05-02-2021, 07:23 AM
About the relatives of Anne Nill, I had to dig a bit. The information dates from 2000 and some points were recently (2018) clarified by Gerry Kennedy.
The indirect source was J.M. Rollett, son of A.P. Rollet, co-author of a book on mathematical models. The father wanted to write a biography of Boole, and the son wanted to take over, but later gave up. They got in contact with someone called Carol Spero who wanted to write a biography of ELV, but also gave up. It was the latter (if I understand correctly) who wrote that she tried to get the distant relatives of Anne Nill together to fight an ownership battle over the Voynich MS after Anne's death, but there was no interest to pursue this.
So effectively they were only distant relatives, and the person interested to pursue this was (according to Rollett jr.) a friend of Anne Nill rather than a relative.
The papers of J.M.Rollett are in what Gerry called the 'Lincoln Library'.
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The indirect source was J.M. Rollett, son of A.P. Rollet, co-author of a book on mathematical models. The father wanted to write a biography of Boole, and the son wanted to take over, but later gave up. They got in contact with someone called Carol Spero who wanted to write a biography of ELV, but also gave up. It was the latter (if I understand correctly) who wrote that she tried to get the distant relatives of Anne Nill together to fight an ownership battle over the Voynich MS after Anne's death, but there was no interest to pursue this.
So effectively they were only distant relatives, and the person interested to pursue this was (according to Rollett jr.) a friend of Anne Nill rather than a relative.
The papers of J.M.Rollett are in what Gerry called the 'Lincoln Library'.
There's also this link:
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