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 1703
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Ashamed
circa 1789-1819*
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demands
circa 1819
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plain
circa 1819
#1263 Col602_53-165-462-2.jpg
possible
circa 1828
#4583 Col602_53-165-526-2.jpg
wear
circa 1843-11-18
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Owing
circa 1845
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38
circa 1860
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has
circa 1861
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in
circa 1865?
#2969 Col602_53-165-268-6.jpg
Drugist
circa 1884*-1891
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and
circa 1884*-1891
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interferer
circa 1884*-1891
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maintained
circa 1884*-1891
#7436 22395257_rot_p_3.jpg
song-writer
circa 1884*-1891
#6854 22395197_rot_p_6.jpg
wanting