SOLD Divide Your Portion Among the Poor, Nancy Crouses's 1830-31 Short but Great Penmanship Notebook geometric solid forever waiting for pens to

forever waiting for pens to wipe clean

Frame: 10 1/4" x 7 1/4"

and likely all of them

in an ugly newer frame

with the hand-painted pipe rendered in relief

SOLD Divide Your Portion Among the Poor, Nancy Crouses's 1830-31 Short but Great Penmanship Notebook geometric solid forever waiting for pens toOne of two penmanship notebooks today from members of the Crouse family of Oppenheim, Montgomery County, NY, this one the work of young Nancy (b. 1817), sister of Peter, whose notebook is listed separately. This one is shorter, completed one year earlier, and contains some gems; I would have bought it for the first page shown here alone. "Honour Your Parents," "Evil communication corrupts good manners," and "Man is made to mourn," too. I've become