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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sell
circa 1789-1819*
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conferred
circa 1789-1819*
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Majr.
[Major]
circa 1840
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proposes
circa 1843-11-18
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Owing
circa 1845
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selves
circa 1859
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rather
circa 1860
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gratification
circa 1860
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sick
circa 1881-09-20
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various
circa 1884*-1891
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drubbing
circa 1884*-1891
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bade
circa 1884*-1891
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Spanish
circa 1884*-1891
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thought
circa 1884*-1891
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that