Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

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  MEDICAL CAREER: medical school 1, 14, 83, 89-97; medical assistantships 101-20; self-experimentation 117; ship’s surgeon, 1, 122-8, 130n, 132, 141-8, 183, 230; Bachelor of Medicine & Master of Surgery (MB CM) 134-5; scientific papers 117n, 151, 190; doctor in Plymouth 155-9; doctor in Southsea 159, 160-215, 217-81; medical examiner, Gresham Life Assurance 186, 188, 193, 195, 199-200, 202, 231-2, 233; Army Medical Service surgeon 221-2; MD thesis ‘An Essay Upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis’ 238-9; MD 239, 241; Upper Wimpole Street consulting room 291-4; abandons 291-2, 294

  MILITARY AFFAIRS, INVOLVEMENT IN 227-8,400-1, 617; war correspondent 370-2, 371, 373-4; thoughts on British Army in Egypt and Sudan 368, 370-2, 371, 377; attends manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain 400, 401; work in field hospitals 436, 439-40, 440, 441-5, 445, 446-9, 450-2, 477-8, 487-8, 489, 490, 492-3; Undershaw Rifle Club 468, 470, 472, 488n, 499, 604; thoughts on Boxer Rebellion 476; writings 470, 487-8, 489, 490, 491; agitates for military reform 550, 579-80, 620; thoughts on naval warfare 550, 552, 597-8; see also Boer War; World War I

  POETRY 305, 398, 558, 581-2; schoolboy 28, 56-7, 69-70; war-related 43-4, 441n; as memory aid 62-3, 104n, 105; medical 89; advertising copy 200-2; horse poetry 412

  POLITICS 3-4, 267-8, 271, 313; views on Ireland 4, 372, 402, 408-9; protectionist 520-1; stands for parliament in 1900 Election 409-10, 411, 413, 449-50, 456, 457, 458-9, 461, 462-6; stands for parliament in 1906 Election 518, 520-1, 522-3, 525, 530-1; views on ground rents 532-3; considers standing for parliament a third time 549, 551, 558, 622-3; views on Congo controversy 562-3; accepts Home Rule 579, see also Ireland

  RELIGION 21, 22, 40, 74, 165n, 271, 380-1, 459, 464-6, 642, 643, 657, 667 see also Roman Catholicism, Spiritualism

  SPORTS AND OTHER PASTIMES: Autowheel 564, 564n, 591, 592-3, 594; ballooning 480; banjo-playing 399; billiards 510, 591, 662; cricket 2, 21, 25, 39, 47-8, 60, 104, 229, 241, 305, 375, 385, 385n, 387, 418, 441, 453, 454, 456-7, 498, 525, 555; cycling 295, 297, 299, 564, 564n, 589, 591, 591, 592, 593, 594; football 32, 35, 35n, 36, 42, 83, 106, 231, 259, 412, 448; fossil collecting 560; golf 344n, 390, 412, 470, 471, 472, 473, 502, 506, 665; hockey 36, 51, 470, 523; horses 377, 379, 390, 398-9, 412; hunting 379, 395, 470, 505; ice skating 24, 25, 46-7, 76, 79; motorcycling 511, 564, 589; motoring 522, 522n, 556, 574, 576, 576, 622, 625; photography 298, 582; rounders 36; skiing 2, 328-30, 331, 333, 376; smoking 119-20, 417, 475; tennis 553; theatre 36

  TRAVEL: Arctic 1, 122-8, 130n, 132, 183; Arran, Scotland 97-101; Australia and New Zealand 669-70, 673-4, 676-8; Austria 75-87, 283-91; Canada 344, 594-600; Egypt 362-72, 671; European honeymoon with 2nd wife 545-8; France 76, 79, 88, 255, 309, 496, 503, 547, 586, 593, 624; Germany 279-80, 574-6; Greece 546; India 672, 673; Ireland 136-41, 241; Italy 369, 399, 494, 495, 497, 546, 618; Norway 305, 312, 328; South Africa (Boer War) 439-52; Switzerland 323, 324, 325-32, 331, 347-62, 376, 436, 503, 567; travel writing 596, 674, 675, 676, 679; Turkey 545, 547; United States 2, 329, 335, 336-46, 338, 596-7; West Africa 141-2, 144-8

  Conan Doyle, Denis Stewart Percy (son) 9, 633, 657, 679; name 558-9; birth 559; as baby 566, 568, 569, 572, 573; travels with ACD 671, 674; death 683

