New Parallel Lives Tidbit Posted

Stefani · Post by **Stefani** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:44 pm

The Fall River Historical Society posted a new tidbit from Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River.

They also have an announcement regarding the publication date and details of its delay.

Read all about it here:
http://lizzieborden.org/ParallelLives.html

Or here:
http://lizzieandrewborden.com/MondoLizzie/

augusta · Post by **augusta** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:46 pm

So Lizzie sent Christmas cards. That's probably one thing she did that cheap-o Andrew didn't.

On that letter that has a lot of words missing, I wonder if the substituted non-words contain the same number of letters as the real words did? And if it is a code like a cryptogram?

I was thinking, maybe that last line might be "Always your friend." I think it has six letters. And really, what else could it be?

I can say that the FRHS is busy, busy, busy. I've researched there a couple of times, and it was surprising to know how busy a place it is. I would much rather wait for a quality project from them, than to have them hurry thru it because some have little patience.

Mara · Post by **Mara** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:10 pm

Hi, augusta. I'm new here. Pleased to meet you.

The Greek letters seem to be simply text that's been selectively switched from an English to a Greek typeface by the publishers to avoid revealing what the letter actually contains, to continue piquing our curiosity so we'll buy the book :-) The text is presented in such a way as to make it difficult, if not impossible, to select and copy the text, then paste it into a page layout where all the text could be set in an English typeface.

It would be possible, though tedious, to reproduce the letter with English and Greek letters (assuming you have a Greek font on your computer), then run the result through that process. Me? Nah. I'm goin' to lunch