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Conan Doyle's original name plate put up when he was in general practice at Bush Villa, Southsea, Portsmouth, 1882-90, engraved:
'DR. CONAN DOYLE
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON'
brass mounted on mahogany, 244 x 459mm.
In Memoirs and Adventures (pp. 62-65) Conan Doyle describes how he arrived at Portsmouth in July 1882 to set up in practice as a general physician after a false start in Plymouth. His worldly possessions were contained in a small trunk and he had less than £10 to meet expenses and to furnish a house. He managed to rent Bush Villa in Southsea (the residential part of Portsmouth) for £40 a year and there he put up the plate which he had had made earlier during a brief partnership in Plymouth.
Conan Doyle wrote, 'Servants, of course, were out of the question, so I polished my own plate every morning, brushed down my front, and kept the house reasonably clean.'
Conan Doyle's original name plate put up when he was in general practice at Bush Villa, Southsea, Portsmouth, 1882-90, engraved:
'DR. CONAN DOYLE
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON'
brass mounted on mahogany, 244 x 459mm.
In Memoirs and Adventures (pp. 62-65) Conan Doyle describes how he arrived at Portsmouth in July 1882 to set up in practice as a general physician after a false start in Plymouth. His worldly possessions were contained in a small trunk and he had less than £10 to meet expenses and to furnish a house. He managed to rent Bush Villa in Southsea (the residential part of Portsmouth) for £40 a year and there he put up the plate which he had had made earlier during a brief partnership in Plymouth.
Conan Doyle wrote, 'Servants, of course, were out of the question, so I polished my own plate every morning, brushed down my front, and kept the house reasonably clean.'
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