John Hay wrote the Bixby letter

[Steve]

The times didn't claim the 1933 editorial the first, just among the first - speculation(s). And in the end I think we will like likely never evidently know the truth - whether there was a 1922 claim or whether the study will be published not until April. Both might provide considerable arguments or thoughts, yet I doubt actual proofs.

Eva,
I was only making a point about the accuracy of the Times' weirdly self-congratulatory opinion piece.