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This young man struggles to make a living as an oculist; when there are no patients at the door, he writes stories, but only one of them has been accepted and published thus far, and the remuneration for it is meager. He considers moving to the Scottish countryside, but in the early spring of 1889, he receives a singular invitation from the "queens one eyed dog" to attend his banquet.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?