Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-5 : 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
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ALS signed “ACD,” one page, 4.5 x 7, Undershaw letterhead, no date, but annotated in another hand, “Rec’d 4 Jan 1902.” Letter addressed to “My dear Smith.” In full: “Would you see that the final proofs are sent to McClure’s people with an intimation that there is one important change at the end and another affecting Rhodes in Chapter 3. Do you think we are right in stating that we take nothing in the preface, or would it be more dignified to say nothing. It may stimulate others to give if they know we have no pecuniary interest.” In fine condition, with rough left edge, scattered faint toning and light soiling, mainly to corners, and several pencil notations, presumably in the recipient’s hand.
Following the Boer War in South Africa, and the subsequent condemnation from around the world over the United Kingdom's conduct, Doyle wrote a short pamphlet justifying the UK’s role in the war. Entitled The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, the piece criticized Cecil John Rhodes, an English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa, who was the founder of the De Beers diamond company and namesake of the Rhodes Scholarship. In his work, Doyle wrote that “Rhodes was Premier of the Cape, a man of immense energy, and one who had rendered great services to the empire” but during the war tried to use the military to his own advantage and protect his own interests in South Africa. Apparently the change suggested in this letter regarding Rhodes was to delete his name entirely from the third chapter, as he makes no appearance there. Interestingly, Doyle believed that it was his support of the British via this pamphlet that earned him his 1902 knighthood.
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