  Conan Doyle, Jean (daughter) 4, 9, 589, 590, 683-4

  Conan Doyle, Jean Elizabeth (née Leckie, 2nd wife) 7, 9, 405, 417, 512, 537, 553, 574, 593, 611, 624, 641; ACD meets 404, 522n; ACD’s first reference to 413-14; ACD’s romance with 2, 428, 453, 456-8, 457n, 471, 473, 476, 492, 503, 505, 509-10, 520, 522, 528, 534-5, 570; suggests plot for Holmes story 512, 513; ACD marries 539, 542-3, 545, 545; honeymoon 545-8; marriage 548, 549, 551, 580, 594, 669, 672, 678; health 556, 639; birth of children 559, 560, 566, 568, 572, 589, 590; travels with ACD 595, 596-7, 644; family 560, 570; World War I and 608; Spiritualism 654; death 683

  Conan Doyle, Kingsley (son) 9, 404, 417, 548, 554, 620; birth 315; name 315-16; as baby 317, 322; childhood 362, 379, 455; health 381, 382-3, 647; and mother’s death 534; at Eton 556, 566-7, 567; on ACD’s play 568; travels 567, 570; volunteers for Army Medical Corps 586, 603, 604, 608; Army commission 609, 610, 616, 618, 623, 624, 625; death 648, 649-50, 650, 651, 652, 656, 657, 659, 670; ACD joins in séance in order to contact 656, 670; letters to ACD 630-1, 632-4, 637-8, 639-40; photographs of 317, 363, 455, 567, 619, 649

  Conan Doyle, Louisa ‘Touie’ (née Hawkins, 1st wife) 9, 239, 280-1, 304, 319, 360, 403, 416, 456, 484, 496, 499, 523; health 7, 321, 322, 323, 325-6, 348, 359, 360, 381, 391, 425, 438, 472, 501, 509, 510, 512, 517, 533; ACD meets and marries 153, 239-41; family 239-40, 242n, 255, 255n, 287-8, 322, 345n, 404, 543; relationship with ACD 242, 247, 252, 272, 310, 467; children 260-2, 265, 317; travels 283, 285, 286, 287, 329, 344-5, 352, 354, 355, 364, 366, 369, 372, 380, 473, 475, 481, 504; cycling 295, 297, 299; and ACD’s electioneering 411; knowledge of ACD’s romance with Jean Leckie 414, 419, 455, 534-5; death 532, 534, 540, 541, 543, 650; ACD’s letters to 428, 442, 448

  Conan Doyle, Mary (daughter) 9; birth 260; as baby 265-6, 271, 283, 298, 302, 302n; childhood 317, 362, 455; and mother’s death 534, 535; education 567, 570; war work 616; flu 647; and brother’s death 648, 649, 654; travels 661; death 684

  ‘Conan Doyle’s Hard Luck as a Playwright’ (New York Times) 525, 525n, 532, 532n

  Congo 562-3, 565, 571, 581, 620

  Cook, Joseph 121n

  Cook, Thomas 84, 365, 366, 579

  ‘Copper Beeches, The’ (ACD, story) 122, 305

  Corbett, Julian 370-1, 372

  Cornhill 170, 171n, 174n, 202, 203, 214, 220, 222, 226, 256n, 408, 592, 640; ACD’s rejections 12, 166, 232, 233; story published by 204-6, 216-17, 219; serialization of The White Company 276, 292; ACD’s articles in 468, 469, 470, 532

  ‘Cottingley Fairies’ 668, 668n

  ‘Crabbe’s Practice’ (ACD, story) 132, 141

  Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries 307

  Crime of the Congo, The (ACD, pamphlet) 563

  Crippen, Dr Hawley Harvey 571, 571n

  Crossman, Sir William 268, 271, 271n

  ‘Croxley Champion, The’ (ACD, story) 418

  Currie, Claud Augustus 121, 122, 149, 172, 173n, 181

  ‘Curse of Eve, The’ (ACD, story) 328, 333, 334

  Curzon, Lady 500, 500n

  Daily Chronicle 311, 663; letters to 384-5, 417-18, 621; poem published in 43; reviews 302, 370, 380

  Daily Express 328n, 478, 682

  Daily Graphic 219, 267, 300, 359

  Daily Mail 414, 562, 566n, 567-8, 584, 607-8, 637n

  Daily Mirror 562

  Daily News 358, 359, 413, 426, 582

  Daily Telegraph, The 194, 194n, 287, 359; ACD’s letters to 280, 280n, 539, 540, 544-5; reviews 300; and Edalji case 539, 540, 544-5

