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 1730
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Capt.
circa 1789-1819*
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familiar
circa 1817
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Loss
circa 1828
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papering
circa 1831
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until
circa 1845
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fit
circa 1845
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forth
circa 1845
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society
circa 1859
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not
circa 1884*-1891
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feeling
circa 1884*-1891
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omission
circa 1884*-1891
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since
circa 1884*-1891
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was
circa 1892-09-24
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much
circa 19__??
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glad