How To Address A Letter To Honorable

so, there were four folders like that. the seward project is looking atcorrespondence between but william henry seward and his families. i honestly can't even tell if this is like a "d" or an "h". these papers were preserved originally because of hispublic role in life being senator and governor, secretary of state, all of thesethings but now researchers are interested in these family aspects. this is nineteenth-century cursive handwriting

How To Address A Letter To Honorable, which people twenty years old have notbeen trained in the same way that people were when i was a student. it wassomething that we did in grade school but then it wasn't used much. we learnedhow to write in cursive but it wasn't something that was very functional. it's hard to transcribe word if you

don't even know it's a word so you seeit and you don't know what it is. that is the opening to our new collaborationwith residents of the highlands retirement community. i realize you might feel you're a little slow in picking up some of the technology but when you getto this you're incredibly faster than the students are. i thought maybe i coulddo that because i'm interested in history. i love people and as i told you i'm nosy. i've always had interest in history and it was just seemed like a very interesting way tolearn more about him and the family. they have the insight that they can bring to itbut even just vocabulary, knowing some

of these words. the residents arestruggling with the technology that they're so quick with the transcriptions, they fly through it compared to our fastest transcribers here. so we alwayshave to encourage the students to engage in what i call thoughtful transcriptionso if what you're typing doesn't make sense think about it. we've had a computersince way back when they had the first computer which was humongous. it works a lot like a typewriter but with this, the word processor, you can fix things a lot easier. it was a bit of a hurdle. it's also been very gratifying to learn a numberof techniques with the computer that even though i have had an apple computer for eight or ten years there were a lot

of things i did how to do with it. it'samazing how one should have a little experience with it comes back prettyquickly. it's been joy, complete joy, they are so kind and so interesting and sofun and they're so knowledgeable. i am learning a great deal from it and ireally enjoy the transcribing. i think it's comes easily to me once i can getcontrol over that laptop i'll be fine. i've always been a fan ofintergenerational collaboration. it changes the way i look at the letters, the way that i think about the letters. it helps me to see it from a different perspective. i hope from their eyes a little more. so we see it asenhancing both the educational

experience of the students and the inthe building of relationships with people who have a lot to contribute to the project and to the, to the life on campus and i can only imagine the waysin which that's going to change the way in which we approach the researchquestions and what we're able to, to find in these letters that otherwise wewouldn't have seen. a production of the university ofrochester. please visit us online and subscribe to our channel for more videos.