Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY buttocks But I have a feeling

But I have a feeling it's better this way anyway--just a pure field of hands and silhouetted bodies interrupting each other in a sort of endless dance of stop and go (or Mother May I

)  My hunch is this one is by Adelaide

which I purchased from a wonderful paper dealer from upstate New York at the Papertown show in Boxborough

and a back side at least as good as the front

Framing would stabilize it and should make that split more or less disappear

Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY buttocks But I have a feelingMy photos here are poor, but this is great early one, 1831 32, the work of a young Peter Crouse (born 1816) of Oppenheim, Montgomery County, NY. I will never tire of these, the earlier the better, for the handwriting for sure, but even more than that for the resonance of the words and sentences written over and over, and for all of the quirks, too, such as words that didn't quite fit on the page and were snuck in as tails at the end. Many pages here