clear-speaking

Updated: May 17, 2025

Readers also had a pleasant habit of leaving a sign-manual on the last page of a book, thus: "Timothy Pitkin perlegit A.D. 1765," "Cotton Smith perlegit 1740." A clear-speaking lesson are such records to this generation a lesson of patience and diligence.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England