Christopher Redmond’s fascinating account of Doyle’s first trip to America has been reconstructed from newspaper accounts describing the places Doyle visited, from the Adirondacks to New York, Chicago, and Toronto. Despite the gruelling tour schedule, Doyle met dozens of the most important literary and social lights of America. Everywhere he went he was mobbed by public hungry for news of the man he had "killed off" a year earlier — Sherlock Holmes, who was front page news. In Redmond’s lively narrative, which is based on letters, newspaper reports, and other newly unearthed sources, you will discover, as Doyle himself put it, "the romance of America."
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 19
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- Originally published: Toronto [Ont.] : Simon & Pierre, c1987 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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Table of Contents
- Contents 13
- Sources and Acknowledgements 8
- Map of Tour 15
- Author‘s Note 16
- Photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle 17
- Introduction 18
- October 1894 28
- Arrival in New York 28
- The Metropolis of the United States 31
- Luncheon at the Lotos Club 34
- A Chat with Arthur Conan Doyle 36
- Parkman Land 38
- The Sage of Boston 40
- Hunting in the Adirondacks 41
- The Stars and Stripes 42
- Lecture at Calvary 44
- The Limited Train 46
- Chicago's Elite 49
- A Literary Luncheon 52
- Aladdin, Jr. 55
- With Riley in Indianapolis 56
- Ticket to Cincinnati 58
- The Culture of the Queen City 60
- Harvest Home 62
- The Toledo Cycling Club 65
- Dinner in Detroit 67
- Spiritualism Past and Present 69
- Lecture in Detroit 71
- George Meredith 72
- Hotels on Wheels 76
- Evening in Milwaukee 77
- Return to Chicago 79
- Heading Back East 82
- Literary Tidings 83
- Lecture in Brooklyn 86
- A Tree Grows in Northampton 89
- A Cabman in the Athens of America 92
- November 1894 95
- Smoke Talk in Worcester 95
- Lecture at Amherst College 96
- Lecture at Norwich 98
- "My Own Theory of Reading” 99
- Lecture in Washington 101
- Baltimore on Election Day 102
- Round the Red Lamp 105
- Dinner in Philadelphia 107
- Next Stop Newark 109
- Siss, Boom, Ah! 110
- Impressions of America 112
- A Visit with John Kendrick Bangs 114
- Audience in Orange 117
- New Readings at Daly's 118
- Philadelphia and Princeton 118
- North to New Rochelle 120
- Dinner at the Lotos Club 121
- A Cheque for S. S. McClure 124
- Return to Boston 126
- Reading from “The Cardboard Box” 127
- Interview in Rochester 128
- The Female College at Elmira 130
- Pilgrimage to Glens Falls 131
- Lecture at Schenectady 133
- Tourist at Niagara Falls 134
- An Old Friend in Toronto 135
- Lecture in Buffalo 140
- Mark Twain‘s New Book 140
- Thanksgiving with the Kiplings 141
- Lecture in Morristown 143
- December 1894 144
- Rain in Paterson 144
- The Napoleon Fad 145
- Evening in Flushing 147
- Fire, Blood, and Corruption 148
- The Town Hall, Jamaica 149
- Last Lecture 149
- A Toast to Arthur Conan Doyle 150
- Aboard the Etruria 152
- Afterword 154
- Appendix I–“Readings and Reminiscences” 157
- Text of Doyle‘s lecture as he delivered it during his 1894 tour of North America 157
- Notes to “Readings and Reminiscences” 167
- Appendix II–Notes and Comments 169
- Epigraph 169
- Introduction 169
- October 1894 172
- November 1894 200
- December 1894 220
- Afterword 223
- Index 225
- A 225
- B 225
- C 226
- D 227
- E 228
- F 228
- G 228
- H 229
- I 230
- J 230
- K 230
- L 230
- M 231
- N 232
- O 232
- P 232
- Q 233
- R 233
- S 234
- T 235
- U 235
- V 235
- W 236
- Y 236
- Z 236
