The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
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02-26-2016, 07:56 AM
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RE: The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
(02-26-2016 07:30 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Some more on Lincoln and spelling Lincoln also enjoyed helping others with spelling if the opportunity arose. In an 1865 interview with William Herndon, Mrs. Allen Gentry said: "I knew Mr L well — he and I went to school together — I was 15 ys old — Lincoln about the same age — we went to school to Crawford in 1822 or 3 I think — I used Websters Spelling book — Lincoln the same — One day Crawford put a word to us to Spell: the word to Spell was defied. Crawford said if we did not spell it he would keep us in school all day & night — we all missed the word — Couldn't Spell it. We spelled the word Every way but the right way — . I saw Lincoln at the window: he had his finger On his Eye and a smile on his face. I instantly took the hint that I must change the letter y into an I. Hence I Spelled the word — the class let out. I felt grateful to Lincoln for this Simple thing. Abe was a good — an Excellent boy." |
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02-27-2016, 09:20 PM
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RE: The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
That is fascinating. And thanks LVerge for the referral. So the handwriting analysis of Abraham Lincoln they did at that site oddly turns out to be for an item that Abraham Lincoln never wrote. I wonder if they have discovered yet at the site that their efforts were wasted, there. Thanks RJN for the link to the Lincoln font. It surely may be interesting to see how that works out on a printer.
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02-28-2016, 05:32 AM
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RE: The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
(02-27-2016 09:20 PM)maharba Wrote: Thanks RJN for the link to the Lincoln font. It surely may be interesting to see how that works out on a printer. You are welcome. If you need help in installing it on your computer please PM me, and I will help. I use Microsoft Works, and when I installed the font on my computer the Abraham Lincoln font was automatically added to the list of available fonts in Works. Maharba, you will then be able to type letters to your friends using a font extremely similar to Abraham Lincoln's own handwriting! It's best to set the font size to 18 or 20. |
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02-28-2016, 10:55 AM
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RE: The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
(02-27-2016 09:20 PM)maharba Wrote: That is fascinating. And thanks LVerge for the referral. So the handwriting analysis of Abraham Lincoln they did at that site oddly turns out to be for an item that Abraham Lincoln never wrote. I wonder if they have discovered yet at the site that their efforts were wasted, there. Thanks RJN for the link to the Lincoln font. It surely may be interesting to see how that works out on a printer. If you had read carefully, you would have noted that the author's sentence right before that wonderful, non-Lincoln letter was " It may have nothing to do with handwriting analysis, but I request everyone to read it once." I do hope you continued reading the rather extensive analysis of Lincoln's true work that followed that letter...? And I do hope that you found the truth and beauty in that letter - no matter who wrote it. |
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05-07-2020, 01:10 PM
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RE: The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
(02-26-2016 07:30 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Some more on Lincoln and spelling from M. Burlingame's "A Life": Lovely stories indeed. He wasn't ashamed as admit a flaw, as so few heads of state do. |
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05-08-2020, 09:32 AM
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RE: The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln said: "I found, about twenty years ago, that I had been spelling one word wrong all my life up to that time. . . . It is very. I used always to spell it with two r’s – v-e-r-r-y."
Lincoln even remembered the time that he made the correction. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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05-08-2020, 01:24 PM
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RE: The Handwriting Style of Abraham Lincoln
I remember a "Lincoln and spelling" story that dates to his Indiana years. He once helped a girl who was having trouble with the word "defied." In a spelling bee, Katy Roby began spelling the word...d-e-f and then was stuck on the next letter. Was it an "i" or a "y?" Lincoln was standing nearby and pointed to his eye when the teacher (Andrew Crawford, I think) was not looking. Katy took the hint, said "i" and completed the word correctly.
(I have seen other versions of this story; this is the one I see most frequently) |
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