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On this day in 1889

Two great writers were entertained to lunch. From @gutenberg_org:

Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde are entertained together at dinner at the Langham Hotel, London, by the American Joseph Marshall Stoddart of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, who commissions from them respectively the stories The Sign of the Four and The Picture of Dorian Gray, which appear next year in the magazine.

The Sign of the Four at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2097

The Picture of Dorian Gray at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4078
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/174

How cool! I love the Holmes stories. They are regularly re-read.