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# Beale ciphers

Wikipedia contributors, n.d.. _Wikipedia_.

Reference summary with a reliable bibliography (Gillogly, Kruh, Nickell, Hammer, Beale Cypher Association newsletter 1979 to 1996).

**Beale ciphers** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Used for the outline of the twentieth-century search and for the Hammer and Beale Cypher Association items pending direct sources.

## Cited by on this site 12 records

[Beale used a printed Declaration with variant wording, and the corrections reflect that edition.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/answers/ANS0CR7J8DY66RY/beale-used-a-printed-declaration-with-variant-wording-and)

Answer

ANS

[Someone else in Lynchburg in the 1880s wrote it as fiction or a promotion, with Ward as front.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/answers/ANS0CR7J5G6195P/someone-else-in-lynchburg-in-the-1880s-wrote-it-as-fiction)

Answer

ANS

[Beale is a common Virginia surname; several Thomas Beales existed in the period.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/evidence/EVD0CR7J7EP6PQ1/beale-is-a-common-virginia-surname-several-thomas-beales)

Evidence

EVD

[Hammer reported structure consistent with enciphered text.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/evidence/EVD0CR7J3HP7HAX/hammer-reported-structure-consistent-with-enciphered-text)

Evidence

EVD

[Hammer's computer analyses in the 1960s and 1970s reported non-random structure in ciphers 1 and 3.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/evidence/EVD0CR7J1V07JJR/hammers-computer-analyses-in-the-1960s-and-1970s-reported)

Evidence

EVD

[The doubled letters in Gillogly's runs have been tied to the same miscounts.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/evidence/EVD0CR7J95C1N9B/the-doubled-letters-in-gilloglys-runs-have-been-tied-to-the)

Evidence

EVD

[The doubled letters in the runs have been tied to miscounts in the pamphlet's own numbering of the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/evidence/EVD0CR7J3221HPZ/the-doubled-letters-in-the-runs-have-been-tied-to-miscounts)

Evidence

EVD

[Carl Hammer runs computer analyses of the ciphers](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/events/EVT0CR7HYX82942/carl-hammer-runs-computer-analyses-of-the-ciphers)

EVT

[Clayton and George Hart dig near Buford's](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/events/EVT0CR7HYNE751D/clayton-and-george-hart-dig-near-bufords)

EVT

[Carl Hammer](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/people/FIG0CR7HVZG7YT7/carl-hammer)

FIG

[The Beale ciphers](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers)

The mystery article

MYS

[Beale Cypher Association](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/beale-ciphers/organisations/ORG0CR7HWPY4K4N/beale-cypher-association)

ORG

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