About Miss Nill

[Rene Zandbergen <rene@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to Gabriel for his post.

The bit about Miss Nill is interesting...
Did you learn where the biography of Mrs Voynich was published?

I have two items related to the episode:

When Kraus was being considered as the buyer of the VMs, it 
was Miss Nill personally who started sending out letters to
all owners of copies of the VMs to please return them,
since the prospective buyer wanted to buy the MS only under
the condition of obtaining exclusive publication rights of
any fascinating discoveries. Many of the addressed didn't 
actually do this, but just promised that they would not
publish anything or distribute further copies.

Secondly, the 'De Ricci' catalogue of Mss in the USA and Canada,
first issued in 1937 and listed in the references page of my
VMs site was reprinted by 'Kraus reprint corporation' in
1961. This reprint included an alphabetical index of names
(authors, owners) of the MSs. This showed that the only Mss
related to Kircher or Marci known to be in the USA (or 
Canada) was at that time the VMs. This index volume was signed
Anne Nill. I don't know if that means that the index volume
was an addition only available in the reprint. (It would make
it a bit more than a reprint).
In any case, she definitely worked for Kraus at this time.
She may have been working for him already well before
Mrs Voynich's death...

 
FWIW,
      Rene