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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mortality
circa 1732
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for
circa 1789-1819*
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that
circa 1789-1819*
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Report
circa 1789-1819*
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seats
circa 1817
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parlour
circa 1832
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anticipating
circa 1833
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fix'd
circa 1840-10-26
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Know
circa 1860
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twice
circa 1860
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filling
circa 1865
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Daughter
circa 1881
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communicate
circa 1884*-1891
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approbation
circa 1884*-1891
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Claggart