Dear Boss

[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.

[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!)

[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]

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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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!

[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.

[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