"Monks didn’t use new paper, so Dom Philip made the note, in the smallest handwriting he could, on the inside of an envelope sent by his father" (p. 110).
- With the novice master’s permission, the novices could write notes to each other. Because they were about to take a vow of poverty, to save paper, these notes were always written on very small recycled scraps of paper.
- A note Dom Leo wrote to Dom Ignatius when he left the Charterhouse.
- A novice’s copy of the sermon Dom Joseph gave when Doms Cyril and Ignatius were received into the novitiate.
- This page from the first volume of the Annals describes the size of each part of the Charterhouse.
- The author taking notes from the Annals in the frigid, damp North Parlor. She is wearing all the clothes she brought with her, as well as those of her husband.
- The author trying to make sense of these documents in her Washington, DC, home.
