The Diary — Old Hoax or New or Not a Hoax at All?​

[Iconoclast]

It's clearly a modern hoax.

That’s Saturday’s line, Wheato. You really are losing it.

[caz]

Tim
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Maybrick really didn't apply much thought to this, did he?

Are we not meant to believe it was Anne Graham who was so 'dim', that she was unable to think of any word to rhyme with 'Jim' other than 'whim'?

Or MAYbe this woman, who was educated by nuns, seriously thought the real James MAYbrick would have been stuck for another word to rhyme with Jim.

None so dim, eh?

Love,

Caz
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[caz]

A well to do business man can’t even avail himself of a proper diary or even a notebook. He is reduced to emptying a photo album and tearing out pages.

I'm pretty sure the real James Maybrick would have been able to fork out for a proper diary or notebook for all his innocent purposes, but that doesn't apply here. Your hoaxer was trying to make a serial killer out of him, not someone who just needed to jot down his various business or social appointments.

If the real James had wanted to keep a private record of his not-so-innocent activities, from his brothel frequenting to his arsenic eating, and all the hours spent in the bed of his mistress, what kind of book might he have chosen for such thoughts? A brand new notebook, starting on page one with:

"I am Sir Jim and I'm partial to quim"?

Or might the real James - or a hoaxer using a little more imagination than their accusers - have seen some advantage in tucking away anything "not quite nice" in the later pages of an old business ledger or similar, which prying eyes were less likely to come across by chance?

I've said this before, but my late father - whose parents were born in the 1870s - would use any old bit of scrap paper around the house before even thinking of shelling out for a new notebook or diary. And I'm jolly glad he lived by the old adage that if you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves. When the time came, he was able to afford his own care in a private nursing home, with the help of all the little savings he had made on non-essentials throughout his life. He was never 'reduced' to making do; it was a conscious choice.

If Maybrick did ever keep a secret diary, it would have been a conscious choice what he used to keep it secret, and nothing to do with affording the best. What good would the best have done him, if it had attracted unwanted attention?

Love,

Caz
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[John Wheat]

It's clearly a modern hoax.

[caz]

Yes, that's a good one Rog, thank you.

But here's the thing. I'm thinking of a movie type that had at least one female character




Which begs the question -Where's Caz?

I always thought of her as one of the brave steadfast Surviving Diarists.

I'm here, Paddy!

I worked out I would need to live to the age of 110 just to get through all the unread books on my shelves, so I'm limiting my diary time to housekeeping posts wherever I see the need. I can't spare the hours, and frankly I no longer have the patience, to get drawn into long-winded responses, objections, arguments and speculation that tend to follow like darkness follows daylight, ultimately changing nothing - except for Barrett hoax conspiracy theory goalposts.

Love,

Caz
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