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Letter e · secretary hand

Broken e

Also called detached e, apostrophe e

Unit 2common

The two strokes do not meet; the upper one floats like an apostrophe over a c-like curve.

Model letter

McKerrow (1927), fig. 22, no. 6 · public domain

In practice lines

Every e below was checked by hand. They are not yet sorted by form, so some show another e.

“hee”
“divers”
“whoe”
“desire,”
“translated”
“Comodities”
“irregular”
“place”

Practice lines drawn in period hands

Don’t confuse it with

Practise this letter Unit 2 · Meet e
Coming soon

Other forms of e

reversed etwo-stroke ehooked two-stroke ev-like two-stroke eepsilon eitalic e
Model letters: R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography (1927); Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570 and 1581); Giovambattista Palatino, Libro nel qual s’insegna a scrivere (1550); and manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library; all public domain. They stand in until Leo’s own model letters are drawn. Secretary letters typeset in Joscelyn by Peter S. Baker (SIL Open Font License).