  Dalgetty, Dugald 257, 257n

  ‘Dancing Men, The’ (ACD, story) 515, 516, 517

  ‘Danger! A Story of England’s Peril’ (ACD, story) 597

  Davitt, Michael 402

  Dawson, Charles 560n

  ‘Day on the Island, A’ (ACD, article in Photographic Journal) 226

  ‘De Profundis’ (ACD, story) 296

  De Wet, Christian 477, 477n, 493

  ‘Derby Sweepstakes, The’ (ACD, story) 165

  ‘Devil’s Foot, The’ (ACD, story) 565

  Devonshire (county) 167, 478, 479, 479n, 503, 505

  Dickens, Charles 13, 20, 95n, 101, 145, 177, 319n

  Divonne les Bains, France 496, 496n

  Divorce Law Reform 11, 378-9, 623, 632, 635, 636, 637, 637n, 657

  Doings of Raffles Haw, The (ACD, novel) 284, 288-9, 320, 391

  Donnelly, Ignatius (author, The Great Cryptogram) 254, 254n

  Doyle, Ann Martha ‘Annette’ (aunt) 8, 26, 65, 67, 69, 106, 130, 169, 261, 320, 491; Catholicism 51-2, 271, 271n; ADC visits 63-4, 102; on ACD’s income as medical assistant 112-13; ACD’s relationship with 165n

  Doyle, Bryan Mary Julia Josephine ‘Dodo’ (sister) 10, 303, 360, 380, 381, 556; childhood 153; visits ACD 393, 398, 506, 554, 584; engagement to Revd Cyril Angell 394n, 412; and ACD’s will 438; health 484, 589; son 535n; fr
iendship with Jean 537; on Mary Doyle 614

  Doyle, Caroline Mary Burton ‘Lottie’ (sister) 9, 102, 115, 117n, 130, 140, 261, 344, 380, 407, 421, 455, 504, 556, 609, 615, 645, 657; childhood 21, 44, 70, 73, 78-9; correspondence with ACD 77, 107-8, 153-4, 165n, 187-8, 195n, 196-7, 235, 238, 242, 248, 251, 265, 272, 274-5, 289, 303n, 307n, 310, 323, 374, 426, 481; holidays with ACD in Arran 97, 99, 100; governess in Portugal 187, 273, 295, 306, 310; travels with ACD 255, 324, 326, 331, 354, 355, 362, 366-7, 369, 373; relationship with ACD 85, 258, 280, 290, 295, 299, 310, 316, 317, 319, 321, 381, 386, 403, 429, 438, 497; finances 295, 310, 321, 429, 438; health 377; prepares Undershaw for ACD 385-6, 389, 391, 392; name 404; in India 415, 423, 423n, 481, 523; marries Leslie Oldham 423n, 458, 458n; daughter 535, 535n; visits ACD 555, 658; husband killed 612

  Doyle, Catherine Amelia Angela (sister) 9

  Doyle, Charles Altamont (father) 8, 27, 40-1n, 62, 110, 162n, 263; letters from and to ACD 24, 40, 42-3; ACD’s relationship with 3, 26, 33, 37, 43, 44, 46, 48, 60, 92, 97, 100, 139, 262, 270; marriage 3, 9; personality 4-5; alcoholism 3, 6, 14, 26, 40, 51, 136; artist 3, 51, 79-80, 251, 668n; religion 51, 74; health 75, 250, 263, 306-7; pensioned off by Office of Works 6, 79-80; notebooks and sketchbooks 262, 263, 263, 264, 270n, 407-8; death 321, 322

  Doyle, Constance Amelia Monica ‘Connie’ (sister) 9, 298, 302, 304, 345, 350, 373, 380, 397, 418, 455, 528; childhood 27, 44, 55; governess in Portugal 70, 273, 295; relationship with ACD 21, 40, 47, 73, 100, 102, 147, 160, 161, 270, 290, 299-301, 309, 310, 351, 492, 501, 540, 652; holidays with ACD in Arran 98, 99; letters to and from ACD 107, 262, 288, 468; love life and marriage to E. W. Hornung 320-1, 322, 333; birth of son 351n; visits ACD 374, 404, 421, 506, 554; finances 429; opinion of Jean Leckie’s relationship with ACD 453-4, 455, 456-8, 484; health 468-9; on Edalji affair 541; death of son 612, 614, 625, 626

