Different versions of Simplfied Manual?

On the website http://heartkindling.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/a-curious-find-gregg-shorthand-manual/, there is a picture of pages 22 and 23 of the Simplified Manual, Second Edition. Page 22 has 14 practice sentences, but my copy has 13. Page 23, paragraph 26 is ‘Phrases’, in my copy paragraph 26 is ‘Reading Practice’. What’s going on here?

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Gregg Shorthand – Standard Course

Has anyone managed to make a copy of  Dr Gregg’s 1948(?) “Standard Course”? This was referred to in an earlier post: http://gregg-shorthand.com/2012/12/12/the-new-standard-course-of-gregg/. I have checked the “Guide to the John Robert Gregg Papers (Manuscripts and Archives Division)” from the New York Public Library’s site, and the item appears to be in Box 65. The NYPL…

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Factors of Success

This booklet compiled by Hugh Thomas Whitford was written in early (1903) Pre-Anniversary Gregg and is part of the Louis A. Leslie Shorthand Collection in the library of Rider University. Attachment: factors-of-success.pdf

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