Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
INSCRIBED BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (MORMONS.) Stenhouse, Mrs. T.B.H. [Fanny]. An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experiences in Mormonism. 14 plates. xii, 404, 32 pages. 8vo, modern cloth with portions of publisher's cloth covers and backstrip laid down; early owners' inscriptions on title page. (MRS) London, 1880
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A later revision of Stenhouse's 1872 "Exposé of Polygamy in Utah," with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The title page bears the signatures of Peter D. Prankerd (1819-1902) and Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle has added a note: "For my experiences of Mormons read my Second American Adventure--ACD."
The popular anti-Mormon book An Englishwoman in Utah is regarded as one of Doyle's sources for the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1886, which featured an unflattering depiction of the faith. This note was written between the 1923 publication of Doyle's Our Second American Adventure and his 1930 death. Flake 8398.