Vintage writing

Helen DuBarry writes to her mother, providing a detailed account of the assassination of President Lincoln, which Helen witnessed as a member of the audience at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865.

Brenda Arledge has given Hubpage authors a 24th prompt, which is “letter”. There is an acrostic poem and a poem that bemoans the fact that many children are no longer learning to write in cursive.

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

excerpt from a love letter from Edith Wharton to Morton Fullerton during their passionate affair

This aged page, from a vintage dictionary in my collection that was published in 1922, includes the words: ease, easel, east, Easter, easy, eat and ebony. Click on image to enlarge. Related posts that may interest you: Free Vintage Clip Art Dictionary Page Bake Sparkle Sparrow Spatula ~ Free Dictionary Graphic Moth, Mother, Motorcycle ~...Read More

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Bliss! An enormous stack of antique documents from Paris and its environs....mostly 1700s....some 1800s....some 1600s....incredible wax seals....hand drawn maps....little attachments stitched on with fine thread....steel pins holding pages together....the most heavenly aroma, that mixture of cedar and tobacco that makes me swoon every time....beautiful watermarks....parchment so fine it is transparent....ragged edges....creases and stains....the foxiest foxing.... More to share with you…