R.F Burham's 1831 Poem to Miss A. Esty with Circular Writing Expression of Love! antique notebook page Lots of portraits of people

Lots of portraits of people in the gardens of Paris

broken off at the end

some broken in pieces but a majority of unused sticks

eying those fish and looking about ready to pounce

R.F Burham's 1831 Poem to Miss A. Esty with Circular Writing Expression of Love! antique notebook page Lots of portraits of peopleI purchased this dated 1831, Hartland, Vermont from a favorite rare book seller in Maine, the source of many manuscript treasures. It is the circular writing at bottom right here that made this impossible for me to walk away from I can't remember if and when I've seen another example along these lines, and just find it fascinating and magical, too, writing in circles, a little world of words. And it seems to me it is there, in this small sphere of