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The Biggest Pencil
I WAS WRITING a piece for my blog on John Kelly's story ["Pencil In This English Museum," May 15] and went to the Guinness Web site to check his statement about the museum's exhibiting "at nearly 26 feet long and 984.05 pounds the Guinness-certified World's Longest Pencil."
I learned on the Guinness Web site that the world's longest pencil -- 64.79 feet long -- was created in 2002 and is in Malaysia.
Joseph A. Stirt
Author John F. Kelly responds:
It appears that the Malaysians built their mighty pencil after the Keswick pencil earned Guinness certification. The Pencil Museum says that theirs is still the largest "artist's" -- that is, colored -- pencil (it's yellow), the Malaysian record-holder being a graphite pencil.
