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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
Notes
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. 


 
Extent
  • [80] pages ruled leaves ; 20 cm.
Language
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.
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131055014864D
Dewey Number822.912 D598.2 1921