Marci's memory

[ReneZ]

Rene says that my point was that

... as reported by Marci when his senility/Alzheimer’s was in its late stages and memory-loss near complete.

This is not correct.

I copied and pasted it from your post to Cipher mysteries. The one that triggered this whole discussion.

This discussion, in any case, is not going to lead any further, so I'll leave it with this. I prefer to take all evidence into account: both letters from Kinner and the Marci letter, the Barschius letter, Marci's 1662 book. His detailed last will, written only five days before Kinner's second letter. Not just one sentence from one letter taken out of its context.

David is right, of course, about Alzheimer. People with Alzheimer tend to preserve old memories quite well. It is yet another point, but I preferred not to mention it since we really don't know what Kinner meant, and I have a recollection that Alzheimer is a relatively modern disease. Of course, 1667 could still be modern.