Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Dr. Brugsch” in chapter 16, entry pen of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:

...ptians also wrote from right to left in the hieratic and the demotic or enchorial styles. The Pelasgians did the same (j, Fig. 3613), and were followed by the Etruscans. In the demotic character, Dr. Brugsch remarks that, though the general direction of the writing was usually from right to left, yet the individual letters were formed from left to right, as is evident from the unfinished ends of horizont...
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