Founding father handwriting

Kurrent script from a 1903-1914 primer on German, the 26 letters, ligatures, start of sample text, from someone with impeccable and amazing handwriting.

Buy "Alex & John Letter" by colcas as a Photographic Print. "I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love you."

Alexander Hamilton's oldest surviving letter, written in 1769, as he was about to turn thirteen years old. The way his handwriting evolved is fascinating. Look at that flourish under his name, Jesus, kid. I've read this letter many times so I know what it says, I must say it's not easy in his youthful hand, given that he apparently did not have the time for spaces between words.

After a heist, a sale and a legal battle, a wartime letter that Alexander Hamilton wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette is now at Boston’s Commonwealth Museum.

Oscar Wilde manuscript from 1874 "Hearts Yearning"