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.

Sources:

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Herman Melville papers, 1761-1964. Billy Budd. A.Ms.; [n.p., n.d.]. MS Am 188 (363). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:4686413

Madison, James. James Madison Papers: Subseries 5e, James Madison's Original Notes on Debates at the Federal Constitutional Convention. 1787. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss31021x001/>.

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