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Letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, Southsea, Portsmouth, to the editor of Belgravia, 1882 November 13 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
417610
Accession number
MA 14076.4
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth, England, 1882 November 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.2 x 10.1 cm
Notes
Written from "1 Bush Villas / Elm Grove / 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, the proprietors of Belgravia.
Identity of recipient suggested by related correspondence; note that Andrew Chatto served as the editor of Belgravia following the acquisition of the magazine in 1876 by the firm of Chatto & Windus.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Requesting the return of his story, "My lecture on guncotton", should they have no intention of publishing it.