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

The first part of a ghost story written in shorthand about a student prank gone wrong, featuring a ghost in green

The second and final part of a ghost story written in shorthand about a student prank gone wrong, featuring a ghost in green

Arthur Stone's preface to the notebooks kept from the time when he was Charles Dickens's shorthand pupil

Reading of 'Anecdote', 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 struggles to learn Brachygraphy shorthand

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 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 his habit of following speeches as if taking shorthand notes

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