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bottle of Courvoisier plus one fifth of the history of the scion mentioned earlier, The physical book is an interesting F New Jersey cognac, with the note: ‘Tell Thomas Hart reports that a publication artifact in itself, featuring quarter bind- the bartender to serve the Courvoisier fund was established as early as 1952 ing with textured morocco-colored first. Then by the time the Sons get to (with the princely sum of $4.00.) Hart, as endpapers of the same stock as the the New Jersey cognac, they may not treasurer of the Publication Committee, covers. spot the difference’” (250). Today, goes on to apologize to the membership Lellenberg says of Starr, “I’m convinced for “his many exhortations for funds, and Leaves from The Copper Beeches was fol- Sherlock Holmes that Julian Wolff [who took over leader- many stern admonitions against failure, lowed up by a second volume, More ship of the Baker Street Irregulars under made at meetings” over the years. Leaves from The Copper Beeches, in COLLECTIONS the title “Commissionaire” after Smith’s 1976. The Sons are still flourishing as untimely death in 1960] would have an active scion society; perhaps some- “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) retired as Commissionaire sooner than he day we will be able to look forward to did if Bill Starr had not died at a some- a third volume. what early age in 1976 and had been Contents around in the early ’80s to take over.” John Bergquist, BSI Francine and Wayne Swift By Peter E. Blau, ASH, BSI Leaves from The Copper Beeches was par- Francine and Wayne Swift tially financed by contributions from Illustration by H.W. Starr, captioned “The appeal t has been said that marriages between two Sherlockians are the most permanent. members of the Sons, who are listed in for the Publication Fund,” printed in Jon 1 Many Sherlockians have found it easy enough to persuade a spouse to enjoy the Lellenberg’s Irregular Crises of the Late ’Forties the acknowledgments. In his memoir of Sherlockian world, but when two people who already are Sherlockians marry they (New York, 1999) 100 Years Ago I will sooner or later merge their collections, as well as their lives. And there is no custody battle, whether over the car, the house, the pets, or the children, that can possi- 2 bly match the difficulty of dividing a collection that has no duplicates.

The Honourable Phillip Green So for two Sherlockians it’s a matter only of the better, and never the worse. That cer- 50 Years Ago tainly was true of Wayne B. Swift and Francine Morris, who were Sherlockians when 3 they met for the first time. Francine started her Sherlockian life in Texas, where she was Remembrances a librarian; she founded The Sub-Librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars in the From the President American Library Association, and In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made 4 was one of the founders of The contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. Practical, But Limited, Geologists at an informal luncheon in the Zodiac In Honor Of From Musings Room at Nieman Marcus in Dallas. Peter Blau Arthur E.F. Wiese Jr. 4 When she moved to Washington she Fred Levin Cliff Goldfarb quickly became a member of The Red Circle, and was one of the ring- In Memory Of From An Update from leaders in planning the society’s full- Paul Churchill John Baesch and Evelyn Herzog For any inquiries contact: the Collections fledged costume party at the Paul Churchill Thomas Drucker Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 5 National Press Club. Paul Churchill Warren Randall 612-624-3552 or Wayne was from Nebraska, an elec- Joseph Gillies Michael Kean [email protected] of The Sherlock Photo courtesy Holmes Collections Allen Mackler Patricia Nelson Recent Acquisitions Wayne and Francine Swift trical engineer and a teacher, and an Allen Mackler Once Upon A Crime Mystery Bookstore Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 early convert to the world of com- Allen Mackler Philip Swiggum Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library puters. When he moved to Washington he decided to take an adult-education course in Beatrice McCaffrie John Lockwood University of Minnesota Sherlock Holmes at a local community college and soon attended his first Sherlockian E.W. McDiarmid Michael Brahmey 222 21st Ave. S. To the Editor function, a running of The Silver Blaze (Southern Division) at Pimlico Race Track in E.W. McDiarmid Jim DeLeo Minneapolis, MN 55455 6 Maryland, where he and Francine quickly discovered they shared more than an interest E.W. McDiarmid Jeffrey Klaus Telephone: 612-626-9166 in Sherlock Holmes. They courted , and wed, and had many happy years together, shar- By Jon Lellenberg, BSI E. W. McDiarmid Peter Klaus FAX: 612-625-5525 ing a multitude of interests, Sherlockian and otherwise. Robert Pattrick Vincent Brosnan A Beacon of the Future Mailing list corrections requested— Wayne became a member of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1978 (as “The Giant Rat of Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 6 Jan Stauber Francine and Richard Kitts we would appreciate being informed of changes Sumatra”). Francine became a member of The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes in Tom Stix Karen Anderson of address or other corrections. 1977 (as “Hatty Doran”) and was honored by the BSI as The Woman in 1983, and Dr. Richard Sturtz William Sturtz Remembrances awarded her Irregular Shilling and Investiture in 1994 (as “The Wigmore Street Post Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8 Continued on page 6

8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1

uring the 1980s, I had the in Stockholm while my travels took me the late Chris Steinbrunner’s Baker opportunity to visit Scan- there, through 1989. Street Cinematograph, at a hole-in- dinavia many times, and I the-wall screening room in the West made one early trip in 1980 But in January 1981, along with Swe- 30s, where most of us saw for the first D an exploration of Scandi- den’s Äke Runnquist and Norway’s Nils time the 1957 CBS Odyssey program navian Sherlockiana, which is one of Nordberg, Ted came to America for about the BSI, with a mock-BSI dinner Sherlock Holmes the best versions of it in the world. the first time. It was his first chance to of those halycon days presided over Ted Bergman was one of the principal meet many of his other American cor- by Edgar W. Smith himself. Julian’s COLLECTIONS reasons behind that. We had already respondents, especially the loquacious cocktail party at the Grolier Club corresponded for some time, for he John Bennett Shaw. I had let Ted and followed in the afternoon. And on Sun- “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) and Denmark’s Henry Lauritzen were the other Irregular Vikings know that day morning, we and others boarded a the twin pillars of Baker Street Irregu- this was a busier several days than they bus for a trip out to Hadlyme, Con- larity in Scandinavia at the time — Ted might realize or be used to, but even necticut, on a winter’s day looking invested in 1978 by Julian Wolff as so it was a non-stop adventure. Ted ar- like a Currier-and-Ives picture, to visit Contents "Would You Be Interested In Receiving “The Honourable Philip Green.” A rived in New York from Stockholm on Gillette Castle, organized by Tyke & banking executive, Ted had been one the Thursday, and on Friday he took Teddie Niver, and open that day for "Would You Be Interested of twenty founding members of The in Bill Rabe’s Martha Hudson Breakfast our party alone. It was sublime. Some Of These Efforts Of Mine?" Solitary Cyclists of Sweden in 1964, at the Algonquin Hotel, Lisa McGaw’s In Receiving Some Of perhaps its last surviving founder to- William Gillette Memorial Luncheon Ted stayed on in New York another These Efforts Of Mine?" John Bennett Shaw writes to Nicholas Utechin day, fifty years later. Visiting his home at the Old Homestead, the Mysterious five days, exploring the metropolis’s 1 on Stockholm’s island of Lidingö, on Bookshop open house, and that night’s more secular sights, but I imagine he By Nicholas Utechin, BSI Midsummer Eve in June 1980, I was BSI annual dinner at the Regency remembers the BSI weekend best of About the Author startled and delighted to see a Speck- Hotel, itself a whirlwind of new faces, that cold but glorious week. 1981’s led Band descending ominously from sights, and sounds. He may have felt BSI weekend was one of the best ever, 2 1975 was a rather important year for me in a hole in the ceiling directly over the more or less exhausted by then but I believe, and Ted’s presence in New Sherlockian terms. I joined the Council of The chair at Ted’s desk, in a study full of was still game for the after-party that York helped make the ’81 BSI weekend 50 Years Ago Sherlock Holmes Society of London, having Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse. the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes one of the best ever for me. It helped been a member since 1966 – aged 14. Julian It was a lovely evening with Ted and in those days held “under the clock” at me see it afresh through his eyes, and I 3 Wolff ennobled (sorry: invested!) me as “The his family, the first of many more times the Biltmore Hotel. Saturday included look back at our association fondly. Ancient British Barrow” in the Baker Street Ir- From the President regulars, off the back (and rather generously) 4 of three articles published in The Baker Street Journal.

Musings And the great collector John Bennett Shaw 4 wrote to me; yes, he contacted me first. Meeting a Ron De Waal – with whom I had been in cor- respondence for some time – was the catalyst: Renaissance Man the previous year he had visited me in Oxford

Photo courtesy of Nick Utechin and apparently reported to JBS that I was, in 4 Nick Utechin his words, ‘a Real Holmes Collector’ and that he Remembrances For any inquiries contact: should get in touch. An honour or what? And Timothy J. Johnson, Curator An Update from the thus began an intermittent correspondence that In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made ended in 1993 and which (his letters to me, of course) I am glad now finds a permanent contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. 612-624-3552 or Collections [email protected] home in Minneapolis. In Memory Of From 5 I had heard of John, of course – what Holmesian hadn’t? – but here he was treating me Charles Adams, BSI John Bergquist, BSI Sherlock Holmes Collections from the outset as an equal (‘Dear Utechin’) and straightway offering to send me dupli- Vinnie Brosnan Randall Stock Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library Acquisitions Walter Pond Nancy H. Pond University of Minnesota cates of some of his pamphlets — if I could send him a copy of the list of my own col- Dr. Alvin Rodin Virgie and Jack Key 222 21st Ave. S. 5 lection. He ended that first missive by stating, in self-deprecating style: ‘I sort of serve as Minneapolis, MN 55455 nerve center for exchanging material with Blau and Schulz and De Waal in USA and with My Mentor collectors in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Japan and, of course, your Telephone: 612-626-9166 country. And it is marvellous fun, isn’t it?’ FAX: 612-625-5525 7 The Honourable Mailing list corrections requested— Continued on page 6 Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, Phillip Green we would appreciate being informed of changes of address or other corrections. 8 Remembrances Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8

