The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
The Leslie Cown biography of Dr. Gregg is available on e-bay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=378&item=6930967557&rd=1 (Item number: 6930967557) This is a book worth having. It doesn’t sound like this copy is in the greatest shape, but it doesn’t come on the market very often. Alex (by alex for everyone)
I was thinking to myself, learning shorthand is like learning Spanish. Theoretically, if you take a Spanish book and just study it long enough, you can learn the language. But there are efficient ways to learn and inefficient ways. I took four years of French in high school and still wasn’t fluent. I studied “Spanish for…
I think it is time to assemble a comprehensive Gregg bibliography, in order to assist people buying books off ebay in getting the books they need, without making unnecessary purchases. For instance, some people might want to be sure to buy a book with an answer key. The bibliography ideally should include basic info about all Gregg books as well…
Well, my third (and final, for this week!) project has been to scan and upload to “Documents” the 1902 booklet “Lessons in Shorthand Penmanship” by Dr. Gregg. The files are all named “Penmanship”, and start with Title Page, then pages 3 through 15. Once again, they’re .pdf files, which are big and take a while…
I’ve also uploaded (to “Documents”) .pdf files of the 1931 reprint of the original 1893 “Gregg’s Shorthand: A Light-Line Phonography for the Million“. These files all start with “First”, beginning with “Cover”, “Autograph”, “Title Page”, “Preface”, then 2-page spreads starting with pp. 4-5, etc. Once again, lots of large files that I’ll probably only leave…