Letter to Herbert Greenhough Smith about Mme Brochmann

This letter was written by Arthur Conan Doyle ca. 1899 from Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere, to Herbert Greenhough Smith, editor of The Strand Magazine.

Letter

My dear Smith

There is a poor lady named

Madame Brochmann

Lofthus

Ullensvang

Norway

who earns a precarious livelihood by translating English stories into Norse. To her it would mean a good deal if she could get proofs of my 'Strand' yarns, instead of only beginning her labours when the number appears. I pray you of your charity to let her have these.

I hope your old ship is weathering the storm caused by all these cheap imitations. I observed that the 'Royal' stole the very print of your table of contents. They are always pestering me but I do not even answer their letters now. My ambition is always to stand by the old craft. I have a book on the stacks so queer that there is nothing any where like it. I don't want to speak of it or to sell it until it is sone for only then can I tell whom it will suit — or if it will suit anymore. It is the most purely natural & spontaneous thing I have ever done.

With all kind regards

Yours very truly

A Conan Doyle.

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