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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 2 custody battle, whether over the car, the house, the pets, or the children, that can possi- Continued from Page 2 bly match the difficulty of dividing a collection that has no duplicates. 50 Years Ago So for two Sherlockians it’s a matter only of the better, and never the worse. That cer- 100 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- 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 1940s. He briefly appeared on “Infor- And how did he know “Old Freddy by way of the canonized classic.” Sally 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 mation Please” during a short run on Steele”? Their years of membership at Ashley wrote “The obscurity of his once television, but his declining health was the Players Club overlap and was prob- famous name demonstrated the fleeting noticeable. After his divorce from his ably their point of intersection. Steele nature of reputation, the inexorability of second wife he moved into the Players and Adams sometimes contributed to time and loss. Yet much of the work by Club, where he had been a member for the same magazines as well. people F.P.A. discovered and nurtured years, and subsisted on a stipend from remains.” his friend Harold Ross and The New During his newspaper career, as noted Sherlock Holmes Yorker. He spent the last five years of his on the anniversary of his 1960 death on Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI COLLECTIONS life in a nursing home until his death on the site “Today in Literature,” FPA – as March 23, 1960. Adams was known – was the “quintes- References: The Poemhunter.com – The World’s Poetry Archive “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) sential gentleman-journalist, ready to http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/ He was a prolific writer whoseIn Other deflate the latest fad or most earnest is- franklin_p_adams_2012_3.pdf Words had several Christmas poems. sue with a quip or a couplet” and as was Ashley, Sally. F.P.A., The Life and Times of Aptly named were “Christmas Cards, noted in his “own poems were parodies, Franklin Pierce Adams, 1986, New York, Contents Being the Songs of an Old Scrooge.” often aimed at reducing the fleeting fad Beaufort Books. Merry Christmas from the Sherlock Holmes Collections Merry Christmas from n her 2000 book Merry Christmas, Karal Ann Marling wrote that the first Christmas the Sherlock Holmes card was produced in 1843, the same year that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Collections was published. The idea of sending Christmas greetings as a printed card instead of a handwritten letter was suggested by Sir Henry Cole, the founder and first 1 I director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Artist John Calcott Horsley drew Remembrances the lithograph, which was hand-colored, and sold approximately 1000 copies, despite In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have 100 Years Ago criticism of the drawing, which included a child drinking wine. made contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. 2 According to the Greeting Card Association (http://www.greetingcard.org/AbouttheIndus- try/tabid/58/Default.aspx) sales figures have increased from that initial 1000. They report In Honor Of From 50 Years Ago that “More than 2 billion boxed and individual Christmas cards were sold in the U.S. last Phil Bergem Steve Stilwell year” and that there are “more than 3,000 greeting card publishers in the United States.” Lynne Day Jeffory Hart 3 This is just within the United States. Vinnie and Flavia Brosnan William Vande Water Julie McKuras Joseph Eckrich From the President The cards held in the Sherlock Holmes Collections are but a miniscule percentage of that Katy Morgan Stella J. Herzig total, but an interesting representation. As Mr. Holmes stated in “The Adventure of the Dr. Victoria Risko Billy Fields 4 Noble Bachelor,” the cards have “the charm of variety.” Some are mass produced, some Sherlockian Friends Sandy Kozinn produced in a small run and others, hand drawn. They are held from a number of donors Richard Sveum Robert Katz Acquisitions including Howard Haycraft, John Bennett Shaw and Frederic Dorr Steele. We’ve decided Bishop Turner High School Faculty Thomas S. Galbo to feature a small sampling of these cards. Gerald Wachs Andrew Solberg 4 Donald Yates Michael Kean The 20 Most Impressive In Memory Of From University Special For any inquiries contact: Collections Wallace Armstrong Garry and Mary Ann Peterson Timothy J. Johnson, Curator June K. Berg Stanton O. Berg Dr. Howard Burchell Dr. Raymond W. Scallen 612-624-3552 or 4 Stephen Crocker BSI Andrew Fusco [email protected] Nancy Czarmecki Lawrence Czarnecki Musings Jim Duval Ralph Hall Sherlock Holmes Collections Dr. Alan J. Eidelberg Arlene Kase Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library 5 Charles E. Henry Ray Betzner University of Minnesota Anna Hruska Judith A. Payne 222 21st Ave. S. An Update from the Fred Levin John Bergquist Minneapolis, MN 55455 Collections Fred Levin Clifford Goldfarb Telephone: 612-626-9166 Allen Mackler Robert and Lucy Brusic FAX: 612-625-5525 5 Allen Mackler C. Paul and Carole Martin 100 Years Ago Joseph and Eleonore Margolin Jerry Margolin Mailing list corrections requested— Harvey Officer, late of St. Paul Warren Randall Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 7 Scan Courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Dr. Alvin E. Rodin Jack Key we would appreciate being informed of changes 1935 Christmas Card from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to the Haycrafts Mary Ann Smerk George Smerk of address or other corrections. Mary Sveum Gary and Andrea Thaden Remembrances Continued on page 6 P. Christian Steinbrunner Russell Merritt Masayuki Tsuda Showsaku Mashimo Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8
8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 100 Years Ago Continued from Page 2 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 By Dana Richards, BSI mobile for “journalistic purposes.” table of contents for this 224 page health during and after the pregnan- The Orphanage Catling was active in the Institute of illustrated book includes works by cy. This certainly would explain the The 1857in an reform earlier led translation to so much which grief I Journalists and traveled extensively Alfred Noyes, Arthur Morrison, nsomewhat 1912 Arthur sombre Conan tone Doyle of the poem. that When,therevised very ere institution the quite tangled heavily. ofweb marriage is reft, through America, Canada, the Middle Rosamund Marriott-Watson, Eden wroteThe use a lengthyof the word introduction “lady” in tothe last was Thein danger. kid-gloved Several villain efforts scowls at and reform sneers, The main difference between East and Europe, including France Phillpotts, John Galsworthy, F. Anstey Divorcestanza seems and Morality to strongly, by Christina sprungAnd up. hapless In 1903 innocence John isFrancis left Stan- 100 during World War I. He served as a Sinclair Bremner (Palmer, 1912). ley (BertrandWithmy no own assets Russell’s and save EB’s sighsolder translation and brother) tears, 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 YEARS AGO suggest that it was written to/for I Most are not aware of his involve- organized’Tis’Tisthink then,then, the juststemsjust Society then,then, from forthatthat the Promoting inin facttherethere that stalksstalks delegate to the Conference of the few of the contributors. Page 20 fea- YEARS AGO ment Ladyin the Jean. Divorce Reform move- they belong to different ages. As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections International Association of Journalists tures the poem “By the North Sea” by ReformThe inhero, the watchful Marriage of herand needs, Divorce is a quarterly newsletter published by the The March 2008 issue of this newslet- ment. Even Sherlockians are surprised LawsHe of youtalks! England. may Great know, Soonheavens, Danish thereafter 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 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Among theterthe featureditemsforeign held translationsan inarticle the Sherlock about of The The Flag, Caption: The 1902 first edition has the that heAlso, was the involved fact that for they 12 years;were expect- ThomasButcenturies we Hardy forgive and the him, othersofficial for his formed deeds.written lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the HolmesHound of publishedCollections the Baskervilles in is 1908, small from whichvolume John benefitted Paget illustration while the second does not. perhapsing because their first only child five may of havehis many anotherguage group of called Norway, the andDivorce although Law ests and needs of the Special Collections and Rare Books Department, University of titledBennett In OtherShaw’s Words collections, written theby Frankone - Society of Journalists during 1915. He last stanza as written by Conan Doyle. biographersinfluenced devote Doyle’s even decision one page to to con- it. ReformLifeNorwegian Association.is the drama in here In1911 1906to-day had they begun the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called Minnesota Libraries. linthat P. wasAdams. published Published 100 in years 1912 ago by has passed away on December 25, 1920. tribute to The Press Book in the mergedAndsplitting andDeath were the away, villaincalled the of the influencethe Divorce plot. entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wet Baskervilles. with North ThisSea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: Doubleday,special significance. Page & Company, According the to book De Her cheek was wet with North Sea spray, Why didfirst he place. get involved?Being a father ACD’s himself, at- I’m Law ItReform isfrom a realistic DanishUnion. play; wasHardy still was strong. keen 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 isWaal inscribed it was “Toa 2nd Old edition, Freddy with Steele the from titudesure towards he could Divorce easily Reform empathize was with to includeShall it theend well-knownwell or shall it and not well- Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it fromsounds far away sure he could easily empathize with Editor hisfirst affectionately published in F.P.A. 1902. November NotedHound 1912” The long waves rolled from far away simply expressed by him in several connected,NorwegianThe