Interview with Gerald P. (Gerry) Doyle, 1980.

University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio., San Antonio, Texas A job as director of publications at Texas’ San Jacinto Museum of History led Gerry Doyle to appreciate the craft of handwriting and its “Sunday writing” version, calligraphy. A student of the universal history of handwriting, Doyle identifies Spanish scripts in documents left from Texas’ colonial era to support his view that it is “as pleasurable to see words written beautifully as it is to hear them spoken beautifully.