Lewis Betts' 1853 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Great Sentences, Milton MA gift for co-worker with a little scattered spotting

with a little scattered spotting on the mountain

The gold on this one is much mellower though

which I must say is sort of thrilling to pull out (I was thinking it would end at 12 or 24 inches

Manufactured by Swift Instuments

and both of which I'd never seen before--was the text reading "Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks / By diligence and patience the mouse eat in two the cable

Lewis Betts' 1853 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Great Sentences, Milton MA gift for co-worker with a little scattered spottingI'm drawn to different penmanship notebooks for different reasons often for beautiful handwriting, obviously, but also for the specific words and sentences repeated, which both speak to the specific values being imparted to students when they were written, and resonate in all sorts of ways now. This one, completed by a Lewis Betts of Milton, MA in 1853, predates the teaching of Spencerian calligraphy by a few years, so the handwriting is small and not