The Lusk Letter - Swanson's Transcription

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Lynn. My apologies for attributing 'Gov' to thegaff. I had misread the posts above. Good thinking, girl!

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[ChrisGeorge]

Originally Posted by Tom_Wescott

Thanks for posting that, Chris. You could be right now that I see it's the only supposed 'i' that's not dotted. If that's the case, then Thegaff's suggestion of it being 'Gov' isn't so strange and might hold currency. The capital 'S' is a bit different and just might be a 'G'.

Mascara,

I don't believe anyone has suggested it was written by a woman.

Regarding 'Prasarved', there's actually no identifiable 'v' that I can see and the 'r' differs from the others. Just an observation.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Hello Tom

Nice to hear from you.

As for the prasarved, I would note again my observation of ten years ago in my talk at the April 2000 US convention that Roslyn D'Onston in his letter to the City of London Police of 16 October 1888 ended the body of the letter by saying, "May I request an acknowledgement that this letter has safely reached you, & that it be preserved until I am well enough to do myself the honour to call upon you personally." Since both letters were written on the same day, is it coincidence that the same word was used? (See also my "Letter from the Sickbed: Roslyn D'Onston writes to the Police" at http://www.casebook.org/dissertation...tonwrites.html)

I would say, as I thought then, that there is a good chance that it was D'Onston who wrote the Lusk and Openshaw letters and that he was jerking the police around. He was after all a drunk, a known meddler in the case, and, I think conceivably, a prankster. And moreover D'Onston was right there, a patient in the London Hospital, where the Openshaw letter was sent to! As a quasi-medical man, credentials still to be proven, he possibly had access to a piece of kidney too, even if he was not the Ripper.

Chris

[lynn cates]

Hello Tom. Thanks. No big deal

Incidentally, my chromosomal structure is XY; but, again, no big deal.

The best.
LC

[lynn cates]

Hello Chris. Fascinating! I was looking at the last letter in "Sor" (or "Gov") and thinking how very like D'Onston's "nu" it looked. (Recall the little caper with his Greek spelling of a Latin word in his marriage register.)

Do we have any chaps about who are good at graphology and can compare the two?

Cheers.
LC

[Tom_Wescott]

Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

I would say, as I thought then, that there is a good chance that it was D'Onston who wrote the Lusk and Openshaw letters and that he was jerking the police around. He was after all a drunk, a known meddler in the case, and, I think conceivably, a prankster. And moreover D'Onston was right there, a patient in the London Hospital, where the Openshaw letter was sent to! As a quasi-medical man, credentials still to be proven, he possibly had access to a piece of kidney too, even if he was not the Ripper.

Hi Chris. Has it been 10 years already? Geesh. I remember being very struck by your D'Onston 'preserved' observation. That kinda set me off on researching D'Onston in conjunction with the Ripper letters. You might remember my essay on the matter was published in Ripperologist (I believe issue 50?). I should have that essay put here on the Casebook. While my suspicion of D'Onston has wained quite a bit over the years, I think it might still make for interesting reading.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[ChrisGeorge]

Originally Posted by Tom_Wescott

Hi Chris. Has it been 10 years already? Geesh. I remember being very struck by your D'Onston 'preserved' observation. That kinda set me off on researching D'Onston in conjunction with the Ripper letters. You might remember my essay on the matter was published in Ripperologist (I believe issue 50?). I should have that essay put here on the Casebook. While my suspicion of D'Onston has wained quite a bit over the years, I think it might still make for interesting reading.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Thanks, Tom. I'll have to look up your article again. As I say, D'Onston may not have been the Ripper but he certainly inserted himself into the case at various points and in various ways.

Chris

[Stewart P Evans]

The Lusk letter, 'From' -

[Stewart P Evans]

The Lusk letter, 'Sor' -

[Stewart P Evans]

The Lusk letter, 'prasarved' -

[Stewart P Evans]

The Lusk letter, 'for' -