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HENRY CALEB SPENCER
Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship
New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 1866
Plimpton A091 1866 Sp33
The Spencerian Key includes an overview of the Spencerian system of penmanship, with a lecture on the history of penmanship given by Platt Rogers Spencer, who had died in 1864. The lecture was the touchstone of a pamphlet war between the Spencerians and Payson, Dunton & Scribner, the latter accusing the former of plagiarizing from B. F. Foster others. After P. R. Spencer’s death, five of his six sons and a number of close associates continued the firm.
Gift of George Arthur Plimpton
G. A. GASKELL, BORN 1844
Gaskell’s Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing: Comprised in a New Series of Copy-Slips, with Ample Instructions for Use by Private Learners and Pupils or Business Colleges, Academies and District Schools…Eleventh Edition
Manchester, N. H.: Published at [Gaskell’s Bryant & Stratton] College, 1876
Plimpton A091 1876 G21
The “Beautiful Copy-Slips” contained in the envelope shown here include examples of “Ladies’ hand,” “Business hand, and “Old English,” and “German Text.”
Gift of George Arthur Plimpton
FRANCES M. MOORE
Handwriting for the Broad-Edge Pen; a Teachers' Manual
Boston, New York [etc.]: Ginn & Company, [1926]
Plimpton A090.1 1926 M78
WITH:
Autograph letter, signed, to George A. Plimpton
New York, August 18, 1926
Moore taught at Miss Chapin’s School in New York, where she introduced italic handwriting in 1923. The success of this instruction led to an invitation from George Plimpton to study the books on handwriting in his collection, and to the 1926 publication by Ginn & Co. of a teacher’s manual and copybooks written by Moore. Interested in reviving the use of the broad-edged pen, Moore refers readers to early exemplars; her manual includes many illustrations drawn from books and manuscripts in the Plimpton collection. She inscribed this copy to him, and included a note thanking Plimpton for access to his books.
Gift of George Arthur Plimpton
STANLEY MORISON
Autograph letter, signed, to George A. Plimpton April 24, 1926
Plimpton Papers 1987 Gift