After using the Olivetti Lettera 22 as my desk-side typewriter the last few days, I have switched it out this morning for the Smith-Corona Super.

While not the oldest typewriter I own, the Silent is the one I’ve had the longest. It is the machine that sent me down the road of manual typewriters and probably the one that I have used the most.

For no good reason, I had fallen out of the practice of keeping a typewriter with a sheet of paper in it on my desk and using it regularly over the last few months. I have made a minor project this week of getting back to that practice, and have been reminded of why I like it and started it in the first place.