8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 About the Author 100My MentorYears Ago Continued from Page 2 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 By Ted Bergman, BSI By Mattias Böstrom, BSI mobile for “journalistic purposes.” table of contents for this 224 page health during and after the pregnan- The Orphanage hen I was eight years ten (!) Catlingindex cards was activeto identify in the volumes Institute of So I drewillustrated a front book cover includes illustration works in by cy.was This about certainly to turn would sixteen. explain In a the Ted Bergmanin an earlier had been translation the leading which I old my father and I I didn’tJournalists know existed. and traveledI learned extensively that periodAlfred style, Noyes, wrote Arthurdown my Morrison, collected somewhatSwedish Sherlocksombre tone Holmes of the edi poem.- SherlockianWhen,revised ere in thequite Sweden tangled heavily. sinceweb is the reft, ’60s read and discussed to- many earlythrough Swedish America, publishers Canada, simply the Middle informationRosamund by a Marriott-Watson, typewriter on stencil Eden Thetion use at theof the local word library “lady” I found in the last andThe had kid-gloved probably villain received scowls quite and a sneers, lot The main difference between gether some old Swed- had failedEast to and deliver Europe, duty including copies. France papersPhillpotts, and printed John the Galsworthy, text by help F. Ansteyof stanzathe addresses seems to to strongly some Sherlock- of lettersAnd hapless from newinnocence Sherlock is left Holmes 100ish Sherlock Holmes during World War I. He served as a a manual stencil machine. The bibli- ian magazines and societies, so fans,W lettersithmy no own assetsthat and hesave EB’sreplied sighs translation and to intears, the I 100 during World War I. He served as a and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100 and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a WYEARS AGO Isuggest that it was written to/for volumes which he himself had bought The official attitude of the National ography was favourably reviewed in I wrote letters to them, and received same’Tis waythink then, as stemsjust he didthen, from to that me. the in A factthere mentor that stalks YEARS AGO delegate to the Conference of the few of the contributors. Page 20 fea- Lady Jean. they belong to different ages. As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections as a boy in 1910. I guess my boyhood LibraryInternational towards early Association crime fiction of Journalists pa- a dailytures paper the and poem most “By of the the North limited Sea” by replies. And then I wrote back. neverThe knows hero, watchful which mentees of her needs, will stay. is a quarterly newsletter published by the experienceThe of March the fascinating 2008 issue Holmes of this newslet-perbacks showed itself in the fact that edition was rapidly gone. By that time He youtalks! may Great know, heavens, Danish how washe talks for Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at Berlin in 1908, and later as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a short Correspondences began, and they But the more he wrote to me the more Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Amongstories and terthe featuredtheforeign fact translationsthatan article my father about of Thehad The Flag, many of the old Holmes volumesCaption: Thehad 1902 firstI correspondededition has the with Holmesians like continued.Also, the fact that they were expect- exaltedButcenturies weI became, forgive the him, which official for hisof coursedeeds.written just lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the Houndkept the ofpublished booksthe Baskervilles with in their1908, from dramatic which John benefitted been insensibly bound inPaget uniform illustration li- while theS Tuppersecond does Bigelow not. in Canada, Nathan ing their first child may have made himguage even of Norway, more generous. and although Be- ests and needs of the Special Collections and Rare Books Department, University of Bennettcover illustrations Shaw’s collections, for me explains the one why brary bindings.Society of Interesting Journalists andduring unique 1915. HeL Bengis,last stanzaJohn Bennett as written Shaw, by ConanPeter E Doyle. I wasinfluenced a teenager, Doyle’s and for decision a person to of con- causeLife thatNorwegian is the is dramathe joy in here of1911 beingto-day had a begunmentor. the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called Minnesota Libraries. thatI began was making published bibliographical 100 years ago notes has front coverpassed illustrations away on December had sometimes 25, 1920. Blau, Bob Schutz and Lisa McGaw in that agetribute it’s unproblematic to The Press Book to inquickly the Andsplitting Death the away, villain the of influencethe plot. entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wetBaskervilles. with North This Sea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: specialwhenever significance. I came by anotherAccording Swed to - De simply been torn out and thrown away the USA,Her and cheek with was A.D. wet Henriksenwith North Seaand spray, go reallyfirst deepplace. into Being something a father himself,– and I’m He wasn’tIt isfrom a realistic the Danish only play; onewas instill the strong. Sher- It’s Conan Doyle’s “The Grey Dress – guage editionsCatling’s ofname the alsoCanon appears has nine in con- title is established;We walked where to the tide eye and it comesshingle meet, Scan courtesy of the University of Minnesota Libraries a complicated story but actually Waalish Holmes it was edition.a 2nd edition, I knew with that theMr This snooty attitude still predominated Henry Lauritzen in Denmark. Great after asure while he justcould skip easily it and empathize find a with lockianShall worldit end wellthat orshowed shall it generosity.not Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it soundsfrom far away sure he could easily empathize with Editor firstHolmes published had written in 1902. the monographNotedHound in the nineteen sixties. When collect- people —The now long allwaves sadly rolled gone from except far away new interest. I had done so with other ThereNorwegianThe are hero? so manyOh, on the the kind hero’s printed Sherlockians, part page is beth BrochmannLondon. Founded and includes in 1857, scanned the mem- right. ItTo is purralso inmisleading, ripples at our because feet. it 11 yearsthe oldfatherless at the time,children which which makes would as different from Ibsen’s time to the Julie McKuras collectorUpon the DistinctionDr. Donald Between Pollack the has Ashes both of ing some Holmes books I had ordered Peter. things. But it soon turned out that andIs I vacant—tohad the opportunity be played by to you. corre- 13512 Granada Ave. covers. hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me it 1952benefit or ’53. from I think the saleit was of giventhe volume. inthe his Various collection.The Tobaccos following. Well, year, that in 1909, was the The Pressat the lendingbers come desk from I was the met worlds by theof art, And as we walked it seemed to me Sherlock Holmes would be totally dif- presentspondThen withas act Shakespeare ita numberwell! An ofisorphan’s fromthem. pres heartHow- - Apple Valley, MN 55124 spirit I liked.Album Addwas topublished that my tonatural aid the words, drama, “I hope law, this literature, isn’t for pleasure!” music or sci- thanTwo yearsa family.That earlier three But, oldI forhad friends the visited three had the metexcel that- day: toferent me by from friends anything of my in parents my life. who And it entever, dayMay one English. beat thing the differentiatedlighterAt the ifsame you do.time Ted Ifrom did 952-431-1934 This search led to the online WorldCat lent reasonsThe old mentioned, old sky, the I olddecided old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about [email protected] C3542.weakness Journalists’— for A1456. collecting. HundenOrphan fraFund, Basker and- as he ence. Former members have includedpress-cuttingThe old archives old sky, theof some old old sea, dependedFinally, on Doyle one person. wrote a poem about gothe for others: a “conservative” He gave me style, assignments. hoping which lists eleven books by A. Conan to changeAnd it.” love, which is as old as they. stories.orphans Anyway, which it was was a revelation. published in it would read to modern day Norwe- ville: En hadny fortælling done the om previous Sherlock year, Conan However,notables in 1961 such I wasas Charlie lucky whenChaplin, Stockholm daily papers looking for Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board Doyle translated in Norwegian by When I wrote to Nils Nordberg for an I’ve still got it, title page missing and gian Christyreaders Allen as Conan and Julie Doyle McKuras reads to Editorial Board HolmesMy Holmes. DoyleAutoriseret collection stepped oversættelse forwardhad increased with ved a contri- the NationalMark Twain,Library Wilkie succeeded Collins, in James “Sherlock Holmes” tabs. And I was The SherlockianSongs of the Roadcommunity, just a fewis built pages Oh, he really understood that nerdy John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Elisabeth Brochmann. Also online is update Outhe surprised seaward hung me bythe writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. Elisabethrather slowly Brochmann. until in the Kristiania: nineteen hunting up an American Trade Journal lucky enough to find several interest- uponafter an important “By the North fundament: Sea.” It itswas teenageReferences: Mattias. That boy that could Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. bution. The book, edited by Thomas NasjonalbiblioteketMcNeill Whistler, (National Sir Alexander Library ElisabethWe Brochmann’s saw it rolling, translationfold on fold, of my dearest possessions. But very few Forlagtfifties I afdecided H. Aschehoug to speed & up Co. my (W. col- directory where, among some obscure ing articlesWe sawon theit rolling, Master, fold written on fold, by mentors.called These “The men Orphanage” and women and is repro- gohttp://www.scoop- so deep into a project just for the Catling and published by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN Andwas markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist of the stories were available in my own Sincedatabase.com/bio/catling_thomas 1971 my translation of HOUN Nygaard),lecting of biographical1902. 263 p. data. At that bakery journals, I found the address of journalists and essayists. I soon got in are theduced ones below. who inspire, invite and purehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club fun and friendship of it. (I’m has an introductory note which gives BrochmannIrving, dates Dante listed Rossetti, as 1855-1915 Dylan Thomas, 1902, alsoTurn by all Aschehoug. its leaden edge The to interestgold. language then, so I had to wait until I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club —————.time you had 2ndto do ed. it the1911. hard 246 way. p. I the Baker Street Journal. I immediately touch withTurn the all itsauthors, leaden edgeand toin gold.January involve the newly arrived in the world hasactuallyhttp://www.savageclub.com/ been thereprinted same personover a dozennow at times the the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh ladyseems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest Istarted became by aware sending of translatorhectographed Elisabeth (!) started a subscription. 1964 nine Holmes sympathizers met of the master detective. When they byage various of 43). publishers, In the ’60s by Ted Aschehoug had already Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- Brochmannletters with“1892 inquiresin with2004 a forwhengift Holmes of I £1,000acquired books by the late Wallace and Peter Ustinov. It is cur- in StockholmThe grey to below, found the a newgold above;soci- were younger they had been mentees andbegan Norild to collect as well bibliographical as Gyldendal, dataand University of Minnesota Library To me the most famous Norwegian The 1911For edition so the greyest was one life inmay a seriesshine ing of the Orphan’s Fund when he I’ve also read it as an audio book. It Copyright © ©2014 20112012 lotto every93 ofLord secondhandThe GleneskConan Doyle bookshopand £500 Collec byI could- the late SirIn 1964rently I finally located realized at 1 Whitehall that my Place, ety – The Solitary Cyclists of Sweden. themselves, mentored by an older about Swedish Sherlock Holmes Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. translator of the Canon is Nils Nor- of booksAll published golden in thein thatlight format,of love. half As EB’swrote HOUN this? was more or less my was included in the first ever collected tionfind auction in Johnlocal atWillox…Workingtelephone Christie’s. and Included address pressmen di- bundleLondon of notes and would their be website sufficient indicates it Sweden has always been among the generation of Sherlockians. It would be editions, and in 1964 he published The University of Minnesota is an Equal dberg, BSI (“A Norwegian Named octavo, with green covers and dust- favourite boyhood reading I tend to be inrectories the lotthroughout fromwere allseven over the letters Sweden. country and commencedIt two went to present“remains a reliable one ofSwedish the leading Holmes Bohemian top cycling nations in Europe, hence an interesting project to make a family Sherlockhis first Holmesbibliography edition on in the Norwegian, subject. Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It (andPress indeedAlbum added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time postcardsrather well. by ACD to Madame Broch- bibliographyGentleman’s — ranging Clubs fromin London.” 1891 to the name. And as a tribute to Miss tree of these degrees of mentors, and whichIt was I a edited groundbreaking and part-translated work. In contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden mann discussing rights to stories and 1916. Eighty-three items with early Violetthe Smith, Institute the braveof Journalists and handsome Orphan trace the Sherlockian mentor kinship (wantedthe late to’80s do he all began but didn’t collecting have and the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than pamphlets.I then addressed ACD somewas eager old publishingto have SwedishIn Holmes1882, the translations Prince of Wales,were later solitaryFund. cyclist whom we meet in the back to just a few persons in the ’30s time),researching published for twenty in 10 volumes more years by Denand reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- Thehouses War and in South got the Africa: depressing Its Cause answer and there identified, including their differ- Canon, I constructed a crossword and ’40s. Norskewas prepared Bokklubben to put (“The together Norwegian an even me. That was so great of him – and I’m contributed to the Fund, from its publishedEdward in Sherlock VII, became an honorary breaking out of the fog on lations. It’s a long time since I’ve re-read Conductthat their translated archive copies into all of languages Holmes ent editions, printings and bindings. puzzleChristy which Allen, was presented who contributes to each fre- Bookmore Club”) comprehensive in 1980. Thebibliography, tenth volume not Aschehougstill so thankful. in EB’s We time had was so Doyle’smuch fun beginning seventeen years ago, has Holmes:member The Detective of the &Club. He enjoyed the the dust jacket. The series it but it is my impression Continuedthat EB was from Page 4 andbooks wrote andbeginning aold preface catalogues seventeen for the were Norwegian years either ago, has memberquently during to thethat ConanDoyle society meeting (ACD) in list TheyMusings... are not the business kind of wasjust a about collection the early of pastiches Swedish and editions, essays. mainand INorwegian think I received publisher, forty butor fifty unfor let-- The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic edition.stolen or beenBrochmann destroyed devoted by must to fire the have keepor other had and- a educa- The period of 1891 – 1916 was signifi- 1964.on Three the Internet,issues of ismy interested new maga in -Conan mentors. Primarily they become Inbut the about 1990s everything all ten volumes that had were been re - tunatelyters a year they from didn’t him follow until theit up—there bibliog- John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi- & Co.s Kronebibliotek (“1 qualitiesnever of the the same original. for Francine; I’m still haunted she stuffed rat now adorn the Collections. readers and other interested parties, closewise dumpedrelationshiption of in the inaccessible withorphans…Avoiding ACD andarchive his any cant. Early on Swedish publishers dis- zine The Baker Street Cab Lantern had good friends with the new Sherlock- printedwritten wholesale about Holmes by a short-livedin Sweden. pub- wereraphy no was translations published of a VALLfew years or The later. In that essay he explained Doyle’sKrone poetry. Library”, She wrote: mean- by themissed descriptions sharing theirof the interests moor as and I read most Our thanks go to Peter Blau, not only and this issue features two of those: family,bunkers butexpenditure far there away is in nothing onthe bricks countryside. about and hermortar, It thecoveredtion the to Sherlock the facilities. Holmes On novels,December 3, by then been published. ians, whatever the age difference, and lisher called LibriArte. I’ve done minor Case-book,And we continued and only to four have of fun the in stories other about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. inturned any ofoutprinciple the that Conan the laid publishing Doyle down biographies. was employ that of -saving and when1886, two Catling rival publisherswrote to the within Grand I’ve tried to do some research about thereof all,is hardly she missed any mentoring his companionship. ‑ they revisionsNotfor justwriting toeditions the about text of his overConan friends the Doyle’s years, Wayne butsto- indiscussionsGeorgina His Last Doyle, Bow and were projects,author published of e.g. Out when of in the translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACDees knew visited less Norway than I did. in June 1892 with one monthSecretary in 1891 of United presented Grand their Lodge, the poem proper and how/why it are Andusually when the she ones passed who away,make their you aries majorand – Francineincluding one for butanother periodicals also Bokklubbenfor helping – but also with Norway,IShadows: carried in onThe a hisbook Untold vast called researchStory Spioncen of Arthur about- the child to its home and its home to changing Norwegian lan- less than $10 in today’s As for my own translation it was his sister Connie and Jerome K. Jerome own translationsenclosing an of “imposingThe Sign of group Four, of peti- was written, but have come up feelfriends welcome had in the the same world reaction of Sher as- people completepastichesthe packing edition, and andparodies, in mailing two andvolumes, of newspaperthe many, in tralen,Gillette’sConan 1919. Doyle’s play I’ve onFirst beenthe Family Swedish very, read fortunate, stage. Dick the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in amongWith the others. ambitious intention of seeing these editionstioners,” actually proposing became that athe new very lodge empty. lockhad Holmes. when GeorgeWhat the Burns mentors died; oncehis pass- 2002.andmany magazine The boxes. most articles. recent reprintIt was ais huge in a bothAfterSveum’s in the Gyldendal articlebibliography from that December wasthey publishedwanted 2008 to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz and examining all the nineteenth cen- first foreign translations of any Holmes receiveding meant in generosity that he was from together the older with 2011project. Bokklubben And he involved volume me.Sherlock givehewith also Holmes a carefulasked his meeye due toand beplace has his in correctedsuccessor a prestige a Thomas Catling edited The Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my Atury Google Holmes search editions revealed that aI 1902still lacked, letter story ever published as a book. Two generation they now pass on. I have Holmes Mysterier i utvalg (“Selected seriesas unofficial of modern Swedish and classical Sherlock mystery Holmes Album. Born September 23, 1838, he euphony-before-precision25% of the membership is the who were RecordsWhat of Dr I Watson”),did learn waspublished that it was knowledgeGracie again. of Holmes, so I was consid- John Bergquist has provided us with a date. Soren Eversoll, an honored visitor writtenI eventually by Samuel found L.myself Clemens compelled (Mark to years later Denmark and Norway fol- myself slowly taken the step and tried Mysteries”),Or rather, that containing is how ISTUD, like to HOUNthink storiesbibliographer. and bringing him back into translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, of The 1918. Apartalmost from certainly a missing written ABBE when this Jean ered quite the local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues Twain)descend toworked into Brochmann the for cellar Lloyd’s noting of TheWeekly that National Newsshe , as a lowed. In 1916 Sweden was still in the to help newcomers. I think I’m ready andthat The it was. Adventures—all When I consult translated our cor - print, and in Den norske Bokklubben the BaskervillesSavage Club. Several Lodge problems was consecrated exist atis a reprintwas ofpregnant the same with title Denis published (who was expert.Francine In 1969 Morris Gyldendal, Swift, ever Norway’s the librari- and its interesting authors and editors, his interest in Sherlock Holmes, hadRoyal translated Swedishcompositor, intoLibrary Norwegianwriter, where news I hisused editor from lead regarding the number of foreign to be a Sherlockian mentor and pass byrespondence yours truly. from If you’re that interested,time, I notice I’ll forIn alldeciding this he to trusted do the me first and ever my com- here. For instance no single word in in 1905, containing the last seven largestan, publishingplanned to house,donate hadher Sherlockianstarted a published 50 years ago. I’d like to according to a note sent by his mother. Sherlockiancontemporary,1866 pastiche through hardly Alegible1884, Doubled-Bar then handwrit editor- - fromtranslations.Freemasons’ Hall and Sir Henry Irving born in March of 1909, just one on what was given me in the form of bethat happy the situationto send you was a slightly copy for different. your pleteenthusiasm. edition andThat giving was the me best a free thing rein Norwegian suggests a large, possibly stories from The Return of SH. Broch- paperback mystery series called “The reled Detective1884 through Story. The 1907. Lilly The Library Scoop was invested as Treasurer. There is no month before The Press Book was generosity,collection knowledge to The Sherlock and kindliness. Holmes collection.Itthank was rather Christy And like, toAllen complete“if Ifor can providing help the story:you I tohe present could do.Sherlock He laid Holmes the foundations as I think ferocious and deadly, canine; hund mann’s HOUN was re-published by the Black Series” (inspired by the French Manuscript Collection has 15 letters to longer a formal connection between published). ThatCollections. is my way Sadly, of saying her deaththank inyou. alsowithinformation adapted anything, and about please translated Conan let me Doyle’sa Swedishknow,” poet- heofSo shoulda it’s future business be. Mattias as usual the Sherlockian. at The Database, subscription biographical means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. “La Série Noire”) and asked me to do her (1900-1917) from English authors the Lodge and the Club. AndOctober more exactly, 2007 meant saying her thank collection, you to radiowrotery as dramatisation thefeatured young in Mattias our of the100 in book Years one and earlyAgo HeSherlock let me Holmes get so deeply Collections, involved for that dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. including F. Anstey (one of the 24 According to Doyle’s own correspon- Tedwhich Bergman. she amassed with her beloved producedletter,column. and it Dick somewhatas a Sveumsix-part later updates serial it was in us 1977.more on the Soafterwhich the our 1911 we bibliographical are second all thankful. edition collaboration was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950, ally translated into my language the I can certainly tell you that Broch- There had then been no Holmes books authors along with ACD of The Fate of After his retirement from Lloyd’s Wayne, was ready to move to I like,sometimesstatus “send of the methink drive copies that for ofmy the all main E.W.your motive bib- gotthere Nils was Nordberg not a chance hooked I would on Sherlock ever indicates he extended the circulation title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s dencetranslation (from of A HOUN Life in Letters and that), this in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. Jerome. , Catling undertook the Ted has for more than twenty-five forliographical becoming workinga radio drama material,” producer and “I Holmes.quit my InSherlockian his translation activities. he kept When of the paper beyond London and waswhich Wis eeklynot only News clumsy, Catling but–even undertook the very 1911was edition a worrisome has played time. aJean decisive was do twoMinnesota. selections, Boxes containing of books, seven pho- sto- McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI I was able to examine the letters while years been a dear friend of mine. He wasenclose the wish five topages do thisof comments story on radio, and Elizabethyour interest Brochmann’s turns into title, friendship and he it’swas worse—suggestsediting task a forstory The about Press aAlbum pet: . The part in mypregnant life. It with was herthe first child Holmes at age ries tographs,each. We ephemerathen decided and thateven I awould giant It’s gratifying to receive notes from attendingreputed the Gillette to be theto Brett first IIIto usecon the- auto- was one of the Sherlockians who thesuggestions.” medium it Iis compared perfectly suitedTed’s data for. avery good hard friend to quit.of John And Bennett for me Shaw.there hasAs The Dog of the Baskervilles Family. story I ever34 and read, Doyle and wasit hooked worried me about her translate HOUN. I used EB’s version ference at Indiana University. received my letters when I was six- And,with ahmy yes, own 2009 collection saw the of first books ever and abeen Norwegian-American no better way to be and a SherlockianSherlock- Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) Continued on page 7 teen. He replied. Long letters. Full of “nynorsk”my own lists translation of newspaper of HOUN, articles. by I ian,than I appreciateby doing things all the together. connections. Then asSherlockian reference, butfacts, avoided wisdom copying and wit. it. Ragnarso much Hovland wanted but to help.relying And I suspect Ted let a you get pure Sherlockian magic. Continued on page 7 SIGN was also included in the series, good deal on mine. Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 "Would You Be Interested In Receiving Some Of These Efforts Of Mine?" Continued from Page 1 I replied, probably in awe. A few days to sleep. She still claims, she called me of 1937 to collect Holmesiana with the later – this time on his ‘Brothers Three next day to ask what the hell the group aim of having a fine reference library. of Moriarty’ writing paper – came just was doing anyway, that she will write a Now that I am loaded with about 12 the most wonderfully packed missive, story about it all. If she does it will be thousand items plus 10,000 clippings effectively telling me his history of be- the Holmes story of the decade. I will (or so some overeager nut estimated) I 50 ing a collector (‘I started in college days keep you posted on these intellectual assume that I do have a reference col- in the late 30s…I was fortunate that developments in the southern Rockies’. lection – and it is used, often in person YEARS AGO I met Morley, knew Edgar W. Smith, by humans as well as that delightful Vincent Starrett and many of the other Oh, look: I have to retell this from an- other-worldly mad bibliographer De In 1964, Ted Bergman, BSI (1978, The pioneer greats…I was enough of a stu- other letter – and presumably referring Waal. So far this year (July – NU) Sher- Honourable Philip Green) published dent of The Master that Edgar invited to the same newspaper: ‘… it just will lockians and spouses etc. numbering two pamphlets. The title page of the me to a dinner in 1949, but it was 15 not properly review anything that does 43 have visited my library!’ first,To Miss Violet Smith, states “This years before I could afford the time not have a) a drunk painter who paints wordpuzzle is dedicated to Miss Violet and money…my one loss in leaving sober Indians, b) a drunk Indian that And finally, from this same letter, the Smith and presented to the sexteen Tulsa was that there I had access to a screws a painter c) a black cowboy who first knowledge I had of JBS’s inten- [sic] members of the The Solitary Xerox and here it costs me 10¢ a page! wins out over both the painter and the tions: ‘…[A]fter my demise, not sched- Cyclists of Sweden at the society’s first Terrible and crippling to my cultural poor lowly Indian. Nuts…’ uled as yet unless the bomb goes off official meeting on January 9th, 1964.” activities’). sooner and it may well as we are ruled It was published in an edition limited

