CHARLES LEADBEATER'S CALLIGRAPHY

On this topic, researcher Gregory Tillett mentioned the following:

Charles Leadbeater had a particular and meticulous style of handwriting which he expected his disciples to emulate. From his years of relatively poverty – as a Theosophical writer in Ceylon, India, and England – he had cultivated the habit of making use of every scrap of paper.

He wrote, for example, on the insides of envelopes, carefully opened for that purpose. In various archives examples of his idiosyncratic handwriting on even relatively small scraps of – otherwise waste – paper can be seen, even when he was able to make use of better quality note-paper.

The origins are Leadbeater’s handwriting remain unclear. It is not the standard cursive style of 19th century English schools. For example see:

https://blog.genealogybank.com/deciphering-19th-century-handwriting-and-type-in-records-newspapers.html

Nor does it follow the standard Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship (1866) as shown in the illustration, see:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/05/17/handwriting_broadside_teaching_the_spencer_method_of_cursive.html

Presumably, therefore, Leadbeater’s style was idiosyncratic, based in part on what he learned in various Church of England schools, and in part on his own preferences.

(https://cwledbeater.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/leadbeaters-handwriting/)

Facsimile of the manuscript page of the book "Invisible Helpers" written by Leadbeater, Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, 2nd edition, page 144.