Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY buttocks with its own particular rituals

with its own particular rituals and logics

Framing would stabilize it and should make that split more or less disappear

)  My hunch is this one is by Adelaide

which embody both the great aspirations of their maker and the impossibility of exactitude when doing things by hand

In between are a couple of decoratively carved cages

Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY buttocks with its own particular ritualsMy 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