Marry McGeen Comments ERB-APA #6: A Reply

Your "elder son died without issue, so the title developed upon the second son" theory is definitely as possible as any other. Respectfully, I don't feel it broadens or expands the scope of the Greystoke sphere.

Jamie Chase

The grand-cestor illegitimacy theory, although ugly, offers a source for the long mystified cab driver, John Clayton, of Sir Conan Doyle's The Hound Of Baskervilles.  This Holmes investigation occurred in October 1889 and the seven year seasoned cab driver, as described, is definitely not Tarzan.  The illegitimacy theory clearly shows a direct connection between Burroughs and Doyle.  This is not the only tie in that occurs between these two great authors.

The Hound Of The Baskervilles

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James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines, over a span of forty-five years. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled, Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There the researcher chronologies the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory) instead of the more excepted date May 1888.

James Michael Moody is also the author of the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, and Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022. Swordsman On Unium is going through the publishing process.