Penmanship Collection, undated; 1762-1856.

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Penmanship Collection, undated; 1762-1856.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259605

Abstract

The penmanship collection consists of twenty-three copy books, undated, 1762-1856, representing the work of students from various locations, e.g., Boston, Charlton, Leicester, and Salem, Mass., Brunswick, Me., Eastford, Conn., and New York and Fishers Island, N.Y. The books, many with illustrated covers, contain examples of penmanship learning methods, including progressions from letters to sentences, practice-copying of verses and essays, plain and ornamental script, "ladies' epistolary writing," and "gentlemen's business hand." Several books also contain examples of paraphs, and others are divided into cypher books with detailed arithmetic and accounting problems. Represented in the collection are Nathaniel Allen, of Fisher's Island, N.Y.; Andrew Bigelow; Almira F. Bray, of Gloucester, Mass.; Marcell Brown; Mary Clough; Reuben Comins (1819- ), of Charlton, Mass.; James Coombs; Sarah W. Gill, of New York, N.Y.; Benjamin Goddard, Jr.; Simon Ray Greene; Mary Elizabeth Hovey (1829-1892); Lucy Ann Keyes, of Eastford, Conn.; Betsey Ann Lincoln (1817-1904); Rev. Samuel May (1810-1899), of Leicester, Mass.; Josiah B. Peele, of Salem, Mass.; Dan. F. Plummer; S. G. Rea; Rebeckah Salisbury, of Boston, Mass.; Samuel Salisbury (1769-1849); Almyra Sprague; Mary B. Thomas; Almond Tracy (1800- ); and Lincoln Varney, of Brunswick, Me. The oversize folder contains two items: a petition, dated May 1764, of John Vinal (1736-1832), writing-master and usher of the South-Writing School, to the town of Boston, regarding debt incurred while ill with small pox; and a mathematics exercise.

Extent

25 v. ; octavo.1 folder ; oversize.

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Gadsden Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6957725

Gadsden Public Library

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Brown, Marcelle V.

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Peele, Josiah B.

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Thomas, Mary B.

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Vinall, John, 1736-1823

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Gill, Sarah W.

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Sprague, Almyra.

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Comins, Reuben, b. 1819.

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Varney, Lincoln.

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Bigelow, Andrew, 1795-1877

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Bigelow was a Unitarian clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1817-1867. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505817 From the guide to the Papers, 1817-1867., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Andrew Bigelow (1795-1877) was born in Groton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1814 and studied law before turning to divinity. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1817 and spent some time in Edinburgh, Sc...

Hovey, Mary Elizabeth, 1829-1892.

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Bray, Almira F.

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Keyes, Lucy Ann.

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Salisbury, Stephen, 1769-1849.

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Allen, Nathaniel

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Nathaniel Allen was a Philadelphia merchant. From the description of Ledgers, 1710-1752. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122589942 ...