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Letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, Southsea, Portsmouth to Chatto and Windus, 1890 March 13 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
417907
Accession number
MA 14076.20
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Portsmouth, England, 1890 March 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.2 x 9.9 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.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Infoming them that the serial publication of his novel The firm of Gridleston will conclude in the first week of April, "after which of course we are at liberty to publish."