Our Dickens Decoders have transcribed the first page of a shorthand exercise titled ‘Nelson’. Find out more about and download a line-by-line transcription.
Deciphered shorthand
Decoding the Tavistock letter, or, Dickens and the ‘dark arts of Victorian media management’
The secrets of the Tavistock letter are finally revealed, thanks to the amazing work of our Dickens Decoders. Find out more and download a transcript of the letter in this post.
The story of ‘The Two Brothers’
This shorthand exercise begins ‘I once heard a story’, but a story about what?
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The story of ‘Sydney Smith’
What in the world was this dictation exercise, labelled ‘Sydney Smith’, about? Was Dickens writing about his son? His friend, Sydney Smith? Or something else?
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