But I have a feeling it's better this way anyway--just a pure field of hands and silhouetted bodies interrupting each other in a sort of endless dance of stop and go (or Mother May I
In between are a couple of decoratively carved cages
which embody both the great aspirations of their maker and the impossibility of exactitude when doing things by hand
) My hunch is this one is by Adelaide
Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY buttocks But I have a feelingMy photos here are poor, but this is great early one, 1831 32, the work of a young Peter Crouse (born 1816) of Oppenheim, Montgomery County, NY. I will never tire of these, the earlier the better, for the handwriting for sure, but even more than that for the resonance of the words and sentences written over and over, and for all of the quirks, too, such as words that didn't quite fit on the page and were snuck in as tails at the end. Many pages here