Book: The Gambler and the Scholars

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The document: The Friedman Collection, an Analytical Guide (657 pages, 3.5 MB) by Rose Mary Sheldon, includes this about the document (and a few with similar numbers):

Item 1609, 1609.1, 1609.2
Anonymous (Voynich Manuscript).
Large gray folder containing “Tenative IBM Transcript,” made at Arlington Hall by officers
awaiting discharge at the end of WWII. Two sheets in handwriting of WFF (2 Xerox pages, copy
of same without WFF comments and assessment of the Ms. characters.) About 12-15 xerox or
mimeograph copies (VALUABLE). Also WFF’s notations as to appearance and no-appearance
of certain manuscript characters as initial letters and frequency of the former. Also, folder
containing frequency tables and other data compiled at Arlington Hall; one sheet of WFF’s
handwriting showing his analysis of compound characters unused in the Ms-xerox copies of this.
Two sheets in WFF’s handwriting (one signed and dated June 13, 1944) as agreed at meeting on
June 9, 1944. Very important. Captain Mark Rhoads, Ret. was in charge of this project at
Arlington Hall.

Item 1609.3
Anonymous, RCA Computer run of characters of certain chosen pages in the Voynich
Manuscript.

Item 1609.4
Anonymous.
Minutes of RCA meeting where project Voynich Ms. was launched. Also incomplete
computer run and keys used for 301 computer.

Item 1610
Part I, WFF backfile, Friedman, William F., Voynich Manuscript.
This file contains numerous letters exchanged between WFF and both Dr. & Mrs. Voynich
and many other persons who were more or less directly or indirectly concerned with this famous
and mysterious manuscript. Correspondence with Anne Nill, Father T. C. Petersen and A.
Howard Carter. 1924-1961.