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ANDREWS, STEPHEN PEARL & AUGUST F. BOYLE. The Phonographic Reader: a Complete Course of Inductive Reading Lessons in Phonography. Boston: [1845]. 1st ed. 16mo. 36 pp. Contemp. plain wraps (lightly soiled). $175.00
R & B 45-242 (three copies). Andrews, abolitionist, educator, communitarian, advisor to Victoria Woodhull, returned from Texas in 1844 to Boston where he intended to introduce Pitman's phonographic alphabet, not to improve business practices, but to more easily educate freed slaves, to offer a shortcut to literacy. See Stern, The Pantarch, pp. [58]-72.