Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed (53 page)

APPENDIX

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA RESULTS

*Swabs from paper perimeters surrounding envelope flaps or stamps were simply for the purpose of assuming that when someone licked or used a sponge on the adhesive, he or she was likely to also moisten the paper. It was known that even if we got significant components, we obviously would get large mixtures due to the number of people who have handled these documents over the decades.

Note: Not all of these results are included in the text.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is already in print an abundance of information, misinformation, and speculation about the identity and crimes of Jack the Ripper. For factual details and the spelling of names, I have relied altogether on my primary sources and my newspaper of record,
The Times.

Epigraph: H. M., ’
Twixt Aldgate Pump and Pope: The Story of Fifty Years Adventure in East London
, The Epworth Press, London, 1935. (Note: H. M. was a missionary to the East End and in all of his publications remains anonymous.)

PRIMARY SOURCES

Abberline, Frederick. Inspector Abberline’s Press Cutting Book (private, unpublished diary kept by Frederick Abberline from 1878 to 1892). Courtesy of Scotland Yard.

Alexander Pirie & Sons Ltd., Paper Manufacturers, Aberdeen, Scotland, Records and Papers: University of Aberdeen Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives.

Anonymous.
Eva May, The Foundling or The Secret Dungeon,
Garrett & Co., New York, 1853. Author’s collection.

Anonymous.
The Murder of Harriet Lane,
The Sensations Series—possibly published by Felix McGlennon Ltd., London, late-nineteenth century. (Harriet Lane was murdered in 1875.) Author’s collection.

Anonymous.
Poor Jack, the London Street Boy,
St. George’s Publishing Office, London, late-nineteenth century.

Anonymous,
Rough and Ready Jack,
Edwin J. Brett, Ltd., no date (circa mid-to-late 1880s). Author’s collection.

Bird, Maggie, Inspecting Officer of the Records Management Branch of Scotland Yard. Interview, London, March 4, 2002.

Cate letters, British Library.

Christchurch Times,
January 12, 1889 (obituary of Montague Druitt).

Cobden, Ellen. Letter to her father, Richard Cobden, July 30, 1860. West Sussex Record Office, Cobden Papers, #38E.

———. Letters of Ellen Melicent Cobden Sickert, West Sussex Record Office, Ref. Cobden 965.

Cobden, Ellen, and Richard Brook Cobden. Letters undated (circa late 1840s), West Sussex Record Office, Ref. Add Ms 6036.

Cobden, Ellen Melicent.
A Portrait,
Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 17 Thavies Inn, 1920. (One of 50 copies printed for private circulation by Woods & Sons, Islington.)

Cobden Papers: Ellen Cobden Sickert, Jane Cobden Unwin, Richard Cobden, Jr., and Richard Cobden. West Sussex County Library.

Corporation of London Records Office, The Whitechapel Murders files. (These files include some three hundred letters pertaining to the Ripper crimes.)

Daily Telegraph, The
(London). Articles of September 1-28 and October 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7, 1888.

Dalziel, Gilbert, editor.
Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday,
Fleet Street, London (incomplete volumes 1884-1891). Author’s collection.

Denys Sutton Papers, Glasgow University, Birmingham.

Dobson, James. Letter to his wife, February 13, 1787, the day before he was hanged before the Debtors Door of Newgate Prison. Author’s collection.

“Double Duty.”
The Police Review and Parade Gossip,
April 17, 1893, and August 18, 1905.

Druitt Collection. West Sussex Record Office.

Druitt, Montague. Material at Christchurch Library, Dorset; Dorset Record Office; Greenwich Local History Library; and Lewisham Local History and Archives.

Eastern Mercury
. Articles of October 12, 1888, and February 12, August 6, September 10, 17, and 24, October 15, and December 17, 1889.

Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen. Letters, Tate Gallery Archive.

Friel, Lisa, Esq., Assistant District Attorney.
The People of the State of New York against John Royster.
Transcript of her summation for the prosecution, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Hey, Ciceley. Papers of Ciceley Hey, Islington Public Libraries.

Hill’s Hotel guest book, 1877-88. Lizard Point, Cornwall, England. Author’s collection.

Home Office Records. Public Record Office, Kew, HO 144/220/ A49301 through HO 144/221/A49301K.

Hudson, Nan. Letters, Tate Gallery Archive.

Illustrated Police News, The:
Law Courts and Weekly Record, London, September-December, 1888.

Institut Bibliothèque de L’Institut de France, Paris. Jacques-Emile Blanche—Walter Sickert Correspondence, Document Numbers 128, 132, 136, 137, 139, 148, 150-55, 168, 169, 171, 179, 180, 183-86.

Irving, Henry. Private correspondence (collection of letters that show the various cities where he and his company performed). Author’s collection.

King Edward VII. Letter to Professor Ihre (Prince Albert Victor’s German tutor), July 12, 1884. Author’s collection.

Lessore, John. Conversation with Lessore at his studio in Peckham, spring 2001.

Llewellyn, Dr. Rees Ralph. Information regarding Dr. Llewellyn and fees charged by doctors called upon by coroners and police: Royal London Hospital Archives and Medical Directories at the Wellcome Medical Library.

Macnaghten, Melville. Memorandum, February 23, 1894, courtesy of Scotland Yard.

