BIB_ID
417615
Accession number
MA 14076.8
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth, England, 1884 February 27.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.2 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Written from: 1 Bush Villas / 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 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.
Doyle's "The man with the mattock" was evidently published in the British weekly People in 1890, under the title "A pastoral horror."
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 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.
Doyle's "The man with the mattock" was evidently published in the British weekly People in 1890, under the title "A pastoral horror."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Submitting his short story "The man with the mattock" for publication in Belgravia magazine, noting that it is "open to the charge of being horrible", although it "has no preternatural element in it however, and may perhaps suit you."
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