Lewis Betts' 1853 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Great Sentences, Milton MA vessel with face and a huge one

and a huge one

it is as it was made

with the silver plate polishing up nicely

and I have found mention of some Waldimand and Haldimands both in the Ontario region

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Lewis Betts' 1853 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Great Sentences, Milton MA vessel with face and a huge oneI'm drawn to different penmanship notebooks for different reasons often for beautiful handwriting, obviously, but also for the specific words and sentences repeated, which both speak to the specific values being imparted to students when they were written, and resonate in all sorts of ways now. This one, completed by a Lewis Betts of Milton, MA in 1853, predates the teaching of Spencerian calligraphy by a few years, so the handwriting is small and not