Two works by Poe decoded. Announcement!!

Part II

Imagine how difficult it must have been for George-Luis "Le Rouge" or "Luis Rose", as they called him in the States, drawing his maps, months among the redskins in the wilderness of Allegheny, alone but for the good Reverend Cornelius Gerretzen Cuzyn-Cozine, the pacifist dutchman......

1781.7 CARTE DES ENVIRONS DU FORT PITT ET DE LA NOUVELLE PROVINCE INDIANA Dediee A. M. Franklin. This map comes from the French edition of Thomas Hutchins' A Topographical Description of Virginia..., with the French title Description topographique de la Virginie, de la Pensylvanie, du Maryland et de la Caroline Septentrionale: contenant les rivières d'Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokée, Wabash, des Illinois, du Mississipi, &c publieé par Thomas Hutchins. It was translated and published by George Le Rouge in Paris. It shows the region from Fort Pitt south to Kentucky and from the Allegheny Front west to the Muskingum River. The "Indiana" in the title refers to today's West Virginia. This image is from Winsor (1899).

---and then solo rowing his canoo along the whole eastern coast, exchanging letters with his dear Benzie at the same time.......

1783.9 REMARQUES SUR LA NAVIGATION DE TERRE-NEUVE A NEW-YORK AFIN D'EVITER LES COURRANTS ET LES BAS-FONDS AU SUD DE NANTUCKETT ET DU BANC DE GEORGE. A Paris ches Le Rouge... . This is Benjamin Franklin's famous map of the Gulf Stream which includes the eastern coast from Newfoundland to Florida. Pennsylvania and the other states are named. According to McCorkle (#783.10, 786.3, 789.7), who illustrates three versions, Franklin sent a copy of his chart to the French marine office, and when he returned to Philadelphia in 1785 he carried this French chart with him. This map is also illustrated and discussed in Pritchard & Taliaferro #62. An earlier version of Franklin's chart of the Gulf Stream appeared on a circa 1768 map of the Atlantic Ocean which included both North America and Europe, and so is not listed here; it is shown in Pritchard & Taliaferro. The image here is the 1786 version A CHART OF THE GULF STREAM published by the American Philosophical Society, Vol 2. Pl. 5, with "A letter from dr. Benjamin Franklin. Containing sundry maritime observations. August, 1785," and text titled "Remarks Upon the Navigation from Newfoundland to New York, In order to avoid the Gulph Stream." Wheat & Brun #721; Phillips page 592. Image from the Heritage Map Museum CD by permission.
http://www.mapsofpa.com/antiquemaps28a.htm

Both maps by George Luis Le Rouge, (the "red")


A different philosophy, a "dark" philosophy, definitely!

Gay fire-fly of the night we come and go" (Al Aaraaf passage)

Edgar's "greekness", evident to this here greek who claims to be the first to interpret and understand him, was not his own, but Henry's, the good side of his "William Wilson", his greek brother.

"Around" they came to the Levant in 1823, John Allen and young William-Henry, the first as captain of a Cochini ship, William as Guilhelmo Cochini "in charge of the Zante affaires of the egyptian ruler Mehmet Ali", already mentioned, once only on greek records, 21st May 1823 (D.Konomos, Anekdota Keimena Tes Ellinikis Epanastaseos 1821,.Athens 1966, page 68).

When the US frigate purchase was decided, after the "famous" London financing agreement, John Allen left his post and departed for the States, April 1824, whereas, for some unknown reason, Guilhelmo left Zante in a hurry to be next found being transferred, 30th November1824, very sick, on captain Sahtouris's "Athina" off Porto Keri, Zante, asking passage to Hydra declaring himself as "George Washington".
(We also meet Yanni d'Anastasy supplying himself munitition to Missolonghi 23 July (6th August) 1824 whereas late in August he reassumes his official postiton as governor of the island of Santorini after a long absence.)

Passage to the States was provided to "George Washington" and we next see him visiting the Allens in Richmond, summer 1825, in his navy outfit etc.