Metropolitan Police. Special reports of Martha Tabran’s murder, August 10-October 19, 1888, Public Record Office, Kew.

Metropolitan Police, records of. Metropolitan Police Crime Museum.

———. Metropolitan Police Historical Museum, Metropolitan Police Archives.

Metropolitan Police Museum, archives of. Details of police hand ambulances, buildings, salaries, uniforms, and equipment.

Metropolitan Police Records, MEPO 2/22, MEPO 3/140-41, MEPO 3/182, MEPO 3/3153-57, Public Record Office, Kew.

News of the World, Sunday Morning Special,
London, September 15, 22, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 17, and December 1, 1907.

Norwich, Julius, grandson of Dr. Alfred Duff Cooper. Telephone interview, spring 2001.

Pall-Mall Gazette.
Articles of September 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 21, 24, 25, 27, and 28, and October 1 and 2, 1888.

Pash, Florence. Material in the Sickert Collection, Islington Public Libraries.

Pritchard, Eleanor. “The Daughters of Cobden [part 2],” West Sussex Public Record Office, Ref.
West Sussex History Journal,
No. 26, September 1983.

Rhind, Neil. Transcript of talk on November 21, 1988, Lewisham Local History and Archives.

Russell, Lord Charles, Papers of Lord Charles Russell (regarding Florence Maybrick’s marriage to James Maybrick, and her trial for his murder, and subsequent conviction, 1889-1904). The collection includes news clippings (some clippings, added at a much later date, refer to the alleged James Maybrick—Jack the Ripper connection). Author’s collection.

St. Mark’s Hospital. Interview with recordkeepers, 2001. I was told that any old patients’ records would be at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and a check of the record books there revealed nothing prior to 1900.

Sands, Ethel. Letters, Tate Gallery Archive.

Schlesinger, Louis. Telephone conversation, February 12, 2003.

Sickert, Walter. Collected papers, Islington Public Libraries. This collection of Walter Sickert’s private papers includes some writings of his father, Oswald Sickert, and more than a hundred sketches on scraplike paper that have no titles, dates, or signatures. While one suspects that the sophistication of many of the drawings indicates they were done by Oswald, it is reasonable to attribute a number of the works to Walter, due to what appears to be a fledgling artist’s early attempts at drawing in addition to a familiarity of style that is seen in his mature art. Sickert scholar Dr. Anna Gruetzner Robins, who looked at the sketches, verified that some of them were most likely done by Walter as a boy and possibly as late as 1880 or 1881 when he was in art school.

———. “Exhibits,” draft, undated.

———. Letter to Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1906, Institut Bibliothèque de L’Institut de France, Paris. Jacques-Emile Blanche—Walter Sickert Correspondence, Document Numbers 183-86.

———. Letter to Jacques-Emile Blanche (circa 1906), Institut Bibliothèque de L’Institut de France, Paris. Jacques-Emile Blanche—Walter Sickert Correspondence, Document Number 182.

———. Letter to Ciceley Hey (circa August 1923), Islington Public Libraries.

———. Letter to Bram Stoker, February 1, 1887, Leeds University Brotherton Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections.

———. Letter to unknown recipient, return address Frith’s Studio, 15 Fitzroy Street (circa 1915). Author’s collection.

———. Letters and edited drafts of his published articles. Author’s collection.

———. Letters to Miss Case, British Library Add.50956 f.109. (Letters of Eminent Persons Vol. I. Letters, mainly to members of the Case and Stansfield families, collected by Miss E. S. Case). No date.

———. Letters to Sir William Eden, Special Collections Dept., University of Birmingham Library, Birmingham, England.

———. Letters to William Rothenstein, Papers of Sir William Rothenstein, BMS ENG 1148 [1367], Houghton Library, Harvard University.

———. Letters to D. C. Thomson (circa 1890-1914), David Croal Thomson Papers, Getty Research Institute, Getty Center, L.A.

———. Letters to Virginia Woolf, New York Public Library.

———. “The New Age,” May 14, 1914, Islington Public Libraries, Sickert Collection.

———. Sketches of, Islington Central Library, Islington Archives, London.

———. Sketches of, Leeds City Art Gallery.

———. Sketches of, Tate Gallery Archive.

———. Sketches of, University of Manchester, John Rylands Library and History of Art Department.

———. Sketches of, University of Reading Department of History of Art.

———. Sketches of, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

———. Sketches and paintings of, Ashmolean Museum.

———. Unpublished draft of “The Perfect Modern,”
The New Age,
April 9, 1914.

Sphere, The.
“Sir Henry Irving, An Appreciation,” October 21, 1905.

Stage, The.
“Death of Sir Henry Irving,” October 19, 1905. S

towe, Harriet Beecher. “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands” (her essay on a breakfast with Richard Cobden), 1854. Papers of Richard Cobden, West Sussex Record Office, Ref. Cobden 272.

Sutton, Denys. Papers of Denys M. Sutton (1917-91), Special Collections, Glasgow University Library, Glasgow, Scotland.

Swanwick, Helena Sickert. Correspondence, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, M.S. English History.

———. Letter, National Art Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum.

Terry, Ellen. Letter to a Mr. Collier, March 24 (possibly early 1900s). Author’s collection.