Penship

Brachygraphie, Poſt-Writt. OR, THE ART OF Short-writing. Where moſt Letters conſiſt of ſingle ſtroakes or motions of the Pen, in beſt formes of Penſhip.

Is Mistress Tripe the Butcher’s lady dead? / Out flames a paragraph of pretty penship; / “Resign’d and pious tears in plenty shed, / “By all that had the honour of her friendship. // “She left three children to lament her fate, / “And worthy Mister Tripe to join their grief:” […]

No performance of [Gustav] Mahler's First Symphony has ever been the same since he handled a copy of that either. 'Mahler had gone to town scrawling alterations all over it. There was this strong penship, lots and lots of footnotes, so confident. I haven't held that manuscript for 10 years now, but I can still see it.'