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The crown diamond: An evening with Sherlock Holmes
The crown diamond: An evening with Sherlock Holmes
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The crown diamond: An evening with Sherlock Holmes

Dateapproximately 1921
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  • The crown diamond: An evening with Sherlock Holmes
FormatManuscript
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Notebook (ruled leaves, light brown wrappers with generic title on top cover "The 'eclipse' exercise book") with title of a play in A. C. Doyle's own handwriting on top cover and caption (leaf no. 1). Text in black ink on 25 unnumbered leaves, one whole leaf intentionally cut out and and one leaf partly cut, with no loss to the text.
Notebook (ruled leaves, light brown wrappers with generic title on top cover "The 'eclipse' exercise book") with title of a play in A. C. Doyle's own handwriting on top cover and caption (leaf no. 1). Text in black ink on 25 unnumbered leaves, one whole leaf intentionally cut out and and one leaf partly cut, with no loss to the text.

Summary/Review: The play, starring Dennis Neilson-Terry and Rex Vernon Taylour, first appeared at the Bristol Hippodrome on 2 May 1921. The Holmes story "The adventure of the Mazarin stone" which is nearly identical to the play, appeared a few months later in the Oct. 1921 Strand Magazine. The play itself was first published as "The Crown diamond : an evening with Sherlock Holmes: a play in one act" by the Baskerrette Press in 1958. 


 
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ProvenanceGift of Anna Conan Doyle. Previously owned by the author's son, Adrian Conan Doyle and bequeathed to the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library by Anna Conan Doyle, Adrian Conan Doyle's widow. The Library received the manuscript in 1992.
CollectionArthur Conan Doyle Collection
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131055014864D
Dewey822.912 D598.2 1921
Manuscript letter written in Alfred H. Wood's handwriting. 
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April 17,1908
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
The hotel Metropole and the Whitehall Rooms, London; "My dear Smith; No, I got the Sherlock Holmes suggestion but not the other one"
The hotel Metropole and the Whitehall Rooms, London; "My dear Smith; No, I got the Sherlock Holmes suggestion but not the other one"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
August 23, 1912
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
4 Mostyn Terrace, Eastbourne; "My dear Smith I hope you are going to have a holiday [...] The day when Holmes will really die will be the day when I think that I am letting him down".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
September 17, 1914
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I have a Sherlock in my head".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith I have had thoughts of doing a new Sherlock story".
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Unknown
Hill House Hotel, Happisburgh.; "My dear Smith; I think perhaps this would meet the case"
Hill House Hotel, Happisburgh.; "My dear Smith; I think perhaps this would meet the case"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
approximately 1903
Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere.; "My dear Smith; I have gone over the Cyclist again"
Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere.; "My dear Smith; I have gone over the Cyclist again"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
approximately 1903
Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere; "My dear Smith 'Detective Stories' would not fairly characterize them"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
approximately 1898
Letter written in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Morley's Hotel, London; "My dear Smith It bothers me rather that in writing any installment I have not got a copy of the previous one"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
approximately 1901
Manuscript letter written in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Hill House Hotel, Happisburgh; "My dear Smith I think I take a fairly sane view of my own work"
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
May 14, 1903