How Watson Learned the Trick is a Sherlock Holmes story, handwritten by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle specially for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House. Less than 4cm in height, it is one of over 170 handwritten manuscripts made for the Library, one of the Dolls’ House’s most remarkable rooms [1010×568]

[link](https://www.rct.uk/collection/1171476/how-watson-learned-the-trick)

Miniature manuscript on paper, 34 leaves. Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1922 for inclusion in the Dolls’ House Library, part of the gift of a Dolls’ House to Queen Mary in 1924.

Between 1921 and 1924, many of Britain and Ireland’s most significant writers contributed handwritten books to the miniature library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House. The collection of tiny manuscripts was organized by Princess Marie Louise, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who contacted around 200 renowned writers. Most were delighted to contribute, but a few, including Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw, refused. Authors who donated included J.M. Barrie, John Buchan, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, A.A. Milne and Vita Sackville-West. 

[More about the Doll House Library](https://www.rct.uk/collection/stories/a-modern-day-miniature-library)