Popular sci-fi writer keeps a thousand objects on desk

Usage examples of inkwells.

He sat with his pen at all hours, using up inkwells, writing it out, and the nonsense looked worse than it sounded.

Of his three finely decorative inkwells, this one he prized most, having once belonged to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and then to Lord Tennyson, who had sent it to Longfellow as a gift to wish him well on the Dante translation.