Originally Posted by
Spider-Man
I believe James Maybrick was right handed. Apparently the Ripper killings were attributed to someone left-handed?
I also read that the samples of Maybrick's handwriting are nothing like those of the diary - proof indeed that it is a forgery.
Hi Spiderman
Well certainly the writing in the Diary, if you will, is "inspired" by the Ripper letters. And you are right, it looks like the writing of someone trying to emulate the writing in the Dear Boss letter and other famous letters in the case.
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All the best
Chris
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Originally Posted by
SteH
Thanks for that link to My Fifteen Lost Years Chris, I spent most of yesterday reading that, was a good read.
Thanks, SteH, glad you got a kick out of that. I was at a script conference on Tuesday for a docudrama in the works about Francis Scott Key to be produced by Maryland Public Television. He's the guy, you will probably know, who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" about the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Baltimore. It so happens that his grandson,
Frank Key Howard, a southern sympathizer, was . . .
irony of ironies!. . . imprisoned in Fort McHenry at the time of the Civil War. Howard's book,
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles, is available on
Google Books also.
Cheers
Chris
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