You might try looking under 'palaeography'--that is where I go to find out
about handwriting/lettering styles in general....
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
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At 02:29 PM 7/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Sorry if this is a little off subject, but I am editing an 1867 diary of
>an Ohio farmer.  At the bottom of each entry, the writer wrote several
>lines in "phonography," i.e. shorthand.  I can't read modern shorthand,
>let alone that from the third quarter of the the 19th century.  Does
>anyone know anybody out there who is knowledgeable about old forms of
>shorthand?
>
>Tim Dennee
>Alexandria Archaeology
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