Mr Good morning ( i think that's his name)

[Tom_Wescott]

Can you give us more information? Sources, text, etc.? I probably read about this 10 or so years ago and didn't think much of it, but my curiosity is piqued now.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Sister Hyde]

the letter starts by "dear boss" like all the other fake letters (probably out of irony), and then in goes in verses "My first shot to justify myself I now fire, You will see by this that I am not a liar, Frank stupid fool, believes me to be insane..." ans so on, it's clearly not a letter from the real killer, but it's quite a piece of ripper-related poetry, but it was never even analyzed i think, the only guy who tried to analyse it was not very bright so his thesis wasn't really looked at (it's the Terry Lynch guy, but his analysis really sucks i think, he believes the letter talks about Pizer or maybe Kelly, i dunno where he got this idea from)

[mariab]

The letter Sister Hyde refers to is quoted in its entirety in SPE's JTR Letters from Hell, p. 288-90. The original was a manuscript of 4 pages of rhyme in black ink with a postscript in red ink, sent to the Superintendant of the SY on the first anniversary of Mary Kelly's death (November 8, 1889). Despite the author of the letter claiming “I will write more in a few days“ in his postscript, not another poem was ever received by the SY (according to SPE).
The poem mentions a “Tecks“ and a “Flunk“ which I'm wondering if they refer to specific persons – police detectives? What's also interesting in a forensic sense is, the poem contains a reference to a Jewish suspect (years before the Macnaghten Memoranda) and to the letter addressed to 222, Hammersmith Road:
The Miller's Court murder, a disgusting affair,
done by a Polish Knacker rather fair.
(...)
The letter addressed to 222 Hammersmith Road
was written by some vulgar lying toad.

As far as I'm concerned, everything in this poem, from the literary lack of sophistication to the “hints“ included, screams: journalist. The Jewish suspect idea might refer to Ischemidt, or be just random. By the way, there are tons of poems similar in content by Baudelaire or Edgar Alan Poe, to name just the famous, and of less obviously questionable literary value.
Best regards,
Maria

PS.: I had forgotten that Ernest Dowson was the creator of the phrase “the days of wines and roses“ as well. The oldie black and white movie with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick quoting Dowson in its title is very-very good.

[Sister Hyde]

As far as I'm concerned, everything in this poem, from the literary lack of sophistication to the “hints“ included, screams: journalist. The Jewish suspect idea might refer to Ischemidt, or be just random. By the way, there are tons of poems similar in content by Baudelaire or Edgar Alan Poe, to name just the famous, and of less obviously questionable literary value.
Best regards,
Maria

yeah it could definitely be a journalist too, on the other hand not all poets are as sophisticated as Baudelaire and Poe, but on the other hand, a journalist would have probably foreseen that the letter would not even be taken seriously for 1 second considering how many the police had received (especially coming from journalists, since a lot of hoaxes had already come from them already), then why would he spend hours working on a poem that would not even be read?