{"id":8244,"date":"2013-08-09T15:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/?p=8244"},"modified":"2015-11-03T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:43:24","slug":"hush-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/hush-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hush (Drill)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve had a policy of not including outside sources on the Work-a-day page, but this seems necessary.<\/p>\n

On Sept 25, 1864, an ancestor of mine wrote a letter to her daughter from the family home ‘Sweet Auburn’ outside Natchez, Miss. To save paper, which was in low supply, the letter was cross-written. This is such an anomaly of Victorian letter writing, happened quite a bit during a time when formal letter writing was common, but paper was not, and postage expensive. The penmanship is so elegant, but when it’s written on top of itself it gets all jangled up. The writing, nearly indecipherable, is about the current (bad) state of things (war). <\/p>\n

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Then sixty-five years later, the letter writer’s great-great-granddaughter (my grandmother) was learning to write in her seventh grade class in Natchez. This is drill 20.<\/p>\n

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The ancestors keep giving me stuff to draw about, I’m barely touching the surface here. More cross-writing\/drawing to come.<\/p>\n

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18″ x 24″ I’ve had a policy of not including outside sources on the Work-a-day page, but this seems necessary. On Sept 25, 1864, an ancestor of mine wrote a letter to her daughter from the family home ‘Sweet Auburn’ outside Natchez, Miss. To save paper, which was in low supply, the letter was cross-written. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8244"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8260,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions\/8260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}