Corrections

A letter about checking things should show its own mistakes, so every one we’ve made in an issue is listed here, with the date, what we printed and what was right. The archive copy gets fixed as well, the next issue says so in a line, and since the email that went out can’t be changed, this page is the record.

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Format example, not a real correction. Dec 17, 2026, issue 3: the caption under the watch letter said 1897. The letter is dated 1879, and the archive copy now says so. Fixed Dec 18.

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The hands are from Professor Hoffmann’s Modern Magic, 1876, and the pointing hand from an 1891 printers’ specimen book.