Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

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  Napoleon Bonaparte 76, 83, 304n, 327, 352, 407; ACD’s Napoleonic book 304, 364, 365, 367, 374; in Brigadier story 516

  Narrative of John Smith, The (ACD, novel) 224, 225, 241

  Nansen, Fridtjof 377, 377n

  National Gallery of Ireland 2, 140n

  National Library of Scotland 129n

  National Observer 310, 314

  National Sporting Club 460n, 510

  ‘Naval Treaty, The’ (ACD, story) 348

  New Vagabonds Club 387, 387n

  New York City 169; ACD visits 329, 336-9, 341-6, 596-7; ACD’s plays performed 411, 426, 562, 573, 595

  New York Times 243n, 419n, 429n, 524, 532, 532n, 566n, 596n, 597n, 602

  New York World 248, 474, 477

  Newington Academy (Edinburgh) 20, 40n

  Newnes, George 293, 347, 390, 503, 507

  Nicholas II, Czar: disarmament proposal 413

  Nicoll, Robertson 417, 418

  Noble, James Ashcroft 318

  ‘Noble Bachelor, The’ (ACD, story) 337

  Norman-Neruda, Madame 106

  North American Review 387, 388, 388n, 466, 495

  Norwood, Eille, 683

  ‘Norwood Builder, The’ (ACD, story) 513, 514, 515

  O’Brien, Willis 682

  Observer 300

  O’Callaghan, Dr Robert 439, 445, 446, 477

  Official Baronage of England, The 2, 560

  Official Gazette 477

  Oldham, Claire (niece) 9, 534, 535, 535n, 553, 554, 555, 609

  Oldham, Leslie (brother-in-law) 9, 455, 609, 626; marries Lottie 458, 458n; return from India 523n; visits ACD 523, 555; Army career 603; killed in action 612, 613, 614

  Olympic Games 11, 584; ACD covers 1908 Games for Daily Mail 584; campaigns for Empire team for 1916 Games 584, 588, 591

  Our American Cousin (Taylor) 66

  ‘Our Confidential Column’ (ACD, story) 171

  ‘Our Midnight Visitor’ (ACD, story) 222, 226, 228

  Outlook, The 420

  Pack, Catherine (grandmother) 8, 643

  Packe, Simon 643

  Paget, Sidney 5, 394-5, 395, 396

  Pall Mall Club 470

  Pall Mall Gazette 257, 326, 335, 371, 663

  Paris 17, 114, 195, 326, 361; ACD visits 76, 79, 87, 88, 255, 496, 547; ACD studies in 253, 283, 290, 292; ACD’s success in 588, 589; Eiffel Tower 255, 259; Louvre 255

  Parker, Gilbert 525, 525n

  Parkman, Francis 340, 596, 597

  Parnell, Charles 136n

  Passing of Arthur, The (Tennyson) 184n

  ‘Passing of the Legions, The’ (ACD, story) 552

  ‘Pastoral Horror, A’ (ACD, story) 226n

  Payn, James 165, 235, 400; encourages ACD 232, 247, 400; and historical novels 265, 276; stories submitted to 271; ACD dines with 299; reviews by 302, 315; letters to 327-8, 351-2, 356, 362, 372, 384; play version of Halves story of 368, 369, 374, 400, 411; letters from 386, 387; death 399-400

  Peary, Robert 577-8

  People, The 226

  ‘Personal Memories of Sherlock Holmes’ (Kernahan) 383-4, 384n

  ‘Physiologists Wife, A’ (ACD, story) 271

  Pietri, Dorando 584

  Pike, Dr William Royston 176, 176n, 191, 193, 194, 223, 238, 239, 240

  Piper, Leonora 330-1

  Plimmer, Jacob 464, 465, 466

  Poe, Edgar Allan 246; short stories 93, 293, 359n; detective Dupin of 94, 243; debt to 94-5, 219; poems 199; ACD gives Centenary address 554, 554n

