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Record Id:

032-002083285

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002083285

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x0003b2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 50065

Title:

'THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER', by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; bef. 1904. Autograph fair copy with autograph corrections, partly in pencil. Differs slightly from the first edition printed in The Strand Magazine, xxviii, 1904, pp. 123-35, and reprinted in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1905, pp. 308-36. See B.M.Q., xxii, 1960, pp. 54-6. Formerly owned by Vincent Starrett (bookplate, f. ii; signature, f. ivb), and, until 1959, by Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley (bookplate, f. iii). Presented (inscription on f. vb) on the occasion of the centenary of the author's birth, 22 May 1859, through the Friends of the National Libraries, jointly by James Bliss Austin, Lew David Feldman, E. T. Guymon, Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley and Edgar Wadsworth Smith, all of the United States, and by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.

Paper; ff. vi+26. Folio. Circa 1904. White vellum binding.

Scope & Content:

Fiction: Sir A. Conan Doyle; `The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter',: 1904: Autogr.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer: `The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter',: bef. 1904: Autogr.

includes:

f. ii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Vincent Starrett, American author: Bookplate: 20th cent.
f. iii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley, Director, Corning Glass Works, New York: Bookplate of Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley: 20th cent.
f. iv b Vincent Starrett, American author: Signature,: n.d.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002083285

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002083285

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1904

End Date:

1904

Date Range:

before 1904

Era:

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Custodial History:

James Bliss Austin, of US Steel Corporation: Presented, in 1959.

Vincent Starrett, American author: Owned (bookplate, f. iii), bef. 1959.

Friends of the National Libraries: Manuscripts presented through, in 1959.

E. T. Guymon, the younger: Presented, in 1959.

Sherlock Holmes Society of London: Presented, in 1959.

Lew David Feldman, bookseller, of New York: Presented, in 1959.

Edgar Wadsworth Smith, American author: Presented, in 1959.

Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley, Director, Corning Glass Works, New York: Owned, until 1959, and presented, in 1959.

Exhibitions:

Shakespeare to Sherlock: Treasures of the British Library, National Library of China, Beijing, 21 April 2017 - 21 June 2017

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Austin, James Bliss, of US Steel Corporation
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius, Knight, writer, 1859-1930,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122810491,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/65283845
Feldman, Lew David, bookseller of New York, 1906-1972
Friends of the National Libraries, 1931-
Guymon, E T, former owner of a draft of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, fl 1959
Hadley, Rollin, museum executive, 1927-1992
Sherlock Holmes Society of London
Smith, Edgar Wadsworth, American author
Starrett, Vincent, American author