Monday, June 21, 2010
June 21st
Thumb much better today but still sore – swollen very big – can’t press the weight of the pen against it – accounts for my bad writing.
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Born in Savannah, Georgia, USA in 1850, Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt was educated in Canada while seeking refuge from the American Civil War. He would later join the North-West Mounted Police in 1874 as an assistant surgeon, traveling with them into Western Canada for the creation of Fort Macleod.
Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. early 1870s]
![Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. early 1870s]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dnEe2_ZliHo/SletK6O7QnI/AAAAAAAAAAM/H86iVH5G8gw/S230/Nevitt+Head-shot+na-2859-1.jpg)
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Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. 1907]
![Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. 1907]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dnEe2_ZliHo/SzxP1ZfnDsI/AAAAAAAAABE/9KXtkHanL30/S150/Nevitt+Portrait+na-2917-2.jpg)
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Earliest recorded drawing of Crowfoot [Nevitt, ca. 1875]
![Earliest recorded drawing of Crowfoot [Nevitt, ca. 1875]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCYZi40yQj-c96v7fntbQfxtpVrwhbS9RZFVYt1Dz8FwnGldmkNDjWhePzdY9qZzMqS32xpy5kUaog9_ELe584wlyKCQNtTv4bkVHdoT2cfDIkJEmBym-xK6n5O9981sBzi0jZp_-w4lyU/s150/Crowfoot+drawing+NA-51-1.jpg)
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Letter sample:
To conserve precious paper, letters of this era were often written in the "cross-hatched" format.