Gone are the days when it was necessary to apologize for typing a private letter to a friend. There are those people -who still think that a typed letter lacks" the "personal" touch—but the majority find enough personality in the signature of the writer and are grateful for the clear presentation of news. Few people who use typewriters ever have patience to return to the slow work of a pen.
The idea that a typewriter fs "vulgar" has long died out. Queen Elizabeth uses one. The little Princesses can already type sufficiently well to write letters thus to their friends. "The Duchess of Gloucester included a typewriter in her Kenya luggage. Two years ago the Earl of Harewood gave one to his son and heir, Lord Lascelles, who was thereby emboldened with the help of his brother, Gerald, to start a magazine, the "Harewood News," which has a circulation of 200! It was their mother, the Princess Royal who taught them to use the machine.
Portable typewriters for personal Use can be so pretty nowadays and are so compact and so silent that there should be no one left with a prejudice against them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.