SHORT HAND.
An evening class of gentlemen is now forming for instruction in Short Hand.
To gentlemen of the learned professions, or youth intended for any one of them, a knowledge of this art, if not indispensable, is exceedingly useful; while to persons of either sex, it is an interesting and elegant accomplishment.
This system has never been published; it combines advantages which ensures rapidity in writing and facility in transcribing not known to be possessed by any other.
The course is not intended to embrace merely a knowledge of the characters and mode of using them, for this may be acquired in four lessons, but by practical exercises to qualify each pupil to take down with accuracy the speeches of good speakers as delivered.
For terms, &c. apply to Charles Berkeley, or at this office.
—Raleigh Register, Thursday, April 21,1831.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
