Re: VMs: Re: Contacting Wilfrid Gaye...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I've just had a nice chat with Wilfrid Gaye on the phone: his mother 
Winifred (who has since passed away) brought him up in the UK, but without 
significant contact with WMV and ELV (who were in any case based in the US).

Following on from Wilfrid's recent post to the BBC4 message forum, he has 
since gone back to check his papers (today, spookily enough), only to find 
that - as Rafal suspected - the manuscript smuggled out of Russia *was* the 
one in 1889 for Stepniak, and *not* the VMS. He said he would shortly be 
posting a follow-up on the same BBC4 forum to confirm this.

Also: though Rafal asserted that 1889 was "before she met Wilfryd", Wilfrid 
Gaye believed that the pair had met before then, though it's true they 
married after that date.

I'll be passing what information I have on the documents WMV left behind to 
Mr Gaye: he certainly seemed interested, and perhaps this might help open 
some related avenues in the future.

Hope this resolves at least some of the questions!

Best regards, .....Nick Pelling.....

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