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Fellas, allow me to present the following to you in regards to the debate about the author's statement concerning, “the missing paper.”
According to the alleged Beale letter, the box contained, “It contains papers vitally affecting the fortunes of myself and many others engaged in business with me,.....It also contains some letters addressed to yourself, and which will be necessary to enlighten you concerning the business in which we are engaged.” From this we know that the iron box contained the letters to Morriss, the ciphers, and “other papers vital to Beale's business affairs."
Now according to Morriss when he had the lock removed he found the following inside the iron box; “and with the exception of the two letters addressed to myself, and some old receipts, found only some unintelligible papers, covered with figures, and totally incomprehensible to me.”
And now, according to your author, there is still a missing paper. So, when we compare what Beale said was in the box and what Morriss said was in the box then what, exactly, did both Morriss and Beale possess that the author doesn't have? Hence, this is your missing paper being referenced by the author. Your author has everything Beale put in the box and everything Morriss found inside the iron box with the exception of one thing, “the receipts!” Beale put them in the box, Morriss found them in the box, but your author doesn't have them. And remember, according to the alleged Beale letter that box, “contains papers vitally effecting the fortunes of myself and many others engaged in business with me.” Yes, those receipts were, just as Beale proclaimed, vital to the business affairs at hand. That's why they too were in the iron box.
You see your author needed those receipts as they served two vital purposes, first they allowed him to conclude the decoding process once, and also because, “the remainder to be held by me in trust for the benefit of such claimants as might at any time appear, and be able to authenticate their claims.”
You see not only did those missing receipts “fill in the blanks” in the ciphers but each party member also had exact copies of those receipts as a means of their being able to, “authenticate their claims.”
Remember, Beale even tells Morriss that the members of his party are men Morriss didn't know and had never even met, Beale also voiced his concerns about possible unwanted third party impostors, so without any means of validating their claims, such as verified receipts, then how else would Morriss know that any of these men were the right men?
This, my friends, if the story is accurate and true as written, is what the narration was all about.
According to the alleged Beale letter, the box contained, “It contains papers vitally affecting the fortunes of myself and many others engaged in business with me,.....It also contains some letters addressed to yourself, and which will be necessary to enlighten you concerning the business in which we are engaged.” From this we know that the iron box contained the letters to Morriss, the ciphers, and “other papers vital to Beale's business affairs."
Now according to Morriss when he had the lock removed he found the following inside the iron box; “and with the exception of the two letters addressed to myself, and some old receipts, found only some unintelligible papers, covered with figures, and totally incomprehensible to me.”
And now, according to your author, there is still a missing paper. So, when we compare what Beale said was in the box and what Morriss said was in the box then what, exactly, did both Morriss and Beale possess that the author doesn't have? Hence, this is your missing paper being referenced by the author. Your author has everything Beale put in the box and everything Morriss found inside the iron box with the exception of one thing, “the receipts!” Beale put them in the box, Morriss found them in the box, but your author doesn't have them. And remember, according to the alleged Beale letter that box, “contains papers vitally effecting the fortunes of myself and many others engaged in business with me.” Yes, those receipts were, just as Beale proclaimed, vital to the business affairs at hand. That's why they too were in the iron box.
You see your author needed those receipts as they served two vital purposes, first they allowed him to conclude the decoding process once, and also because, “the remainder to be held by me in trust for the benefit of such claimants as might at any time appear, and be able to authenticate their claims.”
You see not only did those missing receipts “fill in the blanks” in the ciphers but each party member also had exact copies of those receipts as a means of their being able to, “authenticate their claims.”
Remember, Beale even tells Morriss that the members of his party are men Morriss didn't know and had never even met, Beale also voiced his concerns about possible unwanted third party impostors, so without any means of validating their claims, such as verified receipts, then how else would Morriss know that any of these men were the right men?
This, my friends, if the story is accurate and true as written, is what the narration was all about.
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