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A Signed Letter (Autograph) From Arthur Conan Doyle - Approximately 1903A letter from Arthur Conan Doyle to Alfred Carpenter R.N. (HMS Challenger) inviting him and his son, also Alfred (who later became Vice-Admiral Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, a recipient of the Victoria Cross), for a visit (and a game of cricket, presumably). The letter was found in a scrapbook that Alfred Francis Blakeney kept and you can see that he has pencilled in his recollection of the approximate date.The letter has been stuck with glue to a backing page.
It reads:Dear old chap
Come along and bring the boy. If he is a Chip off the old block he will be worth knowing.
In a large room with a big bed you would not mind putting up together, would you? I shall have 7 or 8 visitors in the house.
Yours
A.C.D.
Better come down Monday morning, leave your knaps (knapsacks / backpacks) at the station & go straight to the Haslemere field. I can play you both that day._gsrx_vers_1664 (GS 9.8a5 (1664))
