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Arthur Stone's Preface
Arthur Stone's preface to the notebooks kept from the time when he was Charles Dickens's shorthand pupil
Charles Dickens's shorthand notebook 'Part 2: Dots'
A page from Dickens's shorthand teaching notebook, explaining how to use the Brachygraphy system. This page explores rules concerning the use of dots.
Charles Dickens's shorthand notebook 'Part 3: Dots on Vowels'
A page from Dickens's shorthand teaching notebook, explaining how to use the Brachygraphy system. This page explores rules concerning dots on vowels.
Charles Dickens's shorthand notebook 'Part 6: Examples'
A page from Dickens's shorthand teaching notebook, explaining how to use the Brachygraphy system. This page provides a range of example phrases.
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
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.