foolscape

Stringers used to send three or four pages of hand-written foolscape papers, which, when edited, turned out to be just single column stories.

Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press Various

Not wishing (I conclude) to betray myself by asking for paper at home, I purchased a sheet of foolscape from my friend, Mr Meeking, and filled it with verses in metre imitated from Dr Watts, at that time the only poet on my shelves.

Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874