Penmanship book

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Saco Museum

Name/Title

Penmanship book

Entry/Object ID

2022.68.1

Scope and Content

Blank notebook used for penmanship exercises by Eunice Cutts when she attended Eleanor Druitt's academy in Boston. The front cover has an engraving of a group of buildings with a large one in the foreground identified as "The Governours House at Portsmouth." On some of the pages, all of those on the left hand leaves, are repetitions of a single phrase copied in rows down the page. On the opposing pages, copied in a smaller hand, are various verses (often religious in nature) or poems, some of which run to several pages.

Dimensions

Height

7-7/8 in

Width

6-3/8 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Penmanship Notebooks, 1796-1797 ink on laid paper Eunice Cutts used these notebooks for her penmanship lessons when she attended Eleanor Druitt's fashionable boarding school in Boston.