What I Wanted to Be
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
What I Wanted to Be is a collection of interviews of famous men including Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Captain in april 1899.
The famous men were:
- H. M. Stanley
- George R. Sims
- Major H. StreatFeild
- Sir Henry Irving
- Charles Wyndham
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Grant Allen
- Lord Brampton
- Sir John Bridge
- George Grossmith
- L. Alma-Tadema
- Sir John Lubbock
- John M. Le Sage
- A. W. Pinero
- Sir Thomas Lipton
- John T. Tussaud
- W. S. Gilbert
- S. R. Crockett
- William Whiteley
- George Alexander
- George Manville Fenn
- Wilson Barrett
- W. G. Grace
- Sir Arthur Arnold
- J. A. Bailey
- Sir Squire Bancroft
- Phil May
What I Wanted to Be
Some Boyish Aspirations of Famous Men
I remember my master asking me what I would be. I said, "A civil engineer." He answered: "You may be an engineer, Doyle, but from what I have seen of you I should think it very unlikely that will be a civil one!"
A. Conan Doyle
Full article
- The Captain (april 1899)
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p. 28
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p. 30
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