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PERSONAL NOTES AND FRAGMENTS
Sir Arthur CONAN DOYLE. A collection of 17 undated autograph notes and fragments, the majority on miscellaneous personal matters, including: AUTOGRAPH CATALOGUE OF HIS CRIME LIBRARY AT WINDLESHAM, including amongst others The Newgate Calendar, various transcripts and descriptions of trials and courts martial, Remarkable Criminals (1918) and similar volumes, and other works, 3½ pages, 8vo; an autograph note on his sense of approaching death, 'As a man grows older there comes a time when he feels that the shadows thicken round him', concluding that 'there is much more of hope than of fear in the prospect', one page, 8vo; an undated 'Diary of Illness', 4 December - early February n.y., brief notes on condition each day, 4 pages, 4to; two brief manuscripts on 'The Seasons at Undershaw', and 'Rain at Hindhead' describing natural effects, 2 pages, 4to and folio; and other notes of names (including a list of Irish writers), figures, phrases (including 'Curious Case'), and golf jokes ('Two little boys: "What's he doing" -- "He's killing something"'); altogether approximately 19 pages, various sizes, three on envelopes; with two envelopes annotated by Jean Conan Doyle. (19)
Sir Arthur CONAN DOYLE. A collection of 17 undated autograph notes and fragments, the majority on miscellaneous personal matters, including: AUTOGRAPH CATALOGUE OF HIS CRIME LIBRARY AT WINDLESHAM, including amongst others The Newgate Calendar, various transcripts and descriptions of trials and courts martial, Remarkable Criminals (1918) and similar volumes, and other works, 3½ pages, 8vo; an autograph note on his sense of approaching death, 'As a man grows older there comes a time when he feels that the shadows thicken round him', concluding that 'there is much more of hope than of fear in the prospect', one page, 8vo; an undated 'Diary of Illness', 4 December - early February n.y., brief notes on condition each day, 4 pages, 4to; two brief manuscripts on 'The Seasons at Undershaw', and 'Rain at Hindhead' describing natural effects, 2 pages, 4to and folio; and other notes of names (including a list of Irish writers), figures, phrases (including 'Curious Case'), and golf jokes ('Two little boys: "What's he doing" -- "He's killing something"'); altogether approximately 19 pages, various sizes, three on envelopes; with two envelopes annotated by Jean Conan Doyle. (19)
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