. The diary of Samuel Pepys ... ves. The book from which Pepys appears to havelearnt how to write shorthand was, Tachygraphy. The mostexact and compendious methods of short and swift writingthat hath ever yet beene published by any. Composed byThomas Shelton, author and professor of the said by both Universities, 1641. It affords a curiousinstance of Pepyss fancy for obtaining new editions to replaceold ones that the copy of Sheltons book which he left in hislibrary was of the edition of 1691. Byrom possessed two edi-tions of the Tutorto Tachygraphy, 1642 and 1645, and theystill r
. The diary of Samuel Pepys ... ves. The book from which Pepys appears to havelearnt how to write shorthand was, Tachygraphy. The mostexact and compendious methods of short and swift writingthat hath ever yet beene published by any. Composed byThomas Shelton, author and professor of the said by both Universities, 1641. It affords a curiousinstance of Pepyss fancy for obtaining new editions to replaceold ones that the copy of Sheltons book which he left in hislibrary was of the edition of 1691. Byrom possessed two edi-tions of the Tutorto Tachygraphy, 1642 and 1645, and theystill remain in his library, which is preserved at Manchester. Agood explanation of Sheltons shorthand will be found in theexcellent paper read before the Manchester Literary Club bythe late Mr. John E. Bailey, , on December 14, 1875,which is reprinted in the Appendix to this volume by the kindpermission of Mrs. Bailey. Byroms Private Journal and Literary Remains, ed. R. Parkinson,, Chetham Society, vol. i., part i., p. .1^ ^ ^^^ ^) : THE DIARY. 75 The plate here given is a reproduction of the first page ofthe first volume of the Diary, and those who wish to read itmay perhaps be able to decipher it by the help of the instruc-tions given by Mr. Bailey. It has already been noted that Lord Braybrooke casuallyremarked that the cipher resembled that known as Richssystem (see vol. i., p. vi), and this put some persons on thewrong scent, an amusing instance of which is related in theAtlantic Monthly (vol. Ixvii., p. 574, 1891). The writerhad two friends, who, though usually writing two modern andbriefer systems, corresponded with each other in Richs, whichthey had mastered out of interest in Pepys. Rev. John Sahth. The first decipherer of the Diary was an undergraduateof St. Johns College, Cambridge—the Rev. John Smith(, 1822 ; , 1836), who was ordained deacon in 1824by the Bishop of London, and priest in 1825 by the Bishop ofNorwich. He was deputy esquire bedell o
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