He excited Edgar with his experiences and returned next to Greece undercover ("below") as George Washington late in 1825 but, because of his health and his "erratic personal behavior and colorful life-style" (he has been convinced in the meantime by Yanni to support the antibrit cause) he was then replaced by a more stable, patrioticaly, Edgar "Perry" who came "above" in May 1827 to inherit not just Henry's diary but his greek contacts as well.

"William Washington" and "George Wilson" are later versions of the one and only "William Wilson".

Any philosophy avoiding the truth is "dark" by definition!

Readers are reminded that "The Sonnet to Zante"-post #1 of this thread-was a first indication of Edgar's link to Greece.

The Sonnet lead next to "Al Aaraaf" and the two poems eventualy revealed to the amazed undersigned the intimate-yet very unlikely then- contact of a famous american poet with his own greek ancestors and, furthermore, the very same period, 1826-1835 his research had previously focused on BECAUSE of a murder in Zante, a murder instigated by the greek national poet Dionisios Solomos with unknown Cochini victims, the fact verified in part by the Sonnet's contents.

Previous research had, by the proccess of elimination, narrowed the list of victims to:

-Anastasy Cochini (about 1760-1835),
(propably elder son of le Comte de Saint Germain, ie Gioachino Cocchi (aka Lazarus Cochini), assistant to Napoleon's war ministry 1812-1815 under general Mortier as revealed while this Announcement was written)

OR

-a "never heard of" Guillhelmo Cochini, in charge of the affairs of Mehemt Ali in Zante in 1823
(Edgar's greek brother "William Wilson" as per last revelations.)

Everything written in here, viewer, all effort and initiative, was for this one and only purpose:

To find Edgar's greek links, contacts and circumstances and to identify the victim of the 1835 murder, an "own moral code" demanding to precisely formulate such an accusation against the sacred cow of greek litterature.

Need it/can it be described just how much more our research has accomplished, what an everlasting impression and effect such accomplishments had on an "ignorant greek Yanni"?

No, it cannot, no attempt can describe it and, furthermore, the topics covered-snapshot like but with a fair amount of close ups, some with microscope+camera combination to show we mean business- so immensely important, so fundamental, do not allow such an attempt.

-Before proceeding to Zante,1835 as scheduled, we feel obliged to point out that solving "Edgar", the aenigma of his "split personality", was a relief: We really liked his greek brother only and we'll not miss the remaining "other half", he may return thus, partly intact, to his worldwide friends and fans.

-Whereas "Al Aaraaf" was based in part on William-Henry's diary as well as Edgar's own later experiences, The Sonnet surely reflects specific news (1835 Zante) John Cassin, the ornithologist, brought to Edgar, thus what we read in the Sonnet are: The indignation of an already "americanised" exfrenchman with greek roots, a romantic view of things, the "lost shrine" an indication of their previous attempt towards a new religion going sour because the central players had in the meantime turned against oneanother, Anastasy, the senior "elder" and holder of all "sacred documents" (plus french property titles, plus Saint Germain files), murdered by his Salomon "followers" and their Cozine+Balsamo "New Age" associates, the next topic and sole object of our research.

-It may also be usefull to advise the reader that although we still seek to determine our own ancestor's roots (the Missolonghi engineer Michel Pierre Cochini) and legacy, our main interest and preferance stays with the Saint Germain-Anastasy-Yanni line and history:

By own considered choice!

THE
Chronicles of Baltimore;

BY
COL. J. THOMAS SCHARF,
MEMBER OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC., ETC.


"'In Whig Club, March 4th, 1777.

