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Reading of a passage from chapter 38 of David Copperfield, in which David struggles to learn Brachygraphy shorthand

Reading of a passage from chapter 38 of David Copperfield, in which David's friend Tommy Traddles helps him to practice writing shorthand by dictating speeches

Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes his experiences of parliamentary reporting

Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes the difficulties of shorthand reporting on the move

Reading of a quotation that Dickens noted down in his Pocket Diary, to use in a later speech

Reading of an extract in which John Cayford recalls Dickens describing his shorthand as the 'devil's handwriting'

Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes his habit of following speeches as if taking shorthand notes

Reading of an extract in which Dickens's son recalls lessons with his father

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

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