Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

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  Foley, Nelson (brother-in-law) 10, 326, 459, 556, 669; death of first wife 369; marries Ida 359, 359n, 364n; visits ACD 382, 542; daughter 468n; collaborates with ACD on sculpture-machine 549, 550; health 554n, 555; death 557

  Foley, Nelson Trafalgar (cousin) 455, 586, 586n

  Foley, Percy (nephew) 10, 554, 620

  Foley, Richard ‘Dick’ (cousin) 137-8

  Foley, William (grandfather) 8

  Forbes, Alec (nephew) 612, 612n, 620, 669

  Ford, Dr Vernon 266, 266-7n

  Fox, Kate and Margaret 268

  France 275n, 473, 475; in ACD’s fiction, 255n, 298, 302, 305, 310-11, 316, 347, 351, 356, 359, 361, 364-5, 367, 375, 380, 588, 589; ACD studies in 290, 292; ACD visits 76, 79, 84, 87, 88, 255, 496, 547, 586, 593, 624; Anglo-French misunderstanding 422; Anglo-French entente 555, 575, 599; army 402, 603, 631; Channel Tunnel 588, 588n; Dreyfus affair 423, 423n; Franco-Prussian War 31-2, 43, 73, 601; Riviera 309, 312, 593; World War I 590, 600, 601, 603, 606, 606n, 611, 615, 618, 620, 622n, 626, 631, 644

  French, Field Marshal Sir John 611

  French language: Mary Doyle’s proficiency in 3, 19, 275; ACD’s study and reading 19-20, 23, 47, 62, 76, 76n, 81, 271, 303, 327-8; translations of ACD’s works 490, 492, 493, 563

  French literature 6, 33, 53, 62, 231, 243, 270, 430, 523; Balzac 231, 303; Dumas 54, 252, 259; Flaubert 6, 333; Gaboriau 243, 246; Gautier 6, 333; Goncourt 6; Maupassant 305, 327, 333, 361; Renan 380-1; Verne 53, 54, 587; Zola 298, 333, 430

  Franco-Prussian War (1870) 31, 32, 73, 601

  Frohman, Charles 411, 411n, 561, 595

  Fullerton, Miss 97-9

  Gamgee, Dr Sampson 115, 115n, 128

  Garnett, Henry Highland 147-8

  ‘Gentlemanly Joe’ (ACD, story) 190

  George V, Prince of Wales 5, 429n, 526; King 566n, 569

  Germany 11; Franco-Prussian War 31-2; ACD studies language 59, 69, 78, 79, 84, 284, 299; visit to Berlin (1890), 278-80; German criticism of Boer War 486-7, 490, 492, 493; Anglo-German military competition 550, 575, 590, 597, 597-8, 601; Prince Henry of Prussia Cup 574-7; Agadir Crisis 575; war against Germany 599-22, 624-7, 630-4, 637-9, 640-2, 644, 646; German behaviour in Belgium 605-6; opposition to anti-German prejudice 607-8; bombing of English cities 615; reaction to Armistice 651-2; postwar feelings about Germany 352

  Germany and the Next War (Bernhardi) 590

  Gibbs, Dr Charles 440, 440n, 443, 483, 542

  Gifford, Mrs (housekeeper, Bush Villa) 179-80, 181, 185, 196, 197

  Gill, Thomas Patrick 272

  Gillette, William 411, 419, 419n, 420, 420, 425, 426, 430, 481-2, 481n, 485, 553, 683

  Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount 539

  Gladstone, William Ewart 268, 423, 458

  ‘Golden Pince-Nez, The’ (ACD, story) 627, 627n

  Good Words 186n, 190, 228

  Gordon, Charles George ‘Chinese’ 362, 401, 401n

  Gow, David 660, 661

  Grace, W. G. 456-7, 456n

  Gray, Captain John 122, 123, 126, 132; Mrs. Gray 130, 298

  Great Boer War, The (ACD, nonfiction) 423n, 440, 445n, 449, 450, 460, 465, 467, 484, 498, 501; success of 468, 469, 471-2, 473-4, 528

  ‘Great Britain and the Next War’ (ACD, article in Fortnightly Review) 590

  ‘Great Keinplatz Experiment, The’ (ACD, story) 232, 233

  Great Shadow, The (ACD, novel) 304n, 315

  Greenhough Smith, Herbert 274n, 378, 384, 384n, 587n, 597n, 627n; letters to 470-1, 478-9, 481, 507, 514, 515, 516, 529, 552, 616, 622n, 626-7, 641n; editor of Strand 293, 294; critical of Holmes stories 513-14, 515, 516; admiration for Lost World 583

