Judyth Vary Baker: Living in Exile

[James H. Fetzer]

THE JUDYTH BOOK SAMPLE MATCHES LEE’S WRITING

NOTE: As a young man, I took an interest in graphology (hardwriting analysis) myself.
Although the sample is small, it appears to match the other writing extremely well. When
I first received what Howard had sent, I read it through and assumed that he had sent me
a sample of Lee’s handwriting for comparison. It looked to me like a single unified piece. I
have asked Howard to send his second example of the same technique for me to post here.

HOWARD COMMENTS:

In a message dated 4/30/2010, Howard Platzman <Howpl@aol.com> wrote:

Jim

The fax I sent: I copied an annotation in the margins of J's Aristotle book,
putatively by Lee, and pasted it into a documented example of Lee's handwriting.
The fit is perfect. As you can see, it is one individual's writing all the way through.
You can only pick out the pasted-in part by reading for meaning. Interestingly, the
annotation includes a misspelling, as might be expected from a dyslectic. I have
another example using the same technique. I'm not a pro, but I'm convinced.

Howard





JUDYTH COMMENTS:

The original margin writing was small, on the left-hand side of the page in this case,
composed of a few words, written with a short, stubby pencil such as were used with
compasses in high school geometry classes. Plus, in ink, we have a few numbers, a lot
of underlining, and parentheses in more than one style. The underlining is sometimes
sloppy. The highlighted word comes from a short phrase, "comparation of 3" with a large
bow-style [brace] {-type parenthesis. He obviously meant "comparison of 3" -- misspelling
'comparison.' .The writing, though blown up to more than twice its original size, retained
all the proportions seen in the handwriting samples of normal size.

JVB