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DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Frontispiece, illustrated by Sidney Paget. 8vo publisher's decorated red cloth, spine darkened, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped; Louis Wright Simpson bookplate mounted to front pastedown, LMS bookplate laid-in; housed in a custom cloth fleece-lined drop-back case. first edition, first issue, with "you for "your" on line 3 of p. 13. A well-preserved copy. Green and Gibson A26; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. London: George Newnes, 1902
with-1-page ALS on his stationery laid-in wherein Doyle requests a Dr. Davies to look after his maid while he is in America. Supposedly, "there has been some hysteria in her case..." While this letter is dated March 28 of an unknown year, Freud's contemporary writings on hysteria must have influenced Doyle. The plot for his 1893 work, The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, is centered around the disappearance of a hysterical maid; perhaps a case of art imitating life.
