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2026-03-06	Formulas	Old Doctor Carlins Recipes 1881	PDF28 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	A Scale for Measuring the Quality of Handwriting of Adults 1915	PDF783 kb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	A Text Book on Penmanship 1862	PDF6 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	An Easy Grammar of Writing 1800	PDF5 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Bixlers Physical Training in Penmanship 1892	PDF32 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Blackboard Writing 1911	PDF133 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Complete Manual of Commercial Penmanship 1893	PDF5 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Farrian Complete Penmanship 1894	PDF18 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Handwriting 1912	PDF2 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Handwriting Measurements Standards and Methods 1918	PDF1 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Herholds Compendium of Modern Penmanship 1894	PDF3 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Lessons in Business Penmanship 1892	PDF6 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship 1920	PDF46 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Lessons in Penmanship 1907	PDF40 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Manual of Free-Hand Penmanship 1877	PDF1 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Penmanship by Principle 1921	PDF3 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Penmanship in Grades 5-8 1912	PDF4 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Penmanship-A Guide to Good Handwriting 1882	PDF633 kb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Penmanship-Determining the Achievement of Graduates in Handwriting 1916	PDF2 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Penmanship-Teaching and Supervision 1924	PDF5 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Penmanship-Vertical Penmanship 1906	PDF11 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Plainer Penmanship 1925	PDF9 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Practical Penmanship 1880	PDF2 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Practical Penmanship 1915	PDF3 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Progressive Penmanship Manual 1924	PDF65 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Public School Penmanship 1909	PDF8 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Ransomerian System of Rapid Business Writing 1912	PDF38 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Rasmussen Business Penmanship Instructor 1904	PDF1 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Real Pen Work-Self-Instructor in Penmanship 1881	PDF8 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship 1866	PDF4 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Sykes Manual of Penmanship 1885	PDF18 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Tamblyns Home Instructor in Penmanship 1929	PDF128 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Teachers and Students Guide to Practical Penmanship 1914	PDF2 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Teachers Guide-Locker Easy Method Writing 1919	PDF1 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Arm Movement Method of Rapid Writing 1904	PDF5 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Bailey Method Of Penmanship 1929	PDF219 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Hausam System of Plain Penmanship 1923	PDF19 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Palmer Method of Business Writing 1915	PDF8 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Palmer Method School of Penmanship 1909	PDF56 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Payson Dunton and Scribner Manual of Penmanship 1873	PDF8 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Penmans Hand-book 1883	PDF19 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Science of Practical Penmanship 1850	PDF2 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Teaching of Handwriting 1914	PDF6 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Teaching of Penmanship 1913	PDF2 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Theory and Practice of Handwriting 1894	PDF9 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	The Zanerian Manual of Alphabets and Engrossing 1924	PDF288 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Theory and Art of Penmanship 1869	PDF4 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Walker Method of Writing for Public and Private Schools 1922	PDF2 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Wesco System Of Writing 1939	PDF451 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Zaner and Bloser Method Writing 1923	PDF76 mb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	Zanerian Penmanship-Anatomy Physiology 1910	PDF563 kb
2026-03-23	Penmanship	aaa-Penmanship.zip	ZIP2 gb
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2026-03-23TEACHING-PENMANSHIP CATEGORY ADDED

Posted on 2026-03-23 by Librarian

Got an email from a friend in Guyana in South America who sent me the names of some books on Penmanship and asked why I didn’t have a Category for that.

After thinking about it for a minute or two I replied “Because I’m stupid and never thought about it.” or words to that effect. I took the titles he sent and started searching through some of the sources I use and without a lot of effort found about 50 of them. I collected them, did some cleanup work on them and got them posted.

We take for granted that we can shoot something to the printer, send a text or just email someone. In a world trying to rebuild at a pre-electrical level none of those, obviously, will be available. That means messages, notes, mail, documents and pretty much any written communication will be done by hand. Surprisingly a significant number of students these days cannot read or write cursive. I actually had an employee at the company where I used to work bring a note to me that I had left with some computer instructions and say she couldn’t read it. It was in cursive. Seriously.

Anyone who has ever done any writing using block letters knows that it is really slow compared to cursive and actually fatiguing after a bit. Someone practiced in cursive can write very rapidly and clearly (excluding Physicians of course) and with far less fatigue than block printing. Cursive has been in use for thousands of years and methods of writing where each letter flows into the next makes writing far more practical than any form of block writing. Cursive writing has been taught in U.S. schools almost since the country’s founding and I suspect most countries have taught it even longer.

Surprisingly cursive writing from a couple hundred years ago is still readable to most folks since alphabets have not changed significantly in quite a while. So while spelling changes and word meaning and grammar do change the actual process of cursive writing has not to any great degree.

A few of the books have sections on trimming quill pens since they have been in use for a long, long time and are still used by some hobbyists, calligraphers and artists. Making a quill pen and properly trimming one as it is used is a real lost art. Few if any people still know it. Fortunately there are several sections in these books that cover the subject.

So enjoy and Thanks you Damon for alerting me to this missing but vital Category.

The Librarian

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