Official (article 23 may 1921)
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Official is an article published in the Daily Express on 23 may 1921.
Official
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who celebrated his sixty-second birthday yesterday, is a modest man, but he may justly assume that his first schoolmaster was given to under-statement. When Sir Arthur was leaving school this pessimist called him into the presence and remarked: "Doyle, I have known you now for seven years, and I know you thoroughly. I have to tell you that you will never come to any good." Far more helpful was a later teacher, Dr. James Bell [1], under whom Doyle studied medicine at Edinburgh, and from whom, I believe, he derived the inspiration of Sherlock Holmes.
