Arthur Conan Doyle’s diary. Entries record Conan Doyle’s financial accounts and appointments for that year, including some meetings on spiritualism and a brief entry about arriving in America in April.
Letters, poetry, school magazines, certificates and prizes from Conan Doyle’s time in education at Stonyhurst and Feldkirch in Austria. For more information about this period of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life, please see his correspondence, particularly his correspondence with his mother.
1 copy of The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties by George Craik, London, 1872, inscribed in guilt on upper cover ‘Merenti Collegium Stonyhurst’, a first prize awarded to Arthur Conan Doyle in 1873, printed Stonyhurst ticket on inside front cover.