Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. Autograph Letter Signed, "A Conan Doyle," to "Dear Mrs Everett," thanking for sending a notice about a whaler's misfortune [likely Jack Buchan, mentioned in Doyle's posthumously published Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure (2012)]. 1 page, oblong 12mo, personal stationery, correspondence card; faint staining at upper edge. (SFC) Minstead, nd

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". . . Poor old Buchan! I remember him the bravest man in a brave ship's crew. I once saw him run across the back of a living whale, which surely few men have done. . . ."