I bet I can trace the trajectories on this one
Email from somebody who is research assistant to A Clueless Senior Academic, on a wholly-work-related topic, to my home address.
Am prepared to bet that ACSA said to research assistant, contact the knowledgeable and helpful Dr Oursin with this question about a specific collection of archives -
Without, however, giving the RA my work email contact, so no doubt they googled for me and got my personal website.
RA does not write very well (mutter, grumble, shakes antimacassar, what are young scholars today coming to).
On the surface, the question is, are bits of the collection missing, which yes, there are certain things not there, this is the nature of personal papers, they seldom survive in their entirety -
But I suspect that what the question is REALLY about is concerning a ripperology-type sensationalist factoid about the person in question and have the records of person's (alleged) SEKKRIT DODGY RESEARCH been expurgated? And not why no luv-letters, family holiday snaps, etc. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2175722.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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