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20, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, S.W., 



26th Sept., 1902. 

 MY DEAR SIR, 



I have read your very striking and characteristic Tale 

 of a Tiger and the accompanying chapters in your book with 

 the greatest interest and excitement. The Tiger tale is a very 

 thrilling account of a personal adventure such as falls to the 

 lot of few men who live to tell the story. 



Your object in publishing it should of itself warrant its 

 sale, but it has that other claim to be read extensively by 

 the public, an engrossing interest. 



I hope that the Fund for the erection of buildings for 

 the ist Cadet Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers, will benefit 

 largely from its publication, and I congratulate you on your 

 enterprise and philanthropy. 



Believe me, yours very truly, 

 GILBERT PARKER, Hon. Col., ist K.V.A. 



ROYAL YORK HOTEL, SIDMOUTH, SOUTH DEVON. 

 DEAR COLONEL SHEFFIELD, 



Many thanks for the book, which I read with interest. 

 You have treated the Bengal tiger as the man in Pickwick 

 treated Chinese metaphysics half about Bengal and the other 

 half about the tiger. 



I enclose i is. to help. 



Yours truly, 



ARTHUR CON AN DOYLE. 



" ASHLEYDENE," ROXBURGH ROAD, WESTGATE-ON-SEA, 



6th Oct., 1902. 

 MY DEAR SIR, 



Your story ' ' How I Killed the Tiger ' ' has greatly 

 cheered and brightened for me some darksome days of 

 premature winter. You have told the tale with admirable 

 spirit and humour, and enabled even one like myself, who 

 knows very little of sport, to appreciate every situation and 

 event of your thrilling narrative. 



The chapters of your appendix, which tell us in closest 

 compass the story of British India, its origin and its growth, 

 form a most instructive study. 



The illustrations to the encounter with the tiger are vivid 

 and thoroughly artistic. Let me add that the benevolent 

 purpose to which the profits of your book are to be dedicated 

 must of itself commend the work to the attention and the 

 sympathy of the public. 



Very truly yours, 



JUSTIN MCCARTHY. 



Lieut. -Col. FRANK SHEFFIELD. 



HKATHERSIDE, WORPLESDON, SURREY, 



ijth Oct., 1902. 

 DEAR SIR, 



Since last writing to you I have been able to read 

 carefully and at my leisure the little book you so kindly sent 

 me, "How I Killed the Tiger." Your very graphic account 

 of the way in which you attacked and finally killed the 



