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[E-MAIL] Reed Singleton @ Dead Poems

[monty]

Any differences between the emails? Maybe they were sent as HTML documents?

Kind of a stretch, but odd that you would get four of the same email.

[dmax]

I sent

[Karmic_Crimewave]

And When asked about Ann's artwork at CMH:

[Eolirin]

[TheLightShogon]

Mr. DeJong -

I was recently referred to the Cambridge Mental Hospital (CMH) website
and only just read the stories you mentioned.

It's almost funny - in compiling the Dead Poems book, I learned that my
grandmother was checked into that hospital a long time ago under some
weird circumstances that led to her being labeled a Jane Doe of some
sort, at least for awhile. Honestly, though, I never did track down the
hows, whys, or other details - I've been focusing on getting this book
finished.

I must say that the story on the website is intriguing, but I can't
tell you one way or another if the picture or story are actually about
my grandmother. It's not like she had the most unique name or
anything... Between you and me, I think the story on that website is
just another of those urban legends that tend to spring up out of
spooky places like CMH.

Oh, and before I forget - that Dreadhouse site you pointed me to looks
interesting and all, but I honestly don't know anything about it. I
can't imagine that there's any connection between it and the fact that
my grandmother had been in CMH scores of years before.

Thank you for your interest in the book!


> I found your site after looking through a site about the CMH and I
came
> across a picture I believe was made by your Grandmother
> http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/patients1.html the picture
seems to
> be signed Beatrice Doe but when the picture is flipped it seems to be
signed
> Ann Starling.
> Also on the site there is a story that seems to be about Ann as well
at
> http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/stories2.html
> And my finding of this site even led from the finding of this site
> http://www.dreadhouse.com/ which is a mysterious encounter at the CMH
that
> has peeked my interest so to speak.
> I just thought you would like to know about all these things and
perhaps if
> there is anything you may know about this perculiar Hospital or even
the
> reality show that suposibly went horribly wrong.
>

[timx]

My Email to Reed:

[sequoya]

Nothing much gained, was trying to get more info on the book - all he can give me is it's going to be soft-cover and paper (ie not an e-book!).. not many more details, I'm afraid.

[Wishi-san]

Just answered me about the capitalisation of the poems, saying that it is taken from Ann's originals.

[spies]

there is no way i believe that Ann Starling wrote a poem with a secret message encoded in BINARY.

this guy is involved. he knows what's up.

[enaxor]

So Reed finally answered some of his emails. I wrote to him back in July and still haven't heard a word.

[Eolirin]

It's not so much that the message is encoded in binary. As a mathematical concept that's been around for a very long time.

That the binary is standard ASCII however...

[enaxor]

Yay, I finally got a reply from Reed. To sum it up, Ann died sometime in 1944-1945. She didn't hear the voices from the dead until she went to Cambridge, and several of the poems and art work were redone over and over again by Ann thru the years.

[sequoya]

For completeness, I thought I should add the email that was presumably sent to all who had been in contact with Reed before yesterday. It just basically tells you stuff we've already heard a million times before from Reed about his book and where to buy it, but you never know when these things might turn out to be useful, I guess.

Subject: DEADPOEMS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!