Skip to main content
Digital Archive Toronto Public Library Homepage
Notebook with ornate border and light brown wrappers with generic title on top cover ("The Albi ...
Pirate & buccaneer lore.
Your browser does not support embedded PDF files.
Notebook with ornate border and light brown wrappers with generic title on top cover ("The Albion Exercise Book") with title of a play in A. C. Doyle's own handwriting on bottom.

Pirate & buccaneer lore.

Date1919
Names
FormatManuscript
Notes
Notebook on "The dealings of Captain Sharkey and other tales of pirates", including historical notes, dialogue, names of pirates and their ships, naval terms, etc., and a two page pencil draft of a Sharkey story. Text only on first nine leaves of notebook and on five loose sheets. Three stapled sheets contain printed poem titled "An old pirate song".

Holograph (black ink and pencil), lined paper; Title from notebook cover in A.C. Doyle's handwriting.
Medium
Language
CollectionArthur Conan Doyle Collection
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object Number37131055098818D
Dewey823.91 D598.306 1919