BIB_ID
417906
Accession number
MA 14076.21
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth, England, 1890 June 4.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Written from: Bush Villa / 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 accompanying related correspondence; the British edition of Doyle's novel, The firm of Girdlestone, was issued by Chatto & Windus in 1890.
Inscribed in a different hand at upper left: LB 5 June.
Written from: Bush Villa / 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 accompanying related correspondence; the British edition of Doyle's novel, The firm of Girdlestone, was issued by Chatto & Windus in 1890.
Inscribed in a different hand at upper left: LB 5 June.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Asking what the book Strange secrets is, to which his name is attached, as "I never heard of such a book until I saw it in your list", and requesting they send him a copy; suggesting that they use an excerpt from a review in the Daily telegraph to publicize his novel, The firm of Girdlestone, as it would "tell more than the Scottish leader extract which you now use."
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