Sadly, we never met face-to-face, but I by mad persons, friendly and smiling to twenty-one copies, and number the Collection of John Bennett Shaw From And then a couple of typical JBS felt through his letters that I knew him nonetheless, anyway, my library will nineteen was held by John Bennett Ted Bergman, 1973 quotes: ‘…I enjoy every minute of it, well. Enthusiasm welled from every be ensconced at University of Minne- Shaw. The remainder of the text is in and I meet many wonderful people, pore, information from every fingertip sota…’ Swedish. and I leave many others completely and gossip never far from either. May bemused…’ and then the heart of the I, for example, break a confidence 37 So, he wasn’t sure about Reagan, The title page of the second illustrated matter (his heart): ‘There is nothing I years on? ‘…I have been pleased that Thatcher or Andropov – but my, did he pamphlet, Sherlock Holmes 1891-1916, like better than to help another col- you were asked to be co-editor of our love the world of Sherlock Homes and states it is “A bibliography enumerat- lector – it is bread on the waters and Journal (The Sherlock Holmes Journal do we not remain indebted? It was a ing and describing some of the original all that but further it is friendship’. – NU). It is still better (not for pub- privilege, Mr. Shaw. and variant editions of the Swedish The rapidity of his typing made one lic quotation, please) as it has always translations of Dr. John H. Watson’s miss some of the benefits provided by been than the US journal.’ A year later Sherlock Holmes stories. The items punctuation, of course: but I was only (1978), following that year’s BSI week- listed in this volume were all pub- one of many with whom John was in end, he vouchsafed to me the follow- lished between 1891 and 1916.” It was correspondence. ing: ‘I understand from those who were published by The Baker Street Cab allowed to attend that the Adventuress- Lantern, with Ted Bergman listed as On the one hand, he would send me ‘a es dinner was fun and most scholarly. editor. The copy held in the Sherlock package of curious items’ – and on the Women in the states are doing so much Holmes Collections was sent with a other, in the same letter, he would pick fine unrequited Holmesian research. gift card to John Bennett Shaw wishing up on the title of a book I had men- The three tops at my Workshop were him “A Joyful Christmas 1964.” The tioned and was immediately agog: ‘…I fems’. text of the booklet is in both Swedish find I have no reference to this. Is there and English. a chapter on Doyle, or a considerable I close this short piece with a lengthy Bergman Photo courtesy of Ted Ted Bergman in the early 1980s number of pages? May I have the name paragraph from 1984, proving beyond Fifty years later we celebrate not only of the publisher please so I can order?’ a peradventure that I was but one of these two booklets but their author many with whom John kept in regu- as well. When I contacted Ted about He loved sharing experiences, and lar touch and to whom I am sure he these pamphlets, he happily agreed although he claimed not to be any sort volunteered just as much ‘friendship at to write an article for this newsletter. of writer, could be delightfully droll. a distance’ as he did to me; but it sums We are extremely fortunate that he Reporting on a recent unHappy Birth- up just how hectic life was in Santa Fe has given us some background about day Dinner (dis)Honoring Professor aged 70 (excluding his dealings with 23 his writing and collecting mania. Two Moriarty, JBS delighted in reporting: ‘To grandchildren!): ‘…I am terribly busy friends, Mattias Boström and Jon Lel- cap the social graces of the evening the with Holmesian matters – by choice of lenberg, were kind enough to contrib- editor of the local county newspaper course and enjoying every bit of it…I ute articles about their friendship with came and she was a babe about 7 ft. tall have 76 unanswered letters on my Ted and his influence upon them. and drunk as a Lord’s Lady. Fool that I desk and at least 15 of those ask for am I bought her a drink and she went photocopies…I set out in the summer Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI

