Handwriting History collection:
Collected here are words, phrases, abbreviations, numerals, etc. from the projects for which we have exhibits. The sources are the Richardson family letters from Winterthur; The James Madison Papers: Subseries 5e, James Madison's Original Notes on Debates at the Federal Constitutional Convention held by the Library of Congress; and manuscript leaves from Herman Melville's Billy Budd from Houghton Library, Harvard; Van Gorden-Williams Library & Archives at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library.
See an assortment of the exhibited words and other polygons here:
circa 1789-02-16.
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expediency
circa 1789-1819*
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of
circa 1789-1819*
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small
circa 1789-1819*
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substitution
circa 1817
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Doctors
circa 1817
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gracious
circa 1817
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written
circa 1819
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espied
circa 1828
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on
circa 1843-11-18
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Warden
circa 1865?
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few
circa 1881
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announced
circa 1884*-1891
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direct
circa 1884*-1891
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makes
circa 1884*-1891
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there