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

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

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A black symbol on a white background. A line slopes down to the right loops back on itself to create a circle and shoots up to the right with a zig-zag like tick towards the tail.
The Brachygraphy shorthand symbol for the word 'disadvantageous'

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The street view of a terraced house. The ground floor of the house has been painted white. To the left is a dark blue door with a brass letterbox and a sunburst window above. To the right is a tall rectangular window. The rest of the house is bare brown brick. There are two further floors above, indicated by two rows of pairs of large sash windows. A fourth floor is indicated by two smaller sash windows that meet the white roof line. A blue circular plaque is affixed to the wall centrally above the door and window of the ground floor. The edges of neighboring terraced homes and some street furniture are visible.
A modern photograph of the facade of Dickens's home in Norfolk Street, London

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A black symbol on a white background. A line arches with the right hand tail looping round to create a circle and continuing into a horizontal short line. A small curved line intersects the left bottom of the arch shape. A similar small curved line adjoins the inside right of the arch above the loop.
The Brachygraphy shorthand symbol for the word 'expectation'

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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 colour illustration of a large hall with flagstone floor. Three groups of men and ladies stand or sit around the edges of the room. They face a set of three archways beyond which is an ante-chamber flooded with light from large windows behind. Through the central archway is a horseshoe shaped bench. Stairs leading to the bench are set within the smaller archways to either side. A judge sits at the head of the bench beneath the Royal coat of arms with six men dressed in red and wearing wigs to either side. There is a large desk set within the bench, around which ten men in black robes and white stoles are sat. A man in plain clothes leans against the desk. The room is decorated with insignia and wooden panelling.
An illustration of proceedings at Doctors' Commons

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Nineteen lines of Brachygraphy shorthand characters written in pencil fill the page of a notebook with 'The Two Brothers' written in longhand at the top. In the top right corner is the number six, indicating the page number.
The first part of a ghost story written in shorthand about the apparition of a man's dying brother

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Fourteen lines of Brachygraphy shorthand characters written in pencil fill three quarters of a notebook page. At the end of the fourteenth line is a long oblique line. Under the fourteenth line of shorthand is a long horizontal line, indicating the end of the exercise. In the top right corner is the number four, indicating the page number.
The second and final part of a ghost story written in shorthand about the apparition of a man's dying brother

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Eighteen lines of Brachygraphy shorthand characters written in pencil fill the page of a notebook with 'Didactic' written in longhand at the top. In the top right corner is the number twelve, indicating the page number.
An exercise in shorthand critiquing Catholicism

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