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[asteckley]

For me Ethel Voynich's notebooks are the proof that the MS is genuine.
It is clear that Wilfrid couldn't have done the MS without Ethel knowing about it. Creating the MS would have been such an enterprise that Wilfrid just couldn't have done in secret from he's wife.
Because if she knew it was a forgery, and possibly co-author of it, she wouldn't have spent any time on trying identify the MS plants and we wouldn't have her notebooks.

On the contrary, her notebooks show the she dedicated quite a considerable time for the MS (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), ergo she knew the MS was genuine.

That is certainly a piece of evidence against a forgery (or more precisely against a forgery that Wifred knew about) and it's one of the first ones that came to my.mind as well.

But as a weight on the weigh scales, it is a light one.

Did Hilary know about Monica?
Did Wilfred envy Ethel's fame and success as an author?
And what was the nature of Ethel's long relationship with Anne?

Definitely evidence. But hardly proof.