ID# 2381:
"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

5. 97 7274 Oct 31927 I then gave her a group of sentences which she wrote as fast as I could think them. - They appear below. [inserted text, written backward] The boy kill the cat. The cat and dog are play[sic]. Peter fast cat [illegible] the Bonnaa[sic] green Ehtel [obscured] H 5 Bonny Post Office [marginalia on inserted text written correctly] (Note) Hold this to the mirror to read it. M Steggerda [end inserted text] Other Comments. Ethel [obscured] has one half brother & three half sisters. She appears to have been the only child from one pair. All her relatives [end]

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