WRITING SCHOOL TO OPEN.
B. Nichols respectfully informs the public, that he proposes opening a School for the art of Writing on a new elementary systematic plan, which by the use of fifteen exercises or lessons of two hours each, persons at a proper age and common capacity may acquire a fair, regular and elegant handwriting with ease and dispatch; as Capitals, Figures, large and small Roman Hands, Running and Mercantile Hands, and the art of making an elegant Fen in the best and most approved manner. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who wish to be instructed in the elegant and improved art of penmanship, are respectfully invited to call on B. Nichols at the Eagle Hotel, Raleigh, and examine specimens of his pupils improvement:—where the terms and conditions of the School will be made known. Ladies who wish to receive private instruction will be accommodated by meeting in small parties, and giving me notice. * * *
Raleigh, July 15.
—Raleigh Star, July 16, 1818.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
