Gregg Writer 1918-1919

If anyone has copies of the Gregg Writer for January 1918 through August 1919, I need your help.  Please scan the Table of Contents page toward the front of those magazines and post them.  I’m trying to establish what month the Gregg Publishing Company Boston Office was opened.  This helps to determine the dates of…

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Tales From Shakespeare: Hamlet – 1915-1916 – Matches Pre-Anniversary 1902 Manual

This is the first Gregg Shorthand version of Hamlet written in Gregg Shorthand. This version was first published between July 1915 and July 1916 (Publishers’ Weekly American Educational Catalog). This printing is from 1919-1920, based on the Gregg Offices listed on the title page. The shorthand plates match the 1902 Pre-Anniversary Gregg Shorthand Manual. The…

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The Career of Charles Lee Swem

There’s a short bio of the great Mr. Swem tucked at the end of a volume entitled A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Speeches of Woodrow Wilson, published in 1956. (The Symonds biography of Dr. Gregg informs us that Mr. Swem passed away that same year.)   THE CAREER OF CHARLES LEE SWEM   WOODROW…

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