Writings
- The Reporter's Companion (Cincinnati, 1854)
- The Manual of Phonography, of which 250,000 copies have been issued (1855)
- History of Shorthand (1858)
- Trials for Treason at Indianapolis
- The Assassination of President Lincoln, and the Trial of the Conspirators (1865)
- A Plea for American Decorative Art (1895)
- The Phonographic Dictionary, with Jerome B. Howard (1883 and 1899)
He also wrote many elementary books of instruction on phonography. In 1902 he wrote a biography of his brother, Sir Isaac Pitman: His Life and Labors.
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