From Junior English Activities Book One, 1938.

From The First Book of Illustrated Words and Sentences by Moran and Brelsford, 1901.

"If this book shall lose its way, tie it on and feed it hay. If this book sould [sic] run away, box its ears and sent [sic] it home.  Margaret Hennig is my name. Canada my nation.  Edmonton my dwelling place. Heaven my expodation [sic].  And when I die and in my grave, my bones will all be roten [sic].  This little book will tell my name and I will not be forgoten [sic]."  From The Alberta Public School English Grammar, 1913.

"Your handwriting is the language of the soul."  From Flying Saucer News, 1963.

A spirit message from one Lucy Hoar in 1941.  The handwriting reads, "Thanks Friend — it was nice of you to remember me.  I like to hear from friends I have known so long, especially those who used to live."

"I wish I could stop biting my nails."  From People Mirrors, Teacher's Guidebook by Allinson, Allinson & McInnes, 1974.

"I wish to thank you for your pretty flowers at my death."  Spirit writing from 1944.

From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 1895.

"We work ... for the night is coming."  From Syracuse University's 1941 yearbook.

From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.

"No sweetheart ... just plane dog daze."  From Syracuse University's 1941 yearbook.

"It's all about me."  From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 1895.

From Northern Illinois State Teachers College's 1922 yearbook.

"Never no never eat onions.  This is a large world but remember you are not the only one in it."  From Happy Thoughts Birthday Book by Rosie Burnand, 1887.

Handwriting was already going out in 1903.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.

"Tell me mentally where Cincinati [sic] is?"  From the endpapers of Agriculture by C. C. James, 1899.

Tag yourself!  From Illinois Woman's College's 1921 yearbook.

Nice to have the author's and illustrator's signatures on the front cover.  From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.

Seven causes of bad handwriting (dysgraphia) are typically identified.  Here are five of them.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.

A mystery: did the writer or the recipient scratch out the signature?  The inscription reads, "Dearest Lover, Darling (even).  With all my love, I am writing this to you.  Love, ------."  Our guess: perhaps the recipient wished to hide the lover's identity but kept the sentiment intact so as to look back upon it.  From Concordia's 1964 yearbook.