Shorthand 

 All shorthand manuals are listed by the creator's name.
English alphabetic shorthands, additional shorthand materials,
and penmanship papers are listed separately below the English abstract shorthands.
If you have a shorthand manuals to contribute, notice any mistakes,
or have any difficulties downloading materials,
please write me and let me know.

English Language Shorthands

English Abstract Shorthands

Abbott
Swiftograph Original Edition
Swiftograph 15th Edition  Easy to learn, preferable to the original edition
Additional Materials - zip file  Contains Swiftograph 12th Edition, three articles about Abbott and Swiftograph, photo of Abbott, Sample of Orwell quote in Swiftograph by u/brifoz from the r/shorthand reddit group.

Addy
Stenographia The Art of Short Writing
Addy's method is a modification of Rich's.
Holy Bible in Shorthand

Churchill
Simplis Shorthand 

Dickens
Dickens - zip file  Dickens wrote Gurney shorthand, taught it, and also modified it for his personal use.  The zip file contains: Charles Dickens Shorthand Writer, The Shorthand of Charles Dickens, Various Shorthand Notebooks of Dickens, Decoding Dickens' Shorthand - Our 8-Step Guide, The DC Lexicon of Most-Frequent Symbols, The Dickens Code Alphabet, Various Dickens Transcription Challenge Documents, Decoding Dickens Videos

Gregg Shorthand for the English language has it's own separate webpage on my website.

Hirano (Deme)
EPSEMS  A very intriguing German-style cursive system created by a Akihito Hirano for the English language.
EPSEMS  This teaches English EPSEMS for Japanese speakers, but has great supplemental material for the learner.
A New Cursive Bilingual Stenography System for English and Japanese for Personal Use. Author's presentation of EPSEMS (link)
Presentation of EPSEMS at Intersteno  (video link)
Hirano's Geometric Shorthand for English 

MacAuley
Polygraphy 

Malone, A.
Caligraphy 

Malone, T.
Script Phonography 

Pitman for the English language has it's own separate webpage on my website.

Spencer, A.
Spencer Lightline 

Tear
Short Shorthand

Underhill
Steno-Printing 

Unknown Author
Alphabet of Reason

Weston
Stenography Compleated
Book of Common Prayer

English Alphabetic Shorthands

Aquino
Yublin  A system similar to Speedwords
Yublin Index Card 

Avancena
Stenoscript 

Blanchard
Quickscript 

Chalek
Speedscript 

Dearborn
Speedwriting 

Grossman
Quickhand 

Hawkins
Notescript 

Unknown
Alpha

Simplified Alphabets

One Stroke Script
Ford Improved Shorthand
Martinville
Quikscript Manual
Shavian  (link)
Shavian Lexicon  (link)

Additional Materials

Speed

20 Shortcuts to Shorthand Speed

Factors of Shorthand Speed 

Building Speed by the Pyramid Plan 

Standardizing Shorthand Speed Tests 

Dictionaries

A Vowelless Shorthand Dictionary 

A Shorthand Dictionary Divested of Vowels

History

History of Shorthand - Anderson

The History of Shorthand Writing - Levy

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Shorthand - Lewis 

A History of Shorthand - Pitman 

Shorthand Its History and Its Prospects 

Brief History of the Art of Stenography - Upham
He also presents his own system in the book.

To the Origins of Greek Stenography  A study of the Montserrat Codex Miscellaneus

Proceedings of the New York State Stenographers' Asociation 1889

Shorthand Comparisons

Shorthand Systems Analyzed - Gregg, Pitman, Paragon, Boyd Syllabic 

Shorthand Systems By Various English Authors and Their Respective Merits

Malone and Gregg

Which System of Shorthand Should We Learn?  Discusses systems like Sloan-Duployan, Pernin, New Rapid, Gregg, Cross Eclectic, Pitman, Graham, and Munson.

Exhibit of the State of the Phonographic Art Graham vs PItman (1864)

Thomas Anderson Shorthand Samples of Gurney, Taylor, Peachey, Janes, Sleep, Guest, Pocknell Compared

Thomas Anderson Shorthand Samples Key 

Frank Rutherford on Pitman and Gregg

Taylor Pitman, Pocknell, Gregg, Abbott 15 Comparison

17th Century Shorthands Compared

Articles

I Never Will Need Shorthand - Sylvia Plath and Speedwriting 

Shorthand for Protestants 

Training for the Ministry Shorthand and the Colonial New England Manuscript 

How the Shorthand Was Introduced Among the Indians

Secret Writing and the Popish Plot -  Deciphering the Shorthand of Sir George Treby

Videos

Shorthand: a Key to New Historical Evidence 
A talk on deciphering old texts from writers of the 17th and 18th centuries that are written in shorthands like Mason and Shelton.

Miscellaneous

Cricket's Shorthand Tips 

The Student's Shorthand Vocabulary  This book is a long list of words with a blank space next to each one so the student can write their own shorthand outline next to it.

Most Frequent 500  Another printout with a blank space where you can write out the outline for your own shorthand method.

