Dr. Conan Doyle come up to London to practise as a specialist
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
This article was published in The St. James's Gazette on 31 january 1891.
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Dr. A. Conan Doyle has decided, we understand, to come up to London to practise as a specialist. His name reminds us of the recent protest of one of our most prolific and delightful novelists against the right of doctors to turn novelists: doctors of medicine, that is — he is not afraid of D.C.L.'s, honorary or otherwise. The competition of kings and queens he does not flinch from. They may do their best or worst. But the doctor has too unfair an advantage with his curious confidences and dramatic experiences. Unless Dr. Richardson has kept more trumps up his sleeve, the poets have no such cause for alarm.
