Notes from small ring binder, found in a folder marked “Anne Nill research notes on Cipher Manuscript”, box 6 of Voynich Papers, Grolier Club Library:

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Cipher Ms.        The Cipher

Prof. Manly, in his letter of March 16, 1920. To W.M.V., Says:

Transcriber note: Along the edge of this page was written, “Sent this quot. to Father Petersen Sept. 11/60"

[W.M.V. then sent him 16 pp. of text (FF. numbered 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 115)

Prof. Manly’s letter to Prof. Newbold. Same Date: 

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Cipher Ms.   The Cipher

Edith Richert to W.M.V.- Letter Aug 1-1917:

In reply, W.M.V. wrote Sept. 18/17:

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Cipher Ms.-   The Date

A.M.N To Rudolf Hirseh, U.Pa. letter of Dec. 10, 1952

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Cipher Ms.    Re Price

(Difficulty in deciding on a price)

In my letter to Thomas R. Adams, V. of Pa., Dated April. 22/52 I said:

Should I let it be sold at Sotheby’s, risking its being “lost”* somewhere, or must I hang on to it as long as possible, at whatever cost to me in loss of time which I should devote to the problems of E.L.V’s biography and here unpublished music?

July 12/61. The above is now obsolete, since the ms. was suddenly sold to H.P. Kraus today.

*i.e. to rush its falling into the hands of a apparantly private collector