The Letter From Abby

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Permalink Reply by TheeBerean on August 14, 2009 at 1:38am

lol reckon there is a code on page 4?

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Permalink Reply by QtheC on August 14, 2009 at 4:01am

There are small light and dark dots or stray marks all over this letter, just a few on page 1, but definitely on pages 2 to 4. They appear as a single dot on the line, or a dot above the line, or a pair of dots one above the other like a colon.

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Permalink Reply by QtheC on August 14, 2009 at 4:41am

The stray dots might be braille.

I added enhanced versions of the four letter page images posted by Adam on facebook to a photoalbum here:
http://www.maddisonatkins.com/photo/albums/abbys-final-letter-enhanced

ref: http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/braille.htm

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Permalink Reply by QtheC on August 14, 2009 at 12:25pm

I think it is going to be difficult to make progress on decoding the dots in the letter page images without higher resolution scans, so I asked Adam on Facebook to provide them if possible. This would be good to mention in today's chat as well.

On page 1, Abby writes "Who I am will possibly be answere(d) in time." This might mean some future time, but it also might be a hint that an encoded message will tell us more about who Abby is.

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Permalink Reply by KindredPhantom on August 14, 2009 at 1:41pm

So can we assume that the letter contains a code.

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Permalink Reply by QtheC on August 14, 2009 at 4:27pm

In chat today, Maddison said she thought the stray dots and marks were just bleed-through from a the marker used to write the letter ... so that's one less code to worry about!

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