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[THE MARY CELESTE; and BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY].

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[THE MARY CELESTE; and BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY].
SHEPARD, FREDERICK JOB, 1850-1934. A two-sheet TLS from Shepard, a longtime head of the Buffalo Public Library Reference Department (1897-1925), to Edward M. Chapman; on personal Buffalo, New York, letterhead, August 2 [c. 1930s]. Shepard had made a well-publicized investigation (see clippings below) of the 1872 Mary Celeste "ghost ship" affair in the Azores. He criticizes a soon to be re-released volume, "The Great Mary Celeste Hoax," by Laurence J. Keating, and says he told Houghton Mifflin it was "another faked story." He addresses the claim he believes to be spurious, that there is a living survivor and it was only a plot to collect salvage, and he says he has put the New York Times and N.Y. Public Library on their guard against the book. Shepard also discusses other interests, including Connecticut/Yale figures. 6 3/4in. x 5 7/8in. Condition: Hole punches, toning. Together with three newspaper clippings: "Librarian Shepard Questions New Tale of Mystery Ship," Buffalo Evening News, August 8, 1929; "'Mystery' Ship Conclusions Questioned by F. J. Shepard," Buffalo Evening News, November 27, 1929; and "Who Invented John Maynard?" New York Sun, 1929. PLEASE NOTE: 20TH CENTURY DOCUMENTS CAN HAVE VARIED TONING FROM AGE; IMAGES MAY APPEAR LIGHTER ON DIFFERENT SCREENS. EDWARD MORTIMER CHAPMAN (1862-1952) was a Connecticut pastor, academic, and author. He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1890. Chapman was a descendant of Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut (c. 1635). He served as pastor of Old Lyme Church from 1906 to 1915. Chapman€™s works integrated his wide-ranging theological, literary, and historical interests. This lot and the other Chapman-related documents offered in this sale were part of a collection of his family papers..