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A black and white graphic map with two coloured route lines. A thick line indicates the River Thames curving across the right hand corner. Black images of ravens mark Norfolk Street in the top left and the Houses of Parliament in the bottom centre next to the Thames. In the top right of the map, ravens mark Furnival's Inn, the Old Bailey, Bell Yard and Doctors' Commons. A red dotted line marks a route from Norfolk Street to the Old Bailey and Doctors Commons. A blue dotted line marks a route from Furnival's Inn to the Houses of Parliament.
A map of Dickens's routes from his residences in Norfolk Street and Furnival's Inn to the places associated with his early shorthand career

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A page from a book. The paper shows age staining. On the page is a printed box divided in two halves horizontally. Above the box is the number two in brackets. The top box is titled 'Of the Vowels'. In it is writing in English and intermittent Brachygraphy characters. The bottom box is titled 'Arbitrary Characters' and contains two narrow columns of brachygraphy characters and their meanings in wider columns next to each. There are faint pencil markings in the top margin of Brachygraphy characters.
A description of how to represent vowels in the Brachygraphy shorthand system, as well as a list of arbitrary characters that begin with upper or lower case letters

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A sheet of paper with nine lines of Brachygraphy shorthand handwritten in ink, occasionally interspersed by Roman letters ('B', 'OT', 'D'). The characters are arranged in three paragraphs. Beneath, to the left, is signed 'Bentley' with the date.
Dickens's shorthand copy of a letter from John Forster to Richard Bentley, proposing that Bentley come to a new agreement with Dickens

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A sheet of paper with nineteen lines of Brachygraphy shorthand handwritten in ink. The lines are arranged in four paragraphs and interspersed with numerical figures, including '£600', '£700', and 38. The titles of two novels are also marked by Roman capitals: 'BR' for 'Barnaby Rudge' and 'OT' for 'Oliver Twist'.
Shorthand copy of a letter in which Dickens proposes a revised agreement to his publisher, Richard Bentley

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A colour photograph of a man in front of bookshelves
A photograph of Hugo Bowles in a bookshop

A black and white photograph of a young woman's head and shoulders. Her head is turned in side profile. Her gaze is soft and her expression is neutral. Her curled hair is loosely swept back and neatly coiled and pinned at the back of her head. She is wearing earrings with a drop of three circular shapes getting larger in size with the largest at the bottom. She wears pale clothing with dark narrow vertical lines and a subtle ruffled trim at the shoulders. A row of dark buttons runs down the front and a slim white collar is decorated with a circular brooch similar in design to her earrings.
A studio photograph of Ellen Ternan

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A colour photograph of a woman in a gallery
A photograph of Claire Wood in a gallery

A pencil sketch on paper of a large end of terrace Victorian townhouse. A woman in Victorian costume is approaching the porticoed door. The left foreground features a clump of small trees on grass. To the right of the townhouse similar homes imply an adjacent street. In the left bottom corner is written ‘Tavistock House’ along with the date and artist’s signature.
A pencil sketch by F. G. Kitton of Tavistock House and immediate surroundings

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A framed page. Handwritten in ink a narrow column of twenty Brachygraphy shorthand characters to the left. The meanings of the characters are written in English to the right. Brachygraphy characters in pencil appear faintly after some of the English words.
List of transcribed shorthand characters from Henry Fielding Dickens's lessons with his father

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Twenty-one lines of Brachygraphy shorthand written in pencil fill the page of a notebook. The words 'blouse', 'Nelson', and 'Gibraltar' are written in longhand.
The second and final part of a story about the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar

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