Checklist of Conan Doyle Manuscript Facsimiles by Randall Stock

The Best of Sherlock Holmes

Conan Doyle Manuscripts:

A Checklist of Facsimiles of the Sherlock Holmes Stories

28 January 2007

This checklist identifies reproductions from the manuscripts of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It includes a detailed description of the reproduced text as well as citations for the sources of the reproductions. Citations begin with the title of a publication and are structured to make it as easy as possible for you to locate and positively identify the source.

Terms used in the descriptions are defined at the bottom of the page in the Notes section along with other information about the construction and format of this checklist.

To find all the reproductions from a story, click on a story title in the Index section below. The checklist is sorted alphabetically by story title, so you can also find a story by scrolling down through the page. A List of Citations sorted by publication title is also available. More information is available on the Manuscript and Facsimile home page.

Special News: Find out about the 19 June 2008 sale of "His Last Bow" manuscript. For details on other important sales of original Conan Doyle material, see the links on the ACD Manuscripts section home page.

Please send me e-mail if you know of other manuscript facsimile appearances or have corrections or suggestions for this checklist. If you have an extensive collection of Sherlockiana, especially bookseller or auction house catalogs, please look at the list of Unconfirmed Facsimile Items to see if you could help to augment the current checklist information.

Index to Titles of Stories with Facsimiles

Angels of Darkness	Priory School, The
Black Peter	Problem of Thor Bridge, The
Cardboard Box, The	Red Circle, The
Charles Augustus Milverton	Reigate Squires, The
Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax	Resident Patient, The
Dying Detective, The	Scandal in Bohemia, A
Empty House, The	Second Stain, The
Final Problem, The	Shoscombe Old Place
Golden Pince-Nez, The	Sign of the Four, The
Greek Interpreter, The	Six Napoleons, The
His Last Bow	Solitary Cyclist, The
Hound of the Baskervilles, The	Study in Scarlet, A
Lady Frances Carfax, Disappearance of	Sussex Vampire, The
Last Bow, His	Three Garridebs, The
Lion's Mane, The	Three Students, The
Mazarin Stone, The	Thor Bridge, The Problem of
Missing Three-Quarter, The	Valley of Fear, The

Notes to the Checklist

Angels of Darkness (#111)

While not one of the 60 official Holmes stories, this play does contain related material by Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes does not appear, but there is a character named Dr. John Watson and the story involves many of the events of the Mormon episode in A Study in Scarlet.

Partial manuscript with the first 29 pages reproduced, including a title page and several versos with short additions. The title page shows that "A Study in Scarlet" was stricken and replaced with "Angels of Darkness." This play is not included in Doubleday and has only been published in the facsimile noted below.

Appears in:

Angels of Darkness: A Drama in Three Acts by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited with an introduction by Peter E. Blau. (New York: The Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the Toronto Public Library, 2001). Part of the Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series. This volume includes a partial manuscript facsimile, a complete manuscript transcription, and related essays. Available at the Baker Street Journal website.