Letter about the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
This letter was written by Arthur Conan Doyle on 2 february (>1907) from Windlesham, Crowborough. The recipient of this letter, Cecil P. Turner, had written to him describing the legend, current from about 1400, of the Black Dog of Hergest Court [1], Kington, Herefordshire, which haunted the Vaughan family (Turner's family having married into the Vaughans in the sixteenth century).
Letter
Feb 2
Dear Sir
My story was really based on nothing save a remark of my friend Fletcher Robinson's that there was a legend about a dog on the Moor connected with some old family. I had no place in my eye. What you say is interesting and extraordinary.
Yours sincerely
A Conan doyle
- ↑ Not Hergest Croft as stated in Bonham's auction catalogue.