Here are some notes to myself

And here is a page about me and my shorthand (myshorthand.html)

And here is the version of Gregg shorthand I chose. (whichgregg.html)

And in case I am incorrect or I miss something you can email me at salkilldn@yahoo.co.uk (not that I promise to reply!)

Names, dates, pictures etc are all wrong.

Timothy Bright	1588	Characterie Even considering its earliest publication it is the worst system ever. 536 words to be memorised with no regular relationship to the word except for its first character. Each of these first characters are unique and are suffixed by one of 12 endings. The first character can be rotated [90 degrees anticlockwise, 45 degrees clockwise, 45 degrees anticlockwise] to produce 4 forms for each. So in total there could be up to 4*12 words formed from that starting letter. So with the 18 letters of the alphabet we could have 4*12*18=864 using this set: but as I say there are only 536 used in Bright's table. On the right is what can be deduced from the table (letter "A" cannot be read from my electronic print of the one extant copy in the Bodliean). The other picture is an excerpt from the table showing how irregularly the characters relate to the latter letters of the word they represent. The majority of the book consists of a dictionary of English words with no shorthand assigned. How the 536 in the table can be used to represent those shown (or any others) I do not, yet, know.
John Willis	1602	... Art of Stenograpy	Thanks to Wikipedia
Thomas Shelton	1600-1650	Tachygraphy. Pepys. I've a facsilmile book	Thanks to http://collation.folger.edu/2012/05/thomas-sheltons-shorthand-version-of-the-lords-prayer
Jeremiah Rich	1654	'composed by William Cartwright, published by his nephew, Jeremiah Rich' I've a facsilmile book
William Mason	1672–1709	published Arts Advancement in 1682 Pen plucked from an Eagles Wing 1672 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mason,_William_%28fl.1672-1709%29_%28DNB00%29
John Byrom	1720		Thanks to Rider University's digitisation of Leslie's Shorthand collection
Samuel Taylor	1786	"similar to Byrom"	Samuel Taylor 1801, from Rider University's digitised books.
Thomas Gurney	mid 1700s	Brachygraphy. (Based on Mason) Parliament's Gurney girls I've an original 10th edition	Miller's 1884 Gurney's System (Improved), from Rider University's digitised books.
Andrew Graham	1857		Thanks to "Eclectic shorthand by cross.png" from Wikipedia
Duploye	1860	Gregg particularly influenced by this.I've an original 14th Sloan-Duployan edition (?1880)	Sloan-Duployan

possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shorthand_systems

picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eclectic_shorthand_by_cross.png & another picture

this is good, and more than what I was aiming at http://www.t-script.co.uk/systems.php

Incredible. Louis A. Leslie, great man and collector. Full credit to credit to Rider University for digitisation! http://cdm16471.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15457coll1

Malone[1885] angered Gregg[1888] http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404707808.html

After reading Sloan I see where Gregg got the idea of reversing circles to represent "r". Also perhaps the concept of looped circles.

Strangely, now I look at the Gurney system, despite its oddities, and the seemingly frequent occurrence of obtuse angled joinings, it does look rather good. It is very horizontal which I like. It looks similar to Shelton's but less fiddley - and certainly with less irregular short forms. It seems very British.

These are just pdf files (quiz.pdf) (quiz_answer.pdf) (U_S_states.pdf)