menu-writing

Updated: May 11, 2025

He reminded himself on landing of a cousin of his mother's settled as a clerk in Manchester, found his way northwards, and had now, for some seventeen years, been maintaining himself in the cotton capital, mainly by teaching, but partly by a number of small arts ornamental calligraphy, menu-writing, and the like too odd and various for description.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve