The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 41, October 7, 2001, Article 7

A NUMISMATIC WRITER AT POOH CORNER?    

  Asylum Editor E. Tomlinson Fort and his wife Gosia write:   
  "Recently, Larry Dziubek brought to our attention an interesting   
  tidbit.  There is a book entitled "Communion Tokens of the   
  Presbyterian Churches in Ireland" by A.A. Milne (published   
  1920). Apparently there are a number of people, of whom   
  Larry is not one, who think that this person is the same   
  gentleman who created Winnie-the-Pooh.    

  After some checking it was quickly confirmed that they are   
  two very different people.  The creator of Winnie-the-Pooh   
  was Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) who lived most of   
  his life, and set his famous characters in, southern England.   
  The author of the communion token book is Reverend   
  Alexander Allan Milne (born 1857) who seems to have   
  resided in Scotland.  We have not been able to ascertain if   
  the two gentlemen were related. Thus, sadly, numismatic   
  literature does not seem to have been one of the things that   
  Tiggers do best."   

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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