Dictation for Beginners, by Edith V. Bisbee. A small review.

I ordered Dictation for Beginners, by Edith Bisbee, through abebooks.  I am delighted to find it is a perfectly fitting, supplementary book to use with the 1929 Manual.  It follows the lessons, giving examples that include the vocabulary of the Manual, and of Speed Studies.  It was published in 1930 by The Gregg Publishing Company….

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Business Penmanship in the early 1900s

When I first attempted to write Gregg shorthand outlines, I realized I didn’t have the same longhand proportions and principles in my 1950s Zaner-Bloser cursive as the business longhand which gave the movement and form Dr. Gregg used in the outlines. In the book on penmanship which he wrote, with Mary Champion, Dr. Gregg states:…

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