3 10 87 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/063b72efd6b4aad426d034cbe166619e.wav?Expires=1787184000&Signature=uhlhM1ytvsfGIT2O2foF29FEQTQWcC81%7EujpngPLXo2HdmbzqAOKPH0O1vozqnpSlrUnNSd1J7b5FKjXdXt4EOq32sOI1DxTwLLTaezR%7EfH2D0GeUb99dC8HA43-Ovfz%7ECQR5u93jBotIcqXToamNSoqEDqajUONcK8mOVhcs0neBaJQDsPH0XjTwvJspU2bzGIg71ORtFE93RImLogEkvEGnUJeEQg3TgxOrWeLBHw2Xp0OEKJ9ddgedXIrDmcRJC7cRWJWW-80y0YeBt0qwPds3LhChUI88mKdrtzfLrq4CCaAQvBFe8IwURQ0oJj3eaXsO08BPKp%7EqU97nZi-uw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 77b0e954217e9008a31d99a056fa2319 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Didactic Transcription: Although the forms of religious belief in the world are almost innumerable it is probable that their grounds and foundations are very few. One constantly recognises the same idea reappearing under diverse terms from the time of the old heathen mythology even to the present day. This is always observable in the superstitions of mankind. It is, or it would seem to be, so extremely difficult to separate the old notions altogether from new. […] Thus no one can visit Rome, the headquarters of all degrading superstition and fail to see incorporated into the purity and beauty of Christianity the pagan ceremonies of ages ago. Just as many of the Christian churches in Rome are built upon ruins of the old temples, so many of the practices retained in them and made articles of religious faith ought to have perished and forever vanished from sight in the light of the Christian dispensation, but still encumber them, the mere dust and ashes of a rotten and dead people. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Didactic Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'Didactic', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Didactic.wav deciphered shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/2071d50ee832c44904b80aadfdc4096a.wav?Expires=1787184000&Signature=iZK35nApcwdD6mJdQ-%7Ec3GN8YHnhw1l3XIT1DmXReYgZBNHIXu47r6iTW6vRsNwABVvgQbadqSpoT0IblVlGONIruqNBYnyz0i14ITusczi8bR9IygMcbJRxEKHbhyV2zadInwtz40ePH4sd1oTcZWx6CCT9Uy2KADkIsB6peIOW5MF3U30FTUJ-l8NnUoRpq2Ugd95BjWxCsaL9eiT7PpcQ9%7E787kKJDIYzKncWaV4qxhn4LaO3OozM6V6K6iym7jzMIX%7EZ9liWP9S0bKJZStWeU-sQK7PKf0MpWBKK7nZozNYUnjaJXkpEjaVsr8FV2vAjliOma%7EcVYmSFHFW7bA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 906a75d81cb9bc17b171a410d9a8d1b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Henry Fielding Dickens reminisces about learning shorthand with his father Transcription: These lessons were great fun, though I found it was by no means an easy science to learn […] To take down a speech quickly and correctly you must have all your faculties in perfect order, and that is where I experienced a special difficulty in my own case. This arose from the kind of speeches which my father delivered for me to practise on, speeches which shortly reduced my mind to a state of wild confusion. They were of the character you would expect from a street tub orator or from a speaker on the hustings or a parody of orations in the House of Commons. These soon reduced me almost to a state of collapse in consequence of the laughter which followed on them; and when I say laughter, I mean laughter on the part of both of us. For he himself, tickled by the ridiculous nature of his own fancies, gave way to fits of laughter only equalled by wild bursts on my part. This part of my training was most amusing, but was not productive of much progress. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Henry Fielding Dickens reminisces about learning shorthand with his father Subject The topic of the resource shorthand shorthand learning dictation Description An account of the resource Reading of an extract in which Dickens's son recalls lessons with his father Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Henry Dickens.wav shorthand shorthand learning https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/93a8f88fe777ffde183747fda9498b93.wav?Expires=1787184000&Signature=SnCFlvu9SC9GBOhTrbrz0HCplaeOGByfUiwcPggf4CtlYbmkZv3cZF16jV8g5pN0t3ffqygZ-GttsUMORHyAI%7Eziqfn1MQAyoSwvbaXbqQrtctT5xdTUzBXnRnU5dIJVXLAFGf0jeiBAd0frn-tV6pbqQnS%7E3J1fPdwcH-K7zTC5L2Slb3c5ONmX5AmRELAsaV-fVqhAKd%7E3Ioh7bHmd1w8Pacp2dK9QGNCQ9O2TU%7ET8bPw8onN4rua5o2c2ynJFjMFxH0Eeuxlvu6M2Uqe9u5Ye5BWC9ZBOeWmHs5XfSZKQcxsj2JIX4P5gBdKGdKoPQzIpAxIISGJYAZzUvA%7EGLA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8147af33e7207f574497e4faf5c195e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: John Cayford (the ‘original’ for Joe Gargery), on Dickens writing shorthand Transcription: Sometimes in the middle of a conversation he’d out with a piece of paper, or a notebook, and commence making the most extraordinary marks. Mr Dickens used to tell me it was the devil’s handwriting. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: John Cayford (the ‘original’ for Joe Gargery), on Dickens writing shorthand Subject The topic of the resource shorthand devil's handwriting Description An account of the resource Reading of an extract in which John Cayford recalls Dickens describing his shorthand as the 'devil's handwriting' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context John Cayford.wav devil's handwriting shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/99b8742ab924381e29a034ba6a735ca7.wav?Expires=1787184000&Signature=t7E3aKHFuQlwxCFbkat-FpnVmQVV6GHZu40bOKEMumaC74f-5E13hwrU6f-KyWSjU43rhZPLdMMlM2bHLaiCcfGAWUpJhoNUrwUzycNZKeDOG81g0lT-5k3Ywf96%7EHL2wbExssYmYGWuL3Ap-AfAl0ZXgQOWfMf8pn9YKzqp1hiBRE3Xn2JCRXz2yfb18KZ75EikrMim6ECBTQhU6FVtgyMzUC4t8LLhXLGIG5g1imE9FIEKGms79EMnNM55YOzhlOk7Ic30fDyxFUR7QjUf9j6Z0Cu16XoOQ%7ES2Wlu8LUTuWF2G6sngl6tSqrxTcwIVlf0nQSeYj0JNljb4%7EP%7ENEA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 5d84f96b9ba802a10f6362379b95b609 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Nelson Transcription: There are some circumstances connected with the death of Nelson which are always interesting as having in them a kind of alternative picture of the events of the day. Thus when the Admiral persists in his usual courtly custom of dressing himself in full uniform with gold lace, silk stockings and God knows what orders and decorations, he is warned by his officers most emphatically that his life is particularly sought by the French and that he exposes himself to very great danger. It is represented to him that the enemy has a new custom of carrying riflemen in the tops of his ships and that by making himself conspicuous to the meanest observation as the Admiral of the Fleet, he hazards his safety and, necessarily with it, the fortune of the day. Apart from these representations no man can better know the real extent of the danger of such a practice than the great man to whom they were made because it is a fact in his history that he had always opposed himself to this use of the rifle as cowardly and cruel. Nevertheless he persists, is shot in the back and is killed. After he has been taken below in a dying state the old quarter master on board the Victory who is standing on the poop by the wheel says to a midshipman that there is a man in a blouse whom he has seen hiding on the main top of the ship to which the Victory is lashed yard arm to yard arm who fired at and struck down the Admiral as he saw with his eyes. During the remainder of the progress of the fight the two men watch for this man. In the moment of his emerging from behind some concealment of rigging or sail the quarter master points up and cries out “There he is”. In the same moment the quarter master falls shot by the same man through the mouth. In the same moment the midshipman fires and is so convinced that he has hit the man that as soon as possible after the battle is over he climbs onto that main top to see. Sure enough there he finds the man lying dead with a ball in his heart. It is a circumstance not belonging to this story but not un-BLANK of the delicacy or want of delicacy of the time that Nelson’s body was said to have been conveyed to Gibraltar in a cask of rum and that any really or pretendedly choice rum offered on the market for a long time afterwards was called 'The Admiral'. But it is easier to transmit the weaknesses and grimness of men’s bodies than the worth of their souls and so a tale of fiction may have had some foundation of truth in it. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2:38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Nelson Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'Nelson', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Nelson.wav deciphered shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/ccab00b6f7b10f5be502beb16b14f1b7.wav?Expires=1787184000&Signature=vLJ0pdlQZJrJ8J16ka87M1ZVE-KWIsslvSi9IAUMUfHNKtpOs5PJAXUOqAGFCBULP3e8QlUjgeeUZDzOSpsouZE-WTiXAGsY2oimzgvqxv8ym6ZeywcexgnSV3Flt5izhUyctl9jCIi5oxrCjXhys924UO6soxtSO1oOwuzGKg57CVyXc5lPhxwlrl1CwcIjFhcecsxkOh2GYS0%7Ecg-tYUWvN0L1lssBgmzKmeZ3fllmNDedNLmPyf-IZGdlt0UWWZW5nK7CTtcup-GlxwX%7EV-lS18xfJUkTY4%7EAMBbcWIGC0brIyEvlJBoMGFH0HYvKq3UIqyCHsOuCEdgdWI%7E18A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 2c56fd9d9ff72033d1f6aa86ad9f5acb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: The Two Brothers Transcription: I once heard a story when I was living in Scotland from the mouth of a deceased judge which struck my imagination very forcibly. He told it by the dying light of a wood fire with a high wind roaring outside. I ought to premise