Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
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Transactions of the Society for Psychical Research 331
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm 393, 393n, 395, 397
Trevor, Captain Philip 404, 471n
Trinity College, Dublin 138
Trott, Albert 385, 404
Uncle Bernac (ACD) 375, 378, 380, 415
Undershaw, Hindhead, Surrey 352-5, 361, 366, 374, 375, 376, 379, 385-6, 387, 389, 390-2, 393, 394, 411, 434, 460, 540
Undershaw Rifle Club 468, 470, 472, 488n, 499, 604
Union Jack Club 492
United States: American slang 211, 592; Western United States 246n, 247, 272, 336, 343, 344-5; American tourists 254, 284, 286; Anglo-American Ball (Vienna) 289; ACD champions Anglo-American closeness 311, 336-7; 1894 speaking tour 326, 329, 335, 336-46, 338; Colorado considered for Touie’s health 336, 344-5; ACD’s liking for America 339-40, 342-4, 345-6; ACD’s reaction to anti-British feeling 340-1, 342; ACD’s ‘romance of America’ speech (1894) 342-4; visits Kipling in Vermont 10, 344, 344n, 346; ACD calls for Anglo-American Society 367, 367n; tour of ‘Parkman Land’ 596, 597; 1914 visit to New York 596-7, 596n; Spanish-American War 431
ACD’S WORKS IN AMERICA 529; American rights 478, 510, 528; American settings 246n, 247, 272; American themes 290, 296-8, 302, 310-11, 595; Collier’s Weekly publishes stories 478, 510, 517; publishers 290, 304, 304n, 319, 333, 345, 345n, 348, 356, 356n, 408, 412, 418, 422-3, 478, 496, 496n; reviews 249n, 257, 318n, 349n, 474, 477, 524, 525n, 563, 596n; success and popularity 319, 349, 349n, 418, 420, 496n; theatrical productions 389, 418, 425, 426, 429n, 474, 564, 568, 570, 572, 573, 573n, 595, 595n, 596; U.S. Copyright Act 290, 290n
WRITERS AND LITERATURE 259, 338-9, 340, 344, 550; discussion with Henry Highland Garnett 147-8; humorists 209, 336n; Bret Harte 177, 199, 246; Nathaniel Hawthorne 333; Oliver Wendell Holmes 141, 339, 340; Edgar Allan Poe 93, 94-5, 199, 243, 246, 293, 359n, 554, 554n
‘Up an African River’ (ACD, article in Journal of Photography) 171
Valley of Fear, The (ACD, novel) 595
Vaughan, Father Bernard 663
Verne, Jules 53, 54, 587
Victoria, Queen 469n, 474, 477, 500
Vienna, Austria 283-91, 292
Visit to Three Fronts, A (ACD, pamphlet) 618
Vital Message, The (ACD, Spiritualism) 656, 661
‘Wages of Sin, The’ (ACD, story) 296
Waller, Dr Bryan Charles 79, 85, 93, 109, 117, 250, 277; influence in Doyle household 14, 74-5; relationship with ACD 75, 150, 153, 289-90, 290n; and ACD’s education 75, 80, 84; influences ACD’s choice of career 93n; manner of speech 138, 177; Mary Doyle rents cottage on Yorkshire estate of 153, 375; best man at ACD’s wedding 153; marriage 375; health 584
Waller, Edmund 501
Waller, Lewis 531, 537, 562
Wanderings of a Spiritualist, The (ACD, Spiritualism) 674, 675, 676, 679
Ward & Downey 258
Ward, Lock & Co. 247, 250, 251, 255, 256, 262, 296
Ward, Sir Edward 492-3, 494
Warne & Co. 250
Washington, Booker T. 570
Watkins, Sir Alfred 529
Watson, Dr Bertram 611
Watson, Dr James 178n, 552
Watson, Dr Patrick Heron 178, 327n
Watt, A. P. 292-4, 296, 361, 408, 481, 552
Weldon, Elmore ‘Elmo’ 136; ACD meets in Ireland 140, 141; letters to and from Mary Doyle 143, 172, 183; financial situation 146, 149, 169, 172; breaks with ACD 154, 183, 187-8, 190; reconciliation 160, 168; ACD contemplates marriage 160, 169, 172, 181; health 175, 178, 179, 180, 181; personality 183
Wellington, Duke of 66
Wells, H. G. 416-17, 587, 605
Western Wanderings (ACD, nonfiction) 596
Westminster Aquarium 104, 107
Westminster Gazette 370, 371-2, 372n, 374, 562
What I Think (Greenhough Smith, ed.) 274n
White Company, The (ACD, novel) 539; ACD’s assessment of 12, 274, 275, 319, 356, 376; origins of 23-4; writing of 273, 274, 275; serialization 276-7; dedication to ‘reunion of English-speaking races’ 336-7; reviews 300-1, 303; names 315-16; influence of 275n, 305; regarded as adventure story 388; prequel written 524, 537
‘Who Carries the Gun’ (ACD, poem) 441n, 442
Whyte, Frederic 422
Wide Wide World 474
Wilde, Oscar 259, 272, 313
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 102, 102n, 550, 574
Williams, A. Redshawe 397, 397n, 403, 439, 554
Wilson, General Henry 590
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex 540n, 548, 549, 556-7, 558, 596
Wingate, Major F. Reginald 362, 363, 395
‘Winning Shot, The’ (ACD, story) 165, 171, 174, 182
‘Wisteria Lodge’ (ACD, story) 552
Wolseley, Field Marshal Sir Garnet 101-2, 401, 426, 431
Wombwell’s menagerie 58-9
Women’s suffrage 11, 579-80n
Wood, Alfred 541, 567, 679; friend from Southsea days 280, 471n; visits ACD 404, 471, 620; ACD’s secretary 471n, 540, 659, 670; golfing trips with ACD 502, 506; call up and war service 603, 627; view of ACD’s volunteering 604; health 609
World War I 2, 11, 601-50; eve of war 549, 550, 575, 600-1; military preparations for 590, 597-8; assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 599-600; Germany declares war 600; civilian reserve schemes 602, 607, 609; ACD volunteers 602-4, 605, 612, 615-16, 628; pamphlet published by War Propaganda Board 605; deaths of family and friends 2, 606, 608, 609-10, 612, 614, 620, 625; anti-German feeling 607-8; air raid reprisals 615; ACD’s lecture tour 610-11, 617, 622; ACD visits front lines 2, 618, 646; Ministry of Munitions 620, 621, 622; letters from Kingsley 630-3, 637-8; armistice 651; ACD’s history of 384n, 608-9, 610, 612, 616, 621, 622, 626-7, 640-1, 645
Zeppelins 615
Zola, Emile 298, 333, 431
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