June 1999 Volume 3 Number 2 Sherlock Holmes

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: Morley and Company n early March of this year, Anthony religious group today, the Website for the J. Morley paid a visit to the Sherlock school states lLThevalues of individual &g- Contents Holmes Collections. He carried two nity academic strength, and tolerance upon large boxes brimming with "Holmes whch is was founded remain central to its and Holmes Related Materials"; books, character." These were the same values that Morley and Company booklets, and papers that had belonged to the Morleys considered in raising their sons. 1 his late father, Dr. Felix Morley. During his visit, Anthony took the opportunity to Christopher Darlington Morley, B. S. I. 100 Years Ago tour the Sherlock Holmes Collections, ("The Sign of the Four", 1944) was the and talk about the Morley family. eldest son. He was a novelist, dramatist, 3 essayist, literary columnist, anthologist and Dr. Felix M. Morley was the middle child editor of two editions of Bartlett's 50 Years Ago of the Morley brothers of Baltimore. Born Quotations. He shared his love of Sherlock in the 1890's, all three brothers attended Holmes with his younger brothers. Frank 3 Haverford College and were Rhodes Vigor Morley, B. S. I. ("The Three From the President Scholars at Oxford. Jim Bready wrote in Gamdebs", 1944) was the youngest of the the March 31, 1982 Baltimore Sun that boys. He was a mathematician and author "Each of them married once, had four of My One Contribution to Chess, The Great children, smoked, typed hunt-and-peck, North Road, and Literary Britain. He also Acquisitions lived in a prosperous great-city designed the Sherlock Holmes Crossword 4 suburb.. .the similarity in their tastes puzzle, "while escaping the boredom of a extended up to and included the distinc- trans-Atlantic crossing" (The Sherlock An Update from tion of having added eruditely to the pub- Holmes Crossword, Albert and Julia the Collections lished writings on Sherlock Holmes". Rosenblatt; The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, 1985). The puzzle first 5 Chnstopher, Feh and Frank were the sons appeared in the Saturday Review of of Frank and Lilian Bird Morley. Frank Literature on May 19, 1934. Musings Morley (1860-1937) was born in Suffolk, ~n~l&dand moved to Pennsylvania in 5 1887, teachmg at Haverford College until Will Crakes - 1900, when he became chairman of the mathematics department at Johns Hoplans Sherlockian Collector University He was an accomplished chess 7 player and editor of the AmericanJournal of Mathematics from 1900 to 1921. Haverford Using the Sherlock College, which plays such an important role Holmes ~ollections in the Morley farmly, is located near Phladelpha, and was founded in 1833 by 8 the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Jamie Hubbs and Anthony Morley Although not formally affiliated with any Remembrances Continued on Page 6 8 Fried3 of the Sherlock Holmes Collections P 1 guerre cover the individuality of the same critic.. . [In] the Sketch, we come add to your Conan Doyle collection. upon a column of literary criticism Atch Dec. 25, 1961" Whoever 'Atch' signed by yet another symbol, '0.0.' might have been, he purchased this Yet, incredible as it may seem, the book for Hench from the catalog opinion of '0.0'is still the opinion of (#8 15, item #879) of Francis Edwards 'Claudius Clear,' of 'A Man of Kent,' of in London in 1961. the critic of the Bookman, of the critic A Duet with an Occasional Chorus was of the American Bookman, and of the originally published by Grant critic of the British Weekly. This, I One of Conan Doyle's most unusual Richards. Conan Doyle had decided hold, is not legitimate criticism." books was published in 1899. It was a that Richards, recently married, would tale of simple