In keeping with her will, all of her research was destroyed when she passed away, including 40 years’ worth of work for a book about the many mysteries surrounding Cabot’s maligned 1498 expedition.
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What a stupid decision....
Why do people do that? I think Henry Adams did the same thing - all of his notes, diaries, etc - burned at his request.
****In keeping with her will, all of her research was destroyed when she passed away, including 40 years’ worth of work for a book about the many mysteries surrounding Cabot’s maligned 1498 expedition.
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What a stupid decision....****
Such promises should be kept just as Augustus Caesar kept his promise to the poet Virgil.
Or she wanted to destroy evidence that she had cooked her data. If she had confidence that it would support her theory, there would have been no reason to have it destroyed.