that he had been counsel in an action that afterwards shared of the gains attending a will made by one of the wards. This is the story: There were two old bachelor brothers of whom one reposed at Slough and the other at London. They were in the habit of visiting each other for a week or so at a time. It happened that the Slough brother, being on one of these visits to the London brother, felt rather unwell said ‘I will go home. My old housekeeper will help me. I shall soon be all right and will then come back. Once again they parted. A few nights afterwards, the London brother being in bed and finding himself uncomfortable and unable to sleep, lighted a candle and composed himself to read. Suddenly the door of his room opened and an appearance of his brother, dressed in white, pale and looking very attentively at him. He spoke to the figure but it made no answer. So it passed on to the end of the room turned and went out at the door. The London brother’s immediate impression was that his mind was ill, had some fullness of blood in the region of the brain and had best be bled. So he put on his dressing gown to call up his servant., he heard the sound of a carriage in the street which came over and stopped at his door. On his opening the window and asking who was there, he was answered ‘A messenger to take you to your brother who is very ill and supposed to be dying.’ Of course, he accompanied the messenger instantly. When he arrived in his brother’s room, there were several people present. On sight of them all, the brother rose in his bed with difficulty and spoke these words: ‘John, you have seen me before tonight and you know it!’ With that, he fell back on his pillow and never spoke another word. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2:21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: The Two Brothers Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'The Two Brothers', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The Two Brothers.wav deciphered shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/0816a0a2049e7914e5f77188c1eb11ce.wav?Expires=1787184000&Signature=ndWaigRDvgGS6UEVa0UwnJx1bs9vXMRWZ4IyFtTGRDyLbP57RmmMvvwArFJ8yR%7ERs6WzkMDXD6NCPxZSeUH%7EZSiyRATshTxOuYtKiLdDCa2qWesxlF-gC-khELfz0kubhCMLcGNx-uQ-xQJME8cuqbI8m-L2-oDYjqJTo0eIIu%7E79BrzzL6Hsom%7EbTjo%7EExbr1hi2J1%7EtpxDEk3UaKFsMk6zb-wSfz4abQ5t5UG9mi2YowkLuO1-I-t8bWmBj30-h%7EI1FJJ3fK50HIBJoduLdhN4g4ZqF43DVefDFWa05G%7E84DRiQQwwQKfm17eeSjrvPfkADYAuoGJEDlfBLC-W5Q__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM bcc8077e1942c261b3199765b8a2bf11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Traddles helps David improve his shorthand dictation skills, from chapter 38 of David Copperfield Transcription: I resorted to Traddles for advice; who suggested that he should dictate speeches to me, at a pace, and with occasional stoppages, adapted to my weakness. Very grateful for this friendly aid, I accepted the proposal; and night after night, almost every night, for a long time, we had a sort of Private Parliament in Buckingham Street […] I should like to see such a Parliament anywhere else! My aunt and Mr. Dick represented the Government or the Opposition (as the case might be), and Traddles, with the assistance of Enfield’s Speakers, or a volume of parliamentary orations, thundered astonishing invectives against them. Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main. […] Often and often we pursued these debates until the clock pointed to midnight, and the candles were burning down. The result of so much good practice was, that by and by I began to keep pace with Traddles pretty well, and should have been quite triumphant if I had had the least idea what my notes were about. But, as to reading them after I had got them, I might as well have copied the Chinese inscriptions of an immense collection of tea-chests, or the golden characters on all the great red and green bottles in the chemists’ shops! Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Traddles helps David improve his shorthand dictation skills Subject The topic of the resource David Copperfield shorthand dictation shorthand learning Description An account of the resource Reading of a passage from chapter 38 of <em>David Copperfield</em>, in which David's friend Tommy Traddles helps him to practice writing shorthand by dictating speeches Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Traddles helps David.wav brachygraphy David Copperfield dictation shorthand shorthand learning