Emily Krill

Edo-Period Waka Poetry Manuscripts Clouds gather and scatter across the mountain,yet the mountain remains. Winds rise and fall,yet the river keeps its course. So it is […]

Handwritten Musical Notation I’ll be honest, despite many offers from friends to offload their grandparents’ sheet music collections, I have never really had much interest in […]

Japanese to English Notebook This mid-20th-century notebook belonged to a Japanese schoolboy learning to speak English. Its pages are filled with careful repetitions of the alphabet, […]

Lessons in Lettering The 1924 manual, Lessons in Lettering, is a specialized lettering course for architects. Much like the penmanship copybooks that I collect, these manuals […]

Penmanship Copybooks “Manners make the man.” and “Choose to do right.” and “Learn to be loyal.” These are some of the phrases that were written again […]