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Collection: Charles Dickens Museum, London

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Typed letter Higenbottam/Carlton Page 2

A sheet of paper with three lines of typewritten print followed by a signature and postscript handwritten in black ink. The postscript is a line of Brachygraphy shorthand characters followed by a transcription.

The second page of a typed letter to Carlton from Higenbottam concerning their attempts to transcribe Dickens's shorthand

Tags: Frank Higenbottam, letters (correspondence), shorthand, transcription, William J. Carlton

Shorthand memo by Dickens written on the back of a letter from George Lovejoy, dated 29 May 1841

A photostat of a shorthand memo. Three paragraphs of Brachygraphy characters arranged across nine lines.

A shorthand memo in which Dickens outlines his reasons for declining Lovejoy's proposal to stand for a seat in Parliament. The surviving longhand letter is dated 31 May 1841.

Tags: Charles Dickens, letters (correspondence), parliament, shorthand

Dickens's shorthand copy of a letter sent to S. A. Chappell on 22 November 1867

A photostat of both sides of a letter, side-by-side. On the right, a letterhead in Gothic font reads 'Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent'. This is followed by a date (the month in shorthand) and 22 lines of shorthand arranged in six paragraphs. On the left is an inscription in longhand: 'Copy. Letter to S. A. Chappell. Boston. Friday 22nd November 1867.'

Shorthand copy of a letter sent by Dickens to his American promoter S. A. Chappell in 1867

Tags: Charles Dickens, letters (correspondence), public readings, shorthand

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