Re: About Miss Nill

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 Jun 2000, at 7:16, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> The bit about Miss Nill is interesting...
> Did you learn where the biography of Mrs Voynich was published?

According to this person I met, the biographer in the end did not 
want to publish the biography. There were apparently some 
disappointing episodes in Mrs.V that made the biographer give up 
the idea. I am not entirely sure of what that meant, and of course it 
is not fair for me to comment; I am just repeating what I heard.

One think I remember was that Mrs. V used the Voynich name even 
she was not married to W and also that she refused to marry him 
until he got a life insurance (apparently Mr. V had been sick 
(tuberculosis was mentioned) and so he had trouble with insurance 
companies as several refused to insure him).

I am waiting to hear from this person and learn in more detail about 
the fate of the ms. during those years.  

> 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,

Do you know when was this?

> 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...

Yes, this is the bit is not clear. Mrs. V died in 1960 , and the vms 
was "bought" in 1961 and Ms. Nill worked for K for about 10 years.  
Kraus' book is dated 1978. 
Was Ms. Nill working for K before 1960?


Cheers,

Gabriel