  Poison Belt, The (ACD, novel) 586, 587, 589, 591

  Pond, Major (impresario) 326

  Portsmouth Football Club 231, 231n, 236, 259, 280

  Portsmouth News 268

  Portsmouth Literary & Scientific Society 209-13, 220-1, 252, 280

  ‘Pot of Caviare, The’ (ACD, story) 548, 553; play based on 548, 553, 565-6

  Powell, Dr Douglas 322

  Prince Henry of Prussia Cup 574-6, 575n, 576n

  Punch 2, 52, 63, 171

  Quiller-Couch, Arthur (‘Q’) 313, 313n

  Quin, Dr Frederick F. H. 103, 103n, 104

  Radio 11; wireless telegraphy 330; Marconi 598, 671

  ‘Ragtime’ (ACD, poem) 581-2

  Raphael Tuck & Co 480, 572, 581, 625

  Rationalist Press Organization 664, 667

  ‘Red-headed League, The’ (ACD, story) 174, 293

  Red Lion Inn (Preston) 22, 22n, 24, 42, 49, 61, 62

  Reform Club 351, 380, 399, 413, 460n, 484

  Refugees, The (ACD, novel) 290, 290n, 302, 303, 310-11, 313, 316, 318, 337

  Reid, Sir Wemyss 386, 399

  ‘Remembrances of a Veteran’ (ACD, story) 165, 166, 171, 174

  Renan, Ernest 380-1

  ‘Retired Colourman, The’ (ACD, story) 30, 138

  Return of Sherlock Holmes, The (ACD, stories) 513, 514n, 515, 516, 517, 517n, 519, 524

  Return of Sherlock Holmes (movie) 683

  Review of Reviews 299n, 486

  Revue des Deux Mondes 3, 6, 47

  Rhodes, Cecil 401, 494

  Richards, Grant 334n, 408, 408n, 414, 419, 420

  Richardson, Dr Charles Sidney 101, 103-4, 106

  ‘Ring of Thoth, The’ (ACD, story) 255, 255n, 271

  Ritchie, Revd W. 110

  Roberts, General Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl 444

  Robinson, Bertram Fletcher 477, 478, 479, 479n, 480

  Robinson, Nugent 429

  Rodgers, Christabel 123, 412, 412n

  Rodney Stone (ACD, novel) 355-6, 359, 365, 367, 376, 536

  Roman Catholicism: Doyle family religion 51-2, 74, 271n, 459; mother becomes Anglican 667; ACD’s christening 8, 17; Catholicism at Stonyhurst 20, 23, 25, 34, 38-40, 45, 46-7, 57, 74; first communion 21, 22; Jesuits 18, 19, 20, 21, 74, 75, 318, 383, 464; ACD’s loss of faith 40, 74; daughter not baptized in the church 271, 271n; later views 465, 642, 643, 657, 667; influence on family members 624, 624n; Catholic medical practice in Southsea 104, 165n; Micah Clarke, uncomfortable for Catholic friends 265; Catholicism and British politics 459, 464; anti-Catholic prejudice 358, 464, 465-6; Church opposition to Spiritualism 663

  Roosevelt, Theodore 10, 431, 563, 567

  Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of 490, 490n

  Round the Fire Stories (ACD, stories) 399, 512

  Round the Red Lamp (ACD, stories) 334

  Routledge, George 184

  Royal Academy of Art 104, 106, 309, 332, 332n, 335, 350, 351, 394-5

  Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh 263

  Royal College of Surgeons 150n

  Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 525, 526-8

  Royal Military Academy (Woolwich) 281

  Royal Society 429

  Royal United Services Institution 484

  Ryan, James 1, 7, 109, 130, 178, 673, 673n; schoolfriend 41, 49, 55, 55n; holidays in Arran with 97, 99; letters to and from 118, 575, 587, 649; health 120; visits ACD in Southsea 173, 175; advice and information from 572n, 586-7; on reaction to Slater campaign 585; visits Kingsley in hospital 618; and Kingsley’s death 649

  Ryan, Margaret 7, 74, 169, 169n, 193, 261, 265

  Ryan, Mary 169, 169n

  Sackville, Lady 594, 594n

  St Mary’s Hospital, London 91, 570-1

  Salisbury, Robert Arthur Cecil, 3rd Marquis 458

  Saturday Review 257, 267, 300, 301, 579, 580

  ‘Scandal in Bohemia, A’ (ACD, story) 203n, 293

  Schwensen, Clara (sister-in-law) 10, 583, 593, 600, 620, 636, 657, 671

  Scotsman, The (Edinburgh) 100, 101n, 122, 300, 465-6, 466

  Scott, Admiral Percy 528, 597

  Scott, Sir Walter 12, 13, 30, 48-9, 248, 260, 275n, 325, 352, 588; Edinburgh speech on 484; Ivanhoe 48; A Legend of Montrose 257, 257n; Rob Roy 46, 48; Waverley 352n, 359

