The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest

THE DOCUMENTS OF THE COLLECTION

This is the largest section of the Richard Lancelyn Green Collection and to date has been the most challenging section to sort.  The collection testifies to the worldwide interest in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes and to the wide breadth of interests Conan Doyle developed through his life.

At the current time over 1000 boxes of archives are being sorted and processed with the aim of producing a catalogue to support researchers and users of the collection.

Priority has been given to five principal areas within the archive section which are as follows:

  • Doyle Family papers and photographs
  • Victorian and Edwardian world
  • Drama and dramatisations
  • Sherlock Holmes Phenomena
  • Spiritualism

More work is also being undertaken on the wealth of legal papers and newspaper cuttings which are also part of the archive.

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