BIB_ID
417626
Accession number
MA 14076.11
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth, England, 1885 July 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Place of writing inferred from date (Doyle resided in Southsea, Portsmouth, from 1882 to 1891) and from related correspondence.
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.
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
Acknowledging receipt of a check from Belgravia magazine and remarking that the sum paid was "somewhat less than a third of what I have been in the habit during the past six years of receiving for stories of the same legth."; with his stamped receipt for £3.17.6 written on the second page of the letter.
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