The Architecture of Isolation 5 - Nearing the Winter Solstice 2023

Edmund Alexander Parkes (1819-1876)

There are some very close answers, but Bilbo has it! I am not sure if by hook or by crook, Bilbo got the correct answer - however, the courier cannot deliver Carl’s signed portrait to Middle Earth, so bad luck. 

The mystery writer is Professor Parkes, who figures prominently in the 15th lecture of the Snow series.

Parkes started life as a contagionist mil…