John Byrom's Shorthand

Material relating to John Byrom's form of short-hand, including paper cut-work examples of shorthand by his daughter, Dorothy, and his sister, Phebe Byrom: bound volume, 18th century; short-hand fragments c.1730-1809; printed literature, c.1737-1742; letter 1740/1.

In 1742 John Byrom succeeded in obtaining the sole right of publishing and teaching his system of shorthand, which he had created whilst at Cambridge. The universal English short-hand; or the way of writing English, in the most easy, concise, regular, and beautiful manner was published posthumously in 1767.