In making the font that bears her name, I focused chiefly on “Portia’’s letters from the 1780s and ’90s, when she’d taken to using a disconnected cursive, which struck me as distinctive and alluring. Abigail’s handwriting, while not the most beautiful, is sure and expressiveas befitting her extraordinary sway and intelligenceand carries a genuine flavor of the period. Her famous correspondence with John Adams produced nearly 1,200 letters over a span of some 40 years, leaving us with a priceless record of early American lifefrom household routines to war and politics to expressions of personal worry and devotion. I refer, of course, to Abigail Smith Adams, first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States. “My Dearest Friend” is how she began nearly all her letters to her husband, John. Three Islands Press : Historical Pens : Abigail AdamsĬopyright: ©2014 by Brian Willson, Three Islands Pressīundles: 3IP Historical Pen Fonts Collection | Handwritten History Bundle | Age of Discovery Bundle | OldFonts Historical Library | 3IP Type Library FREE with any order this month is Attic Antique, a legible, antique text family.
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