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Letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, Southsea, Portsmouth, to the editor of Belgravia, 1882 September 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
417611
Accession number
MA 14076.2
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth, England, 1882 September 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.4 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
Submitting his "My lecture on guncotton", which he thinks "might prove acceptable for the Xmas number", and noting that he has "written a good many Xmas stories for different magazines, and this seems to me to be incomparably the best of them.".