Happily, technology and bandwidth have become cheaper in the intervening years, and I now lease office space that includes a modern copier that can scan to PDF as easily as making a photocopy.

Thus, I can now make the original images (as received from NARA) available online at http ://parrhesia.com/turing.pdf. (The link has been CORALized for faster response.)

It’s tough to read because this is a scan of a photocopy of a photograph (microfilm?) of the original – but if you’ve ever wondered what Alan Turing’s handwriting looked like, or want to remember what it was like to produce a document before White-Out existed, here you go.