Excerpt from Timothe Bright, Doctor of Phisicke: A Memoir of "the Father of Modern Shorthand" None of the essays referred to, however, professes to be anything more than a résumé. A fuller life of Bright, based upon original documents and authorities, embodying all the known facts of his career, has long been a desideratum and the inaction of those better qualified for the task must be my excuse for submitting this little monograph, with all its imperfections. In it an effort has been made to gather into one con tinuous narrative information found in widely scattered sources (many particulars being here published for the first time), with a View of enabling the vast army of disciples of the winged art to realize in some degree what manner of man he was to whom shorthand owes its existence as it is to-day, and to show that he is deserving of at least a niche in some inconspicuous comer of the Temple of Fame. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.