r/shorthand

Hello! I found this postcard in a box of old family photos. I’m so curious what this says so I can try to figure out who these people are/who the card was for. Help?

Why is postage like that?

This is the first page from a tiny book measuring about 9cm x 8cm with around 200 pages. It is very fragile with the back cover missing but the remaining part of the front cover page has the date 10th July 1792. I found it amongst my Mother's belongings after she died and it has obviously been in my family for some years! I would love to try and identify the shorthand and perhaps find out something about its contents. Any help at all would be very much appreciated.

Webpage - Greggantic

Can anyway help transcribe this please. Grandad worked on the railways before going off to France in the war. This is from a notepad just before that..

I have a diary written by my great grandfather as he emigrated from Cornwall to the western US. I will post a few pages and see if this is translatable and if it is of any interest. I think it could be a fascinating read...but I don't know!

Some background:

• Written starting in 1885, by my great grandfather who was a Cornish/English miner. He sailed to the US 7/4/1885 (as can be seen on the title page written in clear English).
• He traveled through Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska before settling in Minnesota
• My great aunt thought it was in Pitman shorthand. She managed a few transcriptions; I've included those too in case they help
• I've contacted a few historical societies (2 in the US, 1 in the UK). All seemed very interested in the diary, yet none had anyone who knew how to transcribe it.

Assuming this is transcribable, I'd be curious what a few people think of the value of transcribing the rest if the diary as that could be a bit of work. Is the story worth the effort? TIA

ChatGPT believes it’s Gregg Simplified, but I have no clue. Any help would be appreciated!

Hello--apologies in advance if this kind of query isn't allowed. I learned Gregg shorthand long ago and recognize that these seem to be Gregg symbols, but I can't read it. The context is the typescript of Act IV of a play from 1906 (The House of Mirth) with a conversation between two women, Gerty and Lily. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

hi I would like help to understand this short hand post created probably after the Second World War by my aunt Dolsa.

Here’s some more shorthand written in Canada by an English photographer who might have also projected magic lantern slides, c.1910. It's from his notebook. I can see c for cents and maybe tbs for tablespoons? Any help transcribing it would be much appreciated!

Hello

Its my first time here. I found this hand written archive document that I can't make sense of. The time period is the 1950s. After researching, it may be Pitman shorthand. Does anyone have any idea what is written, please?

I would love to learn Gregg Shorthand- mostly for the fun of it, but also for personal meeting notes at work. However, I've always had terrible handwriting; I've actively worked in it for years, but it's still not great and not always very consistent.

Will this hold me back with learning shorthand? I would appreciate any insight and ideas. Thank you!

For reference, here's a handwriting sample written at my normal pace and slowed down with my "best hand writing."

Can anyone help transcribe this shorthand please? It was written by an Englishman, who was a photographer, in about 1910. Is it Pitmans? Entitled "List of things on a xxx". I wonder also what the last word could be.

It's shorthand, but I don't know which type. Can anybody read it? It should give coordinates (probably numbers) that are N 34° 09' W 118° 58'

Thanks in advance!