Re: VMs: C.A. Edgell

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Thanks very much to Pam Wilson for digging up that background on Charles 
Arnold Edgell, M.A. - still, when I looked through all the Edgells in the 
1901 census, it wasn't obvious then why a 31-year-old school master working 
in Cornwall would be WMV's business partner... and so the general question 
mark still remains.

Interesting that he lived life at a brisk pace - MA in 1898, into 
partnership with WMV (straight away?), dissolved the partnership in 1901 
(?), and died in 1905 at the (un)ripe old age of 35.

I wonder if his MA studies were centred on incunabula, and perhaps on 
Giovanni Baptista Sessa in particular? If not, why else would they pick 
"Sessa" as their telegraphic codeword?

Just a thought (as normal).

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


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