J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
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J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement is an 1884 short story by a then-young Arthur Conan Doyle, loosely based on the real mystery of the abandonment of the Mary Celeste, published anonymously in the respected Cornhill Magazine. It was part of The Captain of the Polestar. It was attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, while critics compared it to Edgar Allan Poe. Notably, Doyle changed the spelling of the ship from Mary to Marie Celeste.
It was purported to be an eye-witness account of the end met by those on the mysterious "ghost ship."
Doyle's story drew heavily on the original incident but included much fiction. Much of this story's fictional content, and the incorrect name, have come to dominate popular accounts of the incident. Some took Doyle's fiction for a factual article.