  Gresham Life Assurance Society 186, 188, 192, 193, 195, 203, 226, 231-2, 233, 235-6; ‘Lay of the Grasshopper’ advertisement 199-202

  Grey, Edward 601

  Griffiths, Major Arthur 400, 401, 477

  Grove, Coleridge 489

  Haggard, H. Rider 257, 260, 387-8, 577; King Solomon’s Mines 256n, 387; She 256, 256n, 259

  Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas 624, 638, 638n

  Hall, Colonel Lonsdale 470, 486

  Halves (ACD, play) 368, 369, 370, 411, 416, 420

  Hamlet (Shakespeare) 107; Henry Irving in 65

  Hampshire 221, 267n, 302

  Hampshire Post 266

  Hapgood, Norman 477; The Changing Years 478; editor of Collier’s Weekly 510

  Hardy, Arthur 595

  Hardy, Thomas 257, 289, 495, 605

  Hare, John 368, 368n, 369, 370

  Harmsworth, Alfred, 1st Viscount Northcliffe 562

  Harper’s 249-50n, 257n, 289, 290, 318n, 319, 334

  Harrison, Constance 387n

  Harte, Bret 177, 199, 246

  ‘Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe, The’ (ACD, story) 104n, 129, 129n

  Hawkins, Emily (mother-in-law) 253, 255, 267, 302, 309, 312, 322, 345n, 404, 455, 504; health 499, 499n; death 534

  Hawkins, Emily ‘Nem’ (sister-in-law) 255, 255n, 261, 302, 322, 404, 499; travels 287-8, 289; health 289; and Touie’s death 534; relations with ACD 543

  Hawkins, Jack 239-40

  Hawkins, Sir Henry 381, 382

  Hawkins, Louisa, see Conan Doyle, Louisa ‘Touie’

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel 333

  Hay, Admiral John 617

  Henderson, General Sir Robert 669

  Henley, William E. 310, 314, 314n

  Hesketh-Prichard, Hesketh Vernon 573, 573n, 630-1, 630n

  ‘His First Operation’ (ACD, story) 96

  His Last Bow (ACD, story) 576-7, 600, 601-2, 616

  ‘H.M.S. Foudroyant’ (ACD, poem) 43-4

  Hoare, Amy 129, 133, 142, 180, 204n, 216, 261, 292; letters to 136-8, 140, 143-5, 267, 273, 274, 365-6; second mother to ACD 7, 113, 148; children 115, 120, 133; cigar smoking 116-7; German lessons 118; ACD teaches to ice skate 130; health 151; death of husband 402; finances 403

  Hoare, Joey 115, 120, 133, 151, 471

  Hoare, Dr Reginald Ratcliffe 138, 140n, 149, 149n, 152, 169n, 170, 215, 492; letters to 134-5, 156-7, 180-1, 280n, 292; ACD’s assistantship 7, 112-13, 116, 118, 119, 128, 148; relationship with ACD 7, 113, 129, 133, 143, 145, 181, 204n; finances 114-15; health 151, 380; visits ACD 172-3, 175, 204, 206, 228, 267, 274; death 402

  Hoare, Mickey 115, 120, 133, 172-3, 173n, 181

  Hodder House, Lancashire 20-2, 37

  Hogg, James 166, 179; Charles Doyle’s illustrations for 51; lacks sense of humour 149-50; editor of London Society 149n; and publication of stories 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 199, 229; offered serialization 242

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell 141, 339, 340

  Home, Sir Anthony 221

  Home, D, D, 645, 645n, 666

  Hope 121, 122-8, 127, 130n, 132, 173n, 183

  Hope, Anthony 10, 386, 387-8, 477, 483

  Hornung, Arthur Oscar (nephew and godson) 469n, 535n, 644; birth 351n; visits ACD 374, 391, 404, 421; ‘ruined’ by mother 469; letters from 603, 626; military service 603; killed 612, 612n, 613, 614; name 636, 637; on the other side 646-7, 648, 669, 670

  Hornung, E. W. ‘Willie’ (brother-in-law) 333, 373, 390, 397, 399, 455, 492, 506, 625, 647; meets and marries Connie 9, 320; as author 319; relations with ACD 320, 456-7, 488; background 320, 468; health 320; Raffles, 320, 391; reads ACD’s works 326; partner in ACD’s play 336; birth of son 351n; cricketing interests 385, 386, 453, 456; visits ACD 391, 421, 425, 554; attitude to ACD and Jean 453, 454, 455, 457; family legend related by 592; war poetry 641n, 644, 665; death of son 650

  Houdini, Harry 668, 668n, 681

  Hound of the Baskervilles, The (ACD, novel) 477, 478-9, 479n, 481, 483, 496, 496n

