Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Elgar's other enigma

I am not a linguist, nor am I skilled in many lang...

2005-11-18T20:36:00.000Z

I am not a linguist, nor am I skilled in many languages, but I should say that the enigmatic dedication written by Elgar resembles more a sort of misspelled Spanish, rather than Italian. I don't know much about Elgar's knowledge of Romance languages, so I can't say if he is writing in some Iberian dialect or archaic form of Spanish (or even Portuguese). But I would discard Italian, starting from the first word of the dedication.

I was most interested by your Elgar piece,particul...

2005-03-06T18:35:00.000Z

I was most interested by your Elgar piece,particularly so as I am the author of a monograph 'Elgar the Cyclist' and several other Elgarian books. (I note that cycling is one of your interests).I was acquainted with Mrs Powell's son have photocopied much of her archive and hope to write about her. I would be most interested to see copies of the material attached to the copy of her book which you have. Regards,
Kevin Allen