hero? so Oh, that on the theactions hero’s printed partwould page fol 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 andcollector is from Dr. the Donald personal Pollack collection has both of speeches: “The foundation of national low Iswords. vacant—to He had be playedbecome by ayou. friend of 13512 Granada Ave. Scan courtesy of Hazelbaker & Lellenberg, Inc. Scan courtesy of Hazelbaker & Lellenberg, benefit from the sale of the volume. The following year, in 1909, The Presscovers.bers come from the worlds of art, hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me itlife 1952 is not or the’53. family. I think It it is was the givenhappy presentThen as act Shakespeare it well! An isorphan’s from presheart- Apple Valley, MN 55124 thein his noted collection. Sherlockian illustrator Fred- John Kieran, Wendell Wilkie, Christopher Morley and Franklin P. Adams ACD and approached him. eric DorrAlbum Steele.was published to aid the drama, law, literature, music or sci- than a family.That three But, old for friends the three had metexcel that- day: tofamily. me by And friends that, ofwith my our parents obsolete who ent dayMay English. beat the lighterAt the if same you do. time I 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. Journalists’— A1456. OrphanHunden fraFund, Basker and- as he ence. Former members have included The old old sky, the old old sea, divorceFinally, law, is Doyle what wrotewe haven’t a poem got.” about goThe for goals a “conservative” of the society style, resonated hoping with 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- Franklinville: En hadny Leopold fortælling done Adamsthe om previous Sherlockwas born year, in Conan con in 1910.notables It is such a one as stanzaCharlie poem, Chaplin, as one’s work published in the ‘Conning His involvement in the movement does ACD’sChristy sense Allen of justice, and Julie and McKuras by 1909, 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 Chicago,Holmes. DoyleAutoriseret Illinois stepped on Novemberoversættelse forward 15,with ved 1881 a contri- WikipediaMark notes, Twain, that Wilkie is “also Collins, known James Tower’ was enough to launch a career, as not appearSongs toof thehave Road been, just precipitated a few pages he was the President of the Union. John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Elisabeth Brochmann. Also online is update Outhe surprised seaward hung me theby writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. (heElisabeth would Brochmann. change his middle Kristiania: name as ‘Tinker to Evers to Chance’ after its in the case of Dorothy Parker and James by anythingafter “By other the Norththan his Sea.” chivalrous It was ThoseReferences: goals included adding desertion, 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 toForlagt Pierce af in H. 1894). Aschehoug A good & student, Co. (W. refrain…[written] from the point of Thurber.We Parker saw it quipped, rolling, fold ‘He on raised fold, me naturecalled and sense“The Orphanage”of fair play. and is repro- lunacy,http://www.scoop- and long prison terms to 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 heNygaard), learned 1902.much at263 the p. 1893 World’s view of a New York Giants fan seeing from a couplet.’” She also dedicated her duced below. listhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club of grounds for divorce, securing 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 gold.interest language then, so I had to wait until I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club Columbian—————. Exposition 2nd ed. 1911.in Chicago, 246 p. at- the talented Chicago Cubs infield of 1936 NotTu Sorn allDeep its asleaden a Well edge to toAdams. gold. It is difficult today to grasp the state hasequalhttp://www.savageclub.com/ been treatment reprinted of womenover a dozen under 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 lady seems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest tendedI became the aware rigorous of translator Armour Scientific Elisabeth shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Ring Lardner and Eugene O’Neill also of marriage and divorce in Victorian bylaw, various and allowing publishers, local by jurisdictions Aschehoug to Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- Academy,Brochmann“1892 frequented in with2004 a whenChicago’sgift of I £1,000 acquired theatres by the lateJohnnyW Eversallace and and first Peter baseman Ustinov. FrankIt is cur- wrote forThe the grey column. below, Hethe wasgold divorcedabove; England. Even though an 1857 law andbe involved Norild as to well reduce as Gyldendal, the cost. and 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 © 20122011 andlot 93 vaudeville ofLord The GleneskConan houses, Doyle and and £500 readCollec bythe- the late SirChancer entlycomplete located a double at 1 Whitehall play.” He Place, in 1924, and he quickly married his took power from the church, the 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 newspapertion auctionJohn with atWillox…Working Christie’s. his family, Included particularly pressmen turned Londonhis talents and to their writing website a musical indicates it second wife. He settled into a happy life, church’s views colored everything. One of his first actions as President 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 thein the works lotthroughout wereof Finley seven Peterthe letters country Dunne and commenced (notedtwo play, co-authoring“remains one the of unsuccessful the leading Bohemian “Lo” became a father for the first time at 45, Divorce, which required Parliamentary Sherlockwas to write Holmes a pamphlet, edition inas Norwegian,he often Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It Press(and Albumindeed added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time humoristpostcards and by ACDthe subject to Madame of our Broch 100 - with O.Gentleman’s Henry in 1909. Clubs in London.” and lived close to his friends Sinclair involvement, was available only to the whichdid when I edited he supported and part-translated a cause. His contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden Yearsmann Ago discussing column rights in the toSeptember stories and Lewisthe and Institute Dorothy of Thompson. Journalists Orphan rich and was rare (only 494 in all of (wantedDivorce Law to do Reform all but (1909) didn’t washave the the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than 2003pamphlets. issue of ACD this wasnewsletter) eager to and have his In 1914In he 1882, moved the to Prince the New of Wales, York later Fund. England in 1900). Instead, the laws time),third occasional published pamphletin 10 volumes published by Den reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- character,The War in the South Chicago Africa: Irish Its Causebartender and Tribune where he retitled his column Adams moved to the New York Post allowed for “judicial separation” which Norskeby the Union. Bokklubben There (“Thedoes notNorwegian appear 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 Mr.Conduct Dooley. translated Upon his into graduation all languages in “The Conning Tower.” World War I whereChristy he worked Allen, from who 1937 contributes until 1941. fre- did not permit remarriage. So a poor Bookto be Club”)a copy in 1980.any library! The tenth volume Aschehoug in EB’s time was Doyle’s 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 1899,and wrote he entered a preface the forUniversity the Norwegian of interrupted his career; he served in As hisquently writing to career the ConanDoyle waned, his friend (ACD) list wifeMusings... with an abusive husband had was a collection of pastiches and essays. main Norwegian publisher, but unfor- The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic Michiganedition. beenBrochmann but devotedleft after must toonly the have one keep yearhad and a educa- the U.S. Army and wrote for Stars and Dorothyon theThompson Internet, helped is interested him find in Conana three choices: stay in the relationship, InGreen the 1990sand Gibson, all ten involumes their landmark were re- tunately they didn’t follow it up—there 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, whenclose relationshiphistion family’s of the financial withorphans…Avoiding ACD situation and his any Stripes, with “Harold Ross, Alexander spot on a new radio show. On May 17, live apart and unsupported, or unwed printedACD bibliography, wholesale by admit a short-lived to not having pub- were no translations of VALL or The 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: deteriorated.family, butexpenditure there In order is nothing on to brickshelp about with and hishermortar, theWoollcotttion and to theother facilities. literary On lights December of the 3, 1938 “Information Please” debuted with cohabitation (which amongst the poor lisherseen it. called Adrian LibriArte. Conan DoyleI’ve done must minor have Case-book, and only four of the stories about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. family’sin any of finances,principle the Conan laidhe tookDoyle down a biographies. wasposition that ofwith saving 1920s,”1886, but finished Catling wrotethe war to inthe the Grand U.S. book criticI’ve Cliftontried to Fadiman do some (a research protégé about becameof all, the she most missed common his companionship. arrange- revisionshadfor a writing copy to sincethe about text it is hisover shown friends the years,in Wayne the but inGeorgina His Last Doyle, Bow were author published of Out of in the translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly theACD Transatlantic visited Norway Insurance in June Company, 1892 with Army IntelligenceSecretary of Division. United Grand He returned Lodge, of Christopherthe poem Morley proper at andthe Bookhow/why of it ment.)And The when rich she women, passed becauseaway, their the alavish majorand FrancineCentenary one for butanother he also produced forBokklubben helping about with Norway,Shadows: in The a book Untold called Story Spioncen of Arthur- 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 wherehis sister he Conniestayed for and three Jerome years. K. If Jerome he to the Newenclosing York Tribune an “imposing and continued group of peti- the Monthwas Club) written, as thebut moderator have come and up lawsfriends for divorce had the favored same thereaction man as(e.g., people completehisthe father. packing edition, Pierre and Nordon, inmailing two volumes, whoof the worked many, in tralen,Conan 