VMs: Grolier club letters (was: Enigma connection?)

[Dario Besseghini <dario@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 03:51, John Grove wrote:

> In the meantime
> I'll send off this draft transliteration of what I've scribbled out for the
> first letter for anyone
> to feel free to follow up with. Claudio has the scans of the documents in
> question though if you haven't
> seen them.

Well I have some amateurish experience in reading old cyrillic and
glagolitic hands and your letter made me very curious. It was written

> do sveCheniYa vaShej Zhandarmskoj blagorodiYa

... to the illumination of your policemanly nobility ...

("vashe zhandarmskoe blagorodiye" = "your policemanly nobility" was
actually the way to address police officers in 19th-century Russia)

and what I could make out of the rest reads like a cheap spy story...

Could somebody mail me those scans, or point to a URL? _If_ I can read
them I'll post my findings here.

Many thanks indeed!

Dario Besseghini 
(don't be misled by my interest in Russian and Slavic stuff, I'm
Italian, as my name betrays, and I live in Italy)



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