Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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[A special interest attaches to this article, which was written for the Journal, in shorthand, on the date given at foot, the writer then being confined to his bed. He died in March, 1890, in his 80th year, and the article appeared after his death. He was the eldest son of the late Mr Samuel Pitman, and brother of Mr Isaac Pitman, the inventor of Phonetic Shorthand.]