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ADRIAN CONAN DOYLE
Correspondence of Adrian Conan Doyle principally relating to his guardianship of his rather's reputation, 1920s-1950s, comprising approximately 315 letters addressed to him by various correspondents including: his father, 'Dear old chap', postmarked 1930; Arthur Bryant, Rupert Hart-Davis, Dwight D. Eisenhower (2), Laurence Olivier, Upton Sinclair, Kingsley Adams (accepting the replica of the Gates portrait of Sirh Arthur Conan Doyle on behalf of the National Portrait Gallery, 1959), Charles B. Cochran, Raymond Massey, Geoffrey Harmsworth, John A. Costello (expressing his gratitude for the offer of 'so many valued and valuable relics presented to the Irish nation', Dublin, 1949), John Murray, Henry Maxwell, Mary Conan Doyle and others; with outletters (approximately 30) to various correspondents including his half sister Mary ('If you have written to the Press [to protest at the portrayal of her mother, Touie, in the Dickson Carr biography] then you ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourself ... You can expect a reply from me through the Press'; to S.P.B. Mais, explaining that his father was not offered a peerage in 1927 because of opposition from Queen Mary and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to others, one offering a comparison between Touie and Jean Conan Doyle, others protesting at the inaccuracies of the Hesketh Pearson biography of his father published in 1943, with other related papers.
The letters relate in particular to Adrian Conan Doyle's own study of his father The True Conan Doyle (1945) written as a refutation of the Pearson book and to the authorised biography by John Dickson Carr, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949).
Correspondence of Adrian Conan Doyle principally relating to his guardianship of his rather's reputation, 1920s-1950s, comprising approximately 315 letters addressed to him by various correspondents including: his father, 'Dear old chap', postmarked 1930; Arthur Bryant, Rupert Hart-Davis, Dwight D. Eisenhower (2), Laurence Olivier, Upton Sinclair, Kingsley Adams (accepting the replica of the Gates portrait of Sirh Arthur Conan Doyle on behalf of the National Portrait Gallery, 1959), Charles B. Cochran, Raymond Massey, Geoffrey Harmsworth, John A. Costello (expressing his gratitude for the offer of 'so many valued and valuable relics presented to the Irish nation', Dublin, 1949), John Murray, Henry Maxwell, Mary Conan Doyle and others; with outletters (approximately 30) to various correspondents including his half sister Mary ('If you have written to the Press [to protest at the portrayal of her mother, Touie, in the Dickson Carr biography] then you ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourself ... You can expect a reply from me through the Press'; to S.P.B. Mais, explaining that his father was not offered a peerage in 1927 because of opposition from Queen Mary and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to others, one offering a comparison between Touie and Jean Conan Doyle, others protesting at the inaccuracies of the Hesketh Pearson biography of his father published in 1943, with other related papers.
The letters relate in particular to Adrian Conan Doyle's own study of his father The True Conan Doyle (1945) written as a refutation of the Pearson book and to the authorised biography by John Dickson Carr, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949).
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