Who wrote the "Diary"

[Soothsayer]

So long since I looked at this,I saw "Billy Graham" and thought of the evangelist..........

Spooky that the evangelist's daughter is also called Anne ...

[Jason]

i have started to read it again......have to say i am really enjoying it and there is so much to consider as i know so much more about the WM now than i did back then in the 90s.....mainly thanks to casebook !

[Jason]

does anyone know where the Diary is these days ? is it on show or is it in private hands ?

[ChrisGeorge]

does anyone know where the Diary is these days ? is it on show or is it in private hands ?

Hello Jason

The Maybrick Diary is owned by Robert Smith, the man who first published Shirley Harrison's The Diary of Jack the Ripper in 1993 under the imprint of Smith Gryphon. Mr. Smith no longer works as a publisher but is now a literary agent.

Best regards

Chris

[Beowulf]

I have been into the polls alot recently. I want to know who you think wrote the diary.

It's hard not to think it's a fake when the man who brought it out confessed in two affidavits it was written by he and his wife. Why else would he make that statement? If it were written by JTR it would be gold.

http://www.casebook.org/suspects/james_maybrick/mb-con.html

[caz]

Hi Beowulf,

You wrote:

'It's hard not to think it's a fake when the man who brought it out confessed in two affidavits it was written by he and his wife. Why else would he make that statement? If it were written by JTR it would be gold.'

At the time of Mike's 'confessions', his wife had left him, taking their only daughter with her, and he was drinking heavily. He got it into his head that Paul Feldman was on a mission to reveal to the world that his beloved daughter was descended directly from Jack the Ripper.

He had certainly not bargained for this when he first took the diary to London. What if the world had believed Feldman? The diary might have been 'gold', but it would have been deadly poison as far as Mike was concerned. By getting in first and telling the world he wrote it all by himself (and later claiming that his wife had penned it, when the initial confession fell flat as a pancake) he could put a stop to Feldy's poison and try to limit the damage to his own royalties with a 'master forger' story that might have sold quite well in its own right - if he'd been able to prove it, which of course he couldn't.

Love,

Caz
X

[Trevor Marriott]

Hi Beowulf,

You wrote:

'It's hard not to think it's a fake when the man who brought it out confessed in two affidavits it was written by he and his wife. Why else would he make that statement? If it were written by JTR it would be gold.'

At the time of Mike's 'confessions', his wife had left him, taking their only daughter with her, and he was drinking heavily. He got it into his head that Paul Feldman was on a mission to reveal to the world that his beloved daughter was descended directly from Jack the Ripper.

He had certainly not bargained for this when he first took the diary to London. What if the world had believed Feldman? The diary might have been 'gold', but it would have been deadly poison as far as Mike was concerned. By getting in first and telling the world he wrote it all by himself (and later claiming that his wife had penned it, when the initial confession fell flat as a pancake) he could put a stop to Feldy's poison and try to limit the damage to his own royalties with a 'master forger' story that might have sold quite well in its own right - if he'd been able to prove it, which of course he couldn't.

Love,

Caz
X

The detail and complexity of that first affadvait suggests that he didnt simply walk into a solicitors and real that of verbatum. I would suggest he went there with a draft already prepared in advance.

The questions thereafter are

By whom and for what purpose.

The way that was drafted and reads is not consistent with how Barrett was at that time decsribed mentally or physically and with out a doubt beyond his ability to formulate it in the way it was drafted.

Barrett was in my opinion perhaps a pawn used in a much bigger game someone mentioned the word "Patsy" or "fall guy". When he woke up to reality and all that was coming his way perhaps he put the frightners on other game players and as a result we are where we are today.

Like most things the truth will come out one day

Perhaps you yourself might like to disclose more you keep indicating that you know more about this than has been so far been publicly disclosed

[caz]

Or even 'reel that off verbatim'. Tell me, Trevor, was your book all your own work, or did you have help? Are you just a pawn, or do you bring it all on yourself?

Everything I've written concerning Mike's confessions is based on 'publicly disclosed' information which can be found in Ripper Diary, which was published nearly a decade ago. Read it or remain forever in blissful ignorance. Your choice.

Love,

Caz
X

PS I have little doubt that the truth about Mike's role will come out one day, but we may never learn who actually authored the diary or why.

[Trevor Marriott]

Or even 'reel that off verbatim'. Tell me, Trevor, was your book all your own work, or did you have help? Are you just a pawn, or do you bring it all on yourself?

Everything I've written concerning Mike's confessions is based on 'publicly disclosed' information which can be found in Ripper Diary, which was published nearly a decade ago. Read it or remain forever in blissful ignorance. Your choice.

Love,

Caz
X

PS I have little doubt that the truth about Mike's role will come out one day, but we may never learn who actually authored the diary or why.

Yes but was the publicly disclosed information the truth I will leave it at that for the time being !

[caz]

Well you are the one who seems to believe Mike was telling the truth when he confessed. None so gullible as those who want to believe, eh Trev?

On the other hand, I don't believe Mike has ever told the truth about the blessed thing.

Just call me a closed-minded old sceptic.

Love,

Caz
X

[Trevor Marriott]

Well you are the one who seems to believe Mike was telling the truth when he confessed. None so gullible as those who want to believe, eh Trev?

On the other hand, I don't believe Mike has ever told the truth about the blessed thing.

Just call me a closed-minded old sceptic.

Love,

Caz
X

I would love to but it might get me banned

[Soothsayer]

Fake or no, Barrett & Harrison's book is a good read. I'm about 60% through, and throughly enjoying it. In fact, I've also ordered "Edged in Arsenic", which will be my follow-up to this.

PS: I voted for Barrett in the poll. Clever forgery.

Hey BTCG,

How are you getting on with Edged in Arsenic?

Personally, I'm really enjoying This Friendly Lady.

Soothsayer
A Reader of Fine Books, Ideally with Lots of Pictures

[spyglass]

Hi all,
Some months back a book "JTR AND BLACKMAGIC" written by Spiro Dimolianis claimed that the diary was proberbly written by F S Stuart and D McCormick.
This was said to be fact by a number of members on one of the Maybrick threads at the time, and yet I fail to see these two names on the poll above.
Also I dont quite understand why it contains both JTR and Maybrick and why they should have a different amount of votes.

Regards.

[The Good Michael]

Hi all,
Some months back a book "JTR AND BLACKMAGIC" written by Spiro Dimolianis claimed that the diary was proberbly written by F S Stuart and D McCormick.
This was said to be fact by a number of members on one of the Maybrick threads at the time, and yet I fail to see these two names on the poll above.
Also I dont quite understand why it contains both JTR and Maybrick and why they should have a different amount of votes.

Spyglass,

Of all the possibilities. it would seem to me that McCormick had a hand in the diary. There is a lot of evidence for it including, according to Harris, that McCormick knew of its authorship, and again, according to Harris, that the implications were that McCormick was deeply involved. After all, he had created in his mind, a Dutton diary, but had never written it. So many years later, how difficult would it have been to use Maybrick as a "Dutton" and to even include the little rhyme that McCormick created sometime before 1959?
Belief in the diary. as ever, comes from want and need and not from logic. The Diary is faeries in Ireland, Nisse in Norway, and Nessie in Scotland. It is their God.

Mike

[The Good Michael]

Nice article by William Beadle... 2 parts:http://www.jamesmaybrick.org/pdf%20f...article%29.pdf