1919.Doyle’s I’ve First been Family very, read fortunate, Dick the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in hadamong remained others. an insurance agent, we with thattioners,” paper proposingwhen it merged that a with new lodge Adams, empty.John Kieran and Oscar Levant she hadcould when not Georgeuse adultery Burns as died; grounds) his pass- 2002.withmany Adrian, The boxes. most quotes recent from reprint it (though is in a bothSveum’s in Gyldendal article from that December they wanted 2008 to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz might never have heard of him, but it the New York Herald in 1931 to become as regular panelists. It soon became one woulding bemeant in a thatsimilar he wasbind. together with 2011half that Bokklubben quote was volume cut in theSherlock English givewith Holmes a careful his eye due and place has incorrected a prestige a Thomas Catling edited The Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my wasA Google in early search 1901 revealed that he tried a 1902 to sellletter the New York Herald Tribune. His biog- of the most popular programs on the Holmestranslation). Mysterier Green i utvalgand Gibson (“Selected assert series of modern and classical mystery 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 insurancewritten by to Samuel newspaper L. Clemens writer George (Mark rapher Sally Ashley wrote that by 1920, air with guest panelists such as Chris- Mysteries”),that the text containingof the pamphlet STUD, was HOUN stories and bringing him back into translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, ofThe 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 Ade,Twain) the toworked famous Brochmann fornewspaper Lloyd’s noting Weekly writer, that News sheau- , as a “F.P.A.’s unique fame soared” and that topher Morley and Rex Stout. Adams andincorporated The Adventures—all into the introduction translated to 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, thorhad translatedof humorouscompositor, into fables Norwegianwriter, and news playwright. his editor from if he “recommended a book, people specialized in questions about poetry byBremner’s yours truly. book If (which you’re interested,is the motiva I’ll- for deciding to do the first ever 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. GreatlySherlockian influenced1866 pastiche through by A1884,him, Doubled-Bar Frankthen editorvowed- from boughtFreemasons’ the book. If Hallhe recommended and Sir Henry Irvingand Gilbertborn & in Sullivan. March of Celebrities, 1909, just one betion happy for this to sendarticle). you a copy for your plete edition and giving me a free rein Norwegian suggests a large, possibly stories from The Return of SH. Broch- paperback mystery series called “The toreled become Detective1884 a writer. through Story. The 1907. Lilly The Library Scoop a show,was you invested went to assee Treasurer. the show.” There He is no authors,month politicians before and The sports Press figures Book was collection to The Sherlock Holmes collection.thank Christy And toAllen complete for providing the story: I to present Sherlock Holmes 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 had becomelonger a a household formal connection word. During between were frequentpublished). guests on the show; Ad- Collections. Sadly, her death in alsoinformation adapted and about translated Conan Doyle’sa Swedish poet- heSo should it’s business be. as usual 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 Inher 1903 (1900-1917) he went to from work English for the authors Chicago the 1920sthe andLodge early and 1930s the Club. he was a ams claimed many of them as friends. October 2007 meant her collection, radiory as dramatisation featured in our of the100 book Years and Ago Sherlock Holmes Collections, for dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. Journalincluding, writing F. Anstey a column (one ofon the weather 24 member of the Algonquin Round Table, In 1940,According he and his to wife Doyle’s Esther own spent correspon- which she amassed with her beloved producedcolumn. it Dick as a Sveumsix-part updates serial in us 1977. on the Sowhich the 1911 we are second all thankful. edition 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 andauthors the humorousalong with “A ACD Little of AboutThe Fate of and manyAfter of his those retirement literary notablesfrom Lloyd’s election night at Hyde Park with the Wayne, was ready to move to I sometimesstatus of the think drive that for my the main E.W. motive got Nils Nordberg hooked on Sherlock indicates he extended the circulation title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s dencetranslation (from of A HOUNLife in Letters and that), this in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Everything.”Fenella, 1892) The and following Jerome year,K. Jerome. he left contributed to his column, Catling “The undertook Con- the Roosevelts. for becoming a radio drama producer Holmes. In his translation he kept 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 ChicagoI was able for to New examine York Citythe letters to marry while a ning Tower, “ including “such writers was the wish to do this story on radio, Elizabeth Brochmann’s title, and he was 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 “generouslyattendingreputed the endowed Gillette to be showgirl”theto Brett first IIIto ( F.P.A. usecon the-, auto-as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Adams began exhibiting early symp- the medium it is perfectly suited for. a good friend of John Bennett Shaw. As 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 Ashley).ference at During Indiana his University. nine-year career as a Parker, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, toms of what would later be diagnosed And, ah yes, 2009 saw the first ever a Norwegian-American and Sherlock- Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) columnist with a byline at the New York Edna Ferber and Deems Taylor. Having as Alzheimer’s disease in theContinued mid to onlate page 7 “nynorsk” translation of HOUN, by ian, I appreciate all the connections. as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a Evening Mail he wrote Baseball’s Sad Lexi- Continued on page 7 Continued on page 8 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 Merry Christmas Continued from Page 1
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Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopedia of Their Affairs by Orlando Park was published by Northwestern University Press in 1962. This was the first Sherlock- ian encyclopedia and according to DeWaal, “An extremely useful guide to the towns, estates, railroad stations, persons, and objects in the Canon. It attributes each reference (Abbas Parva to Zoo) to the proper story. Twenty pages are devoted to Holmes and ten to Watson.” Between 1962 and 1994 it Scan Courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Scan Courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections The 1984 Christmas Card from John and Dorothy Shaw has appeared in six separate forms. The 1940 Christmas card from President and Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia: A Com- Mrs. Roosevelt to the Haycrafts plete Guide to the People, Towns, Streets, Estates, Railway Stations, Objects – In Fact, Everything by Orlando Park, A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group was its final edition.
We now have many other Sherlock- ian encyclopedias as well as annotated editions of the Canon, and in our modern digital age with Wikipedia and Kindle hypertext it seems quaintly old fashioned. The story of this work and its author is interesting. Photo courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopedia of Their Affairs Dr. Orlando Park, BSI (“The Final Problem,” 1967) was born on Octo- Park’s conclusion, “My labor will have this book. We shall appreciate receiv- ber 13, 1901 in Elizabethtown, KY its best results if it stimulates others ing a copy of any notice you may give and died on September 23, 1969 in to read and re-read the adventures of it. Park – Sherlock Holmes & John Evanston, IL. He earned his PhD from Holmes and Watson and enjoy them. H. Watson. Pub. Date – 31 Dec. 1962 the University of Chicago and was a To do otherwise were to miss a mea- Price - $8.00 until 21 December 1962 professor and chairman of Biology at sure of happiness.” $10 thereafter.” This copy has Bill Northwestern University. He retired Rabe’s bookplate. In the back is glued after 35 years. Author of the 1949 text- Manfred Engelmann, in his resolution a copy of Bill Rabe’s article titled “All Frederic Dorr Steele's Christmas Card book Principles of Animal Ecology, Dr. of respect after Park’s death, wrote About Holmes and Dr. Watson” with a Park was an expert in the field, serving “Thus it is with regret that we mark sketch of Holmes by FDS. “This latest Realizing that not everyone celebrates items I have entered contain a cross- and Christmas.” So it appears that the as President of the Ecological Society of the passing from our scene of Orlando publication has been produced after 30 Christmas, I looked for information to reference to Hanukkah… I would field is ripe for both pastiches and cards America. He was an honorary curator Park, prolific author, inspired teacher, years of research by an entomologist see if any Sherlockian cards or pastich- hesitate to say that there are NO for the Holiday of Lights. And we hope of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, jazz pianist, Baker Street Irregular, and who is bugs on Sherlock Holmes.” Also es which celebrate Hanukkah were in Sherlockian tales involving Hanukkah. that when those cards are produced, where he also performed Dixieland world-renowned Entomologist and held is the 1962 edition with a yellow the Holmes Collections. Noted Sher- If you do, sure as hell, three will pop someone will donate copies to the Jazz playing the piano in a group called Ecologist.” dustjacket and John Bennett Shaw’s lockian Peter Blau referred me to Philip up the next day.” Peter Blau added “I Sherlock Holmes Collections. the Academic Cats. bookplate. K. Jones, who kindly responded to my also don’t recall any cards for Kwan- The Sherlock Holmes Collections has inquiry about pastiches and wrote “My zaa or Aid el-Fitr, two other holidays Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI Dr. Park, in the Preface, reports that in a number of copies of this book. One In 2012 Wessex Press issued Starrett database lists more than 9,600 items that the postal service also now issues 1932 he read The Hound of the Basker- has a blue dustjacket, as shown in the Speaks: The Lost Recordings. The fifth of Sherlockian fiction, but none of the stamps for in addition to Hanukkah villes and then reread the Canon taking accompanying photo, and contains a item is "Book Beat" wherein Robert notes. In 1952 he began a systematic note written on Northwestern Cromie interviews Vincent Starrett and analysis intended to answer questions Orlando Park. and stimulate curiosity. Vincent Starrett University Press letterhead. It states helped with the manuscript. In Dr. that it “takes pleasure in sending you Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI
6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 From the President Musings hank you to all our members Our Annual Membership Meeting of ers of Minnesota, the University of recently read The Sherlock Holmes artist John Calcott Horsley drew the first Dick has covered Orlando Park and his who have renewed for 2013. the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Minnesota Libraries and the Friends of Miscellany by Roger Johnson and commercial card. I’ll admit to being not book Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Your continued support Collections will take place on August the Sherlock Holmes Collections. Mark Jean Upton and thoroughly en- only a collector of all things Sherlock- Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopedia of Their means that we continue to 9, 2013 in conjunction with the next your calendars and we hope you will joyed it. I was particularly pleased ian but of Christmas items as well. As I Affairs. Park was not only a well- known T grow and conserve the Minnesota conference. “Sherlock be able to attend. I can promise two I to see, under the Heading “The write this, we just finished putting up Sherlockian but a world-class ento- materials in the Sherlock Holmes Holmes: Through Time and Place” will interesting exhibits of material from Major Collections,” a section devoted our Dept. 56 Dickens Village, a collec- mologist and ecologist who specialized Collections. be from August 9 to 11, 2013, co- the Sherlock Holmes Collections. to John Bennett Shaw, which detailed tion of small, detailed lighted houses in beetles. His talents extended to a sponsored by the Norwegian Explor- Shaw’s collecting habits and decision to which I have collected (my husband knowledge of jazz, and as his obitu- Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI donate his collection to the University Mike has used the terms obsessive and ary noted, “Lil Hardin, the future Mrs. of Minnesota. Roger and Jean ended the hoarder about this) for a long time. One [Louis] Armstrong, took some time be- section by noting the passing of John of the houses is J. Horsley Christmas tween shows” to teach Park some piano in 1994 and his wife Dorothy in 1999, Cards so his name lives on not only for techniques. His efforts produced one of “but their memory and friendship lives his artwork but for the lighted Christ- the earliest reference books to the Can- on in the Sherlock Holmes Collections.” mas house which bears his name. on, after Christopher Morley's in 1944 and J. Finley Christ's in 1947. Jon Lel- We’d like to post a correction to our In our September issue we decided to lenberg also noted that “Latter-day criti- Acquisitions September 2012 lead article. In the first forego the usual 100 Years Ago column cism of Orlando Park’s encyclopedia, paragraph, Don Yates wrote “I have just so that we could allot more space to the notably by the not entirely disinterested liff Goldfarb, BSI donated Affair” in which Cliff writes of his Recently received newsletters include read Christopher Morley’s essay, 'The article by Don Yates. In this issue, we’ve Jack Tracy, overlooked how much easier copies of two magazines belief that Conan Doyle did not help Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, Baker Street Irregulars,' which first ap- got not only one but two 100 Years Ago it was to compile a truly comprehensive which contain interesting ar- Olympic runner Dorando Pietri cross The Camden House Journal, The peared in The New Yorker over seventy- pieces. I’d like to thank Dana Richards one after William S. Baring-Gould’s An- ticles that he authored. The the finish line during the 1908 London Passengers’ Log, The Serpentine Muse, five years ago (December 29, 1934) and for his article about a book held in the notated Sherlock Holmes than it had been C Journal of Olympic History, games. The Summer 2012 issue of The Moor, The District Messenger, was later included under the heading Collections, Christina Sinclair Bremner’s before then, when Park compiled and Volume 20 Number 1, 2012 contains Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston The Foolscap Document, Ineffable of 'Shouts and Murmurs V' in Morley’s Divorce and Morality which features published his. We were all very glad to “Arthur Conan Doyle and the Dorando Churchill, has Cliff’s article “Winston Twaddle and The Scotland Yarders Long, Long Ago (New York: Macmillan, Arthur Conan Doyle’s introduction . have it for quite a long time.” Dick has Churchill and Arthur Conan Doyle.” News-Gazette. 1943).” Two sharp-eyed readers, Peter Dana is the author of the 2010 Conan also contributed his From the President Blau and Steve Rothman to be specific, Doyle and the Divorce Law Reform Union column and Tim Johnson has updated both reported that it was Alexander printed by Priory Press. us on what’s going on with the Sherlock Woolcott, not Christopher Morley, Holmes Collections. who wrote The New Yorker article. Don Our second 100 Years Ago covers the wanted to thank his two friends for book In Other Words. Adams was an Our lead article celebrates Christmas pointing out the misattribution. interesting man and a friend of Frederic cards, and in honor of that and all Dorr Steele. His book also contains a of the special holidays at this time of Our lead story focuses on the numer- few Christmas poems, although they year, we’d all like to wish you Merry ous and varied Christmas cards held by seem to be written in the “grumpy old Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy the Sherlock Holmes Collections. As I man” style. Kwanzaa and a Happy New Year. The 20 Most Impressive University Special Collections researched the subject, I learned that Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI he Online Education Da- The page doesn’t indicate if the col- Bisexual, and Transgender Studies tabase features a page with lections, including those at Dublin’s pays homage to one of history’s most “The 20 Most Impressive Trinity College, Cambridge University, marginalized demographics through University Special Collec- Oxford University and Duke University one of the world’s most massive T tions.” The preface indicates: to name a few, are cited in any particu- archives dedicated to chronicling its lar order. But listed at Number 8 is Spe- achievements and breakthroughs. “Easily one of the neatest perks of cam- cial Collections and Rare Books at the Curiously enough for an American An Update from the Collections pus life for the particularly inquisitive, University of Minnesota. They note: school, University of Minnesota actu- studious, or proudly nerdy involves pe- ally possesses the world’s largest col- he fall semester and Mr. tures in Switzerland, and the Friends classes for the College of Continuing rusing the school’s special collections. African-American literature, Sherlock lection of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Holmes have kept us busy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Education, and one for the Osher Life- Most tend to involve some combination Holmes, and LGBTQIA history schol- Arthur Conan Doyle memorabilia, on a number of fronts. At board in a regular quarterly meeting. long Learning Institute. Somewhere in of rare books and manuscripts as well ars should take a trek up Minneapo- with over 60,000 entries. Other spe- the end of September we As the calendar moved into November the midst of all this I’ll probably make as information about school, local, and lis way for impressive assemblages of cial collections cover Northwestern T shared the Holmes Collec- we enjoyed the company of English a pilgrimage to New York (and hope to maybe state history. Even smaller col- important, integral research. Thanks architecture, literature of the Upper tions with members of the University students from Normandale Community see many of you there). Thank you for lections always harbor some amazing, to the Archie Givens, Sr. Collection, Midwest, and performing arts. of Minnesota Women’s Club, Friends of College, Law Library staff members in your continued support of the Collec- insightful gems. But some schools score anyone looking to study the Harlem the Libraries, the Loft Literary Center their regular staff event “Lunch and tions and in our ability to be “out and big time, with archives bursting with Renaissance, Black Arts, and other http://oedb.org/library/beginning- (in a new experience — “speed dating” Learn,” and just before Thanksgiving about” with Mr. Holmes for so many veritable treasures and groundbreaking African-American writerly move- online-learning/the-20-most- the collections at Andersen Library), break undergraduates and graduate different audiences. Best wishes for the finds. This doesn’t invalidate the inher- ments enjoy access to over 80,000 impressive-university-special- and Parents’ Weekend. In October students from the University of St. Holidays and New Year! ent worth of the more modest special books, manuscripts, plays, short collections we welcomed faculty and doctoral Thomas. The schedule looks just as collections out there, obviously. All the stories, essays, literary criticism, and researchers in extended stays as they busy in the weeks and months ahead Tim Johnson same, though … some out there can plenty more. And the Jean-Nickolaus worked on various projects, the Norwe- with author Larry Millett and an event only be described with “wow”s,” Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, gian Explorers as we heard of adven- at the University of St. Thomas, three
