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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) Continued from Page 7 100 Years Ago I will sooner or later merge their collections, as well as their lives. And there is no custody battle, whether over the car, the house, the pets, or the children, that can possi- 2 bly match the difficulty of dividing a collection that has no duplicates.

April Fool's Day So for two Sherlockians it’s a matter only of the better, and never the worse. That cer- 50 Years Ago tainly was true of Wayne B. Swift and Francine Morris, who were Sherlockians when 3 they met for the first time. Francine started her Sherlockian life in Texas, where she was Remembrances a librarian; she founded The Sub-Librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars in the From the President American Library Association, and In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made 4 was one of the founders of The contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. Practical, But Limited, Geologists at an informal luncheon in the Zodiac In Honor Of From Musings Room at Nieman Marcus in Dallas. Peter Blau Arthur E.F. Wiese Jr. 4 When she moved to Washington she Fred Levin Cliff Goldfarb quickly became a member of The Red Circle, and was one of the ring- In Memory Of From An Update from leaders in planning the society’s full- Paul Churchill John Baesch and Evelyn Herzog For any inquiries contact: the Collections fledged costume party at the Paul Churchill Thomas Drucker Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 5 National Press Club. Paul Churchill Warren Randall 612-624-3552 or Wayne was from Nebraska, an elec- Joseph Gillies Michael Kean [email protected] of The Sherlock Photo courtesy Holmes Collections Allen Mackler Patricia Nelson Recent Acquisitions Wayne and Francine Swift trical engineer and a teacher, and an Allen Mackler Once Upon A Crime Mystery Bookstore Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 early convert to the world of com- Allen Mackler Philip Swiggum Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library puters. When he moved to Washington he decided to take an adult-education course in Beatrice McCaffrie John Lockwood University of Minnesota Sherlock Holmes at a local community college and soon attended his first Sherlockian E.W. McDiarmid Michael Brahmey 222 21st Ave. S. To the Editor function, a running of The Silver Blaze (Southern Division) at Pimlico Race Track in E.W. McDiarmid Jim DeLeo Minneapolis, MN 55455 6 Maryland, where he and Francine quickly discovered they shared more than an interest E.W. McDiarmid Jeffrey Klaus Telephone: 612-626-9166 in Sherlock Holmes. They courted , and wed, and had many happy years together, shar- 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— Moriarty fell to his death follow- was inside a box addressed to Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory Wayne became a member of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1978 (as “The Giant Rat of 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 ing his epic 1891 struggle with Johnson. It had no return ad- 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 Holmes atop the Reichenbach dress. Ultimately, Johnson said, Falls in Switzerland. the skull will become part of the Holmes Collections at the But until now, there was no University of Minnesota, which, physical proof of Moriarty’s in fact — no fooling — is the death. This stunning discovery largest collection of Sherlock at the University of Minnesota Holmes material in the world. Sherlock Holmes apparently puts this mystery to COLLECTIONS bed. Johnson said that grass, By all accounts, our little tale was both Photo courtesy of University Minnesota leaves, and mud found on the fun and a success. Hits to the Libraries’ skull were linked to the Reichen- main website spiked during the day. Tim Johnson “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) bach Falls region, providing fur- Links to the story and accompanying or complimenting us on our sense of ther evidence that the skull was slideshow reverberated through online humor. One of our favorite comments recovered in the gorge beneath social media. Commenters engaged in encapsulated all thoughts on our little Contents the falls. the fun, staging arguments based on the joke: “I love this day. And the Holmes Akane Higashiyama and the Japan photographic evidence that the skull Collection.” The skull and a note that said was far too small for Moriarty, claiming Sherlock Holmes Club By Masamichi (“Mitch”) Higurashi, BSI simply “Professor Moriarty” the skull was still in their possession, Tim Johnson, Curator Akane Higashiyama and the Japan [Ed. Note: Akane Higashiyama recently Sherlock Holmes Club gifted The Sherlock Holmes Collections Musings with a collection of books and journals t was with pleasure that the Sherlock Holmes Collections received the gift from Akane Higashiyama, and it seemed appropri- 1 from Japan. A listing of that donation ate to highlight not just the donation but our generous donor as well. Mitch Higurashi happily accepted our request to write follows this article.] about this very special woman who is an honored founder of the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club, and we thank him. 100 Years Ago Our 100 Years Ago Column features a parody by Carolyn Wells, and I thank Douglas Greene for giving me an appraisal of her or almost five years, Akane I writing. Dick Sveum has authored the 50 