Location Location Location - Maybrick

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

Patricia Cornwell matches the Openshaw letter to another from the same batch of paper, with an "A Pirie" watermark sent on 22nd November 1888

She also connects these with another letter with the same watermark sent on the same date, her suggesting Sickert had different batches of paper and wrote all three communications

A curious fact is that poster "Tempus Omnia Revelat" at Casebook believes writing in the Diary matches that of a certain postcard - also sent on 22nd November 1888!

Bit of a coincidence that - I'll look into this a bit further

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

There were a couple of other events relevant to Maybrick on or near the seemingly significant date of November 22nd 1888 - this from a "Case Closed" excerpt...

"November 22, 1888 - The Ripper writes a letter saying that he is in Liverpool and "met a young woman in Scotland Road I smiled at her and she calls out Jack the Ripper. She didn't know how right she was."

"About this time, an article appears in the Sunday Dispatch reporting that in an elderly woman Liverpool, was sitting in a park when a "respectable looking man, dressed in a black coat, light trousers, and a soft felt hat," pulled out a long, thin knife. He said he planned to kill as many women in Liverpool as he could and send the ears of the first victim to the editor of the Liverpool newspaper"

[Livia Trivia]

From Shirley Harrison, Diary of Jack the Ripper, p. 263

Victoria, Victoria
the queen of them all
When it comes to Sir Jack
she knows nothing at all

who knows
perhaps one day
I will give her a call


From the Yorkshire Directory of 1888

The Lancashire and Cheshire Telephonic Exchange Company Ltd

Liverpool and Birkenhead section



Cover





I wonder if he made crank calls.



Just another lucky break for the nest of forgers, I guess.


Source Information

Ancestry.com. British Phone Books, 1880-1984 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Original data: British phone books 1880-1984 from the collection held by BT Archives.
Images reproduced by courtesy of BT Archives, London, England.





Liv

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

That's a coincidence Livia - thanks for the post

It was just yesterday while looking at a library collection for something else that I noticed they had a telephone directory from 1887 to modern times and I wondered if anyone significant was in it

Maybrick being in the telephone directory would not be unexpected by a knowledgeable researcher IMO, and if he wasn't then it wouldn't go against the Diary's authenticity that he suggested he call Queen Victoria in 1888

It's something that even Mr Barrett might put in I think, so I'm not certain it has major significance, though it's inclusion in the text is intriguing

[SirRobertAnderson]

A stunning find Livia ! Whatta way to start the weekend!!

I always wondered why the Diary didn't read

who knows
perhaps one day
I will pay her a call

And there's a nise little touch we demented Maybrickians get off on - the listing is for his office, not his home. And The Diarist is writing in his office.

From Shirley Harrison, Diary of Jack the Ripper, p. 263

Victoria, Victoria
the queen of them all
When it comes to Sir Jack
she knows nothing at all

who knows
perhaps one day
I will give her a call


From the Yorkshire Directory of 1888

The Lancashire and Cheshire Telephonic Exchange Company Ltd

Liverpool and Birkenhead section


I wonder if he made crank calls.



Just another lucky break for the nest of forgers, I guess.


Source Information

Ancestry.com. British Phone Books, 1880-1984 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Original data: British phone books 1880-1984 from the collection held by BT Archives.
Images reproduced by courtesy of BT Archives, London, England.





Liv

[Markus Aurelius Franzoi]

James Maybrick also had a telephone at his residence in Norfolk Virginia in 1882.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114060856/