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Add MS 88924/8/12
- Record Id:
- 040-002716137
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002479664
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022555643.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88924/8/12
- Title:
- Personal papers of Adrian Conan Doyle
- Scope & Content:
- File includes:
- Typescript signed letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Edgar Smith accepting membership to the Baker Street Irregulars.
- Extract about King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra watching the play ‘The Speckled Band’.
- Typescript poems by Beatrix Holden about Adrian Conan Doyle and his wife Anna.
- Certificate for Adrian Conan Doyle from the United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, 1952
- List of Christian Dior fashions from 1952 including the ‘Sherlock Holmes ensemble’.
- Newspaper articles about Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes c 1950-1960
- Typescript account of meeting Denis, Adrian and Lina Jean Conan Doyle by Rose S. Melchers.
- Typescript epilogue to John Dickinson Carr's biography of Arthur Conan Doyle
- Typescript article by Adrian Conan Doyle on Arthur Conan Doyle hereditary, n.d.
- Typescript article listing Arthur Conan Doyle’s achievements by Adrian Conan Doyle.
- Menu from the state dinner for Admiral Alan G. Kirk in 1952, which lists prvious guests of honour, including Arthur Conan Doyle.
- 2 certificates from Japan.
- Guide to the Pleasure Gardens of Battersea Park, 1951, part of the Festival of Britain.
- Photocopy of a drawing by H.B. Original drawing made in 1856.
- Handwritten copy of a poem entitled 'Wisdom and Sound advice', no author.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002479664
036-002481099
037-002716135
040-002716137 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88924 : Arthur Conan Doyle Papers
Add MS 88924/8 : Personal Papers
Add MS 88924/8/12-18 : Personal papers of Adrian Conan Doyle
Add MS 88924/8/12 : Personal papers of Adrian Conan Doyle - Hierarchy:
- 032-002479664[0008]/036-002481099[0007]/037-002716135[0001]/040-002716137
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88924
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1930
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- [1930-1970]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)