Original manuscript of the Sherlock Holmes Story The Missing Three-Quarter

Item author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Item date: not given
Grant Value: 50
Item date acquired: 1958
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The gift of a group of Conan Doyle enthusiastis in America together with the Sherlock Holmes Society of London to mark the centenary of CD's birth in 1959. Illustrated as plate I of AR. Add MS 50065

Item Provenance
Conan Doyle sold his MSS in aid of the Red Cross during the First War when they were bought by WR Hearst; they were subsequently resold.