<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<itemContainer xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://dickenscode.omeka.net/items/browse?tags=deciphered+shorthand&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&amp;page=3&amp;output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-07-20T09:04:30-04:00">
  <miscellaneousContainer>
    <pagination>
      <pageNumber>3</pageNumber>
      <perPage>10</perPage>
      <totalResults>21</totalResults>
    </pagination>
  </miscellaneousContainer>
  <item itemId="43" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="49">
        <src>https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/bf9d9160a9c7e3094bbc5cfcadea8bf0.tif?Expires=1785369600&amp;Signature=DSpXleLyQS9u90d58htGyNzjDafSm5cvw1g-yE920xDxYvMkDDYJsXOACsM3kfppKTknTabq7rWby6IPk%7Eneb3rPfjg3Xcb41XMzhK0qImNcv7YOVhguiXkIaMpGMNcPy3tGGeF8CWXe4Lsj7rla7y9NLyMzeZCwv1r11yzUnzYGOSIaJN5%7EkGtPCWXjNs9Calqv0Ys-30RIYkZ6blHm77RIDR06CcW%7ES3iSS3TpCi7LQGEsMqksP2L9aEzCtSqrDsGfbeIHZa3OcR-fKHSrbML20EbdQWPN5cQynSlfXWYaLNW5p-uk1uqOvwsbpXtxgWyGTC7dAWJ2K9z9tDmtpQ__&amp;Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM</src>
        <authentication>ef9f6322b852f02464a52ff1683c1cd3</authentication>
        <elementSetContainer>
          <elementSet elementSetId="1">
            <name>Dublin Core</name>
            <description>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/.</description>
            <elementContainer>
              <element elementId="50">
                <name>Title</name>
                <description>A name given to the resource</description>
                <elementTextContainer>
                  <elementText elementTextId="782">
                    <text>Eighteen lines of Brachygraphy shorthand characters written in pencil fill a notebook page. In the top right the number three indicates the page number.</text>
                  </elementText>
                </elementTextContainer>
              </element>
            </elementContainer>
          </elementSet>
        </elementSetContainer>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="7">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>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/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="182">
                  <text>Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="183">
                  <text>Material from the newly digitised shorthand notebooks of Charles Dickens and Arthur P. Stone, from the archives of the Free Library of Philadelphia.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="39">
              <name>Creator</name>
              <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="184">
                  <text>Stone, Arthur P.</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="185">
                  <text>Dickens, Charles</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="48">
              <name>Source</name>
              <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="186">
                  <text>Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="40">
              <name>Date</name>
              <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="187">
                  <text>nineteenth century</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="47">
              <name>Rights</name>
              <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="188">
                  <text>Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Please seek further permission from the Free Library to reuse these images.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="44">
              <name>Language</name>
              <description>A language of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="189">
                  <text>English</text>
                </elementText>
                <elementText elementTextId="190">
                  <text>Brachygraphy shorthand</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="1">
      <name>Text</name>
      <description>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.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="1">
          <name>Text</name>
          <description>Any textual data included in the document</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="783">
              <text>Working transcription: has lost so much time in consulting first cousins and particular friends, that he has no more time left to follow their advice. There is such little time for over-squeamishness at present the opportunity so easily slips away, the very period of life at which a man chooses to venture, if ever, is so confined, that it is no bad rule to preach up the necessity, in such instances, of a little violence done to the feelings, and of efforts made in defiance of strict and sober calculation. With respect to that fastidiousness which disturbs the right conduct of the understanding it must be observed that there are two modes of judging of anything: one, by the test of what has actually been done in the same way before; the other, by what we can conceive may be done in that way. Now this latter method of mere imaginary excellence can hardly be a just criterion, because it may be in fact impossible to reduce practice what it is perfectly easy to conceive: no man, before he has tried, can tell how</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>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/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="717">
                <text>Sydney Smith Part 2 Version B</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="49">
            <name>Subject</name>
            <description>The topic of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="767">
                <text>notebook</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="768">
                <text>Arthur P. Stone</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="769">
                <text>Charles Dickens</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="770">
                <text>deciphered shorthand</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="771">
                <text>Sydney Smith</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="773">
                <text>The second page of a shorthand dictation exercise titled 'Sydney Smith' by a practiced shorthand writer. The exercise is dictated from ‘Lecture IX: On the Conduct of the Understanding’ by the philosopher Sydney Smith.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="39">
            <name>Creator</name>
            <description>An entity primarily responsible for making the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="774">
                <text>Stone, Arthur P.</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="775">
                <text>Dickens, Charles</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="776">
                <text>Free Library of Philadelphia</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="40">
            <name>Date</name>
            <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="777">
                <text>1859-1860</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="47">
            <name>Rights</name>
            <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="778">
                <text>Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Please seek further permission from the Free Library to reuse this image.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="42">
            <name>Format</name>
            <description>The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="779">
                <text>image/tif</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="44">
            <name>Language</name>
            <description>A language of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="780">
                <text>Brachygraphy shorthand</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="43">
            <name>Identifier</name>
            <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="781">
                <text>SydneySmith.2.versionB</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="40">
        <name>Arthur P. Stone</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="3">
        <name>Charles Dickens</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="22">
        <name>deciphered shorthand</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="33">
        <name>notebook</name>
      </tag>
      <tag tagId="46">
        <name>Sydney Smith</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
</itemContainer>
