My article on the Chapman Brothers ran in The E-Sylum on the evening of October 17, 2021.The first correction came the next morning.

NBS board member David Hill wrote to mention that I had an incorrect date of death for HenryChapman III. He died as a child in 1901. I attribute the error to failing eyesight at my advancedage.

On Monday afternoon, Jan Valentine called to correct an error in the number of catalogsproduced by the brothers. In United States Numismatic Literature, Vol I, 1982, John Adamswrote that the Chapmans issued 83 catalogs from 1879 to 1906. Subsequently it was determinedthat catalogs 6 and 17 were not done by the Chapmans.

Valentine also noted the count was wrong for Henry Chapman. Adams said fifty-one. Later, the Emil Cauffman sale of January 18, 1913, was discovered. It is a small sale of only four pagesand 53 lots, mostly proof sets. Valentine is aware of four surviving copies.

Jan also reminded me of another Chapman story. I wrote a column for the November 1995 issueof The Numismatist, Then Bob Vail wrote an articlefor the March 1996 issue of Penny-Wise. This was apparently published via a time machine sinceit describes events of May 6, 1996.

Vail wrote, Arrangements were made to view the materials on May 6, 1996.

The collection was dusty and grimy from long storage with no activity. The library had noaccession records and no inventory of the contents. Among the contents was the discovery of thepreviously unknown 1913 Emil Cauffman sale.

The visit by Bland and Vail alerted the Free Library of Philadelphia that there were collectorsinterested in material that had no value to their library. They consigned it to sale by CharlesDavis and the Chapman library was returned to the collector community. Apparently, I had asmall part in making that happen.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE CHAPMAN BROTHERS(https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n42a15.html)