Her drawings and paintings were abstract works based on script forms that, to an American eye, most closely resemble cursive jottings or musical notes.
On a nearby wall is a close-up of a note on cardboard in which the muscular cursive and odd line breaks amount to poetry.
"How often we take for granted your service to us and your bravery for our community and city," a note in cursive reads, written by a visitor to this house, Engine 205 and Ladder 118 on Middagh Street.
The collection includes 14 notebooks filled with research notes in small cursive handwriting, letters to Einstein's contemporaries on his physics research, and a handwritten explanation of his theory of relativity and its summarising equation e=mc2.
He stares at the three cursive names.
Beside her was a manila folder, containing a Post-it Note with neat cursive script reading "Stacey McGowan, Grace Memorial Church, 10 30 a.m.," and directions from Huntington Bay, on Long Island, where Mrs. O'Neill lives, to Nyack, N.Y., where the church is.
In one of her first days back at school after Curl's sentencing, Currin was approached by a student, who handed her a note in loopy cursive and full of misspellings that began, "I know how you feel because I've been through the same thing".
In the tweeted note, written in small cursive handwriting in black ink on lined paper, she said that she had asked a friend, Trevor FitzGibbon, a few weeks ago to set up the Twitter account.
"As a teacher in the L.A. Unified School District, I want to note the advantage that teaching cursive gives students when they get to high school and college classrooms.
He marks up the decision memos and briefing materials with notes and questions in his neat cursive handwriting.
