Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise woman bell 75" tall x x 6

75" tall x x 6

looking to me perhaps as if going to a dance but not with the young woman he had hoped

with one cavalry officer

because one can so vividly feel the imagination of the child behind the creation

Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise woman bell 75" tall x x 6This is an early pen and ink penmanship exercise signed Sally Spague and dated 1808. In addition to the fabulous eagle at top, and the header "Confine Your Passions" employing the "long s", what really sold me was the section about riches. "Riches in the hand of a beneficent man are a blessing to the public [.] such a one is a steward to providence and the whole means of correcting the inequalities of fortune [,] of relieving the miserable and