Series I. Dr. Oliver W. Cobb Papers primarily contains correspondence to and from Dr. Oliver W. Cobb. Authors, editors, librarians, relatives of the Briggs family, and interested readers offer explanations, address various accounts and theories, and provide and request information related to the Mary Celeste for publications in newspapers, magazines, journals, and books. The bulk of this correspondence includes letters to and from the author Charles Edey Fay, dating from 1939 to 1944, including photostats of Captain Briggs' letter to his mother in 1872, consular correspondence (1873), and a "Mutual Release" form (1872).