On the technique of manuscript writing Author:Marjorie Wise, with an introduction by Professor Patty Smith Hill Part of the Series on Childhood Education, edited by Patty Smith Hill. Here is a book on English manuscript writing, written by an English woman who specialized in the teaching of this art in her native land before coming to the U.S. in 1921 to study American methods os education. This style of penmanship would now be called "calligraphy" by many.