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

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

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

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

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

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

An example of automated character extraction from a shorthand exercise

A carte-de-visite of Henry Fielding Dickens

Text from the first page of chapter 38 of David Copperfield