SOLD Divide Your Portion Among the Poor, Nancy Crouses's 1830-31 Short but Great Penmanship Notebook antique beauties round body

round body

as if just forming and soon to fade away again

it would have been sold along with a milk truck

Beware of well concealed conflicts

Hard to photographed but I've done my best

SOLD Divide Your Portion Among the Poor, Nancy Crouses's 1830-31 Short but Great Penmanship Notebook antique beauties round bodyOne 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