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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Improve
circa 1732
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of
circa 1789-08-04.
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Excellency
circa 1789-1819*
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laws
circa 1789-1819*
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consist
circa 1833
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16
circa 1859
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tiresome
circa 1859
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were
circa 1860
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such
circa 1881
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charge
circa 1884*-1891
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shindy
circa 1884*-1891
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chap
circa 1884*-1891
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action
circa 1884*-1891
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Its
circa 19__??
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Mamma