"It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes". Letter dated 1892 from Arthur Conan Doyle to Joseph Bell, crediting him as the inspiration for his literary detective. Bell was born OTD 1837. Doyle was clerk on Bell's ward at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1877 while a medical student
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"It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes". Letter dated 1892 from Arthur Conan Doyle to Joseph Bell, crediting him as the inspiration for his literary detective. Bell was born OTD 1837. Doyle was clerk on Bell's ward at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1877 while a medical student