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Re: Telegram codebook & Renault archivist?



I took a quick look on my maritime museum shelves under LOC call number HE
7673 to HE 7679 and found several volumes of commercial code books under
various titles: Scott's; Bentley's; ABC; Penta; and Boe dating from
1900-1925.  Send me a short sentence and I'll have a volunteer try to
decipher it!

Michael

f. michael Angelo
library director
independence seaport museum
211 s. columbus blvd.
philadelphia, pa  19106
<mangelo@indsm.org>

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Subject: Telegram codebook & Renault archivist?


Hello, all you good looking people:

I've been lurking and reading and reading and lurking and asking myself,
"Whatever happened to that crazy guy from the Corps of Engineers who used to
write those oddly affecting posts from all around the country and even
Europe?"  Recently I remembered that that was me.  My, my, how I've missed
putting points on the pointless.  I, for one, sure hope I'm going to write
more often.

I'd love to stay and chat but let me, for now, just ask these questions:

I'm working on a project that involves some diaries from 1925.  Mentioned in
the diaries is a telegram codebook. As I understand it, in those
pay-by-the-word days, this codebook helped you save money on telegrams.
You'd say, "porkchops and applesauce, Sweetheart,"  and that would mean a
whole lot more.  I have never seen such a book...me, a former railroad
telegrapher.  Anybody know where to find one?

Second question:  Can someone give me a name and address for  a historian or
archivist at the Renault Corporate HQ in France?  I've been to
www.Renault.com and that helped not at all.

I'll explain what I'm up to in a future post, for I have yet more questions
to ask.  Wish I could say I'll see you in Denver but I can't get away.

Cryptically,

Michael "Carrots and Onions" Tarabulski

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