Dear Marie Celeste,
To put it properly, you never existed except in "J. Habakuk Jepson's Statement," a short story by an Arthur Conan Doyle who had not yet received knightship, not yet even imagined Sherlock Holmes's address. For sure, your ancestor in history, the Mary Celeste, a New York-based half-brig bound for Italy, turned up near Gibraltar
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