Forum du petit sténographe

mttiro · Inscrit le: 27 Sep 2011 Messages: 969

Sur les commencements de la sténographie dans ce qui devait devenir les Etats-Unis d'Amérique,
au XVIIe siècle, et sur les usages discrets que fit Jefferson de la sténographie,
et sur la diffusion de la sténographie chez les femmes en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle,
lu ce commentaire sur :
http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2011/09/art-of-short-hand-taught-to-perfection.html

The use of shorthand in the colonies was well established prior to Hodgson's advertisement
[une publicité de 1774 reproduite en haut de la page]
and there is evidence of its use for private correspondence within ten years of the landing of the Mayflower.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, for instance, was employed by the famous lawyer
Sir Edmund Coke to record the proceedings of the Star Chamber prior to emigrating to Massachusetts.
John Winthrop Jr and his wife Martha corresponded in shorthand. In the seventeenth century in England,
churches held well attended classes for women to learn shorthand.
 In addition to the obvious ability to record matters rapidly, but, perhaps more importantly,
shorthand was seen as a means to keep communications secret - a cipher, if you wish. Those not familiar
with a particular shorthand system would only see squiggles while those who had studied the system
and used it could "read the cipher."
 Thomas Jefferson, for instance, who actually invented a very effective cipher wheel, wrote a famous letter
to a friend in 1764 suggesting that he send to him a copy of the Shelton shorthand system
so that they could communicate their thoughts to each other "wholly unintelligible to every one but ourselves."
What Jefferson was most anxious to commununicate was his efforts to court a young lady. Unsuccessful, alas.

mttiro · Inscrit le: 27 Sep 2011 Messages: 969

Le roman de Conan Doyle, The Sgn of the Four, le deuxième où figure
Sherlock Holmes (1890), publié en sténographie Gregg en 1916 :

http://www.archive.org/stream/TheSignOfTheFour/SignOfTheFour_
PA1902Ed_Copyright1915#page/n9/mode/2up

mttiro · Inscrit le: 27 Sep 2011 Messages: 969

Usages anciens, climat social, de la sténographie
dans les pays de langue anglaise :

Article de Leah Price

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n23/leah-price/diary