Written on printed letterhead stationery reading: 12, Tennison Road, / South Norwood.
Forms part of a collection of letters addressed by Doyle to the editor of Belgravia magazine (Andrew Chatto) and the firm of publishers Chatto & Windus, proprietors of Belgravia.
Identity of recipient suggested by accompanying related correspondence; the anthology entitled Strange secrets was first issued by Chatto & Windus in 1889, and contained 14 short stories, including Arthur Conan Doyle's "Selecting a ghost" (lalso published as The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange).
Inscribed in a different hand at upper left: LB Feb5.
Informing them that his agent has already made arrangements regarding the publication of an unspecified work, and adding "I am sorry that your note came too late."; requesting they remove his name from their listings for the book Strange secrets, as "I have nothing to do with it, never named it, never saw it save by chance on a stall, & have written nothing in it save one small tale which is in the middle of the volume. Several of my friends have been beguiled into buying it thro' seeing my name in your list."