Hi Tony and Sue
Tony, the correspondent you are thinking of who was the young girl who visited the Maybricks' household was Florence Aunspaugh, the daughter of a business acquaintance of James Maybrick's and who told her story to author Trevor Christie, author of Etched in Arsenic (1968), in the 1940's.
In verifying the spelling of her name I came across a PDF copy of Dr. William Rubinstein's "The Hunt for Jack the Ripper published in History Today in May 2000, pp. 10-19. Now Dr. Rubinstein, whom I met at the Liverpool convention at the Britannia Adelphi in 2003, is rather too much in the Diary camp for my liking -- that means of course that he is a mate of yours!
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What is also odd about his article is that while Dr. Rubinstein talks about the Diary in the singular, the editor of History Today has given the article a subtitle blurb and a photo caption in which they talk about the "Ripper Diaries" a term that keeps cropping up in UK newspaper accounts of the Diary. There is and only (as far as we know) been one and only one Diary, or at least there is only one in existence now. So why that terminology keeps cropping up I don't know. It seems to partly derive from the fact that the hoax "Hitler Diaries" comprised more than one diary.
Chris
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