Author's Petition

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


Author's Petition

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:—

William Archer,
Arthur C. Benson,
Robert H. Benson,
Lucy Clifford,
Arthur Conan Doyle,
Stephen Gwynn,
Charles Garvice,
Silas K. Hocking,
Henry Arthur Jones,
Sidney Lee,
John Masefield,
Frankfort Moore,
W. B. Maxwell,
Mary E. Maxwell (Miss Braddon),
A. E. W. Mason,

E. W. Hornung,
Coulson Kernahan,
Max Pemberton,
Fred Pollock,
Gilbert Parker,
Arthur Pinero,
Hesketh Prichard,
Owen Seaman,
Douglas Sladen,
Humphry Ward,
Mary A. Ward,
Fred M. White,
Horace Annesley Vachell,
H. de Vere Stacpoole.

The official opening of the exposition occurs on February 20, 1915, one year from to-day.



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