  Doyle, Francis Kingsley (nephew) 636, 638n

  Doyle, Georgina 535

  Doyle, Henry (uncle) 2, 8, 66, 66, 76, 104, 140n, 190, 307n

  Doyle, James (uncle) 2, 8, 67, 102, 106, 162n; letters to and from ACD 40-1n, 108; ACD stays with in London 64, 65; monetary dispute 151n, 165n

  Doyle, Jane (aunt) 64, 65, 67, 151n

  Doyle, Jane Adelaide Rose ‘Ida’ (sister), 10, 288, 314, 417, 455, 468n, 553, 554, 554n, 555, 608, 612, 613, 615; birth 69; childhood 153; education 281, 306; financial support from ACD 303, 303n, 335; engagement to Nelson Foley 347, 347n; wedding 359n, 361, 364, 364n; in Naples 369, 374; introduction to society 377, 378; visits ACD 380, 382, 421, 542, 543, 658; ACD visits in Naples 494, 495, 497; death of husband 586n; children 620; and ACD’s Spiritualism 628-30

  Doyle, John (grandfather) 2, 8, 162n, 190

  Doyle, John (nephew) 638n

  Doyle, John Francis Innes Hay (brother) 9-10, 242, 307n, 417, 455, 484, 536, 579, 619, 646; birth 52; name 52, 53; education 185, 206, 215, 273, 275-6, 281, 290-1, 299, 306; lives with ACD 160, 164-5, 166, 167-8, 171, 172, 175, 182, 185-6, 185, 188, 193, 196, 197, 227; military career 168n, 174, 276n, 281, 377, 400, 603, 614, 638, 638-9, 671; diary 171; health and accidents 176, 306, 392-3, 395, 522n, 523, 532, 566, 615, 653-4; finances 295, 299, 361, 412, 438, 474, 523, 574; visits ACD 304, 316, 377, 390, 398, 401, 412-13, 498-9, 555, 594; travels with ACD 335, 336, 338, 340, 344n, 346, 510; love life and marriage 377, 573, 573n, 574, 593; in India 415, 421, 423; letters to and from ACD 422-3, 426, 468, 480, 481-2, 502, 520-1, 561, 565, 568, 597, 599, 600, 602-3, 523, 623, 624, 635-6, 651, 654-5; in Far East 475-6, 480; in South Africa 489, 493, 496, 500, 506; aids ACD in political campaign 530-1; World War I 168n, 604, 607, 610, 613, 639, 641, 642; birth of son 636, 637, 638; on death of Kingsley Conan Doyle 654; death 656, 657

  Doyle, Mary (née Foley, mother) 5-7, 8-9, 19, 92, 263, 308, 455; letters received from ACD 4, 20-8, 30-9, 41-2, 43, 44-69, 71-3, 75-87, 92-3, 97-106, 108-26, 128-31, 133, 140-3, 147-53, 157-66, 168-76, 178-80, 182-3, 186-99, 202-7, 209, 212-20, 222-33, 235-8, 241-2, 249-52, 255-62, 264-6, 269-71, 284-91, 295-6, 298-317, 319-23, 326, 329, 332-42, 344-70, 373-83, 385-99, 401-4, 407-21, 423, 425-42, 446-77, 479-84, 487-94, 496-506, 509-10, 512-13, 515, 517-26, 528-33, 535-7, 539-48, 550-1, 553-74, 576, 578-86, 588-9, 591-5, 604-27, 632, 634, 636-7, 640-50, 652-3, 655-66, 668-73; letters sent to ACD 7, 30, 41, 43, 44, 307-9, 427-8, 432-3; Michael Conan’s letters to 18-19; portrait in Stark Munro Letters 6-7; education 3; reading 3, 6-7; interest in genealogy and history 3; advises on and influences ACD’s writing 3, 7, 17, 28, 319-20, 512; marriage 3, 9, 26, 39-40, 74, 307-8; raises large family single-handedly 6, 26, 39-40, 74; relationship with ACD 3, 4, 5-7, 126, 158-9, 181, 183, 190, 226, 229, 287-8, 325, 427-8, 432-3, 435-6; finances 5-6, 39-40, 70, 74, 307, 375; religion and 39-40, 74, 268, 667-9; Waller and 74-5, 79, 84-5; reaction to ACD’s opinions concerning Home Rule 268, 379n, 408-9; pleads for life of Sherlock Holmes 7, 305; reaction to ACD’s portrait 394-5; health 397, 519-20, 623; attempts to dissuade ACD from volunteering for Boer War 7, 427-8, 432-3, 435-6; reaction to ACD’s Spiritualism 667-9; death 679

