HANDWRITING, ANALYSIS OF - A rudimentary knowledge of graphology is useful but shouldn't be regarded as an exact science. In my experience, graphologists, in common with most investigators confined to solitary areas of expertise, tend to 'read' too much into their own findings, often dismissing more pertinent evidence extracted from other sources. Despite claims of its proponents, graphology is next to useless in establishing personality types, though it might determine a person's mood when he or she wrote the sample presented for analysis. My own knowledge of the art has been helpful on various occasions, most notably in the apprehension of the Station Rd vandals and laureate of the poison pen, Alexander Coull.

Handwriting samples from the Hamilton Coe archive.

 

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