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 1694
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was
circa 1703
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1703
circa 1703
#1723 Col602_53-165-038.jpg
write
circa 1715/16
#2525 Col602_53-165-564.jpg
my
circa 1789-1819*
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security
circa 1790
#1194 Col602_53-165-453-1.jpg
late
circa 1817
#2655 Col602_53-165-429-2.jpg
followers
circa 1829-03-12
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gentleman
circa 1840
#1413 Col602_53-165-503-1.jpg
proposes
circa 1861
#1329 Col602_53-165-499-1.jpg
informed
circa 1884*-1891
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complement
circa 1884*-1891
#6888 22395199_rot_p_9.jpg
fore-top
circa 1884*-1891
#6621 22395177_rot_p_2.jpg
lubber
circa 1884*-1891
#7091 22395215_rot_p_1.jpg
mobile
circa 1884*-1891
#6532 22395171_rot_p_2.jpg
rat-pit