Shaver presented Palmer with pages and pages of rantings, claiming that he had been held captive by the Deros for several years and that the Deros were responsible for untold ills in the world ...

Shaver then sent a 10,000-word letter entitled "A Warning to Future Man". Palmer rewrote it as a 31,000-word story, called it I Remember Lemuria !, and published it in the March 1945 issue - 60 ...

In 1943 Shaver wrote a letter to Amazing Stories magazine, explaining that he had learned “Mantong”, the Deros language. The magazine’s editor, Ray Palmer, tried translating phrases.