Sold For $1,283
*Includes Buyers Premium
ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” two pages, 4.5 x 7, Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere letterhead, no date. Handwritten letter to publisher Grant Richards, in full: “I should be delighted to be upon your list but you will understand yourself how difficult it is when you are on friendly terms with your publisher — as I am with Reginald Smith — and when you have discussed your future work with him — to place it elsewhere. It becomes a sort of personal matter, instead of a matter of business, which is a pity but unavoidable. The Poems were certainly on a different footing to the Novels & there I might — especially if the suggestion of collection had come from you — have had a fair excuse — but it is now too late. When you see how flat they will fall you will congratulate yourself upon your escape. I console myself by reflecting that fail as they may I am not likely seriously to incommode the Apollinaris Company.” Mounted, cloth-matted, and framed with a photo of Arthur Conan Doyle to an overall size of 17.75 x 23.5. In fine condition, with a couple of extra horizontal folds.
Doyle's onetime residence was built at his order to accommodate his wife's health requirements, and is the location where he lived with his family from 1897 to 1907. Undershaw is where Doyle wrote many of his works, including The Hound of the Baskervilles, and hosted notable persons of the era.
Between 1900 and 1935, Grant Richards was among the world's most innovative publishers. He pioneered new models of publishing in fields as diverse as poetry, children's literature, natural history, and popular science. He was also a talented spotter of literary talent, and among the writers he published were George Bernard Shaw, A. E. Housman, Samuel Butler, Frederick Rolfe, and James Joyce.
This item is Pre-Certified by PSA/DNA
Buy a third-party letter of authenticity for
$100.00
*This item has been pre-certified by a trusted third-party authentication service, and by placing a bid on this item, you agree to accept the opinion of this authentication service. If you wish to have an opinion rendered by a different authenticator of your choosing, you must do so prior to your placing of any bid. RR Auction is not responsible for differing opinions submitted 30 days after the date of the sale.
