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