An unusual, small collection of personal tokens of affection and remembrance including two snowdrops contained in individual envelopes, each annotated in ink in the hand of Jean Leckie, Conan Doyle’s wife, ‘The first snow drop picked for me by my beloved Arthur’ and dated 1925 & 1929, a further four snowdrops in individual envelopes, each annotated by Jean Leckie (‘The first snowdrop from where my Beloved used to pick mine’ etc.) and dated 1932-35 and two others including ‘The last red rose in the Sanctum garden, Oct. 1933’, also including ten small silver foil horseshoes and three small silver foil ladies’ shoes, being confetti thrown at the wedding of Doyle and Leckie in 1907. Provenance: The snowdrops are accompanied by the envelope in which they were originally contained, annotated in pencil by Adrian Conan Doyle, 'Here are the heartbeats of love. Year in and year out, my father would gather the first snowdrop for my mother up to the final spring of his life (1930) and year in and year out she preserved them. Herein are samples of a romance that was as fresh and as passionate at the end as it was at its commencement. May he yet gather for her each spring the snowdrop of a greater world'. The present lot was originally part of a larger collection of memorabilia sold by Christie's in their auction of The Conan Doyle Collection at King Street, London, on 19th May 2004 (Lot 133). A copy of the catalogue description is also included.