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Sale of Conan Doyle papers 'a matter of great regret'
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20040515
Author:Tim Cornwell Arts Correspondent
THE British Library yesterday called the planned auction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's papers next week a matter of "great regret", and said it had not been shown key documents about the dividing up of Doyle's papers between his heirs.
The library's comments came a day after The Scotsman reported that the Edinburgh scholar Owen Dudley Edwards was calling for the sale to be halted.
About 3,000 personal letters, notes, manuscripts and other items from the papers of the Edinburgh-born author, mostly never published, are up for auction at Christie's on 17 May.
The bulk of Conan Doyle's papers ...
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