Learning Everyday Penmanship in the 1920s. Quite a craft, it appears, requiring a 90-page how-to manual with lessons!
According to Lovecraft…
“the process of handwriting is no effort at all unless one aims for great legibility & ornamentation. The reason moderns think handwriting is hard, is that they have never practiced it enough to get used to it.” — H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters III.