J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement

"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustration by William Small from the first publication of the story in The Cornhill Magazine, January 1884.
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CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story
Publication
Published inThe Cornhill Magazine
Media typePrint, magazine
Publication dateJanuary 1884

"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" is an 1884 short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is in the form of a first-person testimony by a survivor of the Marie Celeste, a fictionalised version of the Mary Celeste, a ship found mysteriously abandoned and adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. Doyle's story was published anonymously in the January 1884 issue of The Cornhill Magazine.