Top 1000 Words Drill Sheet

Shorthand Terminology Glossary

The Methods of Teaching Shorthand 

The Carlton Collection Catalogue of Shorthand Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

The Importance of Shorthand - Industry Consultation

Stenographic Civil Service Tests

The Teaching, Practice, and Literature of Shorthand 

Chronological List of British Shorthand Systems 

The Bibliography of Shorthand - Westby-Gibson 

Complete Phrase Codes for Telegram

Penmanship Papers

Print Your Own Shorthand Notepad
Shorthand Pad Pages
Grey Dot Paper
Grey Dot Practice Sheet
5mm Graph Paper
1/4" Graph Paper
Notebook Paper
3/8" Ruled 
3 Lined Worksheet  
Court Reporter Pad
Court Reporter Pad Example
Papers Especially for German Systems
Stenograph Paper for Melin
Lined Shorthand Paper
2mm Light Lines
2mm Dark Lines
3mm Light Lines
3mm Dark Lines
4mm Light Lines
4mm Dark Lines
4mm Slanted Light Lines
4mm Slanted Dark Lines 

Shorthands in Other Languages

عَرَبيّ - Arabic

հայ լեզու - Armenian

Български - Bulgarian

Cymraeg - Welsh

Richardson
Stenographia
A New System of Stenography  This is the English version of the Welsh manual.

Pitman
Llaw-fer Yn Gymraeg gan Banel o Athrawon Llaw-fer (1973)
Phonographia - Morgan (1876)
Llaw Fer - gan Edward Jones (1864)
The older versions are listed here for historical interest - it's best to learn from the 1973 manual.

中文 - Chinese

以下部分按年份排列
This section is organized by year.

Pitman
通用中文速記 Universal Chinese Stenography - 朱莉婭·巴雷特 Julia A. Barrett (1883)  (此速記法不完善  This system is not well developed.)

Dansk - Danish

Deutch - German

Ελληνικά - Greek

Duployé /  Χουδαβερδουλοι
Ελληνικὴ Σtενογραφία

Gabelsberger / Μινδλερ
Ελληνικὴ Σtενογραφία

Español - Spanish

Callendar
Spanish Adaptation to Orthic de u/jacmoe (link)

Duployé / Ameghino
Taquigrafia Ameghino
Taquigrafia Ameghino  Página 777 del Libro "Obras Completas y Correspondencia"

Gabelsberger - Olave
Manual de Taquigrafia

Munson / Abbott
La Taquigrafia Completa

Seguí
Taquigrafa Seguí  del sistema Gregg

Esperanto

Gabelsberger-Noe / Roncollini
Nova Lernolibro de Esperanta Stenografio

Gabelsberger / Schramm
Esperanta Stenografio

Marcetta
Nova Skribo

Radnai / Kökény
Radnai Stenografio

Française - French

Blanc
Okygraphie - Une sténographie écrite avec une notation musicale

Duval
Tout le Brevigraphie en Quatre Leçons
Une Transcription du Pamphlet Original
Meet Raoul Duval  un article Reddit sur le système avec une biographie du créateur

Pitman / Reed
French Phonography

Gaeilge - Irish

עִברִית גַם יידיש - Hebrew and Yiddish 

Gabelsberger
Hebräisches Stenogramm  This sample is taken from the book below - to learn this system for Hebrew, you will need to study from another Gabelsberger textbook.
Hebräische Conversations-Grammatik - Rosenberg 
Gabelsberger-Based Hebrew Shorthand Prototype  (link to discussion on reddit)

Liberson-Sercarz
Yidishe Stenografya

Ido

Italiano - Italian

Mosciaro
Stenital Mosciaro (Ha anche istruzioni per inglese, francese, spagnolo, e tedesco)

Facebook post di u/e_piteto
Questo post su Reddit contiene un elenco completo di tutti i metodi di stenografia italiani conosciuti.

Latina - Latin

Nederlands - Dutch

Duployé / Luyckx
Nederlandsch Kortschrift 

Scheithauer / Rients Balt
Stenografie 

Pont
Leerboek A voor Stenografie
Leerboek B voor Stenografie
Stenografie in het Leger
Stenografie-Pont Duitsch

Norsk - Norwegian

Gabelsberger / Paulsen
Lærebok i Stenografi 

Polski - Polish

Bieder
Grazyna

Stolze / Guminski
Stenografja Polska

Stolze-Schrey / Hamczyk
Stenografji Polskiej

Wisniakowski
Stenografja Polska

Português - Portuguese 

Taylor / Trinidade
Taquigrafia Sem Mestre

Române - Romanian

Русский  - Russian

Арефьева
Стенография (djvu)

Маркович
БТ Стенография 

Гильдебранд
Стенография (djvu)

Демачева / Заранко
Стенография (djvu)

Животовекаго
Русской Стенографiй 

Куприянов
Стенография

Лимончиова / Кочеткова / Частухина / Крайнева
Стенография - Учебное Пособие для Учащихся IX-X Классов

Сапонько / Битнера
Стенография Kраткопись

Стенография и Машинопись
(Zip-Архив Стенографических Журналов) 

Svenska - Swedish

Stolze-Schrey / Ekman
Stolze-Schrey på Svenska

Србска - Serbian

Србска Стенографија - Миловука 

Türk - Turkish

Arar
Stenografi  Bu kısayolun açıklamasını reddit'te bu bağlantıda bulabilirsiniz. You can find a description of this shorthand on reddit at this link

Duployé
Stenografi - Soykan / Yilmaz / Aydin  Türkiye Bükük Millet Meclisi Tutanak Hizmetleri Başkanliği - Official Stenography Manual of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Turke Lisanna Mahsus Sitenografya Uslu -  Aroya

Украïнский - Ukrainian

Украïнська Стенографiя - Панейко 

Volapük

If there is anything missing here that you think I should make available, or if you have anything you can contribute to the collection, please let me know about it.