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13809 - Printed Books and Manuscripts including the Hooke Folio, 28 Mar 2006
New Bond Street
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Lot No: 72
DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)
Autograph poem titled "Ypres, September 1915" signed ("Arthur Conan Doyle"), 4 pages, 17 5-line stanzas, neat copy with numerous manuscript emendations and corrections, gathered by a pin at upper left margin, 4to, October 10 [1915]
Estimate: £800 - 1,200
Footnote:
"Ypres, September 1915" first appeared in The Queen's Gift Book, published for Christmas 1915 "In aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals For Soldiers And Sailors Who Have Lost Their Limbs In The War". It was subsequently included in the author's The Guards Came Through and Other Poems, 1919.
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