James wisely responded to the news of the acquisition of Wendy Cope's archive with this comment on delicious:
""Elaborate signatures, perfumed missives and intimate scribbled secrets are set to disappear from literary archives as they become increasingly full of one-line emails, spam and Amazon.co.uk receipts." – This is the dumb response to the amazing future news."
I'm sufficiently up myself to want to point out that I anticipated that amazing future for authors and scholars and wrote about it in Wired. You can, should you wish to, go there and read it.
