(13-02-2026, 01:01 AM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Colin Wilson wrote a story, "The Return of the Lloigor", 1969 in which the Voynich manuscript turns out to be a copy of H.P.Lovecrafts famous book.
-- so there is a sort of extremely tenous relation there
If I had to guess...AI slop (or search engine AI summary hallucination that went unchecked).
From what we know of Lovecraft's media consumption diet it is inconceivable that he was unaware of Newbold's "decipherment" (heck, it is relatively inconceivable that anyone who regularly read the newspapers in 1921, let alone _Harper's_ or _Scientific American_, would have been unaware of it). He doesn't mention it in any of the letters in the old _Selected Letters_ volumes, not sure if it comes up in any of the more recent fuller volumes of his correspondence. IIRC, peak media Newbold coverage coincided with his mother's terminal illness, which could account for his failure to mention it -- it definitely seems like the sort of thing that would have appealed to him. There is a potential oblique reference in "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward": "He stated that the papers of his ancestor had contained some remarkable secrets of early scientific knowledge, for the most part in cipher, of an apparent scope comparable only to the discoveries of Friar Bacon and perhaps surpassing even those," although *in the story* that conversation takes place in May 1920 before Newbold's IRL claims in 1921 (the story itself was written in 1927).
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