Dear Boss

[mariab]

Hello Tom and Lynn,
Thank you both so very much for all the information. Lynn, no worries, Morris Levy will be available for the entire year. He almost never leaves Evanston (only in July, when he gets a grant to Harvard for 15 days each year!). But perhaps Tom has a translator to “loan“ you?

Tom, thank you so much for all the information. Do you recall in which Ripperologist issue the Eduardo Zinna article appeared? I've yet to suscribe to Ripperologist, but I'll do it very soon, and I have a list of old issues I want to back order. Eduardo Zinna sounds like a South American? (Or perhaps an Italian?)
As I mentioned in another post yesterday, I'm not surprised in the least that Der Arbeter Fraint didn't mention the murder. Why would the IWMC want to advertise a murder which occurred in their back yard, in their own newspaper? The other story/editorial concocted by William Morris in The Commonweal was obviously an attempt to “politicize“ this event and to “bounce it away“. I'll look for Lynn's link to The Commonweal in the Kaufmann thread in a little while, but first I gotta run change a few € into Pounds. With all the Paris drama unfolding with the rain damage, the malfunctioning libraries, the demonstrations, and my landlady who came visit the apartment today, I totally forgot that London is out of the Eurozone!
I'll be back in a little while (and will meet a lot of Japanese tourists in the process).
Lynn,
tardy with nearly everything is my middle name.

[lynn cates]

et caetera

Hello Maria. Yes, Feigenbaum was a propagandist and orator. That was the sine qua non for successful recruiting--rather like Rudolph Rocker.

The snippet by Feigenbaum is mostly derision for a Christian paper that tried to pin the WCM on the Anarchists. As I indicated, it is merely tangential to the case.

Contacting your chap is on my to do list. I presume my old translator (missing for 3 1/2 months) has given it up as a rum job.

Sadly, I've bitten off more than I can chew and I have more classes than prudence would dictate--hence I am tardy with nearly everything.

Cheers.
LC

[Tom_Wescott]

Thank you so much for the information, and I guess it was an editorial by another Feigenbaum, not Trevor Marriot's favorite suspect!

Benjamin Feigenbaum. He was a skilled orator and operated as brainwasher for new recruits into the Jewish socialist/anarchist cause.

Also, since Tom Wescott seems to have had a Jewish translator in the past (or even in the present), can't you have his translator, or is it some kind of “exclusive“ situation?

Eduardo Zinna wrote an exceptional article MANY years ago for Ripperologist, which I consider to be a seminal piece on the Berner Street Club and its main players. The best article on the subject to date, actually. Within this article, the multi-lingual Zinna informed us that he saw no sign of the murder mentioned in Der Arbeter Fraint.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Hello, Lynn.
Thank you so much for the information, and I guess it was an editorial by another Feigenbaum, not Trevor Marriot's favorite suspect!
Lynn, did you get any response from Morris Levy in Chicago? Also, since Tom Wescott seems to have had a Jewish translator in the past (or even in the present), can't you have his translator, or is it some kind of “exclusive“ situation?
Speaking of socialist upheavals, Paris is on the barricades – again. NO library whatsoever opened today (actually more due to water damage caused by very strong rain which started yesterday evening and went on for about 18 hours), and I've just found out that on both Monday and Tuesday there are full strikes and demonstrations planned as well. Under normal circumstances I'd need about 4 days tops to finish up the current part of my research, but it looks like it's doomed. I have to leave Paris on the evening of the 30th anyway, since another person's renting my apartment. Darn French... The entire Europe is in shambles, but in other places at least people are still managing to do their jobs.

[lynn cates]

Feigenbaum

Hello Maria and Tom. I just recalled an Arbeter Fraint where the murder is referred to tangentially. It is in an editorial by Feigenbaum. According to Professsor Fishman, it is the December 21 copy.

