Landesarchiv NRW

I am again probing into archives for my new project for a couple of days. This time I spend the short week in the Landesarchiv NRW in Düsseldorf. After a long time, I have to read 19th century handwriting again. It takes a while to get used to it again but my ability to read it clearly improved over the 6 hours I tried deciphering correspondence about quarries. I am quite happy with what I found so far. It seems like materiality, the link I am interested in, was very much absent in the correspondence but very present in the logic of problems and solutions devised. There is always this blank you can literally feel when reading the documents around which the discourse is structured.