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Reading of 'Anecdote', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone

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

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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.

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A sheet of paper mounted in a large book. Five lines of Brachygraphy shorthand characters are handwritten in blue ink with annotations in between. Some words and phrases in the annotated explanations of the characters are underlined.
A page from Dickens's shorthand teaching notebook, explaining how to use the Brachygraphy system. This page provides a range of example phrases.

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A sheet of paper mounted in a large book. Handwritten in blue ink the heading reads 'Part 3, Dots on Vowels'. Notes and three lines of Brachygraphy shorthand explain the concept.
A page from Dickens's shorthand teaching notebook, explaining how to use the Brachygraphy system. This page explores rules concerning dots on vowels.

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A sheet of paper mounted in a large book. Half a page of notes written in blue ink interspersed with Brachygraphy shorthand characters. The heading reads 'Part 2, Dots'.
A page from Dickens's shorthand teaching notebook, explaining how to use the Brachygraphy system. This page explores rules concerning the use of dots.

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A page of text. At the top is a page number, 166, and the heading 'The Pickwick Papers'. Four lines from the top of the page an inscription is centred and presented in all capitals, as follows:<br /> +<br /> B I L S T<br /> U M<br /> P S H I<br /> S. M.<br /> A R K <br /> Six paragraphs of text follow.
Representation of a 'strange and curious inscription' discovered on a stone by the Pickwickians

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