ink-wells

Updated: June 19, 2025

One glance at our cabins, at the crowded decks and dining-room, at the little writing-room above, where the ink had congealed in the ink-wells, sufficed to bring home to us that the days of luxurious sea travel, of a la carte restaurants, and Louis Seize bedrooms were gone at least for a period. The prospect of a voyage of nearly two weeks was not enticing.

Winston Churchill - A Traveller in War-Time