4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 From the President Musings hank you to all our members Our Annual Membership Meeting of ers of Minnesota, the University of recently read The Sherlock Holmes artist John Calcott Horsley drew the first Dick has covered Orlando Park and his who have renewed for 2013. the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Minnesota Libraries and the Friends of Miscellany by Roger Johnson and commercial card. I’ll admit to being not book Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Your continued support Collections will take place on August the Sherlock Holmes Collections. Mark Jean Upton and thoroughly en- only a collector of all things Sherlock- Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopedia of Their means that we continue to 9, 2013 in conjunction with the next your calendars and we hope you will joyed it. I was particularly pleased ian but of Christmas items as well. As I Affairs. Park was not only a well- known T grow and conserve the Minnesota conference. “Sherlock be able to attend. I can promise two I to see, under the Heading “The write this, we just finished putting up Sherlockian but a world-class ento- materials in the Sherlock Holmes Holmes: Through Time and Place” will interesting exhibits of material from Major Collections,” a section devoted our Dept. 56 Dickens Village, a collec- mologist and ecologist who specialized Collections. be from August 9 to 11, 2013, co- the Sherlock Holmes Collections. to John Bennett Shaw, which detailed tion of small, detailed lighted houses in beetles. His talents extended to a sponsored by the Norwegian Explor- Shaw’s collecting habits and decision to which I have collected (my husband knowledge of jazz, and as his obitu- Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI donate his collection to the University Mike has used the terms obsessive and ary noted, “Lil Hardin, the future Mrs. of Minnesota. Roger and Jean ended the hoarder about this) for a long time. One [Louis] Armstrong, took some time be- section by noting the passing of John of the houses is J. Horsley Christmas tween shows” to teach Park some piano in 1994 and his wife Dorothy in 1999, Cards so his name lives on not only for techniques. His efforts produced one of “but their memory and friendship lives his artwork but for the lighted Christ- the earliest reference books to the Can- on in the Sherlock Holmes Collections.” mas house which bears his name. on, after Christopher Morley's in 1944 and J. Finley Christ's in 1947. Jon Lel- We’d like to post a correction to our In our September issue we decided to lenberg also noted that “Latter-day criti- Acquisitions September 2012 lead article. In the first forego the usual 100 Years Ago column cism of Orlando Park’s encyclopedia, paragraph, Don Yates wrote “I have just so that we could allot more space to the notably by the not entirely disinterested liff Goldfarb, BSI donated Affair” in which Cliff writes of his Recently received newsletters include read Christopher Morley’s essay, 'The article by Don Yates. In this issue, we’ve Jack Tracy, overlooked how much easier copies of two magazines belief that Conan Doyle did not help Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, Baker Street Irregulars,' which first ap- got not only one but two 100 Years Ago it was to compile a truly comprehensive which contain interesting ar- Olympic runner Dorando Pietri cross The Camden House Journal, The peared in The New Yorker over seventy- pieces. I’d like to thank Dana Richards one after William S. Baring-Gould’s An- ticles that he authored. The the finish line during the 1908 London Passengers’ Log, The Serpentine Muse, five years ago (December 29, 1934) and for his article about a book held in the notated Sherlock Holmes than it had been C Journal of Olympic History, games. The Summer 2012 issue of The Moor, The District Messenger, was later included under the heading Collections, Christina Sinclair Bremner’s before then, when Park compiled and Volume 20 Number 1, 2012 contains Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston The Foolscap Document, Ineffable of 'Shouts and Murmurs V' in Morley’s Divorce and Morality which features published his. We were all very glad to “Arthur Conan Doyle and the Dorando Churchill, has Cliff’s article “Winston Twaddle and The Scotland Yarders Long, Long Ago (New York: Macmillan, Arthur Conan Doyle’s introduction . have it for quite a long time.” Dick has Churchill and Arthur Conan Doyle.” News-Gazette. 1943).” Two sharp-eyed readers, Peter Dana is the author of the 2010 Conan also contributed his From the President Blau and Steve Rothman to be specific, Doyle and the Divorce Law Reform Union column and Tim Johnson has updated both reported that it was Alexander printed by Priory Press. us on what’s going on with the Sherlock Woolcott, not Christopher Morley, Holmes Collections. who wrote The New Yorker article. Don Our second 100 Years Ago covers the wanted to thank his two friends for book In Other Words. Adams was an Our lead article celebrates Christmas pointing out the misattribution. interesting man and a friend of Frederic cards, and in honor of that and all Dorr Steele. His book also contains a of the special holidays at this time of Our lead story focuses on the numer- few Christmas poems, although they year, we’d all like to wish you Merry ous and varied Christmas cards held by seem to be written in the “grumpy old Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy the Sherlock Holmes Collections. As I man” style. Kwanzaa and a Happy New Year. The 20 Most Impressive University Special Collections researched the subject, I learned that Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI he Online Education Da- The page doesn’t indicate if the col- Bisexual, and Transgender Studies tabase features a page with lections, including those at Dublin’s pays homage to one of history’s most “The 20 Most Impressive Trinity College, Cambridge University, marginalized demographics through University Special Collec- Oxford University and Duke University one of the world’s most massive T tions.” The preface indicates: to name a few, are cited in any particu- archives dedicated to chronicling its lar order. But listed at Number 8 is Spe- achievements and breakthroughs. “Easily one of the neatest perks of cam- cial Collections and Rare Books at the Curiously enough for an American An Update from the Collections pus life for the particularly inquisitive, University of Minnesota. They note: school, University of Minnesota actu- studious, or proudly nerdy involves pe- ally possesses the world’s largest col- he fall semester and Mr. tures in Switzerland, and the Friends classes for the College of Continuing rusing the school’s special collections. African-American literature, Sherlock lection of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Holmes have kept us busy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Education, and one for the Osher Life- Most tend to involve some combination Holmes, and LGBTQIA history schol- Arthur Conan Doyle memorabilia, on a number of fronts. At board in a regular quarterly meeting. long Learning Institute. Somewhere in of rare books and manuscripts as well ars should take a trek up Minneapo- with over 60,000 entries. Other spe- the end of September we As the calendar moved into November the midst of all this I’ll probably make as information about school, local, and lis way for impressive assemblages of cial collections cover Northwestern T shared the Holmes Collec- we enjoyed the company of English a pilgrimage to New York (and hope to maybe state history. Even smaller col- important, integral research. Thanks architecture, literature of the Upper tions with members of the University students from Normandale Community see many of you there). Thank you for lections always harbor some amazing, to the Archie Givens, Sr. Collection, Midwest, and performing arts. of Minnesota Women’s Club, Friends of College, Law Library staff members in your continued support of the Collec- insightful gems. But some schools score anyone looking to study the Harlem the Libraries, the Loft Literary Center their regular staff event “Lunch and tions and in our ability to be “out and big time, with archives bursting with Renaissance, Black Arts, and other http://oedb.org/library/beginning- (in a new experience — “speed dating” Learn,” and just before Thanksgiving about” with Mr. Holmes for so many veritable treasures and groundbreaking African-American writerly move- online-learning/the-20-most- the collections at Andersen Library), break undergraduates and graduate different audiences. Best wishes for the finds. This doesn’t invalidate the inher- ments enjoy access to over 80,000 impressive-university-special- and Parents’ Weekend. In October students from the University of St. Holidays and New Year! ent worth of the more modest special books, manuscripts, plays, short collections we welcomed faculty and doctoral Thomas. The schedule looks just as collections out there, obviously. All the stories, essays, literary criticism, and researchers in extended stays as they busy in the weeks and months ahead Tim Johnson same, though … some out there can plenty more. And the Jean-Nickolaus worked on various projects, the Norwe- with author Larry Millett and an event only be described with “wow”s,” Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, gian Explorers as we heard of adven- at the University of St. Thomas, three
4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 Merry Christmas Continued from Page 1
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Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopedia of Their Affairs by Orlando Park was published by Northwestern University Press in 1962. This was the first Sherlock- ian encyclopedia and according to DeWaal, “An extremely useful guide to the towns, estates, railroad stations, persons, and objects in the Canon. It attributes each reference (Abbas Parva to Zoo) to the proper story. Twenty pages are devoted to Holmes and ten to Watson.” Between 1962 and 1994 it Scan Courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Scan Courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections The 1984 Christmas Card from John and Dorothy Shaw has appeared in six separate forms. The 1940 Christmas card from President and Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia: A Com- Mrs. Roosevelt to the Haycrafts plete Guide to the People, Towns, Streets, Estates, Railway Stations, Objects – In Fact, Everything by Orlando Park, A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group was its final edition.
