Paper, 'A designe towards an universall alfabet' by Francis Lodwick Lodwick writes on a universal alphabet, describing the concept of an alphabet, and states of his universal alphabet that 'I designe such a collection to wit, of all the single sounds expressed in any language or expressable by the mouth of man and this I name a designe, because for want of convers with different nations expressing natturally their owne language'. Subject: Alphabet / Language Partly published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An essay towards an universal alphabet' [1685-1686]