Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Berkeley Updike’

Very faithfully yours, D.B. Updike

Dear Mr. Kent:
I know little or nothing about machines, and therefore take the greatest pleasure in giving you my advice; for my experience is, that the less a person knows, the more free he is in giving his opinion. (Indeed, I find that in theology entire ignorance of the subject is the best qualification for strongly expressing one’s views; [...]

On Re-reading Updike

Daniel Berkeley Updike, of the Merrymount Press, Boston, died in December, 1941. Little notice was taken in this country of his death, owing to the state of war and to the fact that our typographical journals had in consequence ceased publication. This omission certainly did not mean that there was any falling off in our [...]