A Literary Gent
Posted in Edinburgh at 20:00 on 26 March 2016
In the loosest sense.
This is one of the many sites in Edinburgh associated with men of letters of which the most prominent is of course the Scott Monument.
It’s the statue of Sherlock Holmes which stands in Picardy Place; erected in memory of his creator Arthur Conan Doyle who was born in 1859 near to this site. The Conan Doyle Pub is just over the road in York Place. The childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson is less than a stone’s throw away from here.
Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, Edinburgh, Picardy Place, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scott Monument, Sherlock Holmes, York Place
