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''Author's Petition'' is an article published in the [[Daily Express]] on 20 february 1914.


== Author's Petition ==
[[File:daily-express-1914-02-20-p2-author-s-petition.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Daily Express]] (20 february 1914, p. 2)]]

'''GOVERNMENT URGED TO TAKE PART IN PANAMA EXHIBITION.'''

[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] yesterday forwarded to the Prime Minister a petition signed by many well-known authors urging the Government to reconsider their decision as regards the participation of this country in the Panama-Pacific Exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1915.

The Petition bears the following signatures:—

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[[William Archer]],<br />
[[Arthur C. Benson]],<br />
[[Robert H. Benson]],<br />
[[Lucy Clifford]],<br />
[[Arthur Conan Doyle]],<br />
[[Stephen Gwynn]],<br />
[[Charles Garvice]],<br />
[[Silas K. Hocking]],<br />
[[Henry Arthur Jones]],<br />
[[Sidney Lee]],<br />
[[John Masefield]],<br />
[[Frankfort Moore]],<br />
[[W. B. Maxwell]],<br />
[[Mary E. Maxwell]] ([[Miss Braddon]]),<br />
[[A. E. W. Mason]],
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[[Ernest William Hornung|E. W. Hornung]],<br />
[[Coulson Kernahan]],<br />
[[Max Pemberton]],<br />
[[Fred Pollock]],<br />
[[Gilbert Parker]],<br />
[[Arthur Pinero]],<br />
[[Hesketh Prichard]],<br />
[[Owen Seaman]],<br />
[[Douglas Sladen]],<br />
[[Humphry Ward]],<br />
[[Mary A. Ward]],<br />
[[Fred M. White]],<br />
[[Horace Annesley Vachell]],<br />
[[H. de Vere Stacpoole]].
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The official opening of the exposition occurs on February 20, 1915, one year from to-day.




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