An interesting angle to this is added by the fact that Leo Engel had actually worked for Jerry Thomas (or “side by side with,” as he put it). He advanced this claim in a letter to the Paris edition of the New York Herald in July, 1891, when he was at the New York Bar at 10, Place de la Madeleine (the current New York Bar was only the last in a series of Paris bars with that name). That makes this even more pointed. Good catch.
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