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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

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

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

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

A stereoscopic photograph of Charles Dickens in later life published by J. Gurney and Son

A table of shorthand symbols for letters of the alphabet, words that the same symbols can stand for, and spelt characters