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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mine
circa 1732
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Evill
circa 1789-1819*
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thrown
circa 1789-1819*
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Mr.
[Mister]
circa 1789-1819*
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been
circa 1805
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sow'd
circa 1817
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at
circa 1860
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her
circa 1860
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Dear
circa 1861
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from
circa 1884*-1891
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approbation
circa 1884*-1891
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position
circa 1884*-1891
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strain
circa 1884*-1891
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with
circa 1884*-1891
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cannon