Travelling Part 3

Ten lines of Brachygraphy shorthand characters written in pencil fill half of a notebook page. Underneath the tenth line is a long horizontal line, indicating the end of the exercise. Underneath this the page is divided into three columns, which feature a range of untranscribed shorthand symbols.

Dublin Core

Title

Travelling Part 3

Subject

dictation exercise
notebook
Arthur P. Stone
Charles Dickens
deciphered shorthand
travel

Description

The third and final part of a meditation on the benefits of travel, written in shorthand

Creator

Stone, Arthur P.
Dickens, Charles

Source

Free Library of Philadelphia [cdc5890009_15]

Date

1859-1860

Rights

Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Please seek further permission from the Free Library to reuse this image.

Format

image/tif

Language

Brachygraphy shorthand

Identifier

cdc5890009_15

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Text

Working transcription: another kind of man to whom travelling can be of little service. I allude to the kind of man who, when he sees a remarkable thing, thinks not of the thing itself but of what he shall/should say of it. A state of mind so excessively selfish and despicable that I think on the whole I would rather travel with a […] young Whig or even a prejudiced old one than with a person from whom so little improvement is to be got and from whom such constant annoyance is to be derived.
The symbols underneath the horizontal line have not currently been transcribed.

Citation

Stone, Arthur P. and Dickens, Charles, “Travelling Part 3,” The Dickens Code, accessed July 14, 2025, https://dickenscode.omeka.net/items/show/36.

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Item: Travelling Part 1 dcterms:relation This Item
Item: Travelling Part 2 dcterms:relation This Item