In 19th Century classrooms, Tufo explained, the Spencerian style was taught, a very fancy script and a torture to learn. A.N. Palmer and John Robert Gregg, ...

Apr. 26—GENEVA — The old, handwritten letters contain trivial details of a Pittsburgh woman named Emelina who wrote regularly to her friend, Freeland R. Cook, Esq., of Windsor, circa 1873. "I ...