ID# 2378:
 "A Person who writes Backwards," handwritten report with photo and writing samples, conducted in Jamaica by Morris Steggerda
Date:
1927
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7)
Source:
 National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives, Steggerda, Box 12 Folder 118, 97 7270
&quote;A Person who writes Backwards,&quote; handwritten report with photo and writing samples, conducted in Jamaica by Morris Steggerda

Oct 31927 97 7271 2. her dress, and soon came back to hear of our interest in her. Miss Henderson told me before that she was considered by all as a half wit. - When further inquiring of other friends, this statement was corroborated. [photo] Miss Ethel [obscured] She seemed bewildered upon our interest in her writing of her name. She took the pencil in her right and and[sic] wrote forward [end]

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