Old hand writing

I warned you a few days ago that I'm a slow learner, and all the troubles I had with my bakery sign didn't teach me my lesson not to choose elaborate fonts to cut out on vinyl with my Silhouette machine. I truly expected this project to be a failure and probably be a total waste of time, but I felt compelled to try it anyway. Here's why. I bought an adorable 1895 school primer. It is filled with some

French Script, 1816 300ppi, 7x9"

Old German (Prussian) Alphabet & German Script - from Elementarbuch Der Deutschen Sprache, by Arnold Werner-Spanhood (1912)

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Alexander Hamilton's oldest surviving letter, written in 1769, as he was about to turn thirteen years old. The way his handwriting evolved is fascinating. Look at that flourish under his name, Jesus, kid. I've read this letter many times so I know what it says, I must say it's not easy in his youthful hand, given that he apparently did not have the time for spaces between words.

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Raise your hand, Pandas who still have a notebook! (A handful of hands slowly come up.) Now, raise your hand if you write in that notebook! While we listen to the humming silence, I have to admit that in the past week, I scribbled out a single post-it note with my groceries list. The fact is obvious: typing has pretty much replaced the good, old and beautiful art of handwriting. (I am not looking at you, doctors!)

OLD LETTERS These old letters are from somewhere in my family but we do not know anything about them. I have no idea who most of the people are. My family is from Bolton but quite a number of the letters seem to be from around Burnley and Skipton. One also mentions Liverpool. Names VARLEY, MAXFIELD, KAY, BUTLER Please leave any suggestions in the comments.