Nelson Part 2

Nelson Part 2

dictation exercise

notebook

Arthur P. Stone

Charles Dickens

deciphered shorthand

Nelson

The second and final part of a story about the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar

Stone, Arthur P.

Dickens, Charles

Free Library of Philadelphia [cdc5890009_02]

1859-1860

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English

Brachygraphy shorthand

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Working transcription: blouse whom he has seen hiding on the main top of the ship to which the Victory is lashed yard arm to yard arm who fired at and struck (down) the Admiral as he saw with his eyes. During the remainder of the progress of the fight the two men watch for this man. In the moment of his emerging from behind some concealment of rigging or sail the quarter master points up and cries out “There he is”. In the same moment the quarter master falls shot by the same man through the mouth. In the same moment the midshipman fires and is so convinced that he has hit the man that as soon as possible after the battle is over he climbs onto that main top to see. Sure enough there he finds the man lying dead with a ball in his heart.
It is a circumstance not belonging to this story but not un[…] of the delicacy or want of delicacy of the time that Nelson’s body was said to have been very […] conveyed to Gibraltar in a cask of rum and that any really or pretendedly choice rum offered on the market for a long time afterwards was called “The Admiral”. But it is easier to transmit the […] weaknesses and grimness of men’s bodies than the worth of their souls and so […] fiction may have had some foundation of truth in it.