That's actually a really important thing to point out! Cursive is not taught much anymore, but yet so much of our history is recorded this way. So much of it that it is impossible to think that it will all be transcribed and/or digitized. So, what happens to this information as fewer and fewer people can understand it? It is interesting to think about ways that archives can serve as classrooms and these papers as teaching tools. I have actually attended transcribathons which function dually as teaching arenas and a means to digitize these papers. They are a lot of fun!