https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/75805e1cf4d57a145acb4c2ba958776d.wav?Expires=1787184000&Signature=cTJ5muT4c32xidn-GUjgIHrGTtX68wixlv1alDyyois8JeW2bJQ54p4YxlpCQbGxlPFQ1cLlwVuJ9h7kkzRSzvBnPvFVvv9Cy7Rv6FAyioI%7Ey8GpNTq2DXwTeXn4WamrkfWBoMnhFCuR-ZkeRxKkCcmuVywOvVeOQJmgPD5Z0iG7LixFxHKb%7EsOUZA0zvGsrRoCL%7EPb2LSWNXDe5zns%7E43TGjbflFPzniot-oyb2cT4G8XjMChevqnn8xrDIsguvs-4GKC8WihNNDuOG8sNyYhcoU%7E3ug-%7EqIz4pI3-rsRCJezr8tMAM4zsB086RZN0esnQWmIlG3wqAq596qjDUQg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 71ad815916172db1bce16a92c3a48311 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Travelling Transcription: I suppose the mere act of travelling is not very likely to open a man’s mind or amend and enlarge his spirit if he be conceited and shut up within himself and his own good opinion of himself in the beginning. As it would be of small advantage to a man to live in a house with 10,000 windows if he never looked out of one of them, so a man who goes around the world constantly shut up in his own self-satisfactions and prejudices can get very little out of it. Indeed, it may be said of such people that they cannot see anything for themselves. They are always in their own way. They themselves are the obstacle always interposed between their own mental state and the object. Without reflection and abstraction from self it may be questioned whether any tangible object in the universe is capable of producing a very beneficial effect on the mind. Mount Vesuvio for example is a vast and always changing mass of fire and cinders. There is nothing much more remarkable in that ipso facto than there would be in a gigantic gas works. It is when a man BLANK himself to consider that an action he beholds in that mountain is the action of prodigious forces pent up in the recesses of the earth and heaving and working there from the dawn of creation to the present hour that the importance and beauty and grandeur of what he sees impress him adequately. The falls of Niagara are but so many thousand million gallons of water but the consideration that a great river is throwing itself over a certain rock and that in the course of ages it must wear the rock away and change the whole face of the country thereabouts is quite another thing. We must all put something of ourselves into everything we see and if we do not so train ourselves so that we have something to put some bank to draw upon some capital to invest nothing can have the charms for us that it is meant to have. Consequently, it is always possible for civilised men to conceive how little interesting nature is to the savage and how very small an appreciation he has of her wonders and beauties distanced from his wants and appetites. But this is in fact one of the main reasons for his being the monotonous, indolent stupid brute he always is for any purpose other than his own immediate personal wants. There is yet another kind of man to whom travelling can be of little service. I allude to the kind of man who, when he sees a remarkable thing, thinks not of the thing itself but of what he should say of it. 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Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Travelling Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'Travelling', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Travelling.wav deciphered shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/095959e74eb136858f9d9fdce8bc66b4.jpg?Expires=1787184000&Signature=YkgLDmHkNVp2%7EXrPtL%7E4-mSnZOat9e3jdjpK0b8ZEWwVsXVhLkCTJsEyaVyU86Kau6JXs-gcp8QLtK9KyplNu9135jEwT4MeHGyE4My%7E46CbxiI60iChNPmhMhN8ySH72QVMdNUlmlraXP1kq-M7ZwPOrWZs%7E9IMnacn-ArAZ5j278L4mKlnod50Y9JO4WDzz6grxmfPMijX7yo9cQ2fS43lugTCaVyyfVVPcYm7nTn-LPsZ7MxmJjXcfzA6msERTRh1Kva42cdi94q2xpYjgu3bB-JzMr4sS7D3bToKUhVOUXVVLO4fFlnEu4q8mBERi0zMjEGQD4BRWhQrhTufzw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 94cb8d234f0b58d8a84c16fed0805a98 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Private collections Description An account of the resource Material from various private collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource nineteenth century twenty-first century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Various. Please consult individual items for details. Language A language of the resource English Brachygraphy shorthand Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An oval black and white photograph on a plain background of the head and shoulders of a young man. He gazes straight at the camera. His wavy hair is neatly brushed up and away from his face. He is dressed in a white shirt, dark tie and dark blazer with a floral decoration in his left lapel. