Maybrick Diary - Fake or Genuine

[Herlock Sholmes]

Still talking in riddles I see.

[Lombro2]

Parables for those who have ears.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Waffle

[Lombro2]

Toast.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Like the theory that the diary is real.

[Lombro2]

British waffle anyone?

[Paddy Goose]

Good evening Iconoclast,

...the March 9, 1992 double event...

Oh yes, the first event was certainly the UK premiere of the top-grossing movie of the year, Basic Instinct.



But the second event escapes me at the moment.

[Iconoclast]

Good evening Iconoclast,

Oh yes, the first event was certainly the UK premiere of the top-grossing movie of the year, Basic Instinct.



But the second event escapes me at the moment.

Don't get your knickers crossed (if you have any) on this one, Goosey, but I'm afraid the double event occurred at least nine days before the cinematic parting of the ways, as it were ...

Basic Instinct premiered in Los Angeles on March 18, 1992, and was theatrically released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on March 20, 1992 [Wiki].

The UK release was not until May 8 [Wiki], some six days after Newcastle United beat Leicester City 2-1 at the old Filbert Street ground and thereby avoided an ignominious drop into the 3rd-ranking division for the first time in their history (and in their 'centenary' season if you don't count the formation of Stanley FC in 1881).

Still, good excuse for a picture of Ms. Stone.

Cheers,

Ike

[rjpalmer]

Written by a man with a fountain pen and ink without Chloroacetamine.

You make three claims in one short sentence, all of them quite possibly wrong.

A fountain pen has an internal reservoir, often a cartridge; the diary, by contrast, was almost certainly written with a dip pen. Even in facsimile one can see the ink is uneven, fading in and out. This is characteristic of a dip pen.

That Leeds failed to find chloroacetamide on their second test is inconclusive because the chemical is very difficult to detect; indeed, Mr. Voller warned researchers that they might fail to find it. Far more significant, then, is that Leeds did detect it on their first run (which they put down to contamination) and Dr. Simpson detectied in her own expertly conducted analysis at AFI. You're whistling past the graveyard, Old Boy. The ink probably did have a trace amount of chloroacetamide.

As for the pen person, as far as I know there is no way to determine, with any degree of certainty, the gender of an unknown writer, so 'written by a man' is merely a guess, and perhaps not a very good one.

One of the handwriting experts told Melvin Harris that the writer was probably schooled in the 1930s. If correct, this would not necessarily eliminate Anne Graham from our inquiries. The poster George from Oz has written that his handwriting has elements of Edwardian penmanship because his grammar schoolteacher was an elderly relic from that bygone era. In The American Connection, Anne Graham tells us that she attended a convent school in Liverpool thanks to the largesse of an elderly relative. How old were the nuns who taught her? I don't know, nor do you, but it is a relevant question to ask.

Regards.