Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — The Origin of Shorthand. [ARTICLE]

The Origin of Shorthand.

What is called modern shorthand originated with Timothy Bright, an M. D. of Cambridge, practicing in London and subsequently rector of a parish to which he was presented by Queen Elizabeth. In' jjgg he published St. Paul’s Epistle to Titus in. his system of shorthand, and a year later he published the system itself. In 1529 “Mistress Jane Seager, Virgin,” published a volume of ten poems, called “The Prophecies of the Sibylla,” in Bright’s system, and dedicated it to “The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth.” So far as is known these are the first books ever published in any system of shorthand. There are now 450 different systems in existence, this year is also the jubilee of the introduction in 1837 of the system of Isaac Pitman, which first popularised shorthand, and the congress celebrated that event.

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