Auction Date:2011 Dec 07 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 5 x 8, Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex letterhead, December 31, 1914. In a letter to Mrs. Gribble, Doyle writes, in full: “I send enclosed only to show you that I have done what I could. My advice to return to London was only because I thought your family was there. If you are comfortable where you are I should not move. You must remember that a simple & open-airy sort of life has very often a good effect upon a man’s health and that things may come out very much better than you fear.” Intersecting folds, one passing through the “o” in “Conan,” some light toning, a few trivial surface marks, and two small pieces of mounting remnants to the top corners on the reverse, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by a letter written by his wife, Jean Conan Doyle, five years after Doyle’s passing. This ethereal letter talks of spiritualism, the quest for “immortality,” and the practice that she and her family ritually engage in: “Both my family and I have had continual and irrefutable proof of my husband’s nearness and interest in our welfare since he passed on. I may say that we never make an important decision in our daily lives without first consulting him.” After losing several family members, Doyle found solace in supporting spiritualism and its attempts to find proof of existence beyond the grave.
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