domesticity, the This critic, in all his incarnations, was be perfect one to publish it. Conan courtship and marriage of Frank Dr. Robert William Nicoll with whom Doyle always regretted that the book Crosse and Maude Selby. Conan Doyle Conan Doyle had a heated exchange. did not do well for Richards. The loved the book; the critics hated it. So heated that Nicoll (according" to Collections house two first editions, Conan Doyle's autobiography) "stated one pictured here, was signed by In a 1901 Preface to the book, Conan that he did not know whether to Conan Doyle. The book, with gilt- Doyle wrote that in Duet, "It is atmos- answer me in print or in the law edged pages, has been rebound and phere - the subtle, indefinable, golden- courts." Dr. Nicoll objected to a scene contains the bookplate of Charles tinted atmosphere of love - which I in Duet in which Frank meets his old Plumptre Johnson. have wished to produce." He treasured flame Violet Wright in Mancini's, an letters of praise for the book. One, from Other holdings include John Bennett out of the way establishment catering H. G. Wells (quoted in John Dickson Shaw's copy of the first Tauchnitz edi- to clandestine assignations. It was a Carr's biography), stated that Wells and tion (for which he paid $15); various shocking scene for Victorian tastes. his wife had liked the book "extremely" paperback editions; the 1990 Gaslight Over time, Nicoll and Conan Doyle and, Wells noted, "they're a middle Press reprint which contains an excel- became "very good friends and class couple and simple at that; but the lent discussion of the book by Peter Conan Doyle, as he notes in the 1901 ass of a critic seemed to think that this Blau; and a German paperback edition, Preface, "softened down some of the somehow condemned the book." Das Duet, published 1989 in Frankfort, crudities". also from Shaw's collection. w The issue of the critics was an impor- The softer side of Duet reflects Conan tant one for Conan Doyle and this book Bruce E. Southworth, B.S.I. Doyle's relationship with his wife in particular allowed him to vent his Louisa, who had been diagnosed with frustration with an abused system. In a tuberculosis some years before, and letter to the Daily Chronicle dated May Jean Leckie whom Conan Doyle had 16, 1899, Conan Doyle built his case. met in 1897 and would become his "There is an excellent and useful second wife in 1907. By 1899, most of monthly, The Bookman, in the columns Conan Doyle's family had met and of which the editor, a well-known crit- approved of Jean. Conan Doyle even ic, is naturally able to express his had the manuscript of Duet bound as opinion of any new book. The same a special present for her. As Daniel editor sends - or has until recently Stashower notes in Teller of Tales his sent - a letter to the New York biography of Conan Doyle, Duet is Bookman, and so exercises a double both "a tender and fitting tribute to influence on each side of the his dying wife, . . . [and at] the same Atlantic.. .There is a well-known week- time, his decision to present the man- ly, the British Weekly, which is edited uscript to Jean suggests that its pages by the same gentleman.. .In this jour- contained a message for her as nal this same gentleman can, and well. . .Perhaps the novel allowed him does, review the same volume.. .In the to set out, in an acceptable way, his same paper there are two different hopes for the future happiness they columns of paragraphs devoted to lit- might enjoy" erary comment and chat, which are Sherlock Holmes Collections signed respectively by 'Claudius Clear' c he owns several variations of A Duet with and by 'A Man of Kent'. I am credibly an Occasional Chorus. One copy is informed that both of these noms de "A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus" inscribed to Dr. Philip Hench: "Dear

