Is this true?

[TomTomKent]

As there are people on here whose expertise far outweigh my own... is n#5 on this list true?

http://www.cracked.com/article_19201_6-objects-you-wont-believe-people-managed-to-lose.html

Was the From Hell letter lost? I thought we had images of it?

[Steven Russell]

Hello, TomTom,
Yes, the Lusk letter has been lost but not before it was photographed which is where we get the well known image. I'm colourblind and used to think the photo was a colour image but it's monochrome with sepia tint, apparently.

I'm glad that whoever wrote the artlcle you linked agrees with me that only Sean Connery says "Mishter".

Best wishes,
Steve.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Tom and Steve

In regard to the other statement made on the site that the kidney was also lost, a one-time visitor to this site, Dr. Thomas Ind, believed that the kidney was probably sliced up to make a slide or slides for microscopic analysis by Dr. Thomas Horrocks Openshaw at the London Hospital. The question is whether that slide or slides might be still in existence. Apparently the location of any such slide was unknown when Dr. Francis Camps reported in 1966 on various things that the London Hospital had in its possession related to the case including the plan of Mitre Square showing Eddowes' body.

Chris

[Steven Russell]

Wow! But I wonder if Dr. Ind was thinking of:

O have you seen the devle
with his mikerskope and scalpul
a lookin at a kidney
with a slide cocked up.

... which is the postscript of the "Openshaw Letter", signed by JtR and sent to the good doctor (Openshaw) on 29th October 1888.

Best wishes,
Steve.