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Encoded LOVE LETTER
This would surely be a family treasure if it happened to be for one of your ancestors
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/Burton_Sharon_WYL_18.pdf
at first glance it just looks like some business letter
but when you try and read it - your brain doesn't comprehend the writing - though at first you may not realize why.
if you stare at it for various minutes - your brain will eventually probably figure out how to read it.
Its a LOVE LETTER between William Yancey and Arvilla Ellsworth in 1934
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That makes my head hurt! Why was it written that way?
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I assume to prevent others from reading it.
did you figure out how to read it?
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if you focus on what appears to be the date on the letter - you should eventually figure out how to read the entire letter.
HINT: I said the letter was written in 1934.
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Dunno, I think it was the word 'uoy' on the first line that made my brain click into gear.
I can't even imagine trying to write it in the first place. Do you think they wrote it out first and then rewrote the final draft?
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decoding the first sentence:
January 21 1934
Darling
Been thinking about you darling all morning . . .
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[ click expand post to see entire submission]
I assume most of you figured out the encoded love letter.
if it had been written or typed in BLOCK text - it would have been much easier to see how it was encoded - but because it was in cursive writing - the encoding was more difficult to see.
If you looked at the date - you would have notice that 1934 was actually written 4391
and that January was written backwards
every single word was written with the letters of such word in reverse order.
there were just a few minor errors in this logic that the writer made - which might have thrown you off.
so in short - its a love letter - with each word spelled with the letters in reverse order.
go back and read it again
😃
Ginlrad = Darling . . . .
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