Gregg Writer (Vol. XV)

I don’t know if this has already been posted (I checked the tags and didn’t see it, at least), but Volume XV of the Gregg Writer (which spans September 1912 to August 1913) is available as a .pdf on Internet Archive here. Does anyone know of any others?

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Malone’s “Script Phonography”

If you’ve read any biographical information about Dr. Gregg, you’ll know that when he was quite young he had a legal dispute with Thomas Malone, another shorthand inventor/teacher who had authored “Script Phonography”.  Dr. Gregg worked as a teacher for Malone, and when Gregg created his own system Malone took him to court over the…

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The Legends of Shorthand

I just found this book in Amazon and eBay. Mr. Tursi is President of the NY State Court Reporter’s Association, and founder, director, and instructor at the Verbatim School of Court Reporting in Long Island, NY. He wrote this book in 2015. It has chapters on Mr. Pitman, Dr. Gregg, Mr. Dupraw, and Mr. Swem,…

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Simplified outline help, please?

I’m on the Reading and Writing Practice 345 and stumped as to two outlines. The sentence before and after reads: You can be sure only if you have been able to make ______    _______ comparisons  with the way other apartments are being operated. (This is the green Simplified book, not the college edition or…

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Field Notes Byline Reporter’s Notebook

If there are any Gregg reporters here, you might find this new special edition reporting notebook interesting.  CBS reporter John Dickerson helped with its design.  This is not Gregg-ruled, but Collegiate-ruled (I suppose that could bring up a whole debate about whether Gregg ruling is too wide or not).  For info and a video of…

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