"Nil desperandum!"

Black ink and graphite on white paper

Black ink and graphite on white paper

Black and brown chalk, charcoal, and graphite on off-white wove paper

Graphite and brown wash on cream paper

Black chalk, white gouache, touches of brown ink on blue-gray wove paper, darken

Graphite heightened with white gouache on ivory paper

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Brush and brown wash over graphite on white wove paper

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Graphite

Brown ribbed-leather covers, remains of strap, stylus sleeve; fifty-eight pages of prepared paper

Graphite on heavy cream wove paper