going to be receiving yet ANOTHER typewriter in the mail--I was offered a second chance on one that I bid on a while ago (the other buyer backed out) and it was so cheap to send that I couldn't resist--$20.00, total. It's another old L.C.Smith--not as nice as the #2 but it promises to be a fun restoration project nonetheless. So, FOUR typewriters and TWO big boxes of books are on the way. Poor USPS! Poor UPS!

"What do you need another goddamn typewriter for?"
--Patricia Senior (1930- ) to her son (on numerous occasions)