Scope and Contents This volume is a copybook written over several months by Thomas Perry, an Elbert County, GA, schoolmaster. Quaint drawings and forms to be used for documents and letter writing are included. Loose papers contain a draft of a letter to his parents. The book contains mathematical rules and equations used in farming, trade and shipping, with formulas, exercises and problems. It was also partly a calligraphic exercise demonstrating ornate scripts. Perry divided the book into chapters with...