BIB_ID
417913
Accession number
MA 14076.26
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Zermatt, Switzerland, 1893.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21 x 13.8 cm
Notes
Date of writing inferred from internal evidence; Doyle stayed at the Riffelalp in Zermatt in August 1893.
Written on illustrated letterhead stationery from the "Hotel Ryffelalp / Altitude 2227 metres" in Zermatt Swtzerland.
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; Chatto & Windus were engaged in the negotiations for the republication of Doyle's novel, The firm of Girdlestone, during the summer of 1893 (see MA 14077).
Written on illustrated letterhead stationery from the "Hotel Ryffelalp / Altitude 2227 metres" in Zermatt Swtzerland.
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; Chatto & Windus were engaged in the negotiations for the republication of Doyle's novel, The firm of Girdlestone, during the summer of 1893 (see MA 14077).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning terms for the republication of one his works (probably his The firm of Girdleston), and stipulating that he "should not consent under £100 - coupled with the condition that he should state in publishing it that it is old work republished."
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