Rebecca Weiss's Lovely and Pointedly Poignant 1819 Penmanship Notebook Tournades s Kitchen Bouquet bottle Ada has not come home

Ada has not come home from Great Falls

New York from the mid-1880s to 1902

I think of it kind of like a smiling moon

lushly sensual and full of force

lightening

Rebecca Weiss's Lovely and Pointedly Poignant 1819 Penmanship Notebook Tournades s Kitchen Bouquet bottle Ada has not come homeI'll never stop loving penmanship practice notebooks, and very early ones certainly most of all so beautiful, and so revealing of their times, while also never failing to resonate in the present moment. That feels acutely the case with this one, the work of a Rebecca Weiss, who signed her name at the bottom of most every page, and dated them too, January February 1819. "Learn content" (such a good one!) "Lies bring shame." "Bear no malice." "Honor is