17-04-2023, 10:25 PM
When I was in graduate school at Yale in the early 1990s, I worked at the Beinecke Library as the assistant to the curator of pre-1600 manuscripts (then Robert Babcock) and he put me in charge of Voynich-related correspondence (among other duties). I was answering letters from all over the world, fulfilling requests for images and microfilm, and responding to reference questions about the manuscript. My brother, who is now a professor of computer science at the US Air Force Academy, was in graduate school at the time working on a cryptology PhD thesis, and I was convinced that together he and I would solve this thing once and for all! Ah, the naivité of youth... 