Dorabella Cipher - Recent Attempts On Dorabella

Recent Attempts On Dorabella

The Elgar Society advertised a Dorabella Cipher Competition in 2007 to mark the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth. A number of entries were received but none were found satisfactory: "One or two entries did contain some impressively ambitious and thoughtful analysis. These entries, though, having matched Elgar's symbols to the alphabet, invariably ended up with a fairly arbitrary sequence of letters. ... he results read as a disconnected chain of bizarre utterances, such as an imaginative mind could conjure up from any group of random letters".

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