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

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Oops Nick and everyone really sorry for this: with RPT I only meant "RePeaT" in an attempt to stress upon Mr Edgell's name.

 

Otherwise no RMK ( sorry ReMarK;-) ). Thanks once more, Nick.

 

Jean

 

P.S. I sincerely donnot know whether the Sessa/Unicode mention was already present for the first edition of the first list! When was this one BTW?

Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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