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Solution to the June 2024 challenge

In our June challenge, the Dickens Decoders identified two more pages of dictation from Sydney Smith’s ‘I would not live always’ – and another two without an identified source text. Find out more and download a line-by-line transcript here!

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Solution to the May 2024 Challenge

The Dickens Decoders matched most of the shorthand in our May challenge to passages from Sydney Smith’s work – but two unidentified lines remain! Find out more and download a line-by-line transcript here.

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Continuing Notebook D II: Solutions

The Dickens Decoders have made short work of a further four pages from ‘Notebook D’, which Arthur Stone kept from his shorthand lessons with Dickens. Find out more about the source texts and download a line-by-line transcript here.

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Beginning Notebook D Challenge: Solutions

This autumn, the Dickens Decoders started to transcribe Notebook D – one of the notebooks that Arthur Stone kept from his lessons learning shorthand with Charles Dickens. In the process they discovered two new source texts from the works of Sydney Smith. Find out more and download a transcript here.