  House of Temperley: A Melodrama of the Ring (ACD, play) 548, 548n, 562, 565-6, 568, 569, 588, 589

  ‘How My Carotid Artery was Tied’ (ACD, story) 171, 174

  ‘How the Brigadier Won His Medal’ (ACD, story) 345n

  Huguenot Society 316

  Idler, The 305, 327, 334, 681

  Illustrated London News 219, 446

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  Ireland 11; Conan origins 17-18; Doyle origins 2, 3; Foley origins 3, 8-9, 136, 560, 643; Irish streak in ACD 3, 268; Irish at Stonyhurst 31, 74; ACD travels to 120, 136-8, 140-1, 241; ACD’s talks on Irish literature 402; Sinn Fein (Fenians) 402, 580n; Land War (1880s) 136-8; Whiteboys 592; Home Rule 4, 267-8, 357, 402, 408-9, 448, 458, 578, 579, 579n; Irish independence 580n, 621; in World War I 4, 620-1; civil war 4, 580n

  Irish Brigade 379, 402

  Irish Society 378, 379, 402

  Iron Shroud, The (Mudford) 36

  Irving, Henry 66, 102, 107, 380, 381, 501; as Hamlet 65; ACD writes Story of Waterloo for 66, 298, 312-13, 335-6; ACD sends Holmes script to 397, 398

  Jakeman, Mary 659, 660n

  James, William 269, 330

  Jane Annie (ACD, operetta) 316, 317, 318-19

  Jerome, Jerome K. 305, 310, 311, 326, 334, 358, 681-2

  Jesuits 18, 19, 20, 21, 74, 75, 318, 383, 464

  Jeune, Lady 377, 378, 469, 490; letter to 444

  Jeune, Sir Francis 378-9, 477

  ‘John Barrington Cowles’ (ACD, story) 228

  Journal of Medical Biography 170n

  Kent Coal 592

  Kernahan, Coulson 383-4

  Khartoum 401, 401n; see also Sudan

  King’s & Queen’s College of Ireland 115n

  Kipling, Rudyard 384, 434, 494; friendship with ACD 2; ACD visits in Vermont 10, 344, 344n, 346; literary agent of 293; rifle club of 470, and war effort 605

  Kitchener, General Horatio, 1st Earl Kitchener 603, 609; ACD meets in Cairo 370, 372; ACD’s letter to 377; Sudan campaign 400, 401n; and Boer War 433, 467; disbands civilian reserve 602

  Koch, Dr Robert 278, 279, 280, 280n

  Kruger, Paul 401, 408, 424, 425, 437, 452, 488n

  Ladies’ Home Journal 240-1, 241n

  Lancashire 20, 64

  Lancet, The 112, 152, 203, 570; ACD’s hoax letter 117, 117n; ACD’s articles 151, 186, 193

  Land of Mist, The (ACD, novel) 682

  Lang, Andrew 262, 269, 299; reads Micah Clarke for Longmans 255, 256, 257-8, 260; on popular fiction 388; on literary men as MPs 466; on state honors 495

  Langham Hotel 272, 304

  Langman, Archie 403, 434, 436, 438, 439, 440, 452, 477

  Langman, John 434, 436, 438, 440, 451, 477

  Langman Field Hospital 434, 436, 439-52, 440, 445, 449, 477

  Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray 560

  ‘Last Galley, The’ (ACD, story) 552

  Lauder, Harry 640, 640n

  ‘Lay of the Grasshopper, The’ (ACD, poem) 5, 199-202

  Le Touquet, France 586

  Leckie, Dick 560

  Leckie, James Blyth and Selina (parents-in-law) 412, 503, 543, 558; letters to and from 535, 673-9; and Jean’s affair with ACD 414; ACD’s relations with 417, 503; and Jean’s wedding 542; Selina’s ill health 658; Selina on the other side 678-9

  Leckie, Jean, see Conan Doyle, Jean Elizabeth

  Leckie, Malcolm (brother-in-law) 414; war service 603, 604, 657; killed at Mons 606, 608, 609-10, 652; on the other side 669

  Leckie, Robert (brother-in-law) 503, 503n

  Leckie, Stewart (brother-in-law) 472, 473

  Leisure Hour 226

  Leopold II, King of the Belgians 562

  Leyds, Willem 488, 488n

  Liberal Party 267-8, 458, 490n, 518; ACD as Liberal Unionist 267-8, 271, 311, 402, 410, 456, 457, 459-60, 461, 518; ACD as candidate in 1900 ‘khaki election’ 458, 461-6; ACD’s second campaign for Parliament 518-21, 521, 522, 525, 530-1

  Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Carr) 165n, 414

  Lift, The (ACD, play) 589, 589n

  Light 269, 635, 660, 663n

  Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine 272, 341

  Lister, Dr Joseph 96, 115n, 135

  Living Age, The 407

  Lloyd George, David 611, 620, 621, 623, 631

  Loder-Symonds, Lily 596, 597, 608, 608n, 669

  Lodge, Sir Oliver 330-2, 507, 624, 629-30, 629n, 634, 654, 663, Raymond, or Life and Death 629, 634; letters to 331-2, 654

  London Society 129, 149, 149n, 150, 176, 238, 242 (see also James Hogg)

  London Spiritualist Alliance 624, 634, 667

  London, University of 70-3

  Longman, Thomas Norton 256, 257-8, 264, 274, 356

  Longman’s 228, 266, 271; Micah Clarke published by 254-8, 264, 267, 271; stories published by 272, 274; Stark Munro Letters published by 356-7, 356n

  ‘Lord of Chateau Noir, The’ (ACD, story) 333

  ‘Lord of Falconbridge, The’ (ACD, story) 556

  Lost World, The (ACD, novel) 13, 260, 577-8, 587, 588; illustrations 580, 582-3; publication 586; motion picture 682

  Lotos Club (New York) 329, 341, 342, 342n

  Macauley, Thomas Babington 67n, 68, 103, 215, 463

  Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London 65-6

  Magee, Reverend J. A. 660-1

  ‘Man from Archangel, The’ (ACD, story) 237-8

  ‘Man with the Mattock, The’ (ACD, story) 226, 228

  Maracot Deep, The (ACD, novel) 54, 682

  ‘Marriage of the Brigadier, The’ (ACD, story) 567, 569

  Masongill Cottage (Yorkshire) 153, 206, 241, 290, 307, 359, 375, 446, 625

  Masterman, Charles 605

  Matheson, Robert 40, 41, 308

  Maupassant, Guy de 305, 327, 333, 361

  Mayumba (steamship) 141, 143-7, 172n, 339

  Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 386, 421, 513

  McCabe, Joseph 663, 664-5, 666-7; letter to 667

  McClure, S. S. 345, 345n, 408, 496, 496n

  McClure’s Magazine 241n, 304, 345, 383n, 408, 460

  McLean, Colin 123

  Memories and Adventures (ACD) 4; Michael Conan 17; boyhood 20; father’s alcoholism 26; schooldays 29, 57; sisters 70, 273; family finances 70, 97; loss of faith 74, 165n; medical career 101, 108, 177, 291; whaling expedition 122; travels 146n, 148, 372, 596; Budd as ‘Cullingworth’ 155, 156, 170n; on Innes living with him 167, 196; Mrs Boismaison 192n; income tax 202n; literary career 233, 243, 254, 275, 524; marriage to Touie 241; political work 267-8; medical studies in Europe 278-80, 283-4; Touie’s tuberculosis 321; skiing 329-30; Anglo-American friendship 340-1; homes 352; Sir Francis and Lady Jeune 378; Payn’s death 399-400; relationship with Jean 414, 545; Sir Henry Thompson’s ‘Octave dinners’ 429n; Boer war 431, 439, 445, 451n; ill health 451n; knighthood 507; Edalji case 538-9; inventions 550n; Belgian Congo 562; theatre owner 567; Prince Henry Cup 574-5; World War I 577, 612, 646; Spiritualism 639, 656; armistice 651-2

  Menpes, Mortimer: War Impressions 446-7, 447

  Meredith, George 299, 495; ACD lectures on 255, 256-7, 258, 259, 588; ACD visits 306, 313; letter to 557; death 557n

  Micah Clarke (ACD, novel) 260, 261, 271, 303, 306, 356, 409; historical novel 12, 248, 265, 273; title-page 249, 249-50n; rejections 251, 252-3, 254, 265; accepted by Longmans 254-5, 256, 259; influences 257n; revised and shortened 256, 258, 262; publication 264; reviews 263, 267, 272, 318n; success 274; Lang on 388

  Middleton, Lord 498

  Milner, Sir Alfred 401, 424

  Molly Maguires 595

  Monson murder trial (1893) 326-7, 327n

  Morel, E. D. 562-3, 569, 570, 571

  Morning Post 427, 580

  Morris, Dr Malcolm 278, 280, 619; letter from 628

  Motion pictures 11, 682, 683

  Motorcycles 11, 511, 564, 564n, 589

  ‘Musgrave Ritual, The’ (ACD, story) 291

  ‘Mysteries of a London Growler’ (ACD, story) 228

  Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Hume) 250

  Mystery of Cloomber, The (ACD, novel) 253, 255, 255n, 256, 259, 260, 263, 271, 415

  ‘Mystery of Sasassa Valley, The’ (ACD, story) 113