6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 From the President An Update from the Collections ark your calendar, Friday Sherlock Holmes continues to appear Thanks to all our friends who contrib- …the rich scent of the garden and logical mind would not be drawn Mr. Holmes and his presence at the October 3, 2014 as the on screen. I have enjoyed watching the ute to the Sherlock Holmes Collections and the balmy summer air…” from its present work to dwell upon University. May Day brought a televi- date for our Annual Mem- second season of “Elementary” on CBS helping us preserve Sherlock Holmes (NAVA) memories of the past.” (HOUN) It is an sion crew from Shanghai, with footage bership Meeting of the and series 3 of “Sherlock” on BBC. I and his world. interesting and contemplative tension shot of some of our treasures, including M Friends of the Sherlock am looking forward to seeing the new “ Summer is a special season in between past and present that Holmes the miniature recreation by Dorothy Holmes Collections. We are very for- movies from novels, both A Slight Trick Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI the northern latitudes. Days are longer and Watson give us, one enlivened on Rowe Shaw of 221B Baker Street. In the tunate to host Pulitzer Prize–winning of the Mind by Mitch Cullen and Arthur and twilight lingers, especially in the these pages as we celebrate the work middle of May I reprised my presen- book critic and Baker Street Irregular & George by Julian Barnes. It reminds far north, where the sun might tickle and gifts of our British and Swedish tation on Dr. Hench’s adventures in Michael Dirda as our keynote speaker. us that the Sherlock Holmes Collec- the horizon but never really set. A colleagues (while remembering our Meiringen for the faculty dining club I hope that you all will be able to at- tions has media items. The collection special radiance — long golden rays roots as “Norwegian Explorers”). Nick “Gown in Town.” May concluded with tend. continues to grow with new acquisi- tions almost daily. stretching across the countryside — Utechin, Ted Bergman, and Mattias a presentation to library paraprofes- forces any memory of the previous long Boström are part of that mystic chord sionals from around the state about the and brutal winter into hibernation. and present work. We are delighted library at “Downton Abbey.” It was a Midsummer is magical, a celebration in their long-time friendships with very good spring representing and shar- Musings of light and warmth, family and good Holmesians around the world (includ- ing the Collections with others. friends. I am reminded of strolls from ing those here in the Upper Midwest), ll of us associated with the this country where they found oppor- background about his old friend and a summer trip, through the parks and their past contributions, present vitali- As you read this, I am on a mini- Sherlock Holmes Collec- tunities in agriculture, as well as in the how reading an article in the March meadows of Oxford, elongated shad- ties, and future hopes. We are pleased sabbatical, away from the office until tions would like to extend mining and timber industries, predomi- issue of this newsletter moved him to ows intertwined with the evening’s soft that their works, and others from the end of August. I hope to move my our gratitude to Nick nantly in Minnesota, with its similar- reconnect with him. glow. Or of a Swedish summer long ago Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, book on the closing of the University’s A Utechin not only for his ity to their homeland, and Illinois. It when I sipped coffee near midnight, have found a home in this New World library school closer to publication and donation but for his memories of cor- seemed high time for us to feature a Tim Johnson has provided our readers hints of dusk in the air, wondering why called Minnesota. write an article or two for publication responding with John Bennett Shaw. Swedish contributor to Sherlockiana. with his plans for this summer, and my forebears left the land I found so in one of the professional journals. Many of us will only ever know Mr. For our 50 Years Ago section, we’re fea- Dick Sveum has set the date for the enchanting. The transition from spring to summer Cheryll Fong, my intern from last sum- Shaw through his books and letters and turing not one but two different works upcoming Fall Friends meeting. We’re brought with it a number of presenta- mer, is covering in my stead and can be Nick has certainly provided us with published by Ted Bergman in 1964. all amazed at how long winter lasted My family history is a complex tale and tions and tours, both on campus and reached at the phone number listed in some special insights. We’ve also added two essays written this year, and how short spring was be- not one to be told here, except to note beyond. I spent one afternoon in the this issue. For most of the summer I’ll about Ted and his influences by fellow fore the days turned warm and sunny. that millions of other people shared a enjoyable company of two first year be close by, setting up shop at the Uni- Many people know that the state of Swede Mattias Boström and Swedish- I hope you all enjoy your own special similar story in the late nineteenth and students who wandered into our suite, versity’s landscape arboretum, where Minnesota has a strong Scandinavian American Jon Lellenberg. We’ve summer days and perhaps find time for early twentieth centuries. I have some- wondering if they might see something I hope “the rich scent of the garden background, especially regarding immi- skipped the 100 Years Ago column in some leisurely reading about our old times wondered what Holmes thought from the Holmes Collections. They left and the balmy summer air” will inspire gration from Sweden. As Tim Johnson order to highlight Ted. friend Mr. Holmes. of all those immigrants, especially as a couple hours later giddy with delight productive writing and interesting noted in his column, during the late he worked the streets of Chicago — a and a promise to tell their friends. Like- thoughts. At the end of the summer, 1800s and early 1900s, over half of the I’d like to thank Jerry Margolin for Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI place that had more Swedes at the turn wise, volunteers from the Children’s Lit- sometime in early September, I plan on Swedes who emigrated to the United his article about Mo Lebowitz. Jerry of the last century than anywhere else erature collections and their friends en- traveling to the United Kingdom in my States settled in the Midwestern part of the completist collector added a bit of on earth, except Stockholm. By 1910, joyed a couple of hours viewing items unending quest of Mr. Holmes and his Minnesota became the most Swedish from the Collections and touring the world, thanks in part to a travel grant of any of the United States. In some caverns. A new faculty member in the received from the University’s Global counties north of the Twin Cities nearly English department, with an interest in Programs and Strategy Alliance office. three-fourths of the population was of things Victorian, was introduced to me Perhaps I’ll have the opportunity to see Meeting a Renaissance Man Swedish extraction. by a colleague over lunch. Holmes was at least a few of you during my travels. part of our conversation; a tour of the n the late 1970s when I was re- home and found him to be a real defi- read the March issue of this newslet- Nearly a decade before any member of library and Collections followed. First I hope your summer is filled with ally getting heavy into building nition of a Renaissance man in that he ter, I was reminded of my old friend my family set foot in the New World, year graduate students from the library/ long-lighted days, the warmth of good my Sherlock Holmes rare book had so many varied interests and was and decided to contact him. I recently President Lincoln spoke of “the mystic information science program at St. friends, and a continual companionship collection, I happened on a pri- proficient in all of them. Among these had the good fortune to speak with chords of memory,” a phrase that rings Catherine University spent nearly five with Mr. Holmes and the good Doctor. I vately printed piece of Sherlock- talents were stringed instruments, him again after so many years and he true as I think of my Nordic ancestors hours with me on a Saturday morning. Thank you for your continued support iana by a man named Morris wine and, most importantly, print- remains the true “Renaissance man.” and Northern acquaintances. Holmes Much of our time was spent with items of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at “Mo” Lebowitz. Being the completist ing ‑ which he did on a small private is of a similar mind when he notes: from the Collections and in discussions the University of Minnesota as we seek collector that I am, I tried to find out if press in his basement. It was here that Having sold my Holmes collection “There are vague memories in our about their history, acquisition, care, to keep forever green the memory of there was anything else by this gentle- he created some of the most beautiful about eight years ago, I now have souls of those misty centuries when the and use. On a drizzly afternoon I trav- the Master. man. To my delight, while still living pieces of Sherlockiana and, of course, I only a couple of his pieces left, but I world was in its childhood.” (STUD) eled to a senior retirement community, in New York, I found that he lived not had to have it all. As we became good treasure them as pieces from a great But as Dr. Watson observed, Holmes my day brightened by their questions Tim Johnson, Curator terribly far from me. friends, I was always glad to acquire time in collecting Sherlockiana and for would not be distracted, his “clear and curiosity as I told them about from him at least one of everything he reminding me that I have the pleasure I got in touch with him, tracking him printed that had to do with Holmes in of knowing and being friends with Mo down by various Sherlockian methods, any fashion. They were prizes in my Lebowitz. since Google was nowhere to be found collection. Acquisitions in those days! It was a great piece of Jerry Margolin, BSI ay Riethmeier donated a copy of The Great Detective on the Roof of the World by Thomas Kent Miller. luck to meet Mo, as he is one of the After I moved, we stayed good friends most interesting people I have met in and I saw him for a time at BSI dinners Among the newsletters received were the latest copies of Notes from the Spermacetti Press and The District Messenger. my years as a collector. I went to his until he no longer attended. When I R 4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 From the President An Update from the Collections ark your calendar, Friday Sherlock Holmes continues to appear Thanks to all our friends who contrib- …the rich scent of the garden and logical mind would not be drawn Mr. Holmes and his presence at the October 3, 2014 as the on screen. I have enjoyed watching the ute to the Sherlock Holmes Collections and the balmy summer air…” from its present work to dwell upon University. May Day brought a televi- date for our Annual Mem- second season of “Elementary” on CBS helping us preserve Sherlock Holmes (NAVA) memories of the past.” (HOUN) It is an sion crew from Shanghai, with footage bership Meeting of the and series 3 of “Sherlock” on BBC. I and his world. interesting and contemplative tension shot of some of our treasures, including M Friends of the Sherlock am looking forward to seeing the new “ Summer is a special season in between past and present that Holmes the miniature recreation by Dorothy Holmes Collections. We are very for- movies from novels, both A Slight Trick Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI the northern latitudes. Days are longer and Watson give us, one enlivened on Rowe Shaw of 221B Baker Street. In the tunate to host Pulitzer Prize–winning of the Mind by Mitch Cullen and Arthur and twilight lingers, especially in the these pages as we celebrate the work middle of May I reprised my presen- book critic and Baker Street Irregular & George by Julian Barnes. It reminds far north, where the sun might tickle and gifts of our British and Swedish tation on Dr. Hench’s adventures in Michael Dirda as our keynote speaker. us that the Sherlock Holmes Collec- the horizon but never really set. A colleagues (while remembering our Meiringen for the faculty dining club I hope that you all will be able to at- tions has media items. The collection special radiance — long golden rays roots as “Norwegian Explorers”). Nick “Gown in Town.” May concluded with tend. continues to grow with new acquisi- tions almost daily. stretching across the countryside — Utechin, Ted Bergman, and Mattias a presentation to library paraprofes- forces any memory of the previous long Boström are part of that mystic chord sionals from around the state about the and brutal winter into hibernation. and present work. We are delighted library at “Downton Abbey.” It was a Midsummer is magical, a celebration in their long-time friendships with very good spring representing and shar- Musings of light and warmth, family and good Holmesians around the world (includ- ing the Collections with others. friends. I am reminded of strolls from ing those here in the Upper Midwest), ll of us associated with the this country where they found oppor- background about his old friend and a summer trip, through the parks and their past contributions, present vitali- As you read this, I am on a mini- Sherlock Holmes Collec- tunities in agriculture, as well as in the how reading an article in the March meadows of Oxford, elongated shad- ties, and future hopes. We are pleased sabbatical, away from the office until tions would like to extend mining and timber industries, predomi- issue of this newsletter moved him to ows intertwined with the evening’s soft that their works, and others from the end of August. I hope to move my our gratitude to Nick nantly in Minnesota, with its similar- reconnect with him. glow. Or of a Swedish summer long ago Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, book on the closing of the University’s A Utechin not only for his ity to their homeland, and Illinois. It when I sipped coffee near midnight, have found a home in this New World library school closer to publication and donation but for his memories of cor- seemed high time for us to feature a Tim Johnson has provided our readers hints of dusk in the air, wondering why called Minnesota. write an article or two for publication responding with John Bennett Shaw. Swedish contributor to Sherlockiana. with his plans for this summer, and my forebears left the land I found so in one of the professional journals. Many of us will only ever know Mr. For our 50 Years Ago section, we’re fea- Dick Sveum has set the date for the enchanting. The transition from spring to summer Cheryll Fong, my intern from last sum- Shaw through his books and letters and turing not one but two different works upcoming Fall Friends meeting. We’re brought with it a number of presenta- mer, is covering in my stead and can be Nick has certainly provided us with published by Ted Bergman in 1964. all amazed at how long winter lasted My family history is a complex tale and tions and tours, both on campus and reached at the phone number listed in some special insights. We’ve also added two essays written this year, and how short spring was be- not one to be told here, except to note beyond. I spent one afternoon in the this issue. For most of the summer I’ll about Ted and his influences by fellow fore the days turned warm and sunny. that millions of other people shared a enjoyable company of two first year be close by, setting up shop at the Uni- Many people know that the state of Swede Mattias Boström and Swedish- I hope you all enjoy your own special similar story in the late nineteenth and students who wandered into our suite, versity’s landscape arboretum, where Minnesota has a strong Scandinavian American Jon Lellenberg. We’ve summer days and perhaps find time for early twentieth centuries. I have some- wondering if they might see something I hope “the rich scent of the garden background, especially regarding immi- skipped the 100 Years Ago column in some leisurely reading about our old times wondered what Holmes thought from the Holmes Collections. They left and the balmy summer air” will inspire gration from Sweden. As Tim Johnson order to highlight Ted. friend Mr. Holmes. of all those immigrants, especially as a couple hours later giddy with delight productive writing and interesting noted in his column, during the late he worked the streets of Chicago — a and a promise to tell their friends. Like- thoughts. At the end of the summer, 1800s and early 1900s, over half of the I’d like to thank Jerry Margolin for Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI place that had more Swedes at the turn wise, volunteers from the Children’s Lit- sometime in early September, I plan on Swedes who emigrated to the United his article about Mo Lebowitz. Jerry of the last century than anywhere else erature collections and their friends en- traveling to the United Kingdom in my States settled in the Midwestern part of the completist collector added a bit of on earth, except Stockholm. By 1910, joyed a couple of hours viewing items unending quest of Mr. Holmes and his Minnesota became the most Swedish from the Collections and touring the world, thanks in part to a travel grant of any of the United States. In some caverns. A new faculty member in the received from the University’s Global counties north of the Twin Cities nearly English department, with an interest in Programs and Strategy Alliance office. three-fourths of the population was of things Victorian, was introduced to me Perhaps I’ll have the opportunity to see Meeting a Renaissance Man Swedish extraction. by a colleague over lunch. Holmes was at least a few of you during my travels. part of our conversation; a tour of the n the late 1970s when I was re- home and found him to be a real defi- read the March issue of this newslet- Nearly a decade before any member of library and Collections followed. First I hope your summer is filled with ally getting heavy into building nition of a Renaissance man in that he ter, I was reminded of my old friend my family set foot in the New World, year graduate students from the library/ long-lighted days, the warmth of good my Sherlock Holmes rare book had so many varied interests and was and decided to contact him. I recently President Lincoln spoke of “the mystic information science program at St. friends, and a continual companionship collection, I happened on a pri- proficient in all of them. Among these had the good fortune to speak with chords of memory,” a phrase that rings Catherine University spent nearly five with Mr. Holmes and the good Doctor. I vately printed piece of Sherlock- talents were stringed instruments, him again after so many years and he true as I think of my Nordic ancestors hours with me on a Saturday morning. Thank you for your continued support iana by a man named Morris wine and, most importantly, print- remains the true “Renaissance man.” and Northern acquaintances. Holmes Much of our time was spent with items of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at “Mo” Lebowitz. Being the completist ing ‑ which he did on a small private is of a similar mind when he notes: from the Collections and in discussions the University of Minnesota as we seek collector that I am, I tried to find out if press in his basement. It was here that Having sold my Holmes collection “There are vague memories in our about their history, acquisition, care, to keep forever green the memory of there was anything else by this gentle- he created some of the most beautiful about eight years ago, I now have souls of those misty centuries when the and use. On a drizzly afternoon I trav- the Master. man. To my delight, while still living pieces of Sherlockiana and, of course, I only a couple of his pieces left, but I world was in its childhood.” (STUD) eled to a senior retirement community, in New York, I found that he lived not had to have it all. As we became good treasure them as pieces from a great But as Dr. Watson observed, Holmes my day brightened by their questions Tim Johnson, Curator terribly far from me. friends, I was always glad to acquire time in collecting Sherlockiana and for would not be distracted, his “clear and curiosity as I told them about from him at least one of everything he reminding me that I have the pleasure I got in touch with him, tracking him printed that had to do with Holmes in of knowing and being friends with Mo down by various Sherlockian methods, any fashion. They were prizes in my Lebowitz. since Google was nowhere to be found collection. Acquisitions in those days! It was a great piece of Jerry Margolin, BSI ay Riethmeier donated a copy of The Great Detective on the Roof of the World by Thomas Kent Miller. luck to meet Mo, as he is one of the After I moved, we stayed good friends most interesting people I have met in and I saw him for a time at BSI dinners Among the newsletters received were the latest copies of Notes from the Spermacetti Press and The District Messenger. my years as a collector. I went to his until he no longer attended. When I R 4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 "Would You Be Interested In Receiving Some Of These Efforts Of Mine?" Continued from Page 1 I replied, probably in awe. A few days to sleep. She still claims, she called me of 1937 to collect Holmesiana with the later – this time on his ‘Brothers Three next day to ask what the hell the group aim of having a fine reference library. of Moriarty’ writing paper – came just was doing anyway, that she will write a Now that I am loaded with about 12 the most wonderfully packed missive, story about it all. If she does it will be thousand items plus 10,000 clippings effectively telling me his history of be- the Holmes story of the decade. I will (or so some overeager nut estimated) I 50 ing a collector (‘I started in college days keep you posted on these intellectual assume that I do have a reference col- in the late 30s…I was fortunate that developments in the southern Rockies’. lection – and it is used, often in person YEARS AGO I met Morley, knew Edgar W. Smith, by humans as well as that delightful Vincent Starrett and many of the other Oh, look: I have to retell this from an- other-worldly mad bibliographer De In 1964, Ted Bergman, BSI (1978, The pioneer greats…I was enough of a stu- other letter – and presumably referring Waal. So far this year (July – NU) Sher- Honourable Philip Green) published dent of The Master that Edgar invited to the same newspaper: ‘… it just will lockians and spouses etc. numbering two pamphlets. The title page of the me to a dinner in 1949, but it was 15 not properly review anything that does 43 have visited my library!’ first,To Miss Violet Smith, states “This years before I could afford the time not have a) a drunk painter who paints wordpuzzle is dedicated to Miss Violet and money…my one loss in leaving sober Indians, b) a drunk Indian that And finally, from this same letter, the Smith and presented to the sexteen Tulsa was that there I had access to a screws a painter c) a black cowboy who first knowledge I had of JBS’s inten- [sic] members of the The Solitary Xerox and here it costs me 10¢ a page! wins out over both the painter and the tions: ‘…[A]fter my demise, not sched- Cyclists of Sweden at the society’s first Terrible and crippling to my cultural poor lowly Indian. Nuts…’ uled as yet unless the bomb goes off official meeting on January 9th, 1964.” activities’). sooner and it may well as we are ruled It was published in an edition limited

