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

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

Your letter arrived just seconds after I sent my speculations
on Lvov...

> that - as Rafal suspected - the manuscript smuggled out of Russia *was* the
> one in 1889 for Stepniak, and *not* the VMS. 

So this should now be cleared - and Mondragone remains
the only source for the VMS (even though not beyond any doubt)?

> 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.

Voynich arrived at Stepniak's house in October 1890 - and she was
there. But they both stated that they had seen each other
on Ester Sunday 1887 in Warsaw, when he was in the Citadel and
she was outside looking at it. Chronologically, there is was
other possibility of them to have met.

Best regards,

Rafal
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