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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1703
circa 1789-1819*
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draught
circa 1819
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illiberal
circa 1828
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June
circa 1834-40?
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inability
circa 1834-40?
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Loyd
circa 1840
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gratify
circa 1859
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next
circa 1859
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think
circa 1860
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Janes
circa 1865?
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occasioned
circa 1884*-1891
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irruption
circa 1884*-1891
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leading
circa 1884*-1891
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strain
circa 1884*-1891
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union