BIB_ID
417912
Accession number
MA 14076.25
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1882.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Date of writing inferred from internal evidence; Doyle's stories, "The Gully of Bluemansdyke" and "The little square box", were both published in the Christmas number of London society in December of 1881.
Written from "7 Finborough Road / London S.W."
Written on blue-gray stationery.
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.
Written from "7 Finborough Road / London S.W."
Written on blue-gray stationery.
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 story "End of a joke" for publication in the Belgravia magazine, noting that he has been a "pretty constant contributor" to Chambers journal and London society, and informing him that the two stories, "Gully of Bluemansdyke" and "The little square box", published in the Christmas number of London society, were both from his pen.
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