Sims/Macnaghten Letter

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Nah!

Do you want a Hopalong Cassidy badge,or a chest to pin it on?

I'll take the chest, but only if as antipodean masculine as yours! All hairy and sunburned. Cooled down with flowing Fosters.

In a masculine way! That's not a fantasy! It's not!

[DJA]

You mean with three types of skin cancer.

We do not drink Fosters.
We sell it to the Poms.

[erobitha]

Can anyone explain please what the "Dowt" "Devereux" reference alludes to? (Sorry to be a pain if this is common knowledge but it's a mystery to me).

Once the in-jokes die down I too would like some light on this "Dowt" Devereux mention if anyone can shed some?

[DJA]

Author has no idea on anatomy.

Continually describes stomach mutilations.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Once the in-jokes die down I too would like some light on this "Dowt" Devereux mention if anyone can shed some?

I just found a reference to this on JTRFORUMS. AP Wolf made 2 suggestions on Devereux. Apparently a man called Devereux contacted the press to complain about Scotland Yards inefficient handling of the case. He also mentioned Sarah Devereux killed by George Chapman in 1877.

Nothing on Dowt though.

[PhiltheBear]

Gentlemen (including Hopalongs and others) - My belated thanks for finding the letter. I would say I was in your debt but I don't want the collectors coming round.

[seanr]

Eyre Street Hill -- Clerkenwell -- where there is a large colony of Italians who are mostly ice-cream vendors by day, &, not infrequently, stabbers & shootists by night.

Intriguing little reference to the Sabinis and their associates there. I wonder what this would have been in reference to.