The Wawa Shorthand Instructor or The Duployan Stenography Adapted to English, First Edition.

First page describes ease of learning this system: "a hundred times easier than the old writing" with "Two million people...throughout the world already practising this system of phonography." The Phonetic Alphabet(front cover, inset). Introduction notes that "Our Indians in British Columbia, as soon as they can read the Chinook and their own language in shorthand, are also able to read English, Latin, or any other language figured in shorthand." Duployan Phonography -English Method: Elements of Phonograpy (includes 17 lessons); Remarks describing a series of tables which are "intended to show the correct manner of connecting the elements of shorthand with each other." Shorthand Exercises: I. Grace's Servants; II. The Plays of Animals. Shorthand vs. Longhand (back cover, inset). Back cover features ads for "The Wawa Shorthand Exercise Book" and "The Kamloops Wawa."
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1896
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University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections, Father J.M.R. LeJeune, Wawa-2-Wawa -S2-13; records from Our Legacy site, http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy
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