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Verne and Malta

From: Ian Thompson <ithompson~at~ges.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:38:07 +0100
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Dear Jean-Michel, Jean-Pierre,Volker, Garmt, Harold,


Thank for your comments and encouragement. I will get back to Jean-Michel and Volker once I have got clearance from the Malta Archivist. Meanwhile I will draw a map which perhaps Zvi will be able to post. The accordance with Mathias Sandorf is remarkable.


I think that the interesting point about the two documents I have posted is that they both portray "oral" evidence given at the time of the event. The Port Superintendent's letter reports what Verne actually said to him and the Inquitry document is largely based on the verbal evidence of the two coastguards.


Secondly, it is perhaps surprising that the incident escaped the attention of biographers...after all there was presumably a crew of c10, plus the six passengers as well as other witnesses. Perhaps an incident which in today's terms would be regarded as relatively unremarkable, would have been regarded as a serious embarrassment in Verne's time and therefore suppressed.


Regards,


Ian


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