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Collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's personal correspondence to be sold at auction.(Brief Article)

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Date: 20040514
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Forty years after they went missing letters detailing the personal life of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, will go on sale at Christie's in London.

The collection of personal papers contain an outline for the first Sherlock Holmes novel 'A Study in Scarlet', over 3000 letters, notes and manuscripts and proof that he had started a relationship with his second wife before the death of his first.

Christie's expects to fetch GBP2m for the collection, which was discovered at the premises of Doyle's lawyers. ...

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