We now have many other Sherlock- ian encyclopedias as well as annotated editions of the Canon, and in our modern digital age with Wikipedia and Kindle hypertext it seems quaintly old fashioned. The story of this work and its author is interesting. Photo courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopedia of Their Affairs Dr. Orlando Park, BSI (“The Final Problem,” 1967) was born on Octo- Park’s conclusion, “My labor will have this book. We shall appreciate receiv- ber 13, 1901 in Elizabethtown, KY its best results if it stimulates others ing a copy of any notice you may give and died on September 23, 1969 in to read and re-read the adventures of it. Park – Sherlock Holmes & John Evanston, IL. He earned his PhD from Holmes and Watson and enjoy them. H. Watson. Pub. Date – 31 Dec. 1962 the University of Chicago and was a To do otherwise were to miss a mea- Price - $8.00 until 21 December 1962 professor and chairman of Biology at sure of happiness.” $10 thereafter.” This copy has Bill Northwestern University. He retired Rabe’s bookplate. In the back is glued after 35 years. Author of the 1949 text- Manfred Engelmann, in his resolution a copy of Bill Rabe’s article titled “All Frederic Dorr Steele's Christmas Card book Principles of Animal Ecology, Dr. of respect after Park’s death, wrote About Holmes and Dr. Watson” with a Park was an expert in the field, serving “Thus it is with regret that we mark sketch of Holmes by FDS. “This latest Realizing that not everyone celebrates items I have entered contain a cross- and Christmas.” So it appears that the as President of the Ecological Society of the passing from our scene of Orlando publication has been produced after 30 Christmas, I looked for information to reference to Hanukkah… I would field is ripe for both pastiches and cards America. He was an honorary curator Park, prolific author, inspired teacher, years of research by an entomologist see if any Sherlockian cards or pastich- hesitate to say that there are NO for the Holiday of Lights. And we hope of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, jazz pianist, Baker Street Irregular, and who is bugs on Sherlock Holmes.” Also es which celebrate Hanukkah were in Sherlockian tales involving Hanukkah. that when those cards are produced, where he also performed Dixieland world-renowned Entomologist and held is the 1962 edition with a yellow the Holmes Collections. Noted Sher- If you do, sure as hell, three will pop someone will donate copies to the Jazz playing the piano in a group called Ecologist.” dustjacket and John Bennett Shaw’s lockian Peter Blau referred me to Philip up the next day.” Peter Blau added “I Sherlock Holmes Collections. the Academic Cats. bookplate. K. Jones, who kindly responded to my also don’t recall any cards for Kwan- The Sherlock Holmes Collections has inquiry about pastiches and wrote “My zaa or Aid el-Fitr, two other holidays Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI Dr. Park, in the Preface, reports that in a number of copies of this book. One In 2012 Wessex Press issued Starrett database lists more than 9,600 items that the postal service also now issues 1932 he read The Hound of the Basker- has a blue dustjacket, as shown in the Speaks: The Lost Recordings. The fifth of Sherlockian fiction, but none of the stamps for in addition to Hanukkah villes and then reread the Canon taking accompanying photo, and contains a item is "Book Beat" wherein Robert notes. In 1952 he began a systematic note written on Northwestern Cromie interviews Vincent Starrett and analysis intended to answer questions Orlando Park. and stimulate curiosity. Vincent Starrett University Press letterhead. It states helped with the manuscript. In Dr. that it “takes pleasure in sending you Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI
6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 100 Years Ago Continued from Page 2 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 By Dana Richards, BSI mobile for “journalistic purposes.” table of contents for this 224 page health during and after the pregnan- The Orphanage Catling was active in the Institute of illustrated book includes works by cy. This certainly would explain the The 1857in an reform earlier led translation to so much which grief I Journalists and traveled extensively Alfred Noyes, Arthur Morrison, nsomewhat 1912 Arthur sombre Conan tone Doyle of the poem. that When,therevised very ere institution the quite tangled heavily. ofweb marriage is reft, through America, Canada, the Middle Rosamund Marriott-Watson, Eden wroteThe use a lengthyof the word introduction “lady” in tothe last was Thein danger. kid-gloved Several villain efforts scowls at and reform sneers, The main difference between East and Europe, including France Phillpotts, John Galsworthy, F. Anstey Divorcestanza seems and Morality to strongly, by Christina sprungAnd up. hapless In 1903 innocence John isFrancis left Stan- 100 during World War I. He served as a Sinclair Bremner (Palmer, 1912). ley (BertrandWithmy no own assets Russell’s and save EB’s sighsolder translation and brother) tears, 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 YEARS AGO suggest that it was written to/for I Most are not aware of his involve- organized’Tis’Tisthink then,then, the juststemsjust Society then,then, from forthatthat the Promoting inin facttherethere that stalksstalks delegate to the Conference of the few of the contributors. Page 20 fea- YEARS AGO ment Ladyin the Jean. Divorce Reform move- they belong to different ages. As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections International Association of Journalists tures the poem “By the North Sea” by ReformThe inhero, the watchful Marriage of herand needs, Divorce is a quarterly newsletter published by the The March 2008 issue of this newslet- ment. Even Sherlockians are surprised LawsHe of youtalks! England. may Great know, Soonheavens, Danish thereafter 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 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Among theterthe featureditemsforeign held translationsan inarticle the Sherlock about of The The Flag, Caption: The 1902 first edition has the that heAlso, was the involved fact that for they 12 years;were expect- ThomasButcenturies we Hardy forgive and the him, othersofficial for his formed deeds.written lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the HolmesHound of publishedCollections the Baskervilles in is 1908, small from whichvolume John benefitted Paget illustration while the second does not. perhapsing because their first only child five may of havehis many anotherguage group of called Norway, the andDivorce although Law ests and needs of the Special Collections and Rare Books Department, University of titledBennett In OtherShaw’s Words collections, written theby Frankone - Society of Journalists during 1915. He last stanza as written by Conan Doyle. biographersinfluenced devote Doyle’s even decision one page to to con- it. ReformLifeNorwegian Association.is the drama in here In1911 1906to-day had they begun the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called Minnesota Libraries. linthat P. wasAdams. published Published 100 in years 1912 ago by has passed away on December 25, 1920. tribute to The Press Book in the mergedAndsplitting andDeath were the away, villaincalled the of the influencethe Divorce plot. entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wet Baskervilles. with North ThisSea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: Doubleday,special significance. Page & Company, According the to book De Her cheek was wet with North Sea spray, Why didfirst he place. get involved?Being a father ACD’s himself, at- I’m Law ItReform isfrom a realistic DanishUnion. play; wasHardy still was strong. keen 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 isWaal inscribed it was “Toa 2nd Old edition, Freddy with Steele the from titudesure towards he could Divorce easily Reform empathize was with to includeShall it theend well-knownwell or shall it and not well- Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it fromsounds far away sure he could easily empathize with Editor hisfirst affectionately published in F.P.A. 1902. November NotedHound 1912” The long waves rolled from far away simply expressed by him in several connected,NorwegianThe hero? so Oh, that on the theactions hero’s printed partwould page fol 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 andcollector is from Dr. the Donald personal Pollack collection has both of speeches: “The foundation of national low Iswords. vacant—to He had be playedbecome by ayou. friend of 13512 Granada Ave. Scan courtesy of Hazelbaker & Lellenberg, Inc. Scan courtesy of Hazelbaker & Lellenberg, benefit from the sale of the volume. The following year, in 1909, The Presscovers.bers come from the worlds of art, hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me itlife 1952 is not or the’53. family. I think It it is was the givenhappy presentThen as act Shakespeare it well! An isorphan’s from presheart- Apple Valley, MN 55124 thein his noted collection. Sherlockian illustrator Fred- John Kieran, Wendell Wilkie, Christopher Morley and Franklin P. Adams ACD and approached him. eric DorrAlbum Steele.was published to aid the drama, law, literature, music or sci- than a family.That three But, old for friends the three had metexcel that- day: tofamily. me by And friends that, ofwith my our parents obsolete who ent dayMay English. beat the lighterAt the if same you do. time I 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. Journalists’— A1456. OrphanHunden fraFund, Basker and- as he ence. Former members have included The old old sky, the old old sea, divorceFinally, law, is Doyle what wrotewe haven’t a poem got.” about goThe for goals a “conservative” of the society style, resonated hoping with 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- Franklinville: En hadny Leopold fortælling done Adamsthe om previous Sherlockwas born year, in Conan con in 1910.notables It is such a one as stanzaCharlie poem, Chaplin, as one’s work published in the ‘Conning His involvement in the movement does ACD’sChristy sense Allen of justice, and Julie and McKuras by 1909, 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 Chicago,Holmes. DoyleAutoriseret Illinois stepped on Novemberoversættelse forward 15,with