“Almost all commercial (penmanship) books are digitized now. You’re giving something not handwritten to a child, and saying, `Write this.’ “ “From 1979 to 1989, I was educational ...

The book’s margins are crowded with illustrative photos: Florey’s own earnest third-grade penmanship exercises, the clotted page of a Dickens manuscript (his handwriting was so difficult that ...

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