Over the last century forensic document science has developed progressively more sophisticated pattern recognition
methodologies for ascertaining the authorship of disputed documents. These include advances not only
in computer assisted stylometrics, but forensic handwriting analysis. We present a writer verification method
and an evaluation of an actual historical document written by an unknown writer. The questioned document
is compared against two known handwriting samples of Herman Melville, a 19th century American author who
has been hypothesized to be the writer of this document. The comparison led to a high confidence result that
the questioned document was written by the same writer as the known documents. Such methodology can be
applied to many such questioned documents in historical writing, both in literary and legal fields.
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