Sorry if this is a little off subject, but I am editing an 1867 diary of
an Ohio farmer.  At the bottom of each entry, the writer wrote several
lines in "phonography," i.e. shorthand.  I can't read modern shorthand,
let alone that from the third quarter of the the 19th century.  Does
anyone know anybody out there who is knowledgeable about old forms of
shorthand?
 
Tim Dennee
Alexandria Archaeology