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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but
circa 1715/16
#2506 Col602_53-165-564.jpg
send
circa 1732
#409 Col602_53-165-293.jpg
yt
circa 1789-1819*
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amended
circa 1789-1819*
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remedial
circa 1790
#1167 Col602_53-165-453-1.jpg
nowly
circa 1803-01-23
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driver
circa 1805
#3377 Col602_53-165-481-2.jpg
obliging
circa 1845-11-08
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1845
circa 1865?
#365 Col602_53-165-292.jpg
Children,
circa 1865?
#2895 Col602_53-165-268-4.jpg
old
circa 1881-09-20
#9503 A1992__099__33-1.jpg
administration
circa 1884*-1891
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faces
circa 1884*-1891
#6857 22395197_rot_p_8.jpg
foreign
circa 1884*-1891
#6843 22395197_rot_p_4.jpg
impressment