crosswriting?

[Henryk Baran]

Well, crosswriting is not frequent, but I have certainly seen it in Russian 
epistolary documents in the archives.

Henryk Baran
University at Albany

> 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?
>>
>

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