longhand

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In 1970, he sent her a letter in impeccably neat, angular longhand.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2024

Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

But starting in the late 1990s, Streisand began writing down memories — in longhand, because she couldn’t type.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Some city ordinances weren’t even indexed, forcing Birch and Karabian to leaf through the longhand lawbooks page by page, wearing special archival gloves.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

In spite of the years of note taking and longhand drafts, his writing had never gone to hell the way mine had.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler