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Sylvia Plath and Dick Norton Found among Aurelia Plath's papers: a handwritten list of graceless/boneheaded comments aired by Sylvia'...

In 1926, Aurelia F. Schober, 20 years old, “to make a black day brighter” bought a copy of Sara Teasdale’s newest book of...

Boston University yearbook, 1967 Aurelia Plath’s teaching job at Boston University’s College of Business Administration b...

Aurelia Plath shorthand annotation on London Magazine, p. 32   London Magazine in April 1963 and Encounter , in October 1963, published some...

In April 1954, Sylvia Plath mailed her mother Aurelia a birthday card picturing a witch. Back at Smith College after her breakdown, Sylvia, ...

Sample of Aurelia's shorthand. It is false to say Sylvia Plath’s “letters home” to Wellesley were written for her mot...

Sylvia Plath wrote some Gregg shorthand after all! Her July 5, 1945 letter to Aurelia Plath, written from Camp Helen Storrow, includes thr...

Transcribed into this downloadable Excel file (click the blue "Download" button when you get there) are Aurelia Plath's short...

Austrian civil engineer Dr. Karl von Terzaghi was invited to the U.S. in 1925 to teach and establish a program at M.I.T. and, incidentally...

Aurelia Plath's shorthand annotations on the Lilly Library materials, cataloged and transcribed, are now available to all on the open-sc...

Sylvia Plath’s letter to Aurelia Plath of 11 June 1960 said that Ted Hughes had written a second play better than his first. On the envelope...

Gregg shorthand, its first manual published in 1888 by Robert Gregg, who initially called his phonetic shorthand system "Light-Line Ph...

In the Lilly Library's Sylvia Plath archive collection of correspondence known as Plath mss. II, boxes 1-6a, we can find Aurelia Plath&#...

Nearly 700 letters from Sylvia Plath to her mother, Mrs. Aurelia Schober Plath, are held in the Sylvia Plath mss. II files at the Universit...

I completed the Aurelia Plath shorthand project in February; it had taken another trip to Bloomington's Lilly Library, last September, t...

Sylvia’s boyfriend from 1951 to 1953, Dick Norton, in a July 1953 letter asked Sylvia how her shorthand lessons were going. (Aurelia later w...

There are 1,934 pieces of correspondence in the Lilly Library's Sylvia Plath archive. Since posting here in 2013 I have updated in detai...

In May 1956, Sylvia's letters to Aurelia were gushing about her wonderful fiance Ted Hughes. Aurelia had never met Ted; she knew only th...

In 2013, the median annual salary in the U.S. is $45,790; in 2013 a stenographer's median annual salary is $36,325. "Little or no ...

The Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified , second edition (1955) arrived in the mail today, and will be used to sharpen my shorthand transcript...