Re: VMs: Cat-and-mouse (continued)...

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Yves,

At 20:27 04/08/2004 +0200, you wrote:
> Anyway, here are to answer Nick especially a couple of "new"(?) facts:
>
> The first one is not that new in fact I am afraid, and is more perhaps a 
> detailed confirmation of what someone else in the mist ( sorry in the 
> list: :-) ) - wasn't it Dana?-, already stated:
>
> I read this on the "first list of books" ( "offered by VMW" ), second 
> edition, May 1902:
>
> "Telegraphic address: Sessa, London. Code: Unicode".

Thanks - I'll update my cat-and-mouse page with this later, no problem...

Still, it's nice to know that Unicode is over 100 years old - so much for 
flash-in-the-pan web standards, eh? :-)

> The second and last one for today is that on the "second list of books" 
> ("offered" etc), 1900, VMW as an introduction to the list states:
>
> "Shortly after the issue of our first list, my friend Myster ( sorry: 
> Mister ) Edgell ( RPT Edgell ), with whom I had worked for some time, was 
> obliged, for family reasons, to leave London. Our partnership was, 
> therefore, dissolved, much to my regret".

Googling for Voynich and Edgell brings up Xavier Ceccaldi's page on 
catalogue 24:-
        http://www.geocities.com/voyms/cat24.htm

Has anyone else read anything concerning Mr Edgell? Are "RPT" his initials? 
Does WMV mention him anywhere? Do Kennedy and Churchill? :-0

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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