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I fully agree, I did read somewhere that Holmes traveled to England during 1888 to sell medical skeletons ( I personally think its just a piece of fiction). The from hell letter, is more more likely then not a prank letter so any evidence based around it shouldn't be the main bases of a theory. The theory of Joesph Barnett to me is a more likely suspect, many of the suspects are just people which match up with certain dates but very few actually give a reason as to why they would kill, even though the motive for Joesph might be simplistic and something which can be easily linked up after the fact for a "good what if", he does suit many key factors.If you can place the guy in Whitechapel it will give credence but I cant find a single piece of evidence that the man even crossed the Atlantic at this time. As the bloke was setting up a family, house and practice in the US at a similar time this one seems most unlikely.