Shorthand.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.
‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.
Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).
Lectures, lecture notes and journals of James Wright and Walter Macleod, ministers of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh.
For James Wright's career, see David Scott, ‘Annals and statistics of the Original Secession Church’ (Edinburgh, 1886), pages 562-563.
Walter Macleod succeeded Wright in the charge of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh on the latter's death in 1879.
Legal notebook in shorthand, with references to cases for illustration.
Inside the notebook on the board is written ‘Mich[s] Term. 12 Geo. II. 1738. C.B.’
Legal notebook ‘on law and practice’ in shorthand.
Subjects on the margin in ordinary writing, remarks in shorthand in centre of page. No name or date.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Notes of the lectures of Sir James Young Simpson, titled, "Midwifery by Dr. Simpson, Edinburgh, Nov. '52", taken, partly in shorthand, by Frederick Cock.
Pages 120-134 deal with Chloroform, its history, discovery, effects, and the rules for its use. On pages 240-241 there are drawings of apparatus for the use of chloroform.
Papers from the John Mabon Warden Collection of shorthand books.
Sermons of James Blair and William Eccles, Ministers at Paisley, taken down in shorthand.
There are some notes and summaries (folios 84, 204), proper names, and quotations in Latin (passim) in cursive script. A few leaves at the beginning are missing. The shorthand used resembles the system devised by T Metcalfe, (‘Radio-stenography, or short writing’) from which it was probably adapted by the copyist himself.