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Letters (24) and postal cards (2) from Arthur Conan Doyle, various locations, to the editor of Belgravia magazine and the publisher Chatto and Windus, 1882 July 2-1892 February 4 and undated : autograph manuscripts signed.

BIB_ID
196212
Accession number
MA 14076.1-26
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth ; London ; Plymouth ; Zermatt, 1882 July 2-1892 February 4 and undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
26 items (30 pages.) ; 12.3 x 7.5 cm to 21 x 13.8 cm
Notes
Letters written from Portsmouth, London, and Plymouth, in England, and a single letter from Zermatt, Switzerland.
Belgravia magazine was purchased in 1876 by publisher Chatto and Windus, with Andrew Chatto replacing the magazine's founder, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as editor.
Individual letters comprising this collection have been cataloged separately.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Offering stories for publication, including "Reminscences of the Crimea," "End of a Joke," "Reminiscences of a Veteran," "My Lecture on Guncotton," "A Story of Uffa," "The Great Keinplatz experiment," "John Barrington Cowles," "The Man with the Mattock," "The Man from Archangel," "The firm of Girdlestone" (for republication).