BIB_ID
417459
Accession number
MA 14076.13
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth, England, 1889 October 30.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written from: Bush Villa / Southsea.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by Doyle to the editor of Belgravia magazine (Andrew Chatto) and the firm of publishers Chatto & Windus, proprietors of Belgravia.
Identity of recipient suggested by accompanying related correspondence; the British edition of Doyle's novel, The firm of Girdlestone, was issued by Chatto & Windus in 1890.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by Doyle to the editor of Belgravia magazine (Andrew Chatto) and the firm of publishers Chatto & Windus, proprietors of Belgravia.
Identity of recipient suggested by accompanying related correspondence; the British edition of Doyle's novel, The firm of Girdlestone, was issued by Chatto & Windus in 1890.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing to a publisher to offer him the option of publishing his novel The firm of Girdlestone, which has just commenced serial publication in the periodical The people; pointing out that his other books, including Micah Clarke, A study in scarlet, and The mystery of Cloomber, have been fairly successful, and that there is, he believes, "every prospect of a run" for his new novel; explaining that while he published his Micah Clarke with Longmans on a royalty system, he would like to sell The firm of Girdlestone outright, as he plans to move to London and "the money is therefore needful" to him; sending along the first 6 or 8 chapters of the book, which he describes as "sensational & stirring", noting that they are the first publisher he has submitted it to since selling the serial rights, that he would be happy to do business with them if they can see their way to making him "a fairly liberal offer", provided he may reserve to himself the right of selling advance sheets of his novel to the United States, as he has "had several applications for them from American houses."
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