2 P Friends of the Sherlock HoZmes Collections Inc. of Garden City, N.Y. The contents large Morley Collection, shelved sepa- were identical to the Bntlsh, with the rately from the Sherlock Holmes exception of omitting the final essay, , Collections. Their edition of The Man "Great and Little Snoring", an essay of Who Made Friends with Himself has a some Sherlockian content which blue dust jacket, with title lettering in appeared only in the British edition. In yellow, and the author's name in white. addition to owning the first British and In this edition published by American editions, Shaw also had a Doubleday and Company, there is a 1968 edition, which was published by page which begins with the sentence Books for Libraries Press in Freeport, "Memo For This Private Edition". In the introduction to his Sherlock N.Y. All three editions carry Shaw's Morley wrote the letter dated February Holmes and Dr: Watson, A Textbook of notations as to the contents. The book 17, 1949 indicating that "The publish- Friendship, author Christopher Morley is dedicated to four of Morley's grand- ers have wished to print a few hun- wrote of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that children; Alison Morley Cochrane, dred advance copies of this trouble- "There can scarcely be many examples Whitney Woodruff 11, Janet Fairchild some novel for old friends in The in literature where the writer of well- Cochrane, and John Christopher Morley Trade." An accompanying letter from loved books was so exactly what the - as "residuary dedicatees." The "trustee Doubleday Company's Sales Manager reader would hope him to be." The dedicatee" was Louis Greenfield, who Thomas Burns, daled April 19, 1949 same, it seems, could be written of himself played a role in the history of indicates that this special edition was Christopher Morley the BSI. Greenfield, who was an associ- prepared for friends in the trade. The Christopher Darlington Morley was ate of Morley's, served as the unpaid regular edition did not have the spe- born on May 5, 1890, the eldest of the Business Agent to the Baker Street cial binding or message from Mr. three Morley brothers. All were accom- Irregulars, Inc. for five or six years in Morley in the front. the period after 1948. Jon Lellenberg's plished writers, and well known in the Morley gave much of his correspon- Sherlockian world. It was Christopher Irregular Crises of the Late 'Forties, sched- uled for publication this month by the dence and some of his manuscripts to who was responsible for founding the his alma mater, Haverford College, Three Hours for Lunch Club, out of BSI, includes a chapter about Greenfield which relates hsrole, and relations to which has strengthened that collection which grew the Baker Street Irregulars with gifts from family, friends, and in 1934. He was a prolific writer, an Christopher Morley and Edgar W Smith. classmates. His personal library of over editor at Doubleday, and one of the 10,000 volumes along with a mass of original judges for the Book of the The Man Who Made Friends with Himself papers from his home on Long Island Month Club. was also published in 1949. Steven was acquired by the Harry Ransom In 1949, Morley had two books pub- Rothman writes that this novel con- Humanities Research Center at the lished - a novel in April and a collec- tained all of the elements of Morley's University of Texas at Austin. tion of essays in November. The sec- serious novels; "alienation, confusion, suburbia, literature. The title of the Christopher Morley died in 1957, ond, The Ironing Board, was, as stated leaving behind a legacy of good on the title page, "Morley's own selec- French translation, Combats Avec Mon Double, sums up this puzzling book." It humor, good literature, and good will tion of favorite essays written in fun toward fellow Sherlockians. w and fury over the last ten years". was Morley's first book in six years, Steven Rothman notes that this is "his and his "last published big book, Julie McKuras final collection of essays. . .typical of according to Rothman. The British edi- Morley's later essays and short stories." tion was published by Faber and Faber Steven Rothman, B.S.I. The British first edition was published Limited; The American by Doubleday ?The Valley ofFearl')is the editor of by Faber and Faber Limited, London and Company Shaw's first U. S. edition "The Standard Doyle Company", in September, 1950. The Sherlock carries the notation "Irene H. Brubaker and contributed to this article. Holmes Collections holds John - Forget date bought. June 1957 - Bennett Shaw's copy, with his glued in 1945-1950." The first British edition note that states; has a double sided note tucked inside. One side indicates "Bot (sic) from "Contains 'A Christmas Without Slush' Bertram Road London", with the pp. 95-101: 'Codeine (7 Per Cent) , reverse side "The Man who Made pp. 110-115: and 'Watson A La Mode' Friends with Himself C. Morley 1st pp. 159-165." Eng. Ed.- MCMXLIX D.J.- 5 pounds". The American first edition was pub- The University of Minnesota's Special lished by Doubleday and Company, Collections and Rare Books area has a

