Dear Boss

[mariab]

Can I please ask a very newbie question (which I very much hope SPE doesn't see, 'cause: embarrassing): Does Jack the Ripper – Letters from Hell discuss ALL the Ripper letters, or, at least, all the relatively relevant ones? I want to order this book on Sunday (after my current credit card bill closes, so that the expense goes to next month!).
Thank you so much.

[c.d.]

Hi Tom,

Was it Anderson that pointed the finger at Bulling?

c.d.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi C.D. Personally, I consider Tom Bulling a weak suspect for the Dear Boss letter. Best makes a much better suspect, as far as newspapermen go. Bulling almost certainly is the hand behind the 'Moab & Midian' letter, for which he was busted, and from this suspicion reached back to the originals for which the M&M letter was imitating. That's how I see it. Best seems to have definitely perpetrated some hoax in relation to the Whitechapel murders for which he was busted, and this may or may not pertain to the 'Dear Boss' letter.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[c.d.]

Here is a question that I have been thinking about -- if the police had suspicions that a newspaper editor had written the letter, would they have confronted him? Maybe make it off the record. If you wrote it, tell us and we will keep it to ourselves.

Just a thought.

c.d.

[lynn cates]

this & that

Hello Maria. The Morris piece is merely his reproducing a list of police spies. But it is interesting.

The Liverpool paper you mentioned is creating a blank. I'll peek at Rocker and see if I can find it.

For now, I think I'd better stop contributing to the delinquency of a thread.

Cheers.
LC

[Tom_Wescott]

Diddles was a real cat. He walked over Maria Harvey's chest and woke her up. Suzi Hanney, however, is not a real person.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

To Tom Wescott:
I semi-get the Peter Pan reference to Paul Begg. I KNOW who Tinkerbell is: Suzy with her Diddles (whom I'm supposed to both meet tomorrow, and initially I thought for real that Diddles was a real cat, until I did some picture-related research).

[Tom_Wescott]

Captain Hook, eh? Who's Peter Pan?

That would be Paul Begg. Don't ask me who Tinkerbell is, as I don't want Chris George gunning for me.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Tom,
thank you so very much for Eduardo Zinna's profile. Captain Hook, eh? Who's Peter Pan? I'll definitely PM him, only on Sunday evening after the London conference, after I've picked up some people's brains about Ripperologist.

[mariab]

Just wonder if anyone is familiar with the Liverpool Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos fraye Vort {The free word}? Rudolf Rocker was apparently associated with it.
And I apologize for bringing this up in the totally wrong thread, as the discussion has moved light years away form the “Dear Boss“ letter!

[Tom_Wescott]

Maria. You could just e-mail Eduardo Zinna through his Casebook profile page. His name here is Captain Hook. Just click 'Member List' above, and you'll find him under 'C'.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

To Tom Wescott:
Thank you so much for the information. I definitely need to email the people at Ripperologist and ask about certain back issues at the same time as subscribing. Is contact@ripperologist.biz still the right address? I assume that the Gavin Bromley article on Mrs. Kür is about the Lodger. And I have to add that both the names of Eduardo Zinna and Gavin Bromley resonate as significant Ripperologists, even if (as a newbie) I haven't yet read anything of them.
Money exchanged (it feels so weird to have British pounds in my purse, they're so HUGE – I'm more used to carrying $ around, as I was in Chicago all winter. My last time in the UK was less than a year ago, but just for 1 day, when I spoke at an Oxford conference, in my first and only time in Oxford), and even drinks with some chicks from my 'hood were consumed, before it started to rain again. Can I ask Lynn Cates (or anyone in the UK, for that matter) a stupid question? Is it raining VERY hard right now, like under the shower, as it does in Paris? Because the internet predicts sunny weather and a bit of rain on Sunday afternoon for London. I don't really care, as far as we can walk around Whitechapel without the necessity for a boat with fins. (But then, as Rob Clack said, I could bring my surfboard along.)
I can hardly believe I'm attending my very first Ripperological conference RIGHT in the middle of Whitechapel! I even called the Hotel and a chap with a Scottish accent answered. Cute...

[Tom_Wescott]

Issues 1-62 are in print form. Be sure to get the issue with Gavin Bromley's 'Mrs. Kuer' article. One of the best essays I've read. It's in a digital issue easily available for back order. I wrote a couple of things for them, but that was when it was a print journal.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Hi Tom, thanks. My list of Ripperologist issues to backorder are all from Nr. 111 and on. I'll look it up in calm, but real soon.
Now to run to the Ex-change.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Maria. I'd have to check to see which issue it is. I believe it was somewhere between issue 20-30, when the magazine was in print form. It might not be as easy to order as the current issues. They're on issue 116 now, so that tells you how the issue is. But Eduardo is still (or once again) on the staff, so I'm sure he could point you in the right direction. And no, I don't have a Yiddish translator on hand.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott