Originally posted by FISHY1118
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What a weird response. You clearly ignored the Donner version which were notes and which were seen by Philip Loftus. Did you miss that part of Adam Wood’s article or are you going to resort to the usual tactic of assuming everyone who said something that you don’t like was a liar? The official version of the MM weren’t notes and can’t be described as such. Did you really think that you’d discovered some critical point that no one had noticed before? You’ve proven nothing except your ability to manipulate the known facts and to ignore inconvenient ones.
So…...Lady A made her copy from her father’s notes after he died in 1921 (the notes that ended up in the possession of his grandson, Gerald Melville Donner.) Macnaghten also wrote the official version from those notes (the notes that ended up in the possession of Gerald Melville Donner) but decided, for whatever reason, to leave out the passage in question - maybe he wanted put less personal opinion in it, we have no way of knowing? But when Lady A copied from the notes she obviously wasn’t editing (like her father) and so left the paragraph in. Therefore the Aberconway version contained the paragraph but the official version didn’t.
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