Sadly, we never met face-to-face, but I by mad persons, friendly and smiling to twenty-one copies, and number the Collection of John Bennett Shaw From And then a couple of typical JBS felt through his letters that I knew him nonetheless, anyway, my library will nineteen was held by John Bennett Ted Bergman, 1973 quotes: ‘…I enjoy every minute of it, well. Enthusiasm welled from every be ensconced at University of Minne- Shaw. The remainder of the text is in and I meet many wonderful people, pore, information from every fingertip sota…’ Swedish. and I leave many others completely and gossip never far from either. May bemused…’ and then the heart of the I, for example, break a confidence 37 So, he wasn’t sure about Reagan, The title page of the second illustrated matter (his heart): ‘There is nothing I years on? ‘…I have been pleased that Thatcher or Andropov – but my, did he pamphlet, Sherlock Holmes 1891-1916, like better than to help another col- you were asked to be co-editor of our love the world of Sherlock Homes and states it is “A bibliography enumerat- lector – it is bread on the waters and Journal (The Sherlock Holmes Journal do we not remain indebted? It was a ing and describing some of the original all that but further it is friendship’. – NU). It is still better (not for pub- privilege, Mr. Shaw. and variant editions of the Swedish The rapidity of his typing made one lic quotation, please) as it has always translations of Dr. John H. Watson’s miss some of the benefits provided by been than the US journal.’ A year later Sherlock Holmes stories. The items punctuation, of course: but I was only (1978), following that year’s BSI week- listed in this volume were all pub- one of many with whom John was in end, he vouchsafed to me the follow- lished between 1891 and 1916.” It was correspondence. ing: ‘I understand from those who were published by The Baker Street Cab allowed to attend that the Adventuress- Lantern, with Ted Bergman listed as On the one hand, he would send me ‘a es dinner was fun and most scholarly. editor. The copy held in the Sherlock package of curious items’ – and on the Women in the states are doing so much Holmes Collections was sent with a other, in the same letter, he would pick fine unrequited Holmesian research. gift card to John Bennett Shaw wishing up on the title of a book I had men- The three tops at my Workshop were him “A Joyful Christmas 1964.” The tioned and was immediately agog: ‘…I fems’. text of the booklet is in both Swedish find I have no reference to this. Is there and English. a chapter on Doyle, or a considerable I close this short piece with a lengthy Bergman Photo courtesy of Ted Ted Bergman in the early 1980s number of pages? May I have the name paragraph from 1984, proving beyond Fifty years later we celebrate not only of the publisher please so I can order?’ a peradventure that I was but one of these two booklets but their author many with whom John kept in regu- as well. When I contacted Ted about He loved sharing experiences, and lar touch and to whom I am sure he these pamphlets, he happily agreed although he claimed not to be any sort volunteered just as much ‘friendship at to write an article for this newsletter. of writer, could be delightfully droll. a distance’ as he did to me; but it sums We are extremely fortunate that he Reporting on a recent unHappy Birth- up just how hectic life was in Santa Fe has given us some background about day Dinner (dis)Honoring Professor aged 70 (excluding his dealings with 23 his writing and collecting mania. Two Moriarty, JBS delighted in reporting: ‘To grandchildren!): ‘…I am terribly busy friends, Mattias Boström and Jon Lel- cap the social graces of the evening the with Holmesian matters – by choice of lenberg, were kind enough to contrib- editor of the local county newspaper course and enjoying every bit of it…I ute articles about their friendship with came and she was a babe about 7 ft. tall have 76 unanswered letters on my Ted and his influence upon them. and drunk as a Lord’s Lady. Fool that I desk and at least 15 of those ask for am I bought her a drink and she went photocopies…I set out in the summer Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI

