Levi B. Reber notebook, 1843-1844.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Reber, Levi B., 1825-1896.

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penmanship--19th century.

Penmanship.

School notebooks--19th century--Specimens.

School notebooks.

Genre:

Copybooks (instructional materials)

Quotations.

Blankbooks.

Manuscripts, American.

Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Chancery Hill Books (Morgantown, West Virginia), 2016.

Physical Description:

1 booklet

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 22 Folder 33

Place of Publication:

1843-1844.

Biography/History:

One of ten children born to Susanna Bright (1789-1847) and Conrad Reber (1788-1854) in the unincorporated town of Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Levi B. Reber became a farmer who married Sophia Heckman (1833-1913) circa 1851 and they had eight children.

Summary:

A blue paper covered booklet with the printed history and image entitled "View of Tantallon Castle" on the front cover and mathematics tables on printed on the back cover. The blank booklet was utilized as a notebook and contains the school exercises of Levi B. Reber over the period of approximately three months from November 1843 to January 1844. Included in the volume are penmanship exercises and practice letters. Some pages are comprised of repeated quotations or repeated words. There are different types of practice letters regarding invoices, common notes, promissory notes, and receipts. Many pages are signed by Reber followed by Stouchsburg and the date. The alphabet in cursive lowercase and capital letters with some flourishes is at the end of the volume.

OCLC:

954333255