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.
Here are some books that can be borrowed from Openlibrary. Some of you may be aware of this site. But for those few searching souls that stumble upon this blog it may be helpful. It requires to register on site and also to have Adobe Digital Editions installed. p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }a:link…
Here’s another book for those who may be interested in teaching shorthand. This is by John Robert Gregg, himself. Click here for the .pdf.
• Textbook’s 60th Anniversary According to Amazon, June 1st will be the 60th anniversary of the publication of Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified – second edition. It’s extraordinary that this book is still in print 60 years later. And it’s often #1 or #2 in Amazon USA’s Business & Money > Skills > Secretarial Aids &…
Thought it might be a good idea to have a thread for booklists, just in case anyone is hit by the urge to make any, or wants to link to existing lists. It happened to me… I made a preliminary list of Series 90 books, based on data from WorldCat and ABEbooks, which I have…
This collection of articles written in 1916 Pre-Anniversary Gregg is part of the Louis A. Leslie Shorthand Collection in the library of Rider University. Attachment: the-art-of-making-a-speech.pdf
I came across this book titled “Gregg Dictation and Transcription by Renshaw and Leslie”. Link here to access an online copy (note: you might have to download Adobe Digital Editions in order to borrow it from the online library). As I look through the forward I see no direct mention of what edition of the…
Gregg, John Robert. The story of Gregg shorthand :as told by John Robert Gregg at the Silver Jubilee Convention of the Gregg Shorthand Association, Chicago, August, 1913. New York : Gregg Publishing Co., [1913]. I just ran across this gem today, and I don’t see it among any of the shared documents. Is it available…
A Course of Study for Teaching Gregg Shorthand by the Anniversary Manual Method I learned of this pamphlet from Mr. Blanchard’s book 20 Shortcuts to Shorthand Speed (available at Andrew’s site here) on p. 46. Mr. Blanchard referred to an article he had written in 1933 on “A New and Easy Method for Teaching the…
While following escritora61’s link to an eBay auction for a student’s transcript of Gregg Shorthand Simplified, I didn’t find that book (perhaps it was already bought), but did find a transcript of a book called Gregg Shorthand for the Electronic Office which I hadn’d heard about before. Does anyone know anything about it? (It seems…