Fiiends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections P 3 I I 8 I Ihk4 f!i I , \ i llt, From the President 4l 111, ill;I .

n behalf of the Friends of the served on the Ehtorial Board from the Collection is joining the John Bennett Sherlock Holmes Collections, onset as well as acted as Business Manager, Shaw Collection and wonders what I would like to take the will carry on what Bruce Southworth other collectors' contributions could add. opportunity to thank both started and help keep the spirit ofJohn Let me assure everyone that we welcome ! , Ill Jamie Hubbs and Bruce Southworth . In Bennett Shaw ahve. every donation, be they books, manu- I 1996, The Friends helped the University scripts, scion society publications or I

of Minnesota hire Jamie Hubbs as Mark your calendars and plan to attend money If the donated books are dupli- 1111 i(\\!N' / Collections Specialist in order to keep the 1999 Friends of the Sherlock cates and not variants of items held in the doors open during the transition of Holmes Collections Annual Membershp the Collections they will eventually be I#1 curators. I want to again thank every- Meeting on August 4, 1999 at Wilson sold to ". . .keep such material circulating (1'1 I 111 one who donated and to wish Jamie well Library Help the Collections say good- through the hands of the collectors, fans 8 as he goes back to school. bye to Wilson Library as we get ready to and aficionados for whom it was pro- ~ ?#i1'' move to the new Minnesota Library duced." Help us build the World Center The Collections Advisory Committee Archive and Access Center. The pro- for the study and research of Sherlock suggested in 1997 that we improve gram dlinclude a business meeting Holmes and related subjects by your communications and raise awareness by and fund raising auction. donations of money or material. starting a newsletter. Bruce Southworth Consider giving a gift membership and and the newly formed Editorial Board The March 1999 Baker Street Journal bringing a friend to the Annual took up the challenge and I want to has mention of the University of Membership Meeting on August 4th. w thank hm for hs outstanding work as Minnesota and the Sherlock Holmes our first Editor of the Friends of the Collections in The Ehtor's Gas-Lamp by Please contact me if you have any Sherlock Holmes Collections Newsletter. Dr. Donald K. Pollock, B.S.I. He notes thoughts or suggestions. I am sure that Julie McKuras, who has that David Hammer's Sherlocluan Richard]. Sveum, M. D. SveumOOl @tc.umn.edu Acquisitions

ohn Bennett Shaw would 3) Syd Goldberg contributed correspon- the Chocolate Dangely Company of undoubtedly be pleased to see his dence from John Bennett Shaw, dated Paris, featuring Holmes; Color lobby legacy of donating materials to the 1986-1988, along with hs own note, cards for Pursuit to Algiers, 1945, and A Sherlock Holmes Collections con- hoping that "John's letters to me wdl be Study in Terror 1966; a large format col- tinues. Scion society j ournals, cor- of interest". lection of the "Hawkshaw the Detective" Jrespondence, books and articles have comic strip; photos, comic books and arrived and dltake their places on the 4) The Herbert Hoover Museum, in West photographs. shelves of the Collections. These new Branch, Iowa, contributed copies of a items show the diversity of Sherlocluana. number of papers from the Fehx Morley The second installment of the collection Collection. arrived in April, 1999, in fourteen boxes 1) Steve Clarkson, B. S. I., contributed a and two envelopes. This consisted copy of a letter, written to his father, 5) Bob Katz continues to submit mostly of books and magazines, many of from Vincent Starrett, regarding the Sherloclaan journals and clippings which were in "pristine condition". birthdate of Sherlock Holmes. 6) The family of the late Will Crakes All gifts received from 1997-1999 are in 2) Jennie Paton donated the promotional contributed an extensive collection of hs the process of being catalogued. The trailer that was shown in theaters for The Sherlocluan books, periodicals, and generosity of all donors to the 7% Solution. During the past year, she memorabilia. The first installment of the Collections is greatly appreciated. has also donated written materials donation arrived in December, 1997 and regarding the first release of the included four boxes of materials such as Julie McKuras RathboneBruce raho shows, htributed papers, journals and correspondence; an by Simon and Schuster. advertising card for the letter "S" from

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t was hs bow tie that first caught Now, at the end of three years, we take entry in The UnivdSherlock Holrnes; my eye. One does not see a bow dm moment to thank Jamie and continuing to purchase new materials tie every day, and so my curiosity acknowledge his presence and contribu- related to Holmes and Doyle; and treat- I was aroused. "Hello, I'm Jamie tions before he moves on to a new ing a reference collection useful to Hubbs, Collection Speciaht for the endeavor--the pursuit of a Master's researchers and visitors. Holmes materials. Welcome to the degree in library science at the College of University of Minnesota." It seemed St. Catherine in neighboring St. Paul. His We wish Jamie well as he moves on to the appropriate, somehow, that someone tenure in the Collection Specht posi- new environment and challenge of gradu- famhar with the environs around 22 1B tion ends on June 30th. ate school. Thank you, Jamie, for the Baker Street (and its extensions into the time you have given us. May you find American middle west) would be wearing By Midsummer a number of projects that the art (and the science) of library school a bow tie and crisp shrt. have involved Jamie's time and energy education in your blood, and to your lik- will be at or nearing completion includmg ing, as you embark on dm next stage of That was the first time I met Jamie-and an inventory of the Edth Meiser rado life and experience. And keep wearing now a year later it is time to bid hun scripts and a bibliography of the duplicate those bow ties! goodbye and wish him well. During dm materials in the collections. In addition, year together Jamie has helped bring me he has been involved in a number of The move into our new building is corn- into the Sherlochan world with all its other projects and activities that have ing closer with each day and the tasks wonders, mysteries, personalities, and helped us promote and organize the col- related to that move are coming into untold tales whde canylng on the work lection: fadtating the reproduction of sharper defirution. Part of our phg that has engaged hmfor the past three transcription & into marketable as- involves notlfylng all interested years as the Collection Speciaht. For sette recordings, helping arrange the researchers of any disruptions in sched- many of you Jamie has been the point of printing and distribution of a Sherlock ules or operations that might have an first contact, the voice on the telephone, Holrnes Collections brochure; makmg impact on travel or study plans. We the front door to the collection as you presentations to classes, teachers, and the dates of the actual move are still in have called or written about items held in interested researchers; meeting with the flux I thought it best to let you know that one of the several Holrnes collections. For Friends of the Sherlock Holmes we dlbe in some stage of transition me he has been a bridge of transition Collections board; networkmg with between September 15,1999 and January between the curatorships of Austin Japanese and German Sherlockians and 17,2000. McLean and John Jenson on the one end the various Scion Societies; lmlung items and my own on the other. in the Collections to their appropriate The timetable looks lke hs: Our collec- tions mostly likely will make the move Continued on Page 6 Musings