  ‘Second Stain, The’ (ACD, story) 517

  Shakespeare, William 99, 254, 570

  Sharlieb, Dr 440, 443, 452

  Shaw, George Bernard 2, 318, 376, 413, 413
n, 582

  Shaw, Thomas 520

  Sherard, Robert Harborough 383, 383n, 386

  Sherlock Holmes: origins 11-12, 56, 58, 106-7, 115-16, 121-2, 138, 141-2, 174, 207-8, 565, 589n; origins of Holmes 14, 100n, 243-4, 339, 431n; origins of Moriarty 85, 93-4; origins of Mrs Hudson 97; origins of names 104n, 339; origins of plots 37, 478-9, 480n, 512, 513, 595; origins of residences 66, 291; origins of Watson 164, 178n, 221; literary influences on 94-5, 244-6; method 13, 100n, 117n, 243-4, 324, 538-9, 541, 638; death and resurrection 7, 300, 305, 319, 324, 325, 471, 478, 510, 512-17; novels 12, 293, see also Hound of the Baskervilles, Sign of the Four, Study in Scarlet, Valley of Fear, short stories, 12, 94, 293-4, 296, 299, 300, 305, 310, 315, 319, 324, 348, 478, 512-17, 519, 524, 551, 552, 553, 555, 627, 683, see also under individual titles; dedications 315; illustrations 5, 250, 250n, 251-2, 256, 271, 303n, 394-5, 396, 519, 616; dramatizations 272, 276-7, 565, 567, 589, 589n, see also Sherlock Holmes, Speckled Band; ACD’s ambivalence toward 12; parody 305, 318n; influence on others 320, 324, 347n, 391; critical reception 315, 429n; public demand and fame 1-2, 11, 12, 13, 15, 48, 284, 293-4, 296, 318, 319, 351, 429n, 481-2, 517, 517n, 524-5, 550, 569, 641n; as phenomenon 1, 316, 433, 446, 517, 517n, 684

  Sherlock Holmes (Gillette, play) 389, 420, 422, 430; financial hopes for 389, 393, 394, 411, 419, 420; ACD’s ambivalence toward 389, 398; Tree and 393, 395; Irving and 397, 398; accepted by Frohman 411; scripted by Gillette 419n; Gillette as Holmes 420, 481n, 485; American production 420, 425-6, 474; success 426, 429, 474; reviews 429n; London production 481-2; movie 481n, 683; revival 683

  Shortt, Belle and Edward 554, 636

  Siécle, Le 490

  Sign of the Four, The (ACD, novel) 272, 276, 277, 293

  ‘Sign of the Sixteen Oyster Shells’ (ACD, story) 249

  ‘Silver Blaze’ (ACD, story) 117n, 396

  Sinn Fein 17, 402, 580n

  Sir Nigel (ACD, novel) 12, 23, 524, 528, 529, 537, 539, 541n, 549-50

  ‘Six Napoleons, The’ (ACD, story) 517

  Sladen, Douglas 298, 299n, 328

  Slater, Oscar 584-6, 599, 682

  Smith, Elder & Co. 203, 204, 205, 224, 303, 365, 376, 408, 423, 487

  Smith, F. E. 621

  Smith, George 203, 204, 205

  Smith, Leigh 130, 132

  Smith, Mrs (housekeeper, Bush Villa) 185, 194, 196-7, 198, 203, 204, 213, 215-16, 222, 235, 238

  Smith, Reginald 408n, 487, 488, 501, 528, 532n

  Smith, W. H. 256n, 332, 334n

  Smythe, Carlyle 670, 674

  Society for Psychical Research 268-9, 330

  Society of Authors 171n, 259, 340, 387, 418

  ‘Solitary Cyclist, The’ (ACD, story) 513, 514, 516

  ‘Some Military Lessons of the War’ (ACD, article in Cornhill) 470

  ‘Song of the Bow, The’ (ACD, poem) 305

  Songs of Action (ACD, poetry) 412, 441-2, 441n

  Speaker, The 329

  ‘Speckled Band, The’ (ACD, story) 104n, 299, 300, 565; play based on 568-70, 572, 573, 573n, 589, 595, 595n,

  Spectator 267, 269, 585, 599

  Spence, Dr James 135

  Spencer Blackett 272

  Spiritualism: ACD’s attitudes 14, 624, 625, 634-6, 639, 644, 648, 653, 654-6, 660-1, 662, 663, 673, 674, 676, 677, 678-9, 681-3; attitudes within family, 628-30, 639-40, 642, 646-8, 667-9; controversies 635-6, 659-62, 663, 665, 666-7; early leanings, 40, 95, 113, 268-9, 330-2; lectures and tours 624, 632, 634-5, 643, 644, 646, 655-6, 658, 659, 661, 662, 664, 669-79; mediums, 330, 645, 666; séances 646, 654; writings 634, 646, 656, 660, 668, 668n, 674, 675, 676, 679, 682

