Archives

This is the largest section of the Richard Lancelyn Green Collection and to date has been the most challenging section to sort.

The Collection testifies to the worldwide interest in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes and the wide breadth of interests Conan Doyle developed through his life.

Currently around 84% of the total archive has been added to the catalogue and is available for public access.

The catalogued material includes:

A. Richard Lancelyn Green

1. Working Papers
2. Research Files
3. Correspondence
4. Collecting Activities
5. Sherlock Holmes Statue Company
6. Groups
7. Trips & Holidays
8. Christmas Cards (produced annually by RLG)
9. Roger Lancelyn Green

B. Arthur Conan Doyle and family

1. Photographs
2. Correspondence to and from Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Diaries
4. Finances
5. Automatic Sculpture Syndicate
6. Quarry Hill Farm
7. Psychic Bookshop
8. Other documents in Arthur Conan Doyle’s hand
9. Other documents owned or signed by Arthur Conan Doyle
10.  Mary Louise Conan Doyle
11.  Lady Jean Conan Doyle
12.  Denis Conan Doyle
13.  Pamphlets written by Arthur Conan Doyle
14.  Events of a historical nature connected to Arthur Conan Doyle
15.  Writings about Arthur Conan Doyle
16.  Lena Jean (Billie) Conan Doyle
17.  Nina Mdivani
18.  Denis & Nina Conan Doyle
19.  Anthony Harwood
20. Anthony & Nina Harwood
21.  Windlesham Cottage
22.  Financial
23.  Travel
24.  Mdivani Family History
25.  Miscellaneous

C. Spiritualism

1. Spiritualist Photography
2. Spiritualism Manuscripts and Correspondence
3. Journals and Articles

D. Dramatisations

1. Photographs, postcards, lobby cards from stage, screen and radio adaptations of Conan Doyle works and pastiche
2. Scripts and Screenplays (369)
3. Trade Publicity (re 242 stage, screen and radio productions etc)
4. Consumer Publicity (re 304 stage, screen and radio productions etc)
5. Programmes (re 661 productions)
6. Actor Autographs and Correspondence
7. Non Doyle Drama
8. Forthcoming Productions

E. Groups & societies

1. Baker Street Irregulars
2. Sherlock Holmes Society of London
3. Other groups and societies – 151 - worldwide

F. Sherlock Holmes phenomena

Photographs, postcards, calendars, diaries, stamps, calling cards, bookmarks, greetings cards, notepaper, public houses, restaurants, hotels, tourist guides, advertising, illustrations, maps, book covers, Snoopy material, Japanese Sherlockiana, cartoons, pamphlets (fiction and non-fiction), conferences, pipe material, games and activities, etc.

G. Victorian and edwardian world

1. Places
2. Beeton Family
3. Gordon Bottomley
4. Hornung
5. Kipling
6. CS Lewis
7. Lewis Carroll
8. George MacDonald
9. William Morris
10.  Paget
11.  Dorothy L Sayers
12.  Oscar Wilde
13. –  125. Other Victorians and Edwardians

H. Sale catalogues

From 440 auction houses and specialist and non-specialist antiquarian and other booksellers

I. Scrapbooks

J. Exhibitions

K. Newspapers and newspaper cuttings

1. Newspapers
2. Cuttings
3. Photocopies

L. Archival items found in books

Richard Lancelyn Green's own correspondence and working papers comprises one of the most extensive sections in the collection and provides the core of the Collection.

Tracing his friendships, contacts and acquisition of the materials leads us to a man as passionately devoted to a cause as his hero - Arthur Conan Doyle - a man who was passionate about justice, truth and the worlds of fiction and folklore.

The archive and research room is on the 2nd Floor of the Central Library in the Portsmouth History Centre.