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Fwd: Re: John Ray Jr & Conan Doyle
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Jansy comments that:
> Young John Ray apparently survived his adventure with madness and
> ghosts. Why
> then is his diary presented by his father and why was the latter in the
> position to prohibit or to authorize its publication?
"In his final comments, Doyle's Ray Sr. implies that Ray Jr. may be
something of a fabulist, requiring outside [but not very convincing]
corroboration; or is Jr. a fiction?" I found this comment on a single
sheet of manuscript, author unknown but initialed S. K., tucked into a
first American edition of "Lolita"; found while ransacking a decaying
saltbox, built c. 1813, on a back road in Northwestern Massachusetts.
The structure has since been demolished.
-Sandy
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> Young John Ray apparently survived his adventure with madness and
> ghosts. Why
> then is his diary presented by his father and why was the latter in the
> position to prohibit or to authorize its publication?
"In his final comments, Doyle's Ray Sr. implies that Ray Jr. may be
something of a fabulist, requiring outside [but not very convincing]
corroboration; or is Jr. a fiction?" I found this comment on a single
sheet of manuscript, author unknown but initialed S. K., tucked into a
first American edition of "Lolita"; found while ransacking a decaying
saltbox, built c. 1813, on a back road in Northwestern Massachusetts.
The structure has since been demolished.
-Sandy
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