Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook wwII I find this very old

I find this very old tramp art frame super evocative

so can be manipulated as needed to stretch them straight

and those mustached profiles do look rather French to me

with a deep lip

7 1/8" x 5" as folded

Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook wwII I find this very oldI made a trip to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine this week and scooped up a few old paper things, this early penmanship notebook, the work of a Prudence Wells of Shelburne, Massachusetts among them. (And I believe I've placed her, born in 1799, in Shelburne, Franklin, MA, married to a Thomas Nims in 1825, and living until to the age of 90 in Greenfield, MA.) Based on that, and its content, I believe this notebook dates to the late 1810s