I find stenography--shorthand--fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was/is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it--which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating symbols, signifying nothing. Which makes me love it, as does the fact that it was mostly women who mastered it. Now each page reads like an abstract drawing, some quite formally beautifully I think. An artifact of another era.
9" x 6, approx 75 pages though I have not counted, filled front ant back. Cover loose and some toning but pages in overall good condition, with ink strong throughout.
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