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The crown diamond: An evening with Sherlock Holmes
The crown diamond: An evening with Sherlock Holmes
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The crown diamond: An evening with Sherlock Holmes

Dateapproximately 1921
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Notebook (ruled leaves, light brown wrappers with generic title on top cover "The 'eclipse' exercise book") with title of a play in A. C. Doyle's own handwriting on top cover and caption (leaf no. 1). Text in black ink on 25 unnumbered leaves, one whole leaf intentionally cut out and and one leaf partly cut, with no loss to the text.
Notebook (ruled leaves, light brown wrappers with generic title on top cover "The 'eclipse' exercise book") with title of a play in A. C. Doyle's own handwriting on top cover and caption (leaf no. 1). Text in black ink on 25 unnumbered leaves, one whole leaf intentionally cut out and and one leaf partly cut, with no loss to the text.

Summary/Review: The play, starring Dennis Neilson-Terry and Rex Vernon Taylour, first appeared at the Bristol Hippodrome on 2 May 1921. The Holmes story "The adventure of the Mazarin stone" which is nearly identical to the play, appeared a few months later in the Oct. 1921 Strand Magazine. The play itself was first published as "The Crown diamond : an evening with Sherlock Holmes: a play in one act" by the Baskerrette Press in 1958. 


 
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ProvenanceGift of Anna Conan Doyle. Previously owned by the author's son, Adrian Conan Doyle and bequeathed to the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library by Anna Conan Doyle, Adrian Conan Doyle's widow. The Library received the manuscript in 1992.
CollectionArthur Conan Doyle Collection
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131055014864D
Dewey Number822.912 D598.2 1921
Manuscript letter written in Alfred H. Wood's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "Dear Greenhough-Smith The first of the supplementary "Sherlock Holmes" stories will reach you after Easter"
April 17,1908
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
48 Grand Parade, Carlbourne; "My dear Smith I think I could sustain my copyright in the words "Sherlock Holmes and I don't think they have been used as an advertisement up to now."
Unknown
The hotel Metropole and the Whitehall Rooms, London; "My dear Smith; No, I got the Sherlock Holmes suggestion but not the other one"
The hotel Metropole and the Whitehall Rooms, London; "My dear Smith; No, I got the Sherlock Holmes suggestion but not the other one"
August 23, 1912
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
4 Mostyn Terrace, Eastbourne; "My dear Smith I hope you are going to have a holiday [...] The day when Holmes will really die will be the day when I think that I am letting him down".
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I have had thoughts of doing a new Sherlock story".
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I am concerned that you should publish the Sherlock story"
September 17, 1914
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I have a Sherlock in my head".
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith Let me know if I can send you tickets for the Speckled Band"
approximately 1921
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith All thanks for article".
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith Congratulations on your Xmas number"
approximately 1910
Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth; "I'm down here for a week or two of needed rest."
Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth; "I'm down here for a week or two of needed rest."
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere; "My dear Smith 'Detective Stories' would not fairly characterize them"
approximately 1898