Receipts, notes, and letter from B. A. Clark

Sample of what we're doing in Lettering - Civil Eng. 2. This wasn't so good so I tore it out of my book.

Plate 3

24. Single-stroke Letter.--By far the greatest amount of lettering on drawings is done in a rapid "single stroke" letter either vertical or inclined and every engineer must have absolute command of these styles. The ability to letter well can be acquired only by continued and careful practice, but it can be acquired by anyone with normal muscular control of his fingers, who will take the trouble to observe carefully the shapes of the letters, the sequence of strokes composing them and the rules for composition; and will practice faithfully and intelligently. It is not a matter of artistic talent, nor even of dexterity in handwriting. May draftsmen letter well who write very poorly.

Tex B. Allen