  Splaine, Father Cyprian (Stonyhurst) 32, 35, 53, 62

  Stefansson, Vilhjalmur 669, 669n

  Stevenson, Robert Louis 89, 250; ‘Pavilion on the Links’ 170-1, 171n, 256, 256n; influence 177, 246; letters 326, 431

  Standard, The 413

  Standish, Ann 30n, 34, 54n

  Stark Munro Letters (ACD, novel) 176n, 186n, 253; mother in 6-7, 74; father in 74; Hoare in 114, 116, 129; Budd in 155, 156, 170n; life with Innes described in 164; Touie in 239; writing of 325; ACD’s opinion of 327, 333, 356-7; serialization 327; revision of 349; publication 356, 356n; controversial views expressed in 357-8; reviews 359-60

  ‘Statement of J. Habakuk Jephson M.D.’ (ACD, story) 203, 204, 216-17, 219

  Stead, W. T. 299, 299n, 486, 581

  Stephen, Leslie 313, 313n

  Steyn, Martinus 401

  Stoddart, J. M. 272, 341

  Stoker, Bram 312, 313, 313n

  Stonor Case, The (ACD, play) 565, 567

  Stonyhurst College, Lancashire 17, 20, 22, 23-39, 41-64, 67-74, 78, 97, 620, 663

  Story of Waterloo, A (ACD, play) 312-13, 336

  ‘Straggler of ’15, A’ (ACD, story) 312, 334

  Strand Magazine 367, 418, 507, 597, 627; Greenhough Smith edits 294, 378, 384; Sherlock Holmes stories 12, 293, 310, 515, 517, 552, 565, 616; illustrations 5, 516, 582, 616; articles 330, 333, 471; Brigadier stories 345, 345n; Round the Fire stories 399; studies of criminal cases 474; serializations 481, 482, 529, 583; travel writing 596; military history 606n, 616, 626; Spiritualist writing 624, 663n; children sketches 641, 641n, 646

  Strasburgh, France 84

  Strathcona, Lord 492-3, 492n

  ‘Student’s Dream, A’ (ACD, poem) 28

  Study in Scarlet, A (ACD, novel) 94, 107, 244-8, 245, 259; influences on 246; disappointing reception of 235, 247-8, 293; illustrations 250n, 251-2, 271; play based on 272, 277; request for preface refused 296; new edition 303, 303n

  Submarines 11, 550, 552, 590, 597-8, 597n, 607, 608

  Sudan 11, 363, 400, 401n

  Sunlight Yearbook 407-8

  ‘Sussex Vampire, The’ (ACD, story) 58, 683

  ‘Sweethearts’ (ACD, story) 334

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles 416

  Tadema, Alma 499

  Tait, Dr Lawson 96, 123, 277-8, 293

  Taylor, Tom 65, 66

  Temple Bar 171, 183, 184, 189, 202, 226, 228, 285, 287

  Temps, Le 361

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 184n, 259, 299, 497

  ‘Terror of Blue John Gap, The’ (ACD, story) 569

  Terry, Ellen 335, 380

  Terry, Mr (ACD’s secretary) 419

  ‘That Veteran’ (ACD, story) 171 see also ‘Remembrances of a Veteran’

  ‘Third Generation, The’ (ACD, story) 334

  Thompson, Sir Henry 429, 429n

  Thomson, David 264, 301, 302

  Thomson, Smollett 310, 312

  ‘Three Eyes’ (ACD, story) 172, 172n

  ‘Three Garridebs, The’ (ACD, story) 507

  ‘Three Students, The’ (ACD, story) 524

  Three of Them (ACD, nonfiction) 641n

  Through the Magic Door (ACD, nonfiction) 94, 237, 257, 339, 531, 550

  ‘Tichbourne Claimant’ 53, 54

  Times Herald (Chicago) 336

  Times, The 562, 563, 597, 627, 652; correspondents 279, 285, 370, 400, 401; Buckle as editor 299n, 477, 480; letter about America 367; letter about civilian mobilization 431-2, 434; fight with military critics 468; letter about war pamphlet 490; letter about Olympics 584; debate on reprisal air raids conducted in 614-15; letter about body armour 620

  Titanic, RMS 299n, 581-2

  Tit-Bits 217-18, 293

  To Arms! (ACD, pamphlet) 605

  Tolstoi, Leo 327, 333

  Tragedy of the Korosko, The (ACD, novel) 366, 377, 378, 394, 398, 408, 536, 560

  Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 525

 

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