he first six months of 1999 Seil. Many other contributions have the large caverns and the beginning have been exciting and busy come in. Look for them in this issue installation of shelving. ones for the Sherlock Holrnes under Acquisitions. Collections. The first four vol- Finally, beginning with the September urllrs of Ron DeWaaYs The Universal We would like to thank everyone who issue of this newsletter, Julie McKuras Sherlock Holmes have gone up on the has contributed material, money and will be taking over as Editor. I will web and volume five, the index, is antic- time to better the Sherlock Holmes remain on the Editorial Board and ipated. There have been many donations Collections. It all makes the contribute articles periodically. I would of material both large and small. Collections a greater resource to all like to express my personal thanks to Sherlockian and other scholars. all those who have contributed in so In this issue we note particularly the many ways to make this newsletter a addition of books and papers belong- If you would like to see how the new success. It is on very firm footing now ing to Felix Morley, B.S.I., brother of Minnesota Library Access Center and its future is secure as a resource Baker Street Irregular founder . (future home of Special Collections) is for all Sherlochan Friends. Of course Christopher Morley. Another large col- progressing, please visit the website: we still appreciate any comments pro lection came from the family of Will http://kin~lear.lib.umn.edu/mlac/.Here or con which will allow us to make it Crakes, a Sherlockian and book dealer you can see photos from the ground- an even better publication. w in Seattle. Please also note the fine breaking through the construction of tribute to Crakes by his friend William Bruce E. Southworth, B.S.I. Fried of the Sherlock Holmes Collections P 5 1 An Update from the Collections Continued from Page 6

into the new building towards the latter new location. From approximately late We will try to keep you posted on any part of October 1999. For about a October to mid-November we will be changes. The best advice is to check the week-somewhere between October 15 divided between two locations: the col- web page of Special Collections and Rare and 29-we will be closed to the public lections will be underground in the new Books at whle the collection is moved. Both building and we will be in our offices in hapjhlib.umn.edu/@&rare.ht before and after the move we will be Wilson Library-ur present location. or the University Libraries main web open, but on a somewhat limited basis, This will mean that the collections will page at http://www.lib.umn.edu/ We will to handle basic requests. From mid- be accessible on a limited basis (possibly attempt to post any updates or notices September to mid-October we will be once or twice a day) in order to retrieve that relate to the moving schedule, occu- preparing the collection for handling by and return items. By the time the second pancy date, or operations as necessary u the movers, mapping and marlung shelv- semester begms in January we hope to ing, and anything else necessary to have most of the wrinkles ironed out and Timothy J.Johnson, Curator insure a smooth transition from old to back to normal operations.

