Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... Signatures , Individuality of Handwriting , Character from Handwriting , Moral , · PAGE 176 181 185 192 195 204 209 217 221 APPENDIX . No. I. Madame de Sévigné à M. de Coulanges , II . Spanish Letter - Descriptive of Scotland and James ...
... Signatures , Individuality of Handwriting , Character from Handwriting , Moral , · PAGE 176 181 185 192 195 204 209 217 221 APPENDIX . No. I. Madame de Sévigné à M. de Coulanges , II . Spanish Letter - Descriptive of Scotland and James ...
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... signature or subscription , except when writing to an emperor . There was rarely any address or inscription on the outside , the letter being usually intrusted to a letter - carrier ( tabella- rius ) , who was made acquainted with the ...
... signature or subscription , except when writing to an emperor . There was rarely any address or inscription on the outside , the letter being usually intrusted to a letter - carrier ( tabella- rius ) , who was made acquainted with the ...
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... Scottish lawyer , who held a distinguished place in the literary world . The writer's signature at the bottom of the first page was followed by the words , ' Turn over ; ' Illustrative Cases . 9 and on the other side appeared PAGE.
... Scottish lawyer , who held a distinguished place in the literary world . The writer's signature at the bottom of the first page was followed by the words , ' Turn over ; ' Illustrative Cases . 9 and on the other side appeared PAGE.
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... signature that I am married . ' The husband of a lady much given to the habit of postscribing , once laid a wager with her , on an occasion of his leaving home for a short time , that the first letter she wrote to him would not be ...
... signature that I am married . ' The husband of a lady much given to the habit of postscribing , once laid a wager with her , on an occasion of his leaving home for a short time , that the first letter she wrote to him would not be ...
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... signatures , and occasionally of entire letters . In the Montgomerie Collection ( to which I must confine my remarks ) , the 20 Correspondence of the letters amount to no fewer than Scottish Correspondence of Seventeenth and Eighteenth ...
... signatures , and occasionally of entire letters . In the Montgomerie Collection ( to which I must confine my remarks ) , the 20 Correspondence of the letters amount to no fewer than Scottish Correspondence of Seventeenth and Eighteenth ...
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