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 1699
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unfained
circa 1732
#497 Col602_53-165-293.jpg
heare
circa 1789-1819*
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be
circa 1789-1819*
#5479 0012.jpg
business
circa 1805
#3413 Col602_53-165-481-4.jpg
cow
circa 1828
#3638 Col602_53-165-495-1.jpg
concluded
circa 1845
#2103 Col602_53-165-515-2.jpg
publicly
circa 1847-06-19
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pleasure
circa 1859
#2705 Col602_53-165-518-4.jpg
least
circa 1859
#2715 Col602_53-165-518-4.jpg
natural
circa 1860
#2009 Col602_53-165-264b.jpg
he
circa 1881
#9673 A1992__099__34-1.jpg
Sentiments
circa 1884*-1891
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butcher
circa 1884*-1891
#7431 22395257_rot_p_2.jpg
Channel
circa 1884*-1891
#7499 22395267_rot_p_3.jpg
throws