6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 About the Author 100My MentorYears Ago Continued from Page 2 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 By Ted Bergman, BSI By Mattias Böstrom, BSI mobile for “journalistic purposes.” table of contents for this 224 page health during and after the pregnan- The Orphanage hen I was eight years ten (!) Catlingindex cards was activeto identify in the volumes Institute of So I drewillustrated a front book cover includes illustration works in by cy.was This about certainly to turn would sixteen. explain In a the Ted Bergmanin an earlier had been translation the leading which I old my father and I I didn’tJournalists know existed. and traveledI learned extensively that periodAlfred style, Noyes, wrote Arthurdown my Morrison, collected somewhatSwedish Sherlocksombre tone Holmes of the edi poem.- SherlockianWhen,revised ere in thequite Sweden tangled heavily. sinceweb is the reft, ’60s read and discussed to- many earlythrough Swedish America, publishers Canada, simply the Middle informationRosamund by a Marriott-Watson, typewriter on stencil Eden Thetion use at theof the local word library “lady” I found in the last andThe had kid-gloved probably villain received scowls quite and a sneers, lot The main difference between gether some old Swed- had failedEast to and deliver Europe, duty including copies. France papersPhillpotts, and printed John the Galsworthy, text by help F. Ansteyof stanzathe addresses seems to to strongly some Sherlock- of lettersAnd hapless from newinnocence Sherlock is left Holmes 100ish Sherlock Holmes during World War I. He served as a a manual stencil machine. The bibli- ian magazines and societies, so fans,W lettersithmy no own assetsthat and hesave EB’sreplied sighs translation and to intears, the I 100 during World War I. He served as a and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100 and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a WYEARS AGO Isuggest that it was written to/for volumes which he himself had bought The official attitude of the National ography was favourably reviewed in I wrote letters to them, and received same’Tis waythink then, as stemsjust he didthen, from to that me. the in A factthere mentor that stalks YEARS AGO delegate to the Conference of the few of the contributors. Page 20 fea- Lady Jean. they belong to different ages. As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections as a boy in 1910. I guess my boyhood LibraryInternational towards early Association crime fiction of Journalists pa- a dailytures paper the and poem most “By of the the North limited Sea” by replies. And then I wrote back. neverThe knows hero, watchful which mentees of her needs, will stay. is a quarterly newsletter published by the experienceThe of March the fascinating 2008 issue Holmes of this newslet-perbacks showed itself in the fact that edition was rapidly gone. By that time He youtalks! may Great know, heavens, Danish how washe talks for Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at Berlin in 1908, and later as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a short Correspondences began, and they But the more he wrote to me the more Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Amongstories and terthe featuredtheforeign fact translationsthatan article my father about of Thehad The Flag, many of the old Holmes volumesCaption: Thehad 1902 firstI correspondededition has the with Holmesians like continued.Also, the fact that they were expect- exaltedButcenturies weI became, forgive the him, which official for hisof coursedeeds.written just lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the Houndkept the ofpublished booksthe Baskervilles with in their1908, from dramatic which John benefitted been insensibly bound inPaget uniform illustration li- while theS Tuppersecond does Bigelow not. in Canada, Nathan ing their first child may have made himguage even of Norway, more generous. and although Be- ests and needs of the Special Collections and Rare Books Department, University of Bennettcover illustrations Shaw’s collections, for me explains the one why brary bindings.Society of Interesting Journalists andduring unique 1915. HeL Bengis,last stanzaJohn Bennett as written Shaw, by ConanPeter E Doyle. I wasinfluenced a teenager, Doyle’s and for decision a person to of con- causeLife thatNorwegian is the is dramathe joy in here of1911 beingto-day had a begunmentor. the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called Minnesota Libraries. thatI began was making published bibliographical 100 years ago notes has front coverpassed illustrations away on December had sometimes 25, 1920. Blau, Bob Schutz and Lisa McGaw in that agetribute it’s unproblematic to The Press Book to inquickly the Andsplitting Death the away, villain the of influencethe plot. entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wetBaskervilles. with North This Sea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: specialwhenever significance. I came by anotherAccording Swed to - De simply been torn out and thrown away the USA,Her and cheek with was A.D. wet Henriksenwith North Seaand spray, go reallyfirst deepplace. into Being something a father himself,– and I’m He wasn’tIt isfrom a realistic the Danish only play; onewas instill the strong. Sher- It’s Conan Doyle’s “The Grey Dress – guage editionsCatling’s ofname the alsoCanon appears has nine in con- title is established;We walked where to the tide eye and it comesshingle meet, Scan courtesy of the University of Minnesota Libraries a complicated story but actually Waalish Holmes it was edition.a 2nd edition, I knew with that theMr This snooty attitude still predominated Henry Lauritzen in Denmark. Great after asure while he justcould skip easily it and empathize find a with lockianShall worldit end wellthat orshowed shall it generosity.not Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it soundsfrom far away sure he could easily empathize with Editor firstHolmes published had written in 1902. the monographNotedHound in the nineteen sixties. When collect- people —The now long allwaves sadly rolled gone from except far away new interest. I had done so with other ThereNorwegianThe are hero? so manyOh, on the the kind hero’s printed Sherlockians, part page is beth BrochmannLondon. Founded and includes in 1857, scanned the mem- right. ItTo is purralso inmisleading, ripples at our because feet. it 11 yearsthe oldfatherless at the time,children which which makes would as different from Ibsen’s time to the Julie McKuras collectorUpon the DistinctionDr. Donald Between Pollack the has Ashes both of ing some Holmes books I had ordered Peter. things. But it soon turned out that andIs I vacant—tohad the opportunity be played by to you. corre- 13512 Granada Ave. covers. hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me it 1952benefit or ’53. from I think the saleit was of giventhe volume. inthe his Various collection.The Tobaccos following. Well, year, that in 1909, was the The Pressat the lendingbers come desk from I was the met worlds by theof art, And as we walked it seemed to me Sherlock Holmes would be totally dif- presentspondThen withas act Shakespeare ita numberwell! An ofisorphan’s fromthem. pres heartHow- - Apple Valley, MN 55124 spirit I liked.Album Addwas topublished that my tonatural aid the words, drama, “I hope law, this literature, isn’t for pleasure!” music or sci- thanTwo yearsa family.That earlier three But, oldI forhad friends the visited three had the metexcel that- day: toferent me by from friends anything of my in parents my life. who And it entever, dayMay one English. beat thing the differentiatedlighterAt the ifsame you do.time Ted Ifrom did 952-431-1934 This search led to the online WorldCat lent reasonsThe old mentioned, old sky, the I olddecided old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about [email protected] C3542.weakness Journalists’— for A1456. collecting. HundenOrphan fraFund, Basker and- as he ence. Former members have includedpress-cuttingThe old archives old sky, theof some old old sea, dependedFinally, on Doyle one person. wrote a poem about gothe for others: a “conservative” He gave me style, assignments. hoping which lists eleven books by A. Conan to changeAnd it.” love, which is as old as they. stories.orphans Anyway, which it was was a revelation. published in it would read to modern day Norwe- ville: En hadny fortælling done the om previous Sherlock year, Conan However,notables in 1961 such I wasas Charlie lucky whenChaplin, Stockholm daily papers looking for Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board Doyle translated in Norwegian by When I wrote to Nils Nordberg for an I’ve still got it, title page missing and gian Christyreaders Allen as Conan and Julie Doyle McKuras reads to Editorial Board HolmesMy Holmes. DoyleAutoriseret collection stepped oversættelse forwardhad increased with ved a contri- the NationalMark Twain,Library Wilkie succeeded Collins, in James “Sherlock Holmes” tabs. And I was The SherlockianSongs of the Roadcommunity, just a fewis built pages Oh, he really understood that nerdy John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Elisabeth Brochmann. Also online is update Outhe surprised seaward hung me bythe writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. Elisabethrather slowly Brochmann. until in the Kristiania: nineteen hunting up an American Trade Journal lucky enough to find several interest- uponafter an important “By the North fundament: Sea.” It itswas teenageReferences: Mattias. That boy that could Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. bution. The book, edited by Thomas NasjonalbiblioteketMcNeill Whistler, (National Sir Alexander Library ElisabethWe Brochmann’s saw it rolling, translationfold on fold, of my dearest possessions. But very few Forlagtfifties I afdecided H. Aschehoug to speed & up Co. my (W. col- directory where, among some obscure ing articlesWe sawon theit rolling, Master, fold written on fold, by mentors.called These “The men Orphanage” and women and is repro- gohttp://www.scoop- so deep into a project just for the Catling and published by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN Andwas markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist of the stories were available in my own Sincedatabase.com/bio/catling_thomas 1971 my translation of HOUN Nygaard),lecting of biographical1902. 263 p. data. At that bakery journals, I found the address of journalists and essayists. I soon got in are theduced ones below. who inspire, invite and purehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club fun and friendship of it. (I’m has an introductory note which gives BrochmannIrving, dates Dante listed Rossetti, as 1855-1915 Dylan Thomas, 1902, alsoTurn by all Aschehoug. its leaden edge The to interestgold. language then, so I had to wait until I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club —————.time you had 2ndto do ed. it the1911. hard 246 way. p. I the Baker Street Journal. I immediately touch withTurn the all itsauthors, leaden edgeand toin gold.January involve the newly arrived in the world hasactuallyhttp://www.savageclub.com/ been thereprinted same personover a dozennow at times the the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh ladyseems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest Istarted became by aware sending of translatorhectographed Elisabeth (!) started a subscription. 1964 nine Holmes sympathizers met of the master detective. When they byage various of 43). publishers, In the ’60s by Ted Aschehoug had already Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- Brochmannletters with“1892 inquiresin with2004 a forwhengift Holmes of I £1,000acquired books by the late Wallace and Peter Ustinov. It is cur- in StockholmThe grey to below, found the a newgold above;soci- were younger they had been mentees andbegan Norild to collect as well bibliographical as Gyldendal, dataand University of Minnesota Library To me the most famous Norwegian The 1911For edition so the greyest was one life inmay a seriesshine ing of the Orphan’s Fund when he I’ve also read it as an audio book. It Copyright © ©2014 20112012 lotto every93 ofLord secondhandThe GleneskConan Doyle bookshopand £500 Collec byI could- the late SirIn 1964rently I finally located realized at 1 Whitehall that my Place, ety – The Solitary Cyclists of Sweden. themselves, mentored by an older about Swedish Sherlock Holmes Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. translator of the Canon is Nils Nor- of booksAll published golden in thein thatlight format,of love. half As EB’swrote HOUN this? was more or less my was included in the first ever collected tionfind auction in Johnlocal atWillox…Workingtelephone Christie’s. and Included address pressmen di- bundleLondon of notes and would their be website sufficient indicates it Sweden has always been among the generation of Sherlockians. It would be editions, and in 1964 he published The University of Minnesota is an Equal dberg, BSI (“A Norwegian Named octavo, with green covers and dust- favourite boyhood reading I tend to be inrectories the lotthroughout fromwere allseven over the letters Sweden. country and commencedIt two went to present“remains a reliable one ofSwedish the leading Holmes Bohemian top cycling nations in Europe, hence an interesting project to make a family Sherlockhis first Holmesbibliography edition on in the Norwegian, subject. Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It (andPress indeedAlbum added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time postcardsrather well. by ACD to Madame Broch- bibliographyGentleman’s — ranging Clubs fromin London.” 1891 to the name. And as a tribute to Miss tree of these degrees of mentors, and whichIt was I a edited groundbreaking and part-translated work. In contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden mann discussing rights to stories and 1916. Eighty-three items with early Violetthe Smith, Institute the braveof Journalists and handsome Orphan trace the Sherlockian mentor kinship (wantedthe late to’80s do he all began but didn’t collecting have and the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than pamphlets.I then addressed ACD somewas eager old publishingto have SwedishIn Holmes1882, the translations Prince of Wales,were later solitaryFund. cyclist whom we meet in the back to just a few persons in the ’30s time),researching published for twenty in 10 volumes more years by Denand reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- Thehouses War and in South got the Africa: depressing Its Cause answer and there identified, including their differ- Canon, I constructed a crossword and ’40s. Norskewas prepared Bokklubben to put (“The together Norwegian an even me. That was so great of him – and I’m contributed to the Fund, from its publishedEdward in Sherlock VII, became an honorary breaking out of the fog on lations. It’s a long time since I’ve re-read Conductthat their translated archive copies into all of languages Holmes ent editions, printings and bindings. puzzleChristy which Allen, was presented who contributes to each fre- Bookmore Club”) comprehensive in 1980. Thebibliography, tenth volume not Aschehougstill so thankful. in EB’s We time had was so Doyle’smuch fun beginning seventeen years ago, has Holmes:member The Detective of the &Club. He enjoyed the the dust jacket. The series it but it is my impression Continuedthat EB was from Page 4 andbooks wrote andbeginning aold preface catalogues seventeen for the were Norwegian years either ago, has memberquently during to thethat ConanDoyle society meeting (ACD) in list TheyMusings... are not the business kind of wasjust a about collection the early of pastiches Swedish and editions, essays. mainand INorwegian think I received publisher, forty butor fifty unfor let-- The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic edition.stolen or beenBrochmann destroyed devoted by must to fire the have keepor other had and- a educa- The period of 1891 – 1916 was signifi- 1964.on Three the Internet,issues of ismy interested new maga in -Conan mentors. Primarily they become Inbut the about 1990s everything all ten volumes that had were been re - tunatelyters a year they from didn’t him follow until theit up—there bibliog- John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi- & Co.s Kronebibliotek (“1 qualitiesnever of the the same original. for Francine; I’m still haunted she stuffed rat now adorn the Collections. readers and other interested parties, closewise dumpedrelationshiption of in the inaccessible withorphans…Avoiding ACD andarchive his any cant. Early on Swedish publishers dis- zine The Baker Street Cab Lantern had good friends with the new Sherlock- printedwritten wholesale about Holmes by a short-livedin Sweden. pub- wereraphy no was translations published of a VALLfew years or The later. In that essay he explained Doyle’sKrone poetry. Library”, She wrote: mean- by themissed descriptions sharing theirof the interests moor as and I read most Our thanks go to Peter Blau, not only and this issue features two of those: family,bunkers butexpenditure far there away is in nothing onthe bricks countryside. about and hermortar, It thecoveredtion the to Sherlock the facilities. Holmes On novels,December 3, by then been published. ians, whatever the age difference, and lisher called LibriArte. I’ve done minor Case-book,And we continued and only to four have of fun the in stories other about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. inturned any ofoutprinciple the that Conan the laid publishing Doyle down biographies. was employ that of -saving and when1886, two Catling rival publisherswrote to the within Grand I’ve tried to do some research about thereof all,is hardly she missed any mentoring his companionship. ‑ they revisionsNotfor justwriting toeditions the about text of his overConan friends the Doyle’s years, Wayne butsto- indiscussionsGeorgina His Last Doyle, Bow and were projects,author published of e.g. Out when of in the translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACDees knew visited less Norway than I did. in June 1892 with one monthSecretary in 1891 of United presented Grand their Lodge, the poem proper and how/why it are Andusually when the she ones passed who away,make their you aries majorand – Francineincluding one for butanother periodicals also Bokklubbenfor helping – but also with Norway,IShadows: carried in onThe a hisbook Untold vast called researchStory Spioncen of Arthur about- the child to its home and its home to changing Norwegian lan- less than $10 in today’s As for my own translation it was his sister Connie and Jerome K. Jerome own translationsenclosing an of “imposingThe Sign of group Four, of peti- was written, but have come up feelfriends welcome had in the the same world reaction of Sher as- people completepastichesthe packing edition, and andparodies, in mailing two andvolumes, of newspaperthe many, in tralen,Gillette’sConan 1919. Doyle’s play I’ve onFirst beenthe Family Swedish very, read fortunate, stage. Dick the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in amongWith the others. ambitious intention of seeing these editionstioners,” actually proposing became that athe new very lodge empty. lockhad Holmes. when GeorgeWhat the Burns mentors died; oncehis pass- 2002.andmany magazine The boxes. most articles. recent reprintIt was ais huge in a bothAfterSveum’s in the Gyldendal articlebibliography from that December wasthey publishedwanted 2008 to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz and examining all the nineteenth cen- first foreign translations of any Holmes receiveding meant in generosity that he was from together the older with 2011project. Bokklubben And he involved volume me.Sherlock givehewith also Holmes a carefulasked his meeye due toand beplace has his in correctedsuccessor a prestige a Thomas Catling edited The Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my Atury Google Holmes search editions revealed that aI 1902still lacked, letter story ever published as a book. Two generation they now pass on. I have Holmes Mysterier i utvalg (“Selected seriesas unofficial of modern Swedish and classical Sherlock mystery Holmes Album. Born September 23, 1838, he euphony-before-precision25% of the membership is the who were RecordsWhat of Dr I Watson”),did learn waspublished that it was knowledgeGracie again. of Holmes, so I was consid- John Bergquist has provided us with a date. Soren Eversoll, an honored visitor writtenI eventually by Samuel found L.myself Clemens compelled (Mark to years later Denmark and Norway fol- myself slowly taken the step and tried Mysteries”),Or rather, that containing is how ISTUD, like to HOUNthink storiesbibliographer. and bringing him back into translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, of The 1918. Apartalmost from certainly a missing written ABBE when this Jean ered quite the local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues Twain)descend toworked into Brochmann the for cellar Lloyd’s noting of TheWeekly that National Newsshe , as a lowed. In 1916 Sweden was still in the to help newcomers. I think I’m ready andthat The it was. Adventures—all When I consult translated our cor - print, and in Den norske Bokklubben the BaskervillesSavage Club. Several Lodge problems was consecrated exist atis a reprintwas ofpregnant the same with title Denis published (who was expert.Francine In 1969 Morris Gyldendal, Swift, ever Norway’s the librari- and its interesting authors and editors, his interest in Sherlock Holmes, hadRoyal translated Swedishcompositor, intoLibrary Norwegianwriter, where news I hisused editor from lead regarding the number of foreign to be a Sherlockian mentor and pass byrespondence yours truly. from If you’re that interested,time, I notice I’ll forIn alldeciding this he to trusted do the me first and ever my com- here. For instance no single word in in 1905, containing the last seven largestan, publishingplanned to house,donate hadher Sherlockianstarted a published 50 years ago. I’d like to according to a note sent by his mother. Sherlockiancontemporary,1866 pastiche through hardly Alegible1884, Doubled-Bar then handwrit editor- - fromtranslations.Freemasons’ Hall and Sir Henry Irving born in March of 1909, just one on what was given me in the form of bethat happy the situationto send you was a slightly copy for different. your pleteenthusiasm. edition andThat giving was the me best a free thing rein Norwegian suggests a large, possibly stories from The Return of SH. Broch- paperback mystery series called “The reled Detective1884 through Story. The 1907. Lilly The Library Scoop was invested as Treasurer. There is no month before The Press Book was generosity,collection knowledge to The Sherlock and kindliness. Holmes collection.Itthank was rather Christy And like, toAllen complete“if Ifor can providing help the story:you I tohe present could do.Sherlock He laid Holmes the foundations as I think ferocious and deadly, canine; hund mann’s HOUN was re-published by the Black Series” (inspired by the French Manuscript Collection has 15 letters to longer a formal connection between published). ThatCollections. is my way Sadly, of saying her deaththank inyou. alsowithinformation adapted anything, and about please translated Conan let me Doyle’sa Swedishknow,” poet- heofSo shoulda it’s future business be. Mattias as usual the Sherlockian. at The Database, subscription biographical means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. “La Série Noire”) and asked me to do her (1900-1917) from English authors the Lodge and the Club. AndOctober more exactly, 2007 meant saying her thank collection, you to radiowrotery as dramatisation thefeatured young in Mattias our of the100 in book Years one and earlyAgo HeSherlock let me Holmes get so deeply Collections, involved for that dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. including F. Anstey (one of the 24 According to Doyle’s own correspon- Tedwhich Bergman. she amassed with her beloved producedletter,column. and it Dick somewhatas a Sveumsix-part later updates serial it was in us 1977.more on the Soafterwhich the our 1911 we bibliographical are second all thankful. edition collaboration was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950, ally translated into my language the I can certainly tell you that Broch- There had then been no Holmes books authors along with ACD of The Fate of After his retirement from Lloyd’s Wayne, was ready to move to I like,sometimesstatus “send of the methink drive copies that for ofmy the all main E.W.your motive bib- gotthere Nils was Nordberg not a chance hooked I would on Sherlock ever indicates he extended the circulation title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s dencetranslation (from of A HOUN Life in Letters and that), this in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. Jerome. , Catling undertook the Ted has for more than twenty-five forliographical becoming workinga radio drama material,” producer and “I Holmes.quit my InSherlockian his translation activities. he kept When of the paper beyond London and waswhich Wis eeklynot only News clumsy, Catling but–even undertook the very 1911was edition a worrisome has played time. aJean decisive was do twoMinnesota. selections, Boxes containing of books, seven pho- sto- McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI I was able to examine the letters while years been a dear friend of mine. He wasenclose the wish five topages do thisof comments story on radio, and Elizabethyour interest Brochmann’s turns into title, friendship and he it’swas worse—suggestsediting task a forstory The about Press aAlbum pet: . The part in mypregnant life. It with was herthe first child Holmes at age ries tographs,each. We ephemerathen decided and thateven I awould giant It’s gratifying to receive notes from attendingreputed the Gillette to be theto Brett first IIIto usecon the- auto- was one of the Sherlockians who thesuggestions.” medium it Iis compared perfectly suitedTed’s data for. avery good hard friend to quit.of John And Bennett for me Shaw.there hasAs The Dog of the Baskervilles Family. story I ever34 and read, Doyle and wasit hooked worried me about her translate HOUN. I used EB’s version ference at Indiana University. received my letters when I was six- And,with ahmy yes, own 2009 collection saw the of first books ever and abeen Norwegian-American no better way to be and a SherlockianSherlock- Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) Continued on page 7 teen. He replied. Long letters. Full of “nynorsk”my own lists translation of newspaper of HOUN, articles. by I ian,than I appreciateby doing things all the together. connections. Then asSherlockian reference, butfacts, avoided wisdom copying and wit. it. Ragnarso much Hovland wanted but to help.relying And I suspect Ted let a you get pure Sherlockian magic. Continued on page 7 SIGN was also included in the series, good deal on mine. Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 June 2014 Volume 18 Number 2

