Shorthand by Ruby Turner-Jones(?) circa ~Sep. 1961(?)

Part one: I appreciated the recent WWII diary post by @AngelaM because it was “messy” shorthand. Being new to shorthand I truly appreciate the well written exemplars to be found on this site and in textbooks. If you are going to learn something you have to know what “right” looks like. But I greatly appreciated…

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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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random bits of Gregg history

I recently obtained the November 1958 edition of The National Shorthand Reporter. Most of the magazine is not very interesting but I found some fascinating (to me) classified ads on the final pages. Here we can see how an important collection of shorthand books was amassed, and there are a couple of ads indicating that…

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An Experimental Study of Two Shorthand Systems

(PDF File) This 1937 thesis describes an experiment in which Gregg shorthand learners and Pitman shorthand students were carefully tested to compare how quickly the two systems can be learned. Many of the Gregg students achieved proficiency and were offered jobs before the experiment concluded. The Pitman students did not do so well, and that’s…

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Lists of Gregg Books

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…

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The Story of Gregg Shorthand–1913

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…

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Historical materials about stenography, tachygraphy

Hello! I’ve already posted perhaps best developed article about stenography/shorthand on Wikipedia: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenografia Of course, it’s in Polish. 😉 Now I’m going to edit such a definitions like: tironian notes tachygraphy Tiro (Marcus Tullius) If You have any historical materials in Your collection, that You did not posted them here, I would be grateful for…

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