Early Modern Paleography celebrates the beauty and complexity of early modern English handwriting, with a daily offering from the Osborn Collection of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Ranging from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Early Modern Paleography draws from letters, poetry, commonplace books, diaries, inventories, annotations, and other strengths of the Osborn collection.
she acts her part in Love in a Tub but stays for some of the Players
31 December 2010
Lady Dorothy Dixwell, Letter to Lady Giffard. 1670/71 January 1. Beinecke call number: OSB MSS 44, Box 1, folder 8.
Madam, I doe beleave you will sooner excuse my negligence
30 December 2010
Lady Dorothy Dixwell, Letter to Lady Giffard. 1670/71 January 1. Beinecke call number: OSB MSS 44, Box 1, folder 8.
I give yo.r Grace a thousand thanks
29 December 2010
Samuel Garth, Letter to John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, [1716 January]. Beinecke call number: OSB MSS FILE 17382.