ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 4.5 x 7, Greyswood Beeches, Haslemere letterhead, no date. ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” 4.5 x 7, Greyswood Beeches, Haslemere letterhead, no date. Handwritten letter to “McClure,” likely his publisher S. S. McClure of McClure's Magazine, in full: “Many thanks for your kindness. Esquemeling I have but the other two are new to me. I’ll do my best to produce something readable.” Doyle adds a brief line at the end: “Thanks also for the magazines.” In fine condition.
S. S. McClure founded McClure's Magazine in 1893 and ran it successfully until 1911 when poor health and financial reorganization forced him out. The magazine published influential pieces by respected journalists and authors including Doyle, Jack London, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Burton J. Hendrick, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, and Lincoln Steffens.
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch, or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam in 1678.
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