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charles Dickens Museum, London Description An account of the resource Material from the archives of the Charles Dickens Museum, London, including the newly digitised Carlton papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Charles Dickens Museum, London Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource nineteenth century twentieth century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the Charles Dickens Museum, London. Please seek further permission from the Museum to reuse these images. Language A language of the resource English Brachygraphy shorthand Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data carte-de-visite Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carte-de-visite of Henry Fielding Dickens Subject The topic of the resource carte-de-visite Henry Fielding Dickens Description An account of the resource A carte-de-visite of Henry Fielding Dickens Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Charles Dickens Museum, London [B418.18] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource late nineteenth century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the Charles Dickens Museum, London. Please seek further permission from the Museum to reuse this image. 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In small text the page is headed 'Of David Copperfield'. The page number in the top right corner reads 385. The text is headed 'Chapter XXXVIII A Dissolution of Partnership'. The page has four paragraphs of text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Special Collections, University of Leicester, Leicester Description An account of the resource Material from the Special Collections department at the University of Leicester. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections, University of Leicester Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource nineteenth century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource public domain Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Transcription: CHAPTER XXXVIII. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire. I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction. The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies’ legs; the tremendous effects of a curve in a wrong place; not only troubled my waking hours, but reappeared before me in my sleep. When I had groped my way, blindly, through these difficulties, and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyptian Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket, stood for disadvantageous. When I had fixed these wretches in my mind, I found that they had driven everything else out of it; then, beginning again, I forgot them; while I was picking them up, I dropped the other fragments of the system; in short, it was almost heart-breaking. It might have been quite heart-breaking, but for Dora, who was the stay and anchor of my tempest-driven bark. Every scratch in the scheme was a gnarled oak in the forest of difficulty, and I went on cutting them down, one after another, with such vigour, that in three or four months I was in a condition to make an experiment on one of our crack speakers in the Commons. Shall I ever forget how the crack speaker walked off from me before I began, and left my imbecile pencil staggering about the paper as if it were in a fit! This would not do, it was quite clear. I was flying too high, and should never get on, so. I resorted to Traddles for advice; who suggested that he should dictate speeches to me, at a pace, and with occasional stoppages, adapted to my weakness. Very grateful for this friendly aid, I accepted the proposal; and night after night, almost every night, for a long time, we had a sort of Private Parliament in Buckingham Street, after I came home from the Doctor’s. I should like to see such a Parliament anywhere else! My aunt and Mr. Dick represented the Government or the Opposition (as the case might be), and Traddles, with the assistance of Enfield’s Speakers, or a volume of parliamentary orations, thundered astonishing invectives against them. Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chapter 38 of <em>David Copperfield</em> Subject The topic of the resource text novel David Copperfield Charles Dickens Description An account of the resource Text from the first page of chapter 38 of <em>David Copperfield</em> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dickens, Charles Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>The personal history of David Copperfield</em> (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850), Special Collections, University of Leicester [SCM 01818] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Bradbury and Evans Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this image in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SCM_01818_P385 Charles Dickens David Copperfield novel text