You may not know it, but Tom Hanks has a great passion for typewriters and it is not uncommon for him to use one of the 120 models he owns to write his correspondence.
So, it is not surprising that he replied to Tom Hodges, an Edinburgh bookseller himself devoted to old scriptural mechanics, when he wrote to him to share with him an exhibition dedicated to their common passion. at the National Museum of Scotland.
"I get letters from people all the time and they are all precious to me but it's not everyday that you get one from a Hollywood legend and she calls you her hero," explained Tom Hodges at the
Guardian
, before describing this correspondence as "surreal".
Magical
Small detail that is important, Tom Hanks replied to Tom Hodges while he was on the set of the biopic on Elvis Presley by Baz Luhrmann and his letter featured a reproduction of Colonel Parker's letterhead.
The 35-year-old Scottish bookseller, for his part, likes to correspond with his grandfather's Remington Noiseless and sees himself as an “evangelist” of the typewriter and independent bookstore.
For the record, his discovery of the typewriter took place while he was working in Paris, at the famous English-speaking bookstore Shakespeare & Company.
“I like playing with the mechanisms, but for me, it's the sound and the feeling of hitting the keys of a typewriter that is magic,” Tom Hodges finally delighted.
Either way, the door to Tom Hodges' bookstore will always be open to Tom Hanks if he ever takes the urge to visit his pen pal.
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