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Every once in a while, the style of writing known as Gregg Shorthand would appear in Charles Schulz's world-famous comic strip Peanuts. Below is a list of all of the strips in which it appears (that I'm aware of,) along with their translations. Each time, it is either written or communicated in some other way by Woodstock, except for the first instance in 1968, where Linus is writing Lucy's letter to Santa Claus.

Capitalization and punctuation have been preserved as they were written.

1968 Dec. 22
• "merry Christmas to all and to all a good night"
• "dear Santa Claus, how have you been?"
• "I have been good all year, and am looking forward to Christmas"
• "would you please bring me a blue sweater and a jump rope?"
• "thanking you in advance, I remain, yours sincerely"
• "good grief"
(Linus writes what Lucy says verbatim, except for the last panel.)

1970 Apr. 23
NOTE — Joke about Woodstock being unable to read his own shorthand.

1970 Jun. 22
NOTE — Woodstock is given a name for the first time.

1970 Aug. 09
• "gentlemen, I am writing in regard to your dog food"
• "it's terrible!"
• "your dog food is so bad it wouldn't"
(Woodstock simply writes what Snoopy says verbatim, up to a point.)

1971 Apr. 04
• "your recent repairs to the roof of my dwelling were quite inaderquate [sic]"

1971 Apr. 06
NOTE — The Pittsburgh Press prints a retraction after several readers had written in to claim that, in the prior strip, Woodstock had misspelled "inadequate" as "inaderquate".

1971 May 13
• "to my dearest darling precious sweetie"

1971 Oct. 25
• "dear sir"

1971 Dec. 12
• "gentlemen, once again it"

1972 Jan. 20
• "my day in court"

1972 Feb. 11
• "dear miss sweetstory"
(Although it appears that only two words have been written, the first of these is a contraction for "dear miss".)

1972 Feb. 19
• "take a letter. do this. do that get me this get me that"

1972 Oct. 20
(Different type of shorthand; probably reads "[??], regards Snoopy".)

1972 Oct. 21
(Ditto; probably "dear sir".)

1982 Jan. 03
• "kindest regards"
• "go see your vet"

1982 Dec. 12
• "only 11 more shopping days until Christmas"

1983 Jun. 12
• "if he does what he's told"

1984 Jun. 10
• "and that's my advice to you"

1986 Jan. 12
• "before you get in your car"
• "ice cream cone"

1986 Mar. 05
NOTE — Appears to be the first strip since the 1950s to use screentones. They begin to show up regularly after this. Not related to the subject at hand, but it was worth being pointed out eventually.

1986 Apr. 23
• "happy secretaries day"

1988 Feb. 28
• "dear doctor malpractice"