Beschreibung:

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) A series of ten autograph correspondence cards and one autograph letter, variously signed 'A. Conan Doyle' and with initials 'A.C.D.', concerning his part in the Oscar Slater case, comprising: i) Five cards, from Windlesham and Bignell Wood to William Park discussing his investigations and putting forward his theories, including new evidence gained from witnesses 'the murder may have been done by Miss G's illegitimate grandson...It is possible...We have them now I think', with one card from Judge Gilmour agreeing to meet with Park to discuss the case, the fact that he did so 'even more private than the MacDonald letter', writes Doyle. ii) Autograph card to R.D. Blumenfeld, editor of the Daily Express urging him not to drop the Slater case, 'The demand for enquiry has been universal' and revealing that the chief witness who was said to be dead had, in fact, gone to America but was now back in Scotland and helping the police 'they seem to be screening her away for some reason', ending by mentioning a spiritualism lecture at Wigmore Street he was to give. iii) Autograph card to William Park suggesting he write 'a plain brave story of it all. "The Real Facts about Oscar Slater"...I think it would go well', with another card written after the verdict 'it is a great victory to have got as much as we have...I have told every pressman the great part you have played in the matter' and three other cards. iv) Autograph letter, signed 'A. Conan Doyle', from Windlesham, April 17th [n.d.], to Park, regarding his article about Slater and sending him some Spiritual notes 'What we need is to prove survival...Faith is no use' (creased on folds). v) Photograph depicting Conan Doyle writing in his garden at Bignell Wood, his dog by his side, with the inscription on the mount 'Portrait of A. Conan Doyle writing his 4440th letter to William Park Re Slater 1927'. (A similar image is reproduced in John Lamond's Arthur Conan Doyle, a memoir (London, 1931) but dated 1929.) (13)