Years Ago column with a look at the anthology Great Detective Stories About Doctors 2 Higashiyama has represented which contains “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier.” It seemed like a good idea to have a physician write about a story featuring JSHC (Japan Sherlock Holmes a physician and which was placed with the publisher by a physician acting as literary agent. Dick has given us the dates for the An- 50 Years Ago Club), after the death of Tsukasa Kobayashi, her husband and club nual Meeting of the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections and the 2016 conference “The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.” F Photo courtesy of Mitch Higurashi Gary Thaden has contributed a piece about his outreach on behalf of the Norwegian Explorers and the Sherlock Holmes Collections. 3 co-founder. As you might know, JSHC has a different policy from the BSI and Tsukasa Kobayashi and Akane Higashiyama Tim Johnson, busy as ever, has written about his current “media darling” status on behalf of the Holmes Collections continues. European societies — it has neither “president/ The Akane Higashiyama chairman” nor administrative council. Kobayashi We’ve received any number of donations and we’ve highlighted a few, but space limitations prevent us from listing the numerous Donation journals and books that arrive. They are just as appreciated. and Higashiyama, co-founders, were a kind of “secretariat” or “bureau chief” or “organizer 3 and administrative manager.” However, for our founding members, JSHC is “the society Enjoy your summer days and plan to join us next summer, June 17-19, for “The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.” Kobayashi and Higashiyama made.” Now the activity of the society, one of the largest in the world, centers around her, and all the senior members, whom I refer to as “old-timers,” Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI From the President admire her and are impressed with her character. Though the policy is never changed, the construction of the society is beginning to improve in these five years with the assistance of 4 old-timers.

For any inquiries contact: Added to the Collections To describe Akane’s background and herself, I first need to explain the background of Tsu- Timothy J. Johnson, Curator kasa Kobayashi and JSHC. 612-624-3552 or 4 [email protected] In my introduction to Japan and Sherlock Holmes (ed. by Hirayama, Higurashi and Ueda, An Update from 2004, BSI), the history of the Sherlockiana and Holmes community in Japan is divided into Sherlock Holmes Collections the Collections three periods — “prehistoric age” before World War II, the period from 1948 to 1977, and Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library the period after 1977. In the “prehistoric age” no one called themselves Sherlockians. There University of Minnesota 5 were a few mystery/crime story writers who introduced the Canon and Conan Doyle to 222 21st Ave. S. Japan as well as Japanese magazines which reported on foreign Sherlockian activity. Minneapolis, MN 55455 On the Air Telephone: 612-626-9166 In 1948, three years after the end of WWII, a branch of the BSI named the Baritsu Chapter FAX: 612-625-5525 5 was founded by about a dozen Japanese, American, and Australian men, including Austra- lian journalist Richard Hughes. In the brief history of Japanese Sherlockiana that I wrote for Japan and Sherlock Holmes I wrote that Kohki Naganuma as well as Count Makino, a Mailing list corrections requested— April Fool's Day Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, pre-war Minister, and Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida had been founding members of the we would appreciate being informed of changes 7 Baritsu Society. I would like to take this opportunity to correct that. Instead, it was during of address or other corrections. the second period that Naganuma, while never a member of the Baritsu Chapter, pursued Musings his independent Sherlockian studies and wrote books on Holmes and ACD. Naganuma Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8 Continued on page 6

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DoyleAutoriseret such stepped escape. oversættelse forwardIt was written with ved a contri- Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, James ity. Carolyn Wells is in many ways a thingSongs clever” of theinvolving Road, just April a fewFool’s pages Day John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Elisabeth Brochmann. Also online is update Outhe surprised seaward hung me bythe writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. Elisabethby the well-known Brochmann. author Kristiania: Carolyn Holmes responds:“Your ideas are not remarkable woman — gracious, well and Sherlockafter “By Holmes.the North Sea.” It was enjoyReferences: the spoof and assuring them that 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 ForlagtWells and af H.illustrated Aschehoug by Frederic& Co. (W. 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Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh ladyseems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest Iers became as Vincent aware Starrett, of translator Agatha Elisabeth Christie, ing from the clothesline after spying a immortals of detective literature. The mately landed at Reichenbach Falls byJust various after midnight, publishers, as byplanned, Aschehoug the Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- BrochmannAnthony“1892 Boucher, in with2004 Ellery a whengift ofQueen, I £1,000acquired Sir by the latemouse Wwhileallace drying and Peter her hair.Ustinov. The It chief is cur- fact thatThe his grey adventures below, the have gold given above; and Professor Moriarty. What if, we andLibraries’ Norild main as well web as site Gyldendal, featured andthe 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’veheadline also read “Shocking it as an discovery audio book. confirms It Copyright © ©2015 20112012 lotJames 93 M.ofLord The Barrie, GleneskConan Mark Doyle and Twain, £500 Collec Bret by- the late Sirof policerently subsequently located at 1telephones Whitehall him Place, harmless pleasure to many thousands conjectured, some remains of the late 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 tionHarte, auction O.John Henry, atWillox…Working Christie’s. John Kendrick Included pressmen Bangs with theLondon solution; and it their was websitea “confound indicates- it of readers she undoubtedly considers professor mysteriously appeared years death of Sherlock Holmes’ archenemy.” 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 inand the August lotthroughout were Derleth seven thein letters Thecountry Misadven and commenced two- ed moving-picture“remains one stunt.” of the leadingHolmes’s Bohemian full and sufficient reward.” Douglas later, after the fatal encounter with Mr. SherlockThe story Holmes continued: edition in Norwegian, Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It (andPress indeedAlbum added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time postcardstures of Sherlock by ACD Holmes to Madame. That book Broch - explanationGentleman’s was erroneous, Clubs in London.”yet Watson Greene of Crippen and Landru and Holmes? What if, those remains some- which I edited and part-translated contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden mannbrought discussing readers “the rights finest to stories of these and voices his usual “Marvelous, Holmes, authorthe of Institute John Dickson of Journalists Carr: The Orphan Man how found their way into the hands (wanted to do all but didn’t have the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than pamphlets.parodies and ACD pastiches,” was eager as notedto have by marvelous!”In 1882, the Prince of Wales, later Who ExplainedFund. Miracles and editor of of a mysterious “collector”? And, what time), published in 10 volumes by Den “My immediate thought was reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- Theeditor War Ellery in South Queen. Africa: (“Ellery Its Cause Queen” and several anthologies, was kind enough if this secretive someone sent such Norske Bokklubben (“The Norwegian that it can’t be Moriarty be- 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 Conductwere cousins translated Manfred into Lee all languagesand Frederic The author of the parody, Carolyn to provideChristy a contemporaryAllen, who contributes view of her fre- remains to the Collections? So began Book Club”) in 1980. The tenth volume Aschehougcause thein EB’sskull time has wasless Doyle’sfrontal 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 andDannay wrote beginning“The a preface Dying seventeen forDetective” the Norwegian years BSI) ago, has Wells, a voracious reader, writer and writing.quently to the ConanDoyle (ACD) list a taleMusings... that was woven and re-worked was a collection of pastiches and essays. maindevelopment Norwegian publisher, than I would but unforhave - The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic edition. beenBrochmann devoted must to the have keep had and a educa- poet, was born in 1862 in Rahway on the Internet, is interested in Conan over the next few weeks by our biblio- In the 1990s all ten volumes were re- tunatelyexpected they didn’t from afollow man ofit up—therehis 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, closeThe story relationshiption opens of the with withorphans…Avoiding the ACD Society and hisof any New Jersey. Although hard of hear- The prolific Carolyn Wells was as graphic schemers. printed wholesale by a short-lived pub- were intellect.”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: family,Infallible butexpenditure Detectives there is nothing onmeeting bricks about in and their hermortar, theing aftertion a boutto the with facilities. scarlet On fever, December she 3, well-known during her lifetime for lisher called LibriArte. I’ve done minor Case-book, and only four of the stories about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. inFakir any Street ofprinciple the rooms. Conan laid President Doyle down biographies. was Holmes that of saving worked1886, as a librarianCatling wrote for the to Rahwaythe Grand her nonsenseI’ve tried verse to do and some children’s research about Weof decided all, she that missed the hiscurious companionship. artifact revisionsfor writing to the about text hisover friends the years, Wayne but inGeorgina HisJohnson Last Doyle, Bow sent were author the publishedskull of Outto foren of in the - translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACDarrives visited and advises Norway them in June that 1892 a reward with LibrarySecretary Association of United and wrote Grand her Lodge, first booksthe as poemfor her proper detective and novels.how/why it shouldAnd bewhen Moriarty’s she passed skull. away, But theirwhere a majorand Francine one for butanother also Bokklubbenfor helping with Norway,Shadows:sics inexperts The a book Untold in called the Story University 