Cipher Mysteries

[Quick sidenote before I forget: Claudia Heilmeyer is apparently going to be reading about / from the Voynich Manuscript at 18:40 this Saturday 5th May 2012 as part of the "Prager Nacht" series in Freiburg... make of that what you will.] Anyhow, a few days ago I posted ...

I don't know quite what was happening yesterday, but when today I tried a slightly different search interface at the National Archives of Australia, the RMS Niagara's log books popped up immediately. Remembering that our man Reynolds was apparently only covering on the RMS Niagara for a single ...

In the ongoing Tamam Shud hunt for elusive Tasmanian merchant seaman H. C. Reynolds, I got the chance yesterday to go through the Log of Logs, a stonking three-volume antipodean maritime bibliomanic obsession. Or rather, I've had a look at Volumes I and II, which (somewhat feebly) is all ...

Just a short note: if you search PapersPast (the online newspaper archive for New Zealand) for "H C Reynolds", you get a 1926 mention in the Waiapu Church Gazette (no, I'm not making it up) of someone with that name from Wellington taking a Theological exam. The more you search, the more you find about this Reverend H Reynolds ...

Cheryl Bearden & I have managed to eke out lots more tiny details in our hunt for the elusive merchant seaman H C Reynolds, including his precise date of birth! And I've also exchanged some intriguing emails with the Anonymous Lady who put forward the ID card in the ...

I thought I'd take a brief sideways step over to the Beale Papers, a cipher mystery I haven't mentioned in a while here. Most of you probably already know about my Big Fat List of Voynich Novels, expanding almost monthly with yet more Voynich-appropriating titles. But is ...

The indefatigable Cheryl Bearden has been filling in the gaps for our elusive "H. C. Reynolds" tenuously linked to the Tamam Shud cipher mystery man, and has dug up nine more crew manifests in the Sydney archives with his name ...

Yet more for you on our elusive young Tasmanian merchant seaman H. C. Reynolds, who may or may not be the mysterious "Unknown Man" found dead on Somerton Beach in 1948, etc etc. Firstly, I note with great interest Gerry Feltus' comments on the whole H. C. Reynolds thing. He writes:- In early February 2011, I received a letter from ...

If you've been following the flurry of recent posts (and indeed comments) here on the Unknown Man, you'll know we've done two things: * successfully linked the "H. C. Reynolds" on the US seamen's temporary ID card to a young "H Reynolds" working on the SS Manuka and the RMS Niagara, and constructed a six-month timeline for his sea-life from ...

I've done a bit more digging on our ever-elusive "H. C. Reynolds", and thought it was time to post a quick update. Firstly, though there was indeed an "H. C. Reynolds" playing golf in Murray Bridge in the late 1930s (and he would almost certainly have played some away matches at Glenelg Golf Club, perilously close to where the Unknown ...