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Article: Case of the disputed Conan Doyle relics
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- August 30, 2009
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IT REQUIRES no great detective work to deduce that an injustice
is being perpetrated. The largest and most important collection of
memorabilia belonging to Sherlock Holmes' creator is "gathering
dust" in a city hundreds of miles from his birthplace.
The collection of 40,000 items related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
including personal papers, photographs and first editions of his
books - was bequeathed to the city of Portsmouth following the death
of eccentric millionaire Richard Lancelyn Green, a leading member of
the international Conan Doyle Society.
But amid concerns that much of the collection is not yet on show
to the public, a group of MSPs want the Scottish Government to open ...