Series V: Shepard-Hughes-Danton Fakes, 1922-1938, undated

Research detailing a series of fake drawings circulating in the 1920s and 1930s. George J. Shepard, who also used the names John J. Hughes and Ferdinand Danton, was arrested in 1934 for attempting to sell a forgery of a Peale drawing to Richard Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland. Includes Morgan's typescript draft narrative describing the events, photographs, correspondence with private collectors and galleries who were offered or purchased the drawings, newspaper clippings regarding Shepard's arrest, a letter from Richard Cleveland discussing the Grand Jury hearing, a list of Shepard's aliases, and his mug shots.

Correspondents include Harry MacNeill Bland, Richard F. Cleveland, the American Antiquarian Society, the Brooklyn Museum, Mantle Fielding, M. Knoedler & Co., Lamot Du P. Copeland, Harvard University, The Filson Club, R.P. Tolman, the U.S. Navy Department, and the Albany Institute of History and Art. Drawings were allegedly by Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Benjamin West, as well as numerous others.