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Originally Posted by Jellby
For a handwritten letter, for instance, I, as a reader, do not generally want to see a reproduction of the original (real or fictional), but a properly typeset version.
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Absolutely!
Dracula was written as a series of letters and other "epistolary" formats such as ship's log entries, in an era when typewriters were only beginning to become common. I am sure that all those
Dracula chapters were handwritten, but do we want to read them thus? Not I!