Ebay: Shorthand Reading & Dictation

Hi

Just listed on ebay yesterday is a book published in 1951
ELDRIDGE STICKNEY STICKNEY
COPYRIGHT 1951, BY AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
442 pgs.
HARDCOVER

Does anyone know whether it’s Gregg? Briefhand? Pitmanic?

sidhe

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  1. This is an educated guess, but because the subject "Brief Forms" is discussed, it's almost certainly Gregg. Moreover, the book was printed in the US–the crown capitol of Gregg Shorthand.

    The term used in Pitman is "short forms".

  2. Thanks, George.   I'm going to check my Personal Shorthand manual, tho, because I think they use "brief forms" for theirs, too, and I'm wondering if the American Book Company was the first publisher of the Briefhand — later renamed Personal Shorthad — manual.

  3. I have a 1939 edition of this book, and it is indeed Gregg, although the title page states "Gregg Edition", which makes me wonder if it was also published in another system . . .   There's a note too, on the title page, that "Shorthand outlines reproduced by permission of The Gregg Publishing Company, New York, N.Y.  Shorthand plates written by Mrs. David J. Ramsey."    My book also has a handwritten poem on a sheet of notebook paper tucked inside the front cover, titled "The Ideal Girl."  It starts out:   "Modest, gentle, sweet, demure Fair as a lily and as pure . . ."   You gotta wonder . . .   Alex

  4. In the 50's and 60's, Forkner published a series of books titled "Correlated Dictation and Transcription" in a Forkner Edition, a Gregg Edition and a Pitman Edition.   Could this be a precursor to that?   I've got a copy of the Gregg DJS Edition Correlated Dictation and Transcription.

  5. "Shorthand Reading and Dictation Exercises" was published in Gregg (Anniv and Simplified) and Pitman editions: 1947 for Gregg Anniv and Pitman, 1951 for Simplified, and all 442 pages.  You will need to ask the seller.   "Correlated Dictation and Transcription" is an entirely different series of books.  The earliest on this series is 1940.

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