Sorry for not remembering sooner.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Tom Wescott wrote:
The Worker's Friend, no Best.
Yes, but The worker's friend sounds stupid in English.
Tom Wescott wrote:
And it's funny you're saying exactly the same thing Adam Went did.
I'm saying exactly the same thing Adam Went said because I STOLE it from him.
Tom Wescott wrote:
My essays aren't all that long, they're just so outstanding in quality they stand out.
They're long “like a day with no bread“ (as the French say: “longs comme un jour sans pain“) and they stand out like a sore thumb. Just kidding. They're not too long, every time when they were over, I got deeply, deeply depressed.
(And I won't even go into your too obvious subliminal lust for Neal Shelden!)

[Tom_Wescott]

I kinda thought it was Don's 'zine. But if Tom keeps bringing up these lengthy, chatty essays... we might start calling it WWW (for Wescott's Words of Wisdom).

We let Don think it's his mag, because we're scared of him. And it's funny you're saying exactly the same thing Adam Went did. My essays aren't all that long, they're just so outstanding in quality they stand out.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. All in humor. But seriously, it's Stephen P. Ryder's zine, and Don's the editor because he's legendary in literature and regarded as the best editor in true crime. It was understood that my work deserved no less than someone of Don's credentials. Jennifer Shelden does all the necessary work for none of the glory, but it evens out because she gets to sleep with Neal Shelden and Don doesn't. And Davig Pegg is quickly earning a reputation for his groundbreaking design. Stephen P. Ryder does absolutely nothing except count all the fat cash as it pours in from subscriptions.

[Tom_Wescott]

How does that title translate?

It's The Worker's Friend. No Best....He worked at the Star.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[c.d.]

Danke, Maria.

c.d.

[mariab]

The title translates into The worker's best friend.
What I'm interested in are the advertisements. What were they about?
(I don't guess corsets? Kosher corsets? OK, that was a terrible joke, and a thousands apologies to the Jewish community – by the by, is there such as a Jewish community on casebook?)

[c.d.]

Kranz was the editor of Der Arbeter Fraint in 1888, so yes, he spoke and wrote in Yiddish, among other dialects and languages. And did you read my post about there being no mention of the murder?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

How does that title translate?

c.d.

[mariab]

I kinda thought it was Don's 'zine. But if Tom keeps bringing up these lengthy, chatty essays... we might start calling it WWW (for Wescott's Words of Wisdom).
My head's spinning for real now, after some quality time with sh**ty iPhoto. 10'min. to identify the hand at the Départment des manuscripts, as I even serendipitously opened the box in the right position (and this has happened to me before, I just happen to have a “lucky hand“ with sources); half an hour to fight against a retard librarian to let me shoot a picture of it; over 45'min. to import the crap into my laptop. How many days will it take me to complete the article? (From here to eternity...)

[Tom_Wescott]

Don Souden, Slave Driver

Actually that very first, special person would be Don Souden!

We'll see if that changes. Don doesn't pay for crap. I told him I'd hand him proof of the Ripper's identity. I said "For 10 grand you get the knife, the cape, the top hat, the whole damn thing." Don's response was, "What can I get for a free copy of the zine?" That's how my Le Grand article came about.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Rob Clack wrote:
The person who was first on Maria's e-mail list.
Actually that very first, special person would be Don Souden! (And I almost feel like Stride on the evening of Sept. 30th 1888 now.)
Lynn, I'll look up your link in the Kaufmann thread anytime soon. As long as I get done with some sh*t pertaining to iPhoto. Stupid software is out of its mind since about a week, no clue why. I'm trying to import the newest photos of sources I shot, and the darn thing wants to duplicate ALL 300 photos inside my camera, again and again, so I have to operate manually. Still 25 photos to REFUSE importing, until I get to the 5 current ones I need to import. Anyone knows what might be wrong with the darn iPhoto software here? (on Mac, not PC.) Maybe it just needs an update.

[lynn cates]

editorial

Hello Maria. Which? You mean about police spies?

There is a link to that from my Kaufmann thread.

Cheers.
LC