Thank you to Clarissa Parkinson and Frances T for some typically ingenious solutions to a very messy text! It was nice to see shorthand for some brand-new expressions too, like ‘backwards and forwards’. It is impossible to come up with a coherent interpretation of these notes – most seem to be practice of individual characters. Nonetheless, these pages offer some interesting insights into Arthur Stone’s learning process.
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