"'Resolved, That Mr. William Goddard, do leave this Town by twelve o'clock
to-morrow morning, and the County in three days. Should he refuse due
obedience to this notice, he will be subject to the resentment of a
Legion.'
..................
It seems that Mr. Goddard entirely disregarded their summons, as the
following extracts from the same papers will show. Mr. Goddard says: "That
on Tuesday morning last [25th March], about nine o'clock, a company of
men, some of them armed with swords and some having sticks, came to my
house and took possession of the doors and staircases, after which several
gents, headed by Commodore Nicholson, came up stairs into the printing-
office where I then was. The gents remained on or near the stair-case,
Commodore Nicholson entered the room and seized on me, on which a struggle
ensued. The door was shut by a workman of mine, which was burst open by
the gents who stayed behind, who were pressing forward to assist Commodore
Nicholson. Several of the company seized me, and whilst in that situation
I received several blows given with their fists. My workmen in the office
were treated in the same manner, thrown down and much abused. The workmen,
I believe, were struck in that manner because they were busy in attempting
to shut the persons out who were coming in. I was then dragged down
stairs, when Commodore Nicholson, being apprehensive of firearms, searched
my pockets, and so did several others. The names of the persons who then
entered my house and treated me and my workmen as above, were to the best
of my remembrance as followeth: Commodore James Nicholson, Benjamin
Nicholson, Esq., Col. Nath'l Ramsey, Mr. James Cox, David Stewart, Esq.,
Mr. David Plunkett, Mr. George Turnbull, Mr. Daniel Bowley, Mr. John
Gordon, Mr. George Welsh, Mr. Mark Alexander, Mr. Hugh Young, Mr. John
McClure, Mr. David Poe, Mr. Daniel Lawrence, Capt. Hallock and Campbell. I
was then carried out into the street, and surrounded

Page 160

by a great number of people, most of whom I believed belonged to the Whig
Club, and carried thence to the tavern kept by Mr. David Rusk, and into
the room where the Whig Club generally meet, where I was treated with
great indignity by several present. The company were greatly increased,
and I, besides those already mentioned, remember Mr. Benjamin Griffith,
Capt. Nathaniel Smith, Lieut. Thomas Morgan, John McCabe, Cornelius
Garratson, Job Garratson, James Smith, son of William, and William
Aisquith. After I had been for some time in the Club room, Commodore
Nicholson proposed a private conference in another room, into which a
number withdrew, leaving me in the outer room under guard. After
deliberation they returned, and Commodore Nicholson, as chief or head of
the assembly, told me they had come to a determination that I should
either engage to depart the State immediately, or be subjected to suffer
their original designs. I then told them before I could make my choice, I
should know what their original designs were. The Commodore observed that
was yet a secret; however, my person was unsafe, and they were prepared to
execute their purposes. I then asked how long they would give me to make
preparation. Six hours were mentioned, at the same time it was doubted
whether at their previous meeting, the State, or the town and county only
were intended, and finally determined that the town and county only were
intended. They also gave me leave to stay till night, but to be no longer
seen there until the new form of government, or a new form of government,
bad taken place, or until the wheels of government were in motion. I then
told them as I considered myself unsafe (to which some of the company
immediately replied that I was) I would consent to depart, hoping that
another form of government would speedily take place, I was then released
from the crowd, and suffered to go home to prepare for my journey. I
stayed at home till night, then put myself under the protection of Capt.
Galbraith, who commanded the guard in Baltimore Town that night, and in
the morning set off to Annapolis."

(William Goddard had previously supported the notion, the people of Baltimore should welcome the offer of brit General Howe. )

Part I

Having documented the existence and relations of the Cochini in Zante and the US, their links to Ben Franklin, the Poes, the Allens, their "Balm" choices etc, their relations to Saint Germain'Cioachino Cocchi and his later(?) enemies, the "Voltaire oriented' Cochin-Cozine mercers, we now come to another familiar name:

Salmon!

"Solomos" in greek is salmon, the fish but, when the last "s" is replaced with an n, we have Solomon, the ancient jewish King.

King Solomon would propably have objected to be mistaken for a fish, thus people of his race who bear the name rarely offend him by purposely changing it to "Solomos"(grk) or "Salmon"(eng).

Born (1798) in Zante Dionysios Salomon , the "national greek poet" and alleged murderer, later became a Solomos by choice. He was not the only one however:

There also is a "Salmon" to be found in colonel Scharf's am "Baltimore Chronicle", pages 63, 139, 249, 260, 264, 274

Summarizing:

Salmon George, a "foreigner", arrived Baltimore Nov 1775, appointed judge 1788, member of the orphans court in 1792, member of the health comittee 1794, president of the Bank of Baltimore 1795, died 1807.

So the question arises:

Is our greek Solomos, the poet-murderer, a relative of George Salmon, the Baltimore banker, is the Cochin-Balsamo coexistance in Zante and Baltimore-Philadelphia a possible indication of their cooperation, at the time, with the Salmon "fishy" banking business in Zante and Baltimore-and possibly Paris-as well?

This topic will be addressed next.

Part II

A George Salmon (president/founder of The B.of B. in 1795) was previously noticed arriving in Baltimore as a "foreigner", November 1775 (declaraton of USA Independence year), almost simultaneously with comte Saint Germain's appointment (27th Oct) to Luis XVI's war ministry.
This same year:
-Within a week of the battle of Bunker Hill the Congress voted an issue of paper money and in : ....June 22, 1775 authority was given for an issue of $2,000,000. of bills of credit, based upon the credit of the States.
-The lodge "Nine Muses" was founded in Paris within "Les amis reunis". The two lodges as well as "Philalethes" operated under Savalette de Langes, Saint Germain's son. .

In 1776 Franklin became ambassador to France and was affiliated at the Nine Muses and Cagliostro was initiated into Masonry. In 1777 the Articles of Confederation were adopted by Continental Congress, the battles of Bennington, Brandywine, Germantown, Princeton and Saratoga. George Washington had his mystical vision of the future of the United States and....

In Whig Club, March 4th, 1777. David Poe, "Cornelius Garratson" (ie Claude-Denis Cochin), Daniel Lawrence, James Cox (later cashier of The Baltimore Bank) forced anglophile William Goddard to leave town.

-The printing expertise of the french Caccini-Cochin-Causses,
-their friendship and cooperation with Franklin (their 1779 corespondence on printing techniques and equipment),
-the latter's promotion(fur cup portrait) while in France,
-the subsequent french aid to the USA,
-the particular talents of Giuseppe Balsamo in "document reproduction",
-the fast depreciating first $ issues (1779- January 14th: 8 to 1,October 14th: 30 to 1. 1781- January:100 to 1, May 1781 the "Notes" ceased to pass as Currency),
-the 1786 Louvre theft from the royal designs collection guarded by Charles Nicholas Cochin (possibly including bank or promisory note printing plates)
-the "dissapearance" of Cornelius Cozine in 1785
-the letter exchange between ev John Carrol and Rev. John Causse dated 8/16/1785
-the excommunication of the latter in 1791
-the hydrian myth of Lazarus Cochini saving two jewish banknote forgers in his "first ever" trip to Trieste in 1792 and
-the founding of The Baltimore Bank by George Salmon in 1795....

...certainly all hint at "something maybe wrong", the suspicion further strengthened by the Zante "Salmons" ("count" Niccolo Salomon, Dionisios's father) and their vast wealth and line of business 1795-1807 (Money lending. Niccolo Salomon's 1807 Zante death coinciding with George Salmon's in Baltimore) .

If the origins of the Zante Salomons and the source of their wealth remain still obscure (Venice collapsed financialy long before 1797), Dionisios Salomon relations to the Zante Cochini are well established and on record:

Dec 1st, 1828 Dimitrio-Giaccomo Dion. Cocchini, (the one with a Balsamo wife of previous posts) witnessed Dionisios Solomos's first will and testament!

Furthermore Niccolo Salomon's Zante "myth" does include his nickname: He was known as "Tabacciere", tobacco trader:

Tobacco, Baltimore's main export to Europe, a monopoly then, possibly the cargo of Cassin ships, also traded by John Allen&Co in London later-on (1814-5).

We thus conclude that the Baltimore Salmons and the Zante Solomos are of the same marine species. This conclusion, that the Salmons-Solomos were in friendly terms with the Paris Cochin "Mercers", not the Cassins of Philadelphia or the Cochini of Hydra, matches previous reached on the same subject. Relative financial differences and "secrets" must now be added to the growing list of motives explaining the 1835 murder.

(part III folowing).

Undoubtedly the most remarkable thread I have ever seen!
I thought deciphering one of the cipher messages that he declared a fraud gave me some creds in the area, but I humbly back out, bowing low.

Part III

How did a 1775 Baltimore "foreigner" become an "American Whig" in 1783?

From 1783 arose a story peculiar in the annals of British statecraft. Britain's government in 1783-1784 was prepared to countenance the landing of British "convict servants" on US territory, as a virtual undercover operation. These efforts were unsupervised, except by the hapless English merchant, George Moore, who dealt with an American Whig, George Salmon. ([2])......
Between 1776 and 18 August, 1786, Britain involved seven ships in futile efforts to transport convicts, not including ships sent from Ireland. Those ships were Den Keyser to Africa of 1782-1783, Recovery, to Africa associated with Camden, Calvert and King; Mackrel to Africa; George Moore's Swift I to North America/Nova Scotia, Moore's Swift II to North America/Nova Scotia, Moore's Mercury's to Honduras and Fair American, also associated with George Moore. ([5]) Since 1718, no convict contractor had ever suffered so badly from convict mutiny as Moore. In all, Moore suffered losses of £4500. ([6])http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/thebc25.htm

Salmon's Bank of Baltimore, founded in 1795 (capital $1,200,000) was the second largest bank of the USA then, the first being the Bank of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, founded in 1793 (capital $3,000,000. Next came the Manhattan Company, New York, 1799, $2,000,000)

We don't really know why colonel Scharf (like "sharp") labeled G.Salmon a "foreigner" on his 1775 Baltimore arrival. G.Salmon was possibly a descendant of the "french" Luisiana "Salmons" (see Luisiana commissary Edme-Gatien Salmon , 1733) and, as such, did not fit Scharp's "brit" version of Baltimore's history (the reason he forgot the Cassins) but what we do know is that Baltimore Bank's archive ended up in the hands of another "Sharp" who then was kind enough to trimm it:

SHARP, RICHARD G., COLLECTION, MS. 2309 Papers related to the Bank of Baltimore: letters to the board of directors, President George Salmon (d. 1807) and cashier James Cox, 1798-1821, about various accounts, loans, debts, policies on dividends and stocks, competition of state banks with the Bank of the United States, the printing of bank notes; letter from President William Wilson to Albert Gallatin about the bank's use of notes of the Bank of the United States; an opinion by Luther Martin on the security of a mortgage, 1803; meeting minutes about the use of foreign gold, 1810; advertising broadsides, 1815-35; technical pamphlet on the stereotype steel plate, 1806; pamphlet on the one hundredth anniversary of the National Bank of Baltimore, 1895; photocopies of the manumission of the slaves of Thomas Wilkins of Kent County, Maryland, 1794-1819 and 1824. Register available. Pedley, 141, 270, 1327 32 items, 1794-1895.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....ssitt/mhs.html

It all is a matter of sharpness, isn't it?


PS Thanks Walter but please straighten up and then check out how the alleged "Protocols of the Sion elders" originated from Rite of Mizraim's archives in 1901!

The origins of such thinking and societies are not specifically of interest to me; I wonder why the suggestion. Clearly I missed something in skimming through the thread.

Before entering the final round covering the 1835 murder and the "papyri copiers-mercers", a last word:

To the question: Who was the principle creator of the french Encyclopedia, the top symbol of Enlightment, below the answer by the site of "l'Université du Québec à Montréal - département de philosophie":

On sait qu'après le retrait du privilège royal, chacun des volumes de l'Encyclopédie, imprimés clandestinement, portera en frontispice, une gravure de Cochin fils représentant, sous un temple ionique, la Vérité rayonnante d'une lumière qui écarte et disperse les nuages mais enveloppée d'un voile que la Raison et la Philosophie, à ses côtés, s'apprêtent à arracher. À gauche de la Vérité, voici l'Imagination se disposant à l'embellir et à la couronner. À ses pieds, les principaux métiers ainsi que les techniques qui s'y rattachent.
........
Porte-couleurs parlant d'une entreprise qui a été le symbole général des Lumières, cette gravure célébre l'ouverture de notre histoire moderne. Le passage à l'esprit critique, à l'esprit de liberté qui s'accomplit, au moment des Lumières, par la conjugaison du rationalisme et de l'esprit philosophique, ne pouvait sans doute se faire sans le travail à la fois de sape et de construction du redoutable Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. Machine formidable dressée contre la réalité du passé, ses croyances et ses institutions, l'Encyclopédie a permis aux contemporains d'espérer l'avènement d'un monde nouveau, parce qu'ils croyaient tout comme les Philosophes au poids propre de la Raison critique; et que selon la raison, l'homme est destiné à être émancipé par la raison.

Putting two plus two together

Studying european and american history ( 1773-1826) while focusing on "Cocchi&Co"{the other Cocchini names listed herein) and associates (those already mentioned, such as George Washington, Benj.Franklin, Decatur Lafayette etc and others such as John Jay, Baron von Steuben, Fulton, Latrobe, John Paul Jones etc)....

...If a single person should be chosen to get the credits, laurels or be beatified even for creating the one and only USofA, then surely "Saint Germain"-now his full identity has been revealed and their history put together-should be a prime candidate and, in the humble opinion of the undersigned, in such case should then be called either Saint-Saint Germain or Saint "square" Germain (honouring his mathematical skills)!

Until such time the following questions are addressed to this author's american cousins, the Cassin sailors who left their descendants in the island of Hydra before creating-and dying for later-the original US Navy:

a) What kept them for revealing their story all these years?
b) Do they posses any memorabilia from such times?.
c) What are they going to do re their "irish-armenian" roots?

Silence, as good an answer as any!

King Solomon would propably have objected to be mistaken for a fish,

Probably?

Do you mean to say he never repent for his crimes?
With Aaron, Moses brother, breaking the rule (ten commandments) and deifying a calf, isn' it possible that King Solomon (with the 700 wifes and 300 concubines) possibly worshipped fish when he grew up?
Many gout suffering "recollet carnivor warmonger Kings" of his time-and ours-certainly did!
As it turns out, only Pythagoras was right and, imho, industrial societies in particular would greatly benefit to follow his advice and worship the only realy pure-if home grown-deities: The onion, garlic, parsley, lemon etc!

Don't know about red cabbages!

Introductory (I).

The "Poe Announcement" is the conclusion of a wider research covering four centuries of family history previously totaly unknown to the researcher and never published by other sources either.

The initiative of the "wider research" was taken in 1995 when, reaching the age of reason and finding none, the undersigned decided to change course in life, cut short his previous professional life to find his lost "self" and "truth", look back, meet his ancestors, prepare for whatever comes next.

Someone had told him shortly before that his late grandparents voices were broadcasted on the greek radio in a program concerning early greek opera, he wanted to hear them so he contacted the man responsible for the program, a Mr Luntzi, a lawyer from Zante, a classical music expert as well.

The complete manuscript (some 25 kilograms) of a, considered lost till then, greek opera, "Kyra Frossini" by Paul Carrer around 1850-60, was subsequently rediscovered in grandma-Stella's trunk.

Stella (+1958), a soprano, and her husband, the tenor and opera director Giovanni Cocchini, were instrumental in creating the "Greek National Melodrama" in 1901 but, because of later events (1922 national "disaster") and the selfdestructing tragic end of Giovanni in 1925, their history and biography were never written and music, a family tradition till then, was progressively abandoned by their children and grandchildren.

Also found in the trunk was an album with newspaper clippings 1896-1918 covering their opera performances and tours (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Egypt, the Balkans, England, Ireland etc).

Mr Luntzi wanted a copy of the "Kyra Frossini" MS to be exhibited at the "Dionysios Solomos Museum" in Zante (of which he was a member of the board) and furthermore so that, with the assistance of maestro Byron Fidhetji, the opera would be enorchestrated and recorded (funded by the "Friends of classical Music" the relative CD is on circulation eversince 2002-3) and, in return, the name of the undersigned would be placed on the marmor plate with the list of donnors to the Solomos Museum.

How did the MS end up in the hands of Stella and why did she keep it in her trunk to her death?

(Note to the viewer: From hereon the subject mainly concerns modern greek literature and history students, possibly classical music scholars and, finally, specific members of the Cochin-Cassin etc family.
Poe "enthusiasts" and other viewers who have followed this thread for any other of the addressed topics may skip the following text alltogether.)

To follow: Introductory(II)

Introductory(II)

How did the MS end up in the hands of Stella and why did she keep it in her trunk to her death?

The answer to this question (grandpa finding out the hard way how fraudulent his "music associates" and promoters were -his provocative "greek national melodrama" performances leading to the 1922 national tragedy-he buried it along with himself in 1925, grandma Stella never daring "looking back" thereafter) and their (written in the meantime) biographies were bypassed when, searching for grandpa's "voices from the past", his Hydra-Missolonghi ancestors of previous century were discovered and matters got serious.

Mme Adamopoulou, the kind curator of Hydra's Museum, providing assistance and archive material, the "greek part" (1745-1821) of the family history was then published and an announcement was made at the Third Congress of the Hellenic Genealogical Heraldic Society in Athens , October 1998.
At this Congress the existence of an 1853 Zante diary was brought to the undersigned's attention. It contained accusations against the Luntzi family (married to the Solomos post 1835) for participating in the murder of a Cochini in Zante. Other relevant indications from previous research on the Zante Cochini, until then seemingly unrelated to the hydrians, were thus .crosschecked and verified.

This coincidence, the previous "music expert" contact, the Zante lawyer (a kind man who provided relevant books and info for the grandparents bios) being a direct descendant of the alleged murder participants, complicated matters considerably: The possiblility the MS was buried because of "bad blood" between Hydra and Zante, that grandparents wishes were overlooked by an ignorant grandson, led to a phonecall, a couple of weeks later, to the director of the Solomos Museum: Yourstruly's name was to be removed from the said donnors list!

Other contacts, letters and publications re the murder followed to no avail and research then expanded internationaly via the web.

When E.A. Poe's involvement was certain, the "Poe Anouncement" was initiated and developed around poetry herein, poetry thought (and subsequently proven) to be more trustworthy than other "sources".

It has been quite an experience, the risk taken (to publish while researching) by yourstruly well received and appreciated by the reader.

It will end sort of "poeticaly" too, the last chapter dealing with the vilest of human acts, "δολοφονία", premeditated murder, destructon of life, the exact opposite of creation, a "poem in reverse" in fact, carried out by a man of letters, the "greek poet" Dionysios Salomon, author of no less than Greece's national anthem!

Sanctified by the blood of many fallen in battle, the Greek National Anthem that made us all taller bringing tears of pride to our eyes as children.

Our "spotless" anthem!

Still....

As the poet was born in troubled times
and
as he faced society from the wrong side as a child
and
as he truly suffered, subsequent to the murder, some twenty more years to his death...

...as he truly repent...

...this last chapter is not meant as a blame against the poet, his race or his poetry(!), the crime, as we'll later examine, planned not just by himself and family, carried out not to secure their interests only.

There was Cochini involvement too, on both sides of the blade!

Hi all!

Other commitments prevented the undersigned to keep the April date (whereby details on the 1835 Zante murder of a Cochini by the poet Dionysios Salomon and his clan would be revealed) and readers are thus advised to look forward to sometime around middle of May next.


Cheers!