![]() He towered above us all, and yet had the art of seeming to be interested in all that we could say. His conversation left an indelible impression upon my mind. ![]() Wilde to my surprise had read “Micah Clarke” and was enthusiastic about it, so that I did not feel a complete outsider. In his autobiography, Memories and Adventures, Conan Doyle recalled: It was indeed a golden evening for me. And that very evening, both were commissioned to write a novel. In August 1889, the two authors, along with an Irish MP, had been invited to dine at the Langham Hotel in London by Lippincott’s editor, Joseph M. Years later, Conan Doyle recalled the origin of this contribution as a “golden evening” in the company of an enterprising American editor and the already famous playwright Oscar Wilde. ![]() ![]() ![]() The magazine was priced at 25¢ in the US, and its UK counterpart, issued by Ward, Lock & Co., cost one shilling. Sherlock Holmes made his second appearance thanks to the American publisher of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine (February 1890). ![]()
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