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Verso side of Dickens's shorthand copy of a letter, containing details about the subject matter in longhand

Dickens's shorthand copy of a letter from John Forster to Richard Bentley, proposing that Bentley come to a new agreement with Dickens

Shorthand copy of a letter in which Dickens proposes a revised agreement to his publisher, Richard Bentley

Shorthand copy of a letter in which Dickens proposes a revised agreement to his publisher, Richard Bentley

The top half of the page features the third and final part 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…

Arthur Stone's preface to the notebooks kept from the time when he was Charles Dickens's shorthand pupil

The Brachygraphy shorthand symbol for the word 'expectation'

The Brachygraphy shorthand symbol for the word 'disadvantageous'

Reading of an extract in which Dickens's son recalls lessons with his father

Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes his habit of following speeches as if taking shorthand notes