Write Like a Miskatonic Professor
The HPLHS is pleased to present our own line of Miskatonic University fountain pens. Lovecraft himself handwrote his stories and thousands of letters with his trusty fountain pen. We've embraced that tradition with our own Miskatonic University branded fountain pen. With the Miskatonic logo handsomely emblazoned on the barrel, soon you too will be writing in classic style.
Our fountain pens comes packed in a very nice black drawer-pull style gift box, with both an easily replaceable black ink cartridge and an installed converter for easy refills from an ink bottle. We're currently offering two styles:
- The Armitage - black and silver, and is named in honor of Henry Armitage. The pen is about 5.5 inches long and 1/2 inch in diameter, with a .38mm nib.
- The Peaslee - black and gold with a bit more heft, the Peaslee is about 5.5 inches long with a 5/8" diameter barrel. Named in honor of Prof. Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, this fine writing instrument is well suited to larger hands
The box contains a small sheet of instructions for how to fill the pen with ink for those who don't normally use fountain pens. We include a standard international ink cartridge that will enable you to write with it right away, and it also comes with a converter so you can fill it with any color of ink you choose. Bottled ink and ink cartridges are readily available at numerous other retailers, but please make sure you get ink designed specifically for fountain pens. (India inks, drawing and alcohol-based inks may damage the pen and/or clog the ink flow.)
We use fountain pens all the time here at HPLHS headquarters, and here are some inks we like:
This is a typed transcription of my handwritten review from the image:
Dear H.P.L.H.S.,
I have held off on writing this review for the last few weeks because I wanted to allow myself time to use the pens for a while in order to provide an informed opinion.
I purchased both the Peaslee and the Armitage pens.
This review was written using the Peaslee... Both pens have a lovely vintage look and feel with a classic design esthetic. The converters are nothing particularly special but they serve their purpose well. What I find particularly pleasantly surprising are the nibs. Especially the ni on the Peaslee is very smooth and consistent in its writing. I find with both pens that I do not get false-starts or gaps in ink flow. They write nice and wet even when writing quickly.
I have been using fountain pens for many years and as a great Lovecraft fan I find both pens to be a pleasure to write with while subtly showing my love of Dark Academia and Lovecraftia!
Well done!
Gwen M. Beale
P.S. I recommend a good quality fountain pen friendly like Private Reserve, Pelikan, or Diamine. Definitely do NOT use india ink with these pens.
This Peaslee pen writes even better than the first one I had --- which, since it was stolen, I have vehemently cursed against its thief and therefore expect it is skipping, spurting, and leaking all over him....
Received the Peaslee last week, and after north of 20 pages already written, I must say that I'm very pleased with it. It looks well made and sturdy, balance is good if not posted (the cap has quite a bit of weight) and the nib is extremely smooth. It's running on the dry side so you may want to use an ink on the wet side for better shading. The converter works well but has a somewhat limited capacity compared to, say, a Waterman so it needs frequent refills. All in all a very good purchase, and very affordable for this level of quality. And I loved the retro style invoice ! This one deserves to be framed.
A fine well balanced pen. It inspires me.
I have used fountain pens for over sixty years, calligraphic pens for over half a century. This Peaslee pen is the most comfortable to my hand that I have written with, and the nib writes the most smoothly, fluidly, and easily of all the nibs I have had, allowing clean beautiful lines and curves without conscious effort. Thank you! That it is a link to Miskatonic and the world of Lovecraft is sheer delicious gravy, and not lost on me, I assure you --- I am relaxing into the Classic Era as I think about it!
