Matilda Briggs
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Sophia Matilda Briggs (born 1870, fate unknown) was the daughter of Benjamin S. Briggs and a passenger on the last voyage of the Mary Celeste.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire has Sherlock Holmes declare, as an aside, to Dr. Watson:
- Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson, . . . It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.
This is most likely an allusion to the actual person.
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