https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Letter_to_Seymour_Hicks_%2816_june%29Letter to Seymour Hicks (16 june) - Revision history2026-06-04T13:30:22ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.2https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Letter_to_Seymour_Hicks_(16_june)&diff=126987&oldid=prevTCDE-Team at 12:17, 19 June 20252025-06-19T12:17:54Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Letter-sacd-undated-06-16-seymour1.jpg|thumb|250px|right|]]<br />
[[File:Letter-sacd-undated-06-16-seymour2.jpg|thumb|250px|right|]]<br />
<br />
This letter was written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] on 16 june [year?] from Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex, to Seymour Hicks, who played [[Dr. Watson]] in play [[Under the Clock]] (1893).<br />
<br />
<br />
== Letter ==<br />
<br />
My dear Seymour<br />
<br />
It was very pleasant to hear from you. I look upon you as one who will do good work. Don't get deflected. I pray, upon theosophy or any side track. Insist upon proofs all the time. We build from below, brick by brick. They build down from the apex. They may be right. But I want rigid proofs.<br />
<br />
The book (Mrs. White's) is very striking. Taken alone it might be fancy running riot, but her letter doubles its value. A good deal of it coincides with information from other sources. The Wilde episode was least convincing. I know him & I am sure he knew nothing of demon worship. Sensuality and green chartreuse was more his line. But the others are very striking & to some extent convincing. Tho' one wonders how far such things are allegorical. You will find in "Gone West" some pictures of hell, which are even more terrible.<br />
<br />
I am trying to rest & will get on with my lecturing, for I grow older and my strength may not stand it long. I'll go till I can go no more — for I can no other. I am happier so. One can rest afterwards.<br />
<br />
The fairies hold the field. They are an unimportant side show in this great subject, but they seem real enough. Anyhow the critics have not shaken them.<br />
<br />
My wife sends all remembrance to your wife & yourself.<br />
<br />
: Yours very sincerely<br />
:: A Conan Doyle.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:Letters|Back to Conan Doyle's letters]]<br />
* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Back to Conan Doyle]]</div>TCDE-Team