  Doyle, Mary Helena Monica Harriet (sister) 9

  Doyle, Richard (uncle) 8, 64, 69, 150, 189; illustrator 2, 16, 19, 668n; religion 52; ACD visits in London 63, 64, 65, 66, 102; death 307n, 460n

  Doyle Diary, The (Baker) 263, 263n

  Drayson, General Alfred 258, 258n, 266, 269

  Drummond, Charlotte 7, 142, 193, 264, 314; letters to 146, 167-8, 176-7, 183, 190, 196, 198, 208-12, 254, 346-7, 658

  Drummond, Dr (Birmingham) 115, 118

  Drummond, Jessie 142, 146, 168, 184, 190, 198, 208, 210

  Drummond, Tom 142

  Drury, Major 439-40, 446

  Dublin 8, 19, 120, 140, 580n, 621

  Duet (With an Occasional Chorus), A (ACD, novel) 67n, 409, 412, 491, 553; publication 414; poor reception from critics 407, 415-16, 417; sales of 418, 420; manuscript 467; ACD refuses to serialise 512

  Dumas, Alexandre 54, 252; Three Musketeers, 259

  ‘Dying Detective, The’ (ACD, story) 142, 241

  Earle, Colonel 659, 659n

  Edalji, George 509, 538-42, 538, 544—6, 548, 550, 579, 585, 682

  Edge of the Unknown, The (ACD, Spiritualism) 668n

  Edinburgh (city) 84, 193, 195, 198, 307, 316, 574; Doyle family home in 3, 5, 8, 26, 44, 186; schools 18-9, 34; cricket 60; Holyrood Palace 79; medicine in 96; Drummond family in 7, 142, 167, 314; Mary Doyle leaves 153; ACD visits 310, 314, 475, 520, 521, 535-6; ACD lectures in 323, 438-9, 484, 610, 655; publishers 365; ACD as parliamentary candidate in 457, 459, 461-6; Burns Banquet 475, 476; theatre 536

  Edinburgh University 1, 14, 75, 80n, 89-154, 585, 669; in fiction 90, 230, 244, 578; ACD enters 92; ACD graduates 134-6, 137; ACD’s MD thesis 236-7, 238-9; ACD’s honorary degree 523; ACD considers representing in Parliament 549, 551, 558, 622-3; Budd at 155; Moral Philosophy 227, 238

  Edward VII, Prince of Wales 10, 499, 475; King 475, 500, 507, 566, 569

  Egypt 258, 259, 643; ACD takes Touie to 2, 322, 347, 348, 352, 355-6; ACD travels in 10-11, 362-72, 442, 671-2; British campaigns in 11, 168, 168n, 174, 377, 609; ACD’s dispatches from 368, 370-71, 374; Innes and 377, 395; in fiction 378

  Eira 130, 130n, 132

  Elliot, Dr Henry Francis 107-12

  ‘Empty House, The’ (ACD, story) 66, 513, 517n

  ‘Engineer’s Thumb, The’ (ACD, story) 37, 116

  Essentials of Materica Medica and Therapeutics (Garrod) 104, 105

  Esther Waters (Moore) 332, 333-4

  Family and Residences of Arthur Conan Doyle, The (Bergem) 8n, 685

  Family Herald 226

  ‘Fate of the Evangeline, The’ (ACD, story) 232

  Feldkirch, Austria 75-87, 92

  Fellowship Club (Chicago) 338

  ‘Final Problem, The’ (ACD, story) 94, 324, 513, 517

  Fires of Fate, The (ACD, play) 536, 537, 548, 553, 556, 560, 561-2, 564

  Firm of Girdlestone, The (ACD, novel) 136, 230; dedication 40n; Edinburgh University in 90; rejections 241, 242-3, 247; reworking of 258, 266, 270; publication 272; ACD consid
ers failure 319, 415; suppressed by ACD 512

  FitzGerald, Sir Gerald and Lady 381

  Flaubert, Gustave 6, 333

  Foley, Catherine (grandmother) 8, 643

  Foley, Catherine ‘Kate’ (aunt) 8, 44

  Foley, Claire (niece) 468, 468n, 533n, 534

  Foley, Edward ‘Ned’ (cousin) 137-8, 172

  Foley, Innes (nephew) 10, 554