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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Famous quotes containing the word writings:
“Accursed who brings to light of day
The writings I have cast away.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)