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Anecdote Part 1
The first part of a ghost story written in shorthand about a student prank gone wrong, featuring a ghost in green
Anecdote Part 2
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
Arthur Stone's preface to the notebooks kept from the time when he was Charles Dickens's shorthand pupil
Didactic
An exercise in shorthand critiquing Catholicism
Hereditary Privilege Part 1
The bottom half of the page features the first part of a critique of hereditary privilege, written in shorthand. The top half features the third and final part of 'Sydney Smith' version B.
Hereditary Privilege Part 2
The second and final part of a critique of hereditary privilege, written in shorthand
Nelson Part 1
The first part of a story about the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar
Nelson Part 2
The second and final part of a story about the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar
Sunday Night Fifth February 1860 Part 1
A shorthand dictation exercise based upon 'Lecture XIV, On the Beautiful – Part II', by the philosopher Sydney Smith. Smith's lecture begins with a quotation from another lecture by Sir Joshua Reynolds entitled Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal…
Sydney Smith Part 1 Version A
A shorthand dictation exercise titled 'Sydney Smith' by someone less experienced with the Brachygraphy system. The exercise is dictated from ‘Lecture IX: On the Conduct of the Understanding’ by the philosopher Sydney Smith.