Hi Tony
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I accept your point that some of the entries were probably written at one go and that diarists do this. However my point is that the text would lead us to believe some entries were weeks apart but the penmanship appears to indicate they might have been written at the same time.
As for the point that no dates appear in the Diary except for the last page, I might say that the writer was cunning in doing that. Of course the signature at the end, "Yours truly, Jack the Ripper" emulating the "Ripper" letters and then "Dated the third of May 1889" -- conveniently eight days before Maybrick's death on May 11 -- to my mind looks even more suspicious.
There are images of the Maybrick Diary for those interested at
http://www.casebook.org/suspects/jam.../diarypix.html
Tony, sorry you won't be at the Maybrick event in May. Let's keep in touch and continue to debate the Diary!
All my best
Chris
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