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Felix Muskett Morley, B. S. I. ("The strates an appreciation of classical lib- Vincent Starrett's copy of Beeton's Second Stain", 1944) was born on eral principles". Christmas Annual, as well as the Morley January 6, 1894, forty years to the day materials held in Special Collections after the birth of Sherlock Holmes, Felix Morley died at the age of 88 in and Rare Books. according to Christopher Morley. Like 1982. His papers relating to his presi- his brothers, Felix attended the dency of Haverford College and his Among the materials donated to the Baltimore Friends School, and collection of Quakeriana are located Collections are the 1949 The Life of Sir Haverford College. He was a Rhodes within the schools archives. Because of Arthur Conan Doyle, signed by author Scholar at Oxford University, graduat- his friendship and common bonds John Dickson Carr "For Felix Morley in ing in 1921. During World War I, he with Herbert Hoover, his papers focus- Baker Street Fellowship"; Three T?--iiing served in Flanders from 1915-16 with ing on "journalism and public service" Monographs signed "To Felix, with the the Friends Ambulance Unit, attached were donated to the Herbert Hoover compliments of the season, Jim to the British Army. He met Herbert Library in West Branch, Iowa, accord- Montgomery, Xmas 1952" and Hoover in 1916, and they formed a ing to Senior Archivist Dwight Miller. Montgomery's Christmas Annual, 1953, life-long friendship. Felix was the Their Collection includes correspon- inscribed by Montgomery; and Vincent Director of the Geneva Office of the dence, journals, reports, book drafts, Starrett's The Private Life ofsherlock League of Nations Association of the articles and speeches. Mr. Miller has Holmes, signed by the author "For Felix U. S. from 1929-1931. From 1933- forwarded copies of the Sherlockian Morley - Greetings from Baker Street", 1940 he was the Editor of the related materials held in the library to and above that "E M. M. or Olaf Washington Post and won the 1937 the Sherlock Holmes Collections, Jacques with love from C. D. M. or Gil Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editori- including a copy of a 1940 presenta- de Berault Guy Faux Day -1933." al writing. tion "The Significance of the Second Anthony noted that Olaf Jacques and Stain" and a copy of his B. S. I. investi- Gil de Berault were family nicknames Felix returned to Haverford College to ture papers. that the brothers had for each other. serve as president from 1940-1945. He Two books by Julian Wolff, The was president and editor of Human Anthony Morley carried on the family Sherlockian Atlas and Practical Book of Events from 1945-50, and in 1949 tradition, and was a 1951 graduate of Sherlockian Heraldry, are signed by published The Power in the People, Haverford College. His background Wolff to Anthony Morley. which he considered his most impor- reflects his varied interests. He has tant book. He contributed to Nations been active in the Episcopal Church, Felix Morley's books will take their Business and Bawon's Weekly. Today, served as a school principal in place alongside the works of the The Institute for Humane Studies, Minneapolis, as publisher of Colors authors he counted as his friends, the affiliated with George Mason magazine and was a Minneapolis Star giants of the Sherlockian world. w Tribune editorial writer. During his University, annually conducts the Felix Julie McKums Morley Journalism Competition. tour of the Collections, Anthony Prizes are awarded to "outstanding enjoyed seeing the tremendous variety young writers whose work demon- of the Sherlockian contents, such as

