crosswriting?

[Alina Israeli]

Not like this: http://www.gbstamps.com/images2/Cross_writing.jpg,  
only on the margins, occasionally.

On Feb 17, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Anne Fisher wrote:

> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> Referring to the controversy over the editing of Frost's notebooks,  
> an article by Megan Marshall in Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/ 
> 2183903/) discusses the difficulties editors have had with  
> deciphering handwriting. I read with sympathy, especially the part  
> about having to resort to "counting humps," and was struck by the  
> 19th c. practice of crosswriting, or turning a page filled with  
> handwriting 90 degrees and writing more (an example by Henry James  
> is viewable in the article). Was this practice a common Russian  
> epistolary habit too?
>

Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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