Lewis Betts' 1853 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Great Sentences, Milton MA vessel with face ” is one of my

” is one of my very favorites

with some nice alligatoring to the cream paint

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for Gifts and Open House/Auction that I found along with it

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Lewis Betts' 1853 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Great Sentences, Milton MA vessel with face ” is one of myI'm drawn to different penmanship notebooks for different reasons often for beautiful handwriting, obviously, but also for the specific words and sentences repeated, which both speak to the specific values being imparted to students when they were written, and resonate in all sorts of ways now. This one, completed by a Lewis Betts of Milton, MA in 1853, predates the teaching of Spencerian calligraphy by a few years, so the handwriting is small and not