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Pirate & buccaneer lore.
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Notebook with ornate border and light brown wrappers with generic title on top cover ("The Albion Exercise Book") with title of a play in A. C. Doyle's own handwriting on bottom.

Pirate & buccaneer lore.

Date1919
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Format
Notes
Notebook on "The dealings of Captain Sharkey and other tales of pirates", including historical notes, dialogue, names of pirates and their ships, naval terms, etc., and a two page pencil draft of a Sharkey story. Text only on first nine leaves of notebook and on five loose sheets. Three stapled sheets contain printed poem titled "An old pirate song".

Holograph (black ink and pencil), lined paper; Title from notebook cover in A.C. Doyle's handwriting.
Medium
Extent
  • 40 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm. + 5 unnumbered loose leaves, 3 stapled sheets.
Language
CollectionArthur Conan Doyle Collection
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131055098818D
Dewey Number823.91 D598.306 1919