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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;Author&#039;s Petition&#039;&#039; is an article published in the [[Daily Express]] on 20 february 1914.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Author&#039;s Petition ==<br /> [[File:daily-express-1914-02-20-p2-author-s-petition.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Daily Express]] (20 february 1914, p. 2)]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;GOVERNMENT URGED TO TAKE PART IN PANAMA EXHIBITION.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[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.<br /> <br /> The Petition bears the following signatures:—<br /> <br /> {|style=&quot;width:500px;&quot;|<br /> |-<br /> |style=&quot;width:50%; vertical-align:top;&quot;|<br /> [[William Archer]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Arthur C. Benson]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Robert H. Benson]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Lucy Clifford]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Arthur Conan Doyle]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Stephen Gwynn]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Charles Garvice]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Silas K. Hocking]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Henry Arthur Jones]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Sidney Lee]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[John Masefield]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Frankfort Moore]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[W. B. Maxwell]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Mary E. Maxwell]] ([[Miss Braddon]]),&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[A. E. W. Mason]],<br /> |style=&quot;width:50%; vertical-align:top;&quot;|<br /> [[Ernest William Hornung|E. W. Hornung]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Coulson Kernahan]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Max Pemberton]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Fred Pollock]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Gilbert Parker]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Arthur Pinero]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Hesketh Prichard]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Owen Seaman]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Douglas Sladen]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Humphry Ward]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Mary A. Ward]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Fred M. White]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[Horace Annesley Vachell]],&lt;br /&gt;<br /> [[H. de Vere Stacpoole]].<br /> |}<br /> <br /> The official opening of the exposition occurs on February 20, 1915, one year from to-day.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> * [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:Complete Works|Back to Complete Works]]<br /> * [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Back to Conan Doyle]]</div>

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