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bottle of Courvoisier plus one fifth of the history of the scion mentioned earlier, The physical book is an interesting F New Jersey cognac, with the note: ‘Tell Thomas Hart reports that a publication artifact in itself, featuring quarter bind- the bartender to serve the Courvoisier fund was established as early as 1952 ing with textured morocco-colored first. Then by the time the Sons get to (with the princely sum of $4.00.) Hart, as endpapers of the same stock as the the New Jersey cognac, they may not treasurer of the Publication Committee, covers. spot the difference’” (250). Today, goes on to apologize to the membership Lellenberg says of Starr, “I’m convinced for “his many exhortations for funds, and Leaves from The Copper Beeches was fol- Sherlock Holmes that Julian Wolff [who took over leader- many stern admonitions against failure, lowed up by a second volume, More ship of the Baker Street Irregulars under made at meetings” over the years. Leaves from The Copper Beeches, in COLLECTIONS the title “Commissionaire” after Smith’s 1976. The Sons are still flourishing as untimely death in 1960] would have an active scion society; perhaps some- “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) retired as Commissionaire sooner than he day we will be able to look forward to did if Bill Starr had not died at a some- a third volume. what early age in 1976 and had been Contents around in the early ’80s to take over.” John Bergquist, BSI Francine and Wayne Swift By Peter E. Blau, ASH, BSI Leaves from The Copper Beeches was par- Francine and Wayne Swift tially financed by contributions from Illustration by H.W. Starr, captioned “The appeal t has been said that marriages between two Sherlockians are the most permanent. members of the Sons, who are listed in for the Publication Fund,” printed in Jon 1 Many Sherlockians have found it easy enough to persuade a spouse to enjoy the Lellenberg’s Irregular Crises of the Late ’Forties the acknowledgments. In his memoir of Sherlockian world, but when two people who already are Sherlockians marry they (New York, 1999) 100 Years Ago I will sooner or later merge their collections, as well as their lives. And there is no custody battle, whether over the car, the house, the pets, or the children, that can possi- 2 bly match the difficulty of dividing a collection that has no duplicates.

