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Published: 1967-07-01

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William J. Carlton

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R. C. Alston, A Bibliography of the English Language fmm the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800, Volume VIII: Treatises on ShortHand. Printed for the author by E. J. A

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (1967): Volume 1.3

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Research Article

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William J. Carlton

William J. Carlton (37 The Avenue, Andover, Hants., England) retired in 1946 from the International Labor Office, Geneva, where he had worked since 1921, as registrar and later as librarian. Earlier he had held editorial posts in London with Amalgamated Press, Press Illustrating Co., and National Trade Press. He was a member of the advisory board and associate editor for the "Pilgrim" edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. I, 1965. His publications include: Dr. Timothy Bright, "Father of Modern Shorthand," 1911; Charles Dickens, Shorthand Writer, 1926; Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys--Part IV, Shorthand Treatises, 1940; numerous articles on shorthand and Dickensian topics in The Dickensian, Dickens Studies, Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, Notes and Queries, Review of English Studies, Times Literary Supplement, and other periodicals.

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