Figures from McCrone Pigment Analysis?

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The original report has several annexes with all the figures, which were never lost. They simply were not posted online together with the main text of the report, for reason(s) unknown to me. This omission was realised recently, and the request to publish them is already with the Beinecke, but I don't know about the priority of this.

Yes, they realized it because of my requests. But no, they actually were lost... in that they no longer remembered they had them, and even countered my requests with firm denials that they even existed. They were apparently sitting on a hard drive, maybe even on the original DVD which McCrone sent to Repp... forgotten. It was frustrating because I didn't want to say to them they were mistaken, but to gently explain that they must have had them at some point, and may still have them... which, it turned out, luckily, they did.

But no, nobody there remember they existed, nor that they had them. That was made very clear in my discussions with them. I really appreciate their willingness to hear me out to the end, and listen to my arguments, and take the time to find them again. The staff must be swamped with a million requests, like mine, all the time, but they heard me out.

But what I was asking is how you became aware that Beinecke had found these files, in response to my requests? Did you happen to ask for them at the same time as I did, after all these years? Or did someone from the Beinecke mention to you that they had been uncovered? I know nothing about these sort of mechanations, and am always curious how they come about. All of these connections are as interesting, and almost as mysterious to me, as the Voynich problems themselves.