The Honourable Phillip Green So for two Sherlockians it’s a matter only of the better, and never the worse. That cer- 50 Years Ago tainly was true of Wayne B. Swift and Francine Morris, who were Sherlockians when 3 they met for the first time. Francine started her Sherlockian life in Texas, where she was Remembrances a librarian; she founded The Sub-Librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars in the From the President American Library Association, and In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made 4 was one of the founders of The contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. Practical, But Limited, Geologists at an informal luncheon in the Zodiac In Honor Of From Musings Room at Nieman Marcus in Dallas. Peter Blau Arthur E.F. Wiese Jr. 4 When she moved to Washington she Fred Levin Cliff Goldfarb quickly became a member of The Red Circle, and was one of the ring- In Memory Of From An Update from leaders in planning the society’s full- Paul Churchill John Baesch and Evelyn Herzog For any inquiries contact: the Collections fledged costume party at the Paul Churchill Thomas Drucker Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 5 National Press Club. Paul Churchill Warren Randall 612-624-3552 or Wayne was from Nebraska, an elec- Joseph Gillies Michael Kean [email protected] of The Sherlock Photo courtesy Holmes Collections Allen Mackler Patricia Nelson Recent Acquisitions Wayne and Francine Swift trical engineer and a teacher, and an Allen Mackler Once Upon A Crime Mystery Bookstore Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 early convert to the world of com- Allen Mackler Philip Swiggum Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library puters. When he moved to Washington he decided to take an adult-education course in Beatrice McCaffrie John Lockwood University of Minnesota Sherlock Holmes at a local community college and soon attended his first Sherlockian E.W. McDiarmid Michael Brahmey 222 21st Ave. S. To the Editor function, a running of The Silver Blaze (Southern Division) at Pimlico Race Track in E.W. McDiarmid Jim DeLeo Minneapolis, MN 55455 6 Maryland, where he and Francine quickly discovered they shared more than an interest E.W. McDiarmid Jeffrey Klaus Telephone: 612-626-9166 in Sherlock Holmes. They courted , and wed, and had many happy years together, shar- By Jon Lellenberg, BSI E. W. McDiarmid Peter Klaus FAX: 612-625-5525 ing a multitude of interests, Sherlockian and otherwise. Robert Pattrick Vincent Brosnan A Beacon of the Future Mailing list corrections requested— Wayne became a member of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1978 (as “The Giant Rat of Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 6 Jan Stauber Francine and Richard Kitts we would appreciate being informed of changes Sumatra”). Francine became a member of The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes in Tom Stix Karen Anderson of address or other corrections. 1977 (as “Hatty Doran”) and was honored by the BSI as The Woman in 1983, and Dr. Richard Sturtz William Sturtz Remembrances awarded her Irregular Shilling and Investiture in 1994 (as “The Wigmore Street Post Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8 Continued on page 6

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uring the 1980s, I had the in Stockholm while my travels took me the late Chris Steinbrunner’s Baker opportunity to visit Scan- there, through 1989. Street Cinematograph, at a hole-in- dinavia many times, and I the-wall screening room in the West made one early trip in 1980 But in January 1981, along with Swe- 30s, where most of us saw for the first D an exploration of Scandi- den’s Äke Runnquist and Norway’s Nils time the 1957 CBS Odyssey program navian Sherlockiana, which is one of Nordberg, Ted came to America for about the BSI, with a mock-BSI dinner Sherlock Holmes the best versions of it in the world. the first time. It was his first chance to of those halycon days presided over Ted Bergman was one of the principal meet many of his other American cor- by Edgar W. Smith himself. Julian’s COLLECTIONS reasons behind that. We had already respondents, especially the loquacious cocktail party at the Grolier Club corresponded for some time, for he John Bennett Shaw. I had let Ted and followed in the afternoon. And on Sun- “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) and Denmark’s Henry Lauritzen were the other Irregular Vikings know that day morning, we and others boarded a the twin pillars of Baker Street Irregu- this was a busier several days than they bus for a trip out to Hadlyme, Con- larity in Scandinavia at the time — Ted might realize or be used to, but even necticut, on a winter’s day looking invested in 1978 by Julian Wolff as so it was a non-stop adventure. Ted ar- like a Currier-and-Ives picture, to visit Contents "Would You Be Interested In Receiving “The Honourable Philip Green.” A rived in New York from Stockholm on Gillette Castle, organized by Tyke & banking executive, Ted had been one the Thursday, and on Friday he took Teddie Niver, and open that day for "Would You Be Interested of twenty founding members of The in Bill Rabe’s Martha Hudson Breakfast our party alone. It was sublime. Some Of These Efforts Of Mine?" Solitary Cyclists of Sweden in 1964, at the Algonquin Hotel, Lisa McGaw’s In Receiving Some Of perhaps its last surviving founder to- William Gillette Memorial Luncheon Ted stayed on in New York another These Efforts Of Mine?" John Bennett Shaw writes to Nicholas Utechin day, fifty years later. Visiting his home at the Old Homestead, the Mysterious five days, exploring the metropolis’s 1 on Stockholm’s island of Lidingö, on Bookshop open house, and that night’s more secular sights, but I imagine he By Nicholas Utechin, BSI Midsummer Eve in June 1980, I was BSI annual dinner at the Regency remembers the BSI weekend best of About the Author startled and delighted to see a Speck- Hotel, itself a whirlwind of new faces, that cold but glorious week. 1981’s led Band descending ominously from sights, and sounds. He may have felt BSI weekend was one of the best ever, 2 1975 was a rather important year for me in a hole in the ceiling directly over the more or less exhausted by then but I believe, and Ted’s presence in New Sherlockian terms. I joined the Council of The chair at Ted’s desk, in a study full of was still game for the after-party that York helped make the ’81 BSI weekend 50 Years Ago Sherlock Holmes Society of London, having Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse. the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes one of the best ever for me. It helped been a member since 1966 – aged 14. Julian It was a lovely evening with Ted and in those days held “under the clock” at me see it afresh through his eyes, and I 3 Wolff ennobled (sorry: invested!) me as “The his family, the first of many more times the Biltmore Hotel. Saturday included look back at our association fondly. Ancient British Barrow” in the Baker Street Ir- From the President regulars, off the back (and rather generously) 4 of three articles published in The Baker Street Journal.

Musings And the great collector John Bennett Shaw 4 wrote to me; yes, he contacted me first. Meeting a Ron De Waal – with whom I had been in cor- respondence for some time – was the catalyst: Renaissance Man the previous year he had visited me in Oxford

Photo courtesy of Nick Utechin and apparently reported to JBS that I was, in 4 Nick Utechin his words, ‘a Real Holmes Collector’ and that he Remembrances For any inquiries contact: should get in touch. An honour or what? And Timothy J. Johnson, Curator An Update from the thus began an intermittent correspondence that In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made ended in 1993 and which (his letters to me, of course) I am glad now finds a permanent contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. 612-624-3552 or Collections [email protected] home in Minneapolis. In Memory Of From 5 I had heard of John, of course – what Holmesian hadn’t? – but here he was treating me Charles Adams, BSI John Bergquist, BSI Sherlock Holmes Collections from the outset as an equal (‘Dear Utechin’) and straightway offering to send me dupli- Vinnie Brosnan Randall Stock Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library Acquisitions Walter Pond Nancy H. Pond University of Minnesota cates of some of his pamphlets — if I could send him a copy of the list of my own col- Dr. Alvin Rodin Virgie and Jack Key 222 21st Ave. S. 5 lection. He ended that first missive by stating, in self-deprecating style: ‘I sort of serve as Minneapolis, MN 55455 nerve center for exchanging material with Blau and Schulz and De Waal in USA and with My Mentor collectors in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Japan and, of course, your Telephone: 612-626-9166 country. And it is marvellous fun, isn’t it?’ FAX: 612-625-5525 7 The Honourable Mailing list corrections requested— Continued on page 6 Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, Phillip Green we would appreciate being informed of changes of address or other corrections. 8 Remembrances Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8

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