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摘要

As I might have been the academic who told Jan-Carlos Kucharek about the George Gilbert Scott drawing of St Pancras station with the minute writing in a lecture (RIBAJ November 2013, p85), perhaps I could cast more light on this little known and rather obscure matter. The late Charles McKean, then secretary of the London Region Environment Group, told me about this minute writing. He said it was in the brickwork and had been discovered by someone in the RIBA Drawings collection. He told me this half a lifetime ago after several glasses of single malt, so it could have been in the clouds of an etching. In those days the drawings were rather inaccessible, but today they are all in the V&A so it should be much simpler to verify.