6 P Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Will Crakes - Sherlockian Collector By William Seil here was a time when Seattles's One member of the Sound of the version of 221B Baker Street was Baskervilles paid him the following trib- in a Pioneer Square basement. Ute: "Will was probably the gentlest man TThat's where Will Crakes had his I have ever met. I never heard him say a book and antique shop. derogatory thing about anyone. You could read it in his face. He was just an It wasn't a big money maker. Will and open, honest, gentle The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections his wife, Helen, started it as a retirement is a quarterly newsletter published by the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections hobby Following Helen's death in 1983, Will was also known for his sense of which seek to promote the activities, inter- Will kept the shop going. As usual, it humor. One Sherlochan friend who ests and needs of the Special Collections was place where stopped by Will's and Rare Books Department, University of Minnesota Libraries. Sherlock Holmes buffs shop in early January Mail editorial correspondence do: were always welcome. found himself swept Will loved discussing along in a trek to the Bruce E. Southworth, B.S.I. the Canon and trading Western Union office. 1621 Lafond Ave stories about recently It was the Sherlock St. Paul, MN 55104-2212 651-644-1677 Voice acquired Sherlocluan Holmes Centenary 651-523-0977 Fax books and collectibles. ... and Will wanted to bruces [email protected] $ send birthday greet- Editorial Board An avid collector, the E ings to Mr. Holmes. Julie McKuras, Dr. Richard Sveum, Timothy Johnson shelves of Will's home 29 The clerk grinned were filled with % when he received the Unless otherwise credited, all articles Holmesian treasures he will written by Julie McKuras or message, but he Bruce Southworth. had found in book- played along and sent and antique Some of these Copyright O 1999 the message off to 221B Baker Street. University of Minnesota Library items were displayed in his own antique The University of Minnesota is an Equal shop, where he had converted a storage Will was born June 3, 1916 in Coming, Opportunity Educator and Employer. area into a Sherlock Holmes museum. N.Y. He married Helen prior to serving in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during was a member of the Sound of the World War 11. When he returned home Baskervilles, the Puget Sound-based he attended Hobart College and later ing a Canonical name. He drew on his Sherlock Holmes society He was on earned his graduate degree at Harvard academic background and chose board the when University Will later taught comparative Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and the group held its first meeting in 1980. literatureand renaissance history at principal of the Priory School. But each Early in the club's history, he sponsored a ~~~~~d.H~ .henleft teaching to work Christmas season, at the Will Crakes series of literary session in the down- in textbook publishing, living in Chcago Memorial Jollification, his Sherlockian town Seattle Public Library, at which the and Sari Francisco, After Will retired in friends fondly remember him as the members discussed specific topics relat- the late 197Us, he and Helen moved to sage of the Sound of the Baskervilles. ed to the Canon. He co-authored a mys- Seattle and opened their shop, tery which club members acted out and William Seil is a member of the Sound of attempted to solve one sunny afternoon His son Dale said Will became a devoted the Baskewilles, and author of "Sherlock at Snoqualmie Falls. He also proposed Sherlockian around the time of his retire- Holmes and the Titanic Tragedy". This e. and organized the club's Sherlock ment. He recalled his father once article is his adaptation of the 1990 tribute Holmes Centennial display at the Seattle remarhng that he had read economics, he wrote for his good friend Will Crakes. Public Library philosophy and history all his life, and ., he hadn't heard anything new in 20 Will died of cancer on Dec. 2, 1990. He years,,He decided it was time he got on passed away peacefully at his sur- to more important things. Will applied rounded his and lus four his scholarly training to a study of the cats - Sherlock, Dr. Sherlochan Canon and developed an and Mrs. Hudson. Friends continue to extensive knowledge, remember lum with love and admira- tion. He was a man of warmth, humor As a member of the Sound of the and generosity Baskervilles, Will was faced with select- Using the Sherlock Holmes Collections

rylng to find the answer to a teer at the Collections and self-pro- question, or research an arti- claimed "Sherlockian by marriage", has cle in the Sherlock Holmes been working for some time on a pro- Collections may take several ject with Collections Specialist Jamie forms; mail, email, telephone calls, or Hubbs, and William Nadel of New the personal vlslt "\'1"d !dl I, l#KhldNll York. Nadel is a leading Sherlockian Sherlock Holrnes Collections radio historian and was a friend and 466 Wilson Library Andrew Malec, B. S. I. ("The Strange 309 19th Avenue South biographer of the late Edith Meiser. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Old Book Collector") vlsited the The three have collaborated on Edith Telephone: 612-624-7526 Collections to look up matenals relat- Meiser and Her Adventures with Sherlock ing to Zulma Steele, sister of illustra- FAX: 612-626-9353 Holmes. This guide to the Edith Meiser Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5 tor Frederic Dorr Steele. Ms. Steele Collection at the University of Timothy J. Johnson, Curator worked in fine arts and crafts and was Minnesota is a chronology of Sherlock associated wth the Woodstock Artistic Holmes on American radio from 1930- Community, according to Malec. He is 1948. It will include an essay by Cy assisting Carol Brener of Bard College Harrice, the announcer for the 1947- wth her research. Mailing list corrections requested- 48 season. w Because of the high- cost of returned newsletters. Lucy Brusic, who is an active volun- i we would appreciate being informed of changes Julie McKura j of address or other corrections. Remembrances In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. IN HONOR OF FROM IN MEMORY OF FROM Steve Clarkson Julie McKuras Marlene Aig Doug Wrigglesworth Kathleen Johnson Laura Kuhn Thomas Stix, Jr. Mrs. William Jenkins

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