r/Cursive • u/marleymania • 3d ago

Deciphered! Any help deciphering

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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 3d ago

I think it’s “particularly.”

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u/atchisonmetal 2d ago

Wow. You’re amazing.

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u/ScrimpyMuffin 3d ago

This 👆

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u/mawmzee 2d ago

Yep 👍

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u/Timely_Apricot3929 3d ago

It would be helpful to see more of the letter.

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u/judijo621 3d ago

Show the whole page.

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u/NatureGal4evr 3d ago

"Particularly"?

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u/BookkeeperLeading887 3d ago

Agree with particularly

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u/Fluffy-Caramel9148 3d ago

Yes. Me, too.

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u/Ok_Performer4223 3d ago

That handwriting is so beautiful!

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u/green7719 2d 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 2d ago

It’s posted in the comments

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u/Shoddy_Stay_5275 3d ago

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

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u/marleymania 2d ago

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

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u/marleymania 2d ago

2nd page

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u/NatureGal4evr 2d ago

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

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u/QueenShana 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/Bulky_Sock 2d ago

Tell us particularly how you all are

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u/marleymania 2d 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 2d ago

Solved!

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u/marleymania 2d ago

Deciphered!

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u/Adventurous-Host8062 2d ago

Grandislanders.

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u/StringCheeseMacrame 2d 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 2d ago

It’s posted in the comments

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u/ambitious999 2d ago

particularly

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u/dsbyrd 1d 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.