ved 1881 a contri- WikipediaMark notes, Twain, that Wilkie is “also Collins, known James Tower’ was enough to launch a career, as not appearSongs toof thehave Road been, just precipitated a few pages he was the President of the Union. John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Elisabeth Brochmann. Also online is update Outhe surprised seaward hung me theby writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. (heElisabeth would Brochmann. change his middle Kristiania: name as ‘Tinker to Evers to Chance’ after its in the case of Dorothy Parker and James by anythingafter “By other the Norththan his Sea.” chivalrous It was ThoseReferences: goals included adding desertion, 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 toForlagt Pierce af in H. 1894). Aschehoug A good & student, Co. (W. refrain…[written] from the point of Thurber.We Parker saw it quipped, rolling, fold ‘He on raised fold, me naturecalled and sense“The Orphanage”of fair play. and is repro- lunacy,http://www.scoop- and long prison terms to 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 heNygaard), learned 1902.much at263 the p. 1893 World’s view of a New York Giants fan seeing from a couplet.’” She also dedicated her duced below. listhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club of grounds for divorce, securing 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 gold.interest language then, so I had to wait until I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club Columbian—————. Exposition 2nd ed. 1911.in Chicago, 246 p. at- the talented Chicago Cubs infield of 1936 NotTu Sorn allDeep its asleaden a Well edge to toAdams. gold. It is difficult today to grasp the state hasequalhttp://www.savageclub.com/ been treatment reprinted of womenover a dozen under 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 lady seems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest tendedI became the aware rigorous of translator Armour Scientific Elisabeth shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Ring Lardner and Eugene O’Neill also of marriage and divorce in Victorian bylaw, various and allowing publishers, local by jurisdictions Aschehoug to Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- Academy,Brochmann“1892 frequented in with2004 a whenChicago’sgift of I £1,000 acquired theatres by the lateJohnnyW Eversallace and and first Peter baseman Ustinov. FrankIt is cur- wrote forThe the grey column. below, Hethe wasgold divorcedabove; England. Even though an 1857 law andbe involved Norild as to well reduce as Gyldendal, the cost. and 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 © 20122011 andlot 93 vaudeville ofLord The GleneskConan houses, Doyle and and £500 readCollec bythe- the late SirChancer entlycomplete located a double at 1 Whitehall play.” He Place, in 1924, and he quickly married his took power from the church, the 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 newspapertion auctionJohn with atWillox…Working Christie’s. his family, Included particularly pressmen turned Londonhis talents and to their writing website a musical indicates it second wife. He settled into a happy life, church’s views colored everything. One of his first actions as President 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 thein the works lotthroughout wereof Finley seven Peterthe letters country Dunne and commenced (notedtwo play, co-authoring“remains one the of unsuccessful the leading Bohemian “Lo” became a father for the first time at 45, Divorce, which required Parliamentary Sherlockwas to write Holmes a pamphlet, edition inas Norwegian,he often Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It Press(and Albumindeed added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time humoristpostcards and by ACDthe subject to Madame of our Broch 100 - with O.Gentleman’s Henry in 1909. Clubs in London.” and lived close to his friends Sinclair involvement, was available only to the whichdid when I edited he supported and part-translated a cause. His contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden Yearsmann Ago discussing column rights in the toSeptember stories and Lewisthe and Institute Dorothy of Thompson. Journalists Orphan rich and was rare (only 494 in all of (wantedDivorce Law to do Reform all but (1909) didn’t washave the the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than 2003pamphlets. issue of ACD this wasnewsletter) eager to and have his In 1914In he 1882, moved the to Prince the New of Wales, York later Fund. England in 1900). Instead, the laws time),third occasional published pamphletin 10 volumes published by Den reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- character,The War in the South Chicago Africa: Irish Its Causebartender and Tribune where he retitled his column Adams moved to the New York Post allowed for “judicial separation” which Norskeby the Union. Bokklubben There (“Thedoes notNorwegian appear 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 Mr.Conduct Dooley. translated Upon his into graduation all languages in “The Conning Tower.” World War I whereChristy he worked Allen, from who 1937 contributes until 1941. fre- did not permit remarriage. So a poor Bookto be Club”)a copy in 1980.any library! The tenth volume Aschehoug in EB’s time was Doyle’s 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 1899,and wrote he entered a preface the forUniversity the Norwegian of interrupted his career; he served in As hisquently writing to career the ConanDoyle waned, his friend (ACD) list wifeMusings... with an abusive husband had was a collection of pastiches and essays. main Norwegian publisher, but unfor- The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic Michiganedition. beenBrochmann but devotedleft after must toonly the have one keep yearhad and a educa- the U.S. Army and wrote for Stars and Dorothyon theThompson Internet, helped is interested him find in Conana three choices: stay in the relationship, InGreen the 1990sand Gibson, all ten involumes their landmark were re- tunately they didn’t follow it up—there 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, whenclose relationshiphistion family’s of the financial withorphans…Avoiding ACD situation and his any Stripes, with “Harold Ross, Alexander spot on a new radio show. On May 17, live apart and unsupported, or unwed printedACD bibliography, wholesale by admit a short-lived to not having pub- were no translations of VALL or The 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: deteriorated.family, butexpenditure there In order is nothing on to brickshelp about with and hishermortar, theWoollcotttion and to theother facilities. literary On lights December of the 3, 1938 “Information Please” debuted with cohabitation (which amongst the poor lisherseen it. called Adrian LibriArte. Conan DoyleI’ve done must minor have Case-book, and only four of the stories about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. family’sin any of finances,principle the Conan laidhe tookDoyle down a biographies. wasposition that ofwith saving 1920s,”1886, but finished Catling wrotethe war to inthe the Grand U.S. book criticI’ve Cliftontried to Fadiman do some (a research protégé about becameof all, the she most missed common his companionship. arrange- revisionshadfor a writing copy to sincethe about text it is hisover shown friends the years,in Wayne the but inGeorgina His Last Doyle, Bow were author published of Out of in the translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly theACD Transatlantic visited Norway Insurance in June Company, 1892 with Army IntelligenceSecretary of Division. United Grand He returned Lodge, of Christopherthe poem Morley proper at andthe Bookhow/why of it ment.)And The when rich she women, passed becauseaway, their the alavish majorand FrancineCentenary one for butanother he also produced forBokklubben helping about with Norway,Shadows: in The a book Untold called Story Spioncen of Arthur- 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 wherehis sister he Conniestayed for and three Jerome years. K. If Jerome he to the Newenclosing York Tribune an “imposing and continued group of peti- the Monthwas Club) written, as thebut moderator have come and up lawsfriends for divorce had the favored same thereaction man as(e.g., people completehisthe father. packing edition, Pierre and Nordon, inmailing two volumes, whoof the worked many, in tralen,Conan 1919.Doyle’s I’ve First been Family very, read fortunate, Dick the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in hadamong remained others. an insurance agent, we with thattioners,” paper proposingwhen it merged that a with new lodge Adams, empty.John Kieran and Oscar Levant she hadcould when not Georgeuse adultery Burns as died; grounds) his pass- 2002.withmany Adrian, The boxes. most quotes recent from reprint it (though is in a bothSveum’s in Gyldendal article from that December they wanted 2008 to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz might never have heard of him, but it the New York Herald in 1931 to become as regular panelists. It soon became one woulding bemeant in a thatsimilar he wasbind. together with 2011half that Bokklubben quote was volume cut in theSherlock English givewith Holmes a careful his eye due and place has incorrected a prestige a Thomas Catling edited The Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my wasA Google in early search 1901 revealed that he tried a 1902 to sellletter the New York Herald Tribune. His biog- of the most popular programs on the Holmestranslation). Mysterier Green i utvalgand Gibson (“Selected assert series of modern and classical mystery 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 insurancewritten by to Samuel newspaper L. Clemens writer George (Mark rapher Sally Ashley wrote that by 1920, air with guest panelists such as Chris- Mysteries”),that the text containingof the pamphlet STUD, was HOUN stories and bringing him back into translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, ofThe 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 Ade,Twain) the toworked famous Brochmann fornewspaper Lloyd’s noting Weekly writer, that News sheau- , as a “F.P.A.’s unique fame soared” and that topher Morley and Rex Stout. Adams andincorporated The Adventures—all into the introduction translated to 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, thorhad translatedof humorouscompositor, into fables Norwegianwriter, and news playwright. his editor from if he “recommended a book, people specialized in questions about poetry byBremner’s yours truly. book If (which you’re interested,is the motiva I’ll- for deciding to do the first ever 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. GreatlySherlockian influenced1866 pastiche through by A1884,him, Doubled-Bar Frankthen editorvowed- from boughtFreemasons’ the book. If Hallhe recommended and Sir Henry Irvingand Gilbertborn & in Sullivan. March of Celebrities, 1909, just one betion happy for this to sendarticle). you a copy for your plete edition and giving me a free rein Norwegian suggests a large, possibly stories from The Return of SH. Broch- paperback mystery series called “The toreled become Detective1884 a writer. through Story. The 1907. Lilly The Library Scoop a show,was you invested went to assee Treasurer. the show.” There He is no authors,month politicians before and The sports Press figures Book was collection to The Sherlock Holmes collection.thank Christy And toAllen complete for providing the story: I to present Sherlock Holmes 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 had becomelonger a a household formal connection word. During between were frequentpublished). guests on the show; Ad- Collections. Sadly, her death in alsoinformation adapted and about translated Conan Doyle’sa Swedish poet- heSo should it’s business be. as usual 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 Inher 1903 (1900-1917) he went to from work English for the authors Chicago the 1920sthe andLodge early and 1930s the Club. he was a ams claimed many of them as friends. October 2007 meant her collection, radiory as dramatisation featured in our of the100 book Years and Ago Sherlock Holmes Collections, for dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. Journalincluding, writing F. Anstey a column (one ofon the weather 24 member of the Algonquin Round Table, In 1940,According he and his to wife Doyle’s Esther own spent correspon- which she amassed with her beloved producedcolumn. it Dick as a Sveumsix-part updates serial in us 1977. on the Sowhich the 1911 we are second all thankful. edition 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 andauthors the humorousalong with “A ACD Little of AboutThe Fate of and manyAfter of his those retirement literary notablesfrom Lloyd’s election night at Hyde Park with the Wayne, was ready to move to I sometimesstatus of the think drive that for my the main E.W. motive got Nils Nordberg hooked on Sherlock indicates he extended the circulation title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s dencetranslation (from of A HOUNLife in Letters and that), this in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Everything.”Fenella, 1892) The and following Jerome year,K. Jerome. he left contributed to his column, Catling “The undertook Con- the Roosevelts. for becoming a radio drama producer Holmes. In his translation he kept 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 ChicagoI was able for to New examine York Citythe letters to marry while a ning Tower, “ including “such writers was the wish to do this story on radio, Elizabeth Brochmann’s title, and he was 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 “generouslyattendingreputed the endowed Gillette to be showgirl”theto Brett first IIIto ( F.P.A. usecon the-, auto-as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Adams began exhibiting early symp- the medium it is perfectly suited for. a good friend of John Bennett Shaw. As 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 Ashley).ference at During Indiana his University. nine-year career as a Parker, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, toms of what would later be diagnosed And, ah yes, 2009 saw the first ever a Norwegian-American and Sherlock- Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) columnist with a byline at the New York Edna Ferber and Deems Taylor. Having as Alzheimer’s disease in theContinued mid to onlate page 7 “nynorsk” translation of HOUN, by ian, I appreciate all the connections. as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a Evening Mail he wrote Baseball’s Sad Lexi- Continued on page 7 Continued on page 8 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 December 2012 Volume 16 Number 4
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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 2 custody battle, whether over the car, the house, the pets, or the children, that can possi- Continued from Page 2 bly match the difficulty of dividing a collection that has no duplicates. 50 Years Ago So for two Sherlockians it’s a matter only of the better, and never the worse. That cer- 100 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- 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 1940s. He briefly appeared on “Infor- And how did he know “Old Freddy by way of the canonized classic.” Sally 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 mation Please” during a short run on Steele”? Their years of membership at Ashley wrote “The obscurity of his once television, but his declining health was the Players Club overlap and was prob- famous name demonstrated the fleeting noticeable. After his divorce from his ably their point of intersection. Steele nature of reputation, the inexorability of second wife he moved into the Players and Adams sometimes contributed to time and loss. Yet much of the work by Club, where he had been a member for the same magazines as well. people F.P.A. discovered and nurtured years, and subsisted on a stipend from remains.” his friend Harold Ross and The New During his newspaper career, as noted Sherlock Holmes Yorker. He spent the last five years of his on the anniversary of his 1960 death on Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI COLLECTIONS life in a nursing home until his death on the site “Today in Literature,” FPA – as March 23, 1960. Adams was known – was the “quintes- References: The Poemhunter.com – The World’s Poetry Archive “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) sential gentleman-journalist, ready to http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/ He was a prolific writer whoseIn Other deflate the latest fad or most earnest is- franklin_p_adams_2012_3.pdf Words had several Christmas poems. sue with a quip or a couplet” and as was Ashley, Sally. F.P.A., The Life and Times of Aptly named were “Christmas Cards, noted in his “own poems were parodies, Franklin Pierce Adams, 1986, New York, Contents Being the Songs of an Old Scrooge.” often aimed at reducing the fleeting fad Beaufort Books. Merry Christmas from the Sherlock Holmes Collections Merry Christmas from n her 2000 book Merry Christmas, Karal Ann Marling wrote that the first Christmas the Sherlock Holmes card was produced in 1843, the same year that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Collections was published. The idea of sending Christmas greetings as a printed card instead of a handwritten letter was suggested by Sir Henry Cole, the founder and first 1 I director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Artist John Calcott Horsley drew Remembrances the lithograph, which was hand-colored, and sold approximately 1000 copies, despite In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have 100 Years Ago criticism of the drawing, which included a child drinking wine. made contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. 2 According to the Greeting Card Association (http://www.greetingcard.org/AbouttheIndus- try/tabid/58/Default.aspx) sales figures have increased from that initial 1000. They report In Honor Of From 50 Years Ago that “More than 2 billion boxed and individual Christmas cards were sold in the U.S. last Phil Bergem Steve Stilwell year” and that there are “more than 3,000 greeting card publishers in the United States.” Lynne Day Jeffory Hart 3 This is just within the United States. Vinnie and Flavia Brosnan William Vande Water Julie McKuras Joseph Eckrich From the President The cards held in the Sherlock Holmes Collections are but a miniscule percentage of that Katy Morgan Stella J. Herzig total, but an interesting representation. As Mr. Holmes stated in “The Adventure of the Dr. Victoria Risko Billy Fields 4 Noble Bachelor,” the cards have “the charm of variety.” Some are mass produced, some Sherlockian Friends Sandy Kozinn produced in a small run and others, hand drawn. They are held from a number of donors Richard Sveum Robert Katz Acquisitions including Howard Haycraft, John Bennett Shaw and Frederic Dorr Steele. We’ve decided Bishop Turner High School Faculty Thomas S. Galbo to feature a small sampling of these cards. Gerald Wachs Andrew Solberg 4 Donald Yates Michael Kean The 20 Most Impressive In Memory Of From University Special For any inquiries contact: Collections Wallace Armstrong Garry and Mary Ann Peterson Timothy J. Johnson, Curator June K. Berg Stanton O. Berg Dr. Howard Burchell Dr. Raymond W. Scallen 612-624-3552 or 4 Stephen Crocker BSI Andrew Fusco [email protected] Nancy Czarmecki Lawrence Czarnecki Musings Jim Duval Ralph Hall Sherlock Holmes Collections Dr. Alan J. Eidelberg Arlene Kase Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library 5 Charles E. Henry Ray Betzner University of Minnesota Anna Hruska Judith A. Payne 222 21st Ave. S. An Update from the Fred Levin John Bergquist Minneapolis, MN 55455 Collections Fred Levin Clifford Goldfarb Telephone: 612-626-9166 Allen Mackler Robert and Lucy Brusic FAX: 612-625-5525 5 Allen Mackler C. Paul and Carole Martin 100 Years Ago Joseph and Eleonore Margolin Jerry Margolin Mailing list corrections requested— Harvey Officer, late of St. Paul Warren Randall Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 7 Scan Courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Dr. Alvin E. Rodin Jack Key we would appreciate being informed of changes 1935 Christmas Card from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to the Haycrafts Mary Ann Smerk George Smerk of address or other corrections. Mary Sveum Gary and Andrea Thaden Remembrances Continued on page 6 P. Christian Steinbrunner Russell Merritt Masayuki Tsuda Showsaku Mashimo Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8
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