Lot 58 , CONAN DOYLE, a manuscript article entitled A Day at Borstal, signed and dated Dec 19 [1921]

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. A manuscript article entitled 'A Day at Borstal', penned in response to a note from Sir Edward Shortt, the Home Secretary, regarding a proposed 'surprise visit' to the Portland Borstal Institution, signed and dated Dec 19 [1921] and written in black ink on the reverse of Grosvenor Hotel headed notepaper (a total of 13 large post octavo sheets), with pencil amendments and envelope
Estimate £300-400

Note: The article was published in the Daily Telegraph on 27 December 1921

Provenance: From the estate of Sir Edward Shortt and thence by descent

Written on one side of the paper only 13 pages, pencil corrections possibly in a dfferent hand, light marking to some pages, small ink stains by Conan Doyle to pages 5 & 6,


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Sold for £4,200