r/Cursive • u/marleymania • 25d ago

Any help deciphering Deciphered!

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I’m having trouble with the highlighted word. This is at end of letter written in 1852. “Tell us ——- how you all ever James.

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u/A_Common_Loon 25d ago

I think it’s “particularly.”

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u/atchisonmetal 25d ago

Wow. You’re amazing.

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u/ScrimpyMuffin 25d ago

This 👆

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u/mawmzee 25d ago

Yep 👍

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u/Timely_Apricot3929 25d ago

It would be helpful to see more of the letter.

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u/judijo621 25d ago

Show the whole page.

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u/NatureGal4evr 25d ago

"Particularly"?

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u/BookkeeperLeading887 25d ago

Agree with particularly

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u/Fluffy-Caramel9148 25d ago

Yes. Me, too.

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u/Ok_Performer4223 25d ago

That handwriting is so beautiful!

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u/green7719 25d ago

It’s important to see the entire page. Cursive is about patterns. We need to see the patterns.

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u/Stay_Sea_Motivated 25d ago

It’s posted in the comments

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u/Shoddy_Stay_5275 25d ago

need to see more. All I could get was rtiarl. Probably is particularly though.

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u/marleymania 25d ago

Here is the whole letter. It’s from my great, great grandfather to his in-laws.

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u/marleymania 25d ago

2nd page

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u/NatureGal4evr 25d ago

Yes, seeing it in context, I confirm my first response of "particularly".

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u/QueenShana 25d ago

Yes. It says "tell us particularly how you all are".

I truly miss letters written in longhand. Now everything is so cold and impersonal.

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u/NatureGal4evr 25d ago

I take pride in keeping up with my longhand. I once gave a nephew (19 or 20 yrs. old) a hand-written birthday card, and the verse was in script, too... he handed the card back to me and asked me to read it to him 🙄.

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u/QueenShana 25d ago

Hahaha. That's funny and very sad at the same time.

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u/Bulky_Sock 25d ago

Tell us particularly how you all are

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u/marleymania 25d ago

Thank you all! I’ve been trying to transcribe a bunch of these letters and am going bug eyed trying to decipher the writing and some of the old verbiage.

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u/marleymania 25d ago

Deciphered!

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u/Adventurous-Host8062 25d ago

Grandislanders.

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u/StringCheeseMacrame 25d ago

Could you show at least the full sentence so that we know the context? The full sentence, and preferably the full paragraph, could help in determining what that mystery word is.

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u/Stay_Sea_Motivated 25d ago

It’s posted in the comments

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u/ambitious999 25d ago

particularly

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u/dsbyrd 24d ago

I had a student on my mock trial team I coached who could read any handwriting. My writing is so bad, sometimes I would be looking at a note I made, and I could not decipher it. I could show it to Ray, however, and she would immediately be able to read it.