Thank you for the great job of analyzing that email! Like you, I thought the content was odd and found many questionable phrases in it. I really need to go read his other emails to get familiar with his writing style. Howlin, you gave a link earlier to nickberg.org. Is that where the email came from?
We don't want to read anything into it that isn't there, but on first reading, I had the same exact questions Miss Marple had about it.
Never mind about the email question. #1235 answered my question.