spent a rainy weekend on Elgar's Dorabella note. came out the other side with nothing and a headache

you know the composer Edward Elgar wrote his music but the man was also obsessed with codes and ciphers as a hobby. in 1897 he sent a little note to a young woman, Dora Penny, family friend, from his place in Malvern. three lines, 87 of these squiggly symbols. each symbol is an arc-shape with a numb……