Two Preanniversary Stories by Helen Moriarty

At the bottom of this post you’ll find links to two separate pre-anniversary stories by Helen Moriarty that were serialized in the Gregg Writer.  The shorthand conforms to the 1916 Gregg Shorthand manual. All on Account of Miss Mooney was serialized in the Gregg Writer from August through December 1920.  The story originally appeared in…

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Adventures of a Kernel of Wheat – preanniversary.

Adventures of a Kernel of Wheat appeared in the Gregg Writer from February through April 1929. This was right before the anniversary manual was introduced in May 1929. The story is in 1916 pre-Anniversary shorthand. The English source material was an uncopyrighted story that served as a promo for the wheat milling industry. I found…

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Gregg Notes No 1 with Key -1915

Today I uploaded Gregg Notes No. 1 (1915) to the Internet Archive. The link is included at the end of this post. This book is from the Gregg Court Reporting Series. There are two court testimonies and two jury charges written in Gregg Shorthand. The shorthand matches the 1902 Gregg Shorthand manual. The separate book…

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Gregg Shorthand Reader 1912 – Color Scan

The Gregg Shorthand Reader (1912) contains reprints of shorthand plates from issues of the Gregg Writer magazine. This book matches the 1902 Gregg Shorthand manual. There is another version of this book on the Internet Archive that is difficult to read. It was scanned in black and white from an original copy with faded plates….

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5 Mary Shipman Andrews Stories In Gregg Shorthand

Today I uploaded a PDF file to the Internet Archive that contains five Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews short stories written in Gregg Shorthand from the Gregg Writer. The stories are presented in chronological order, based on the original publication dates for the English versions. The stories were originally published from 1906 through 1913. They were…

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Touch System 1916 Shorthand

Here is a 20-page pre-anniversary shorthand story from the Gregg Writer (June-Sept 1922). The Touch System (1909) is a detective story that seems very implausible. I recently read this article. It is not a difficult read. TouchSystem  

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Open Hearth 1916 Shorthand

Here is a story from the Gregg Writer magazine in 1916 pre-anniversary shorthand. It appeared in the Gregg Writer magazine from December 1923 through February 1924. The original story in English text was published in 1919. The title is Open Hearth: A Story of Pete of the Steel Mills and his Fellow Work-men. I recently…

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Sire de Maletroit’s Door in Gregg Shorthand

Below is a link to Sire de Maletroit’s Door in Pre-anniversary Gregg Shorthand.  The story was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1877 . It was serialized in the Gregg Writer from October 1922 through January 1923. The shorthand plates are somewhat faded.   This was a problem with many Gregg publications prior to 1924….

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Advanced Practice in Gregg Shorthand on Internet Archive

Today I posted Advanced Practice in Gregg Shorthand, Parts 1, 2, and 3, on the Internet Archive. These books are very rare. They include several readings for 1902 Pre-Anniversary Gregg Shorthand. They were published in 1913, 1914, and 1915. The English key for the Shorthand plates is found in Expert Speed Shorthand Course (1910, 1913), which is…

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Seven New Gregg Writer Issues on Internet Archive

Today I uploaded 7 scanned issues of the Gregg Writer to the Internet Archive.  I also updated the PDF file I previously posted that includes links to downloadable issues of the the Gregg Writer for Google Books and Internet Archive. Here are the issues I uploaded: Gregg Writer – Volume 8 – July-August 1906: https://archive.org/details/GreggWriterJulyAug1906…

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