Today I got to work at the IN (Imprimerie Nationale), watching Philippe Merille, run the Kuco caster, saw the drawers and drawers of type there and especially loved the Hieroglyphic types. When Dan and I visited in 1992 during Dan’s training, we saw the matrices for them that were commissioned by Napoleon — exquisite. Now I am on the train from Paris to Toulon, where I will spend four days with Kim and Philippe Villard, artists who collaborate together on white line woodcuts and also work independently. Our press did the title pages and colophon etc for some books they produced with their woodcuts. On the train ride south the fields of yellow (mustard flowers?) have an ethereal beauty, like a Gauguin painting.