Description
Autograph Memorandum, unsigned but “from Eizak Pitman”, to William Bragg, sending £100 “to help you in the biznes”, adding that he has just returned from a tour through Italy. 2 pp. 4 x 7 inches, fine. “Fonetik Institiut, Bath”, 25 October 1883. Sir Isaac Pitman (1813 – 1897) developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837.