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Letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, Southsea, Portsmouth, to the editor of Belgravia, 1884 February 27 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
417616
Accession number
MA 14076.7
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) ; 17.9 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Black edged stationery with printed crest and address: 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.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Submitting his short story "John Barrington Cowles" for publication in Belgravia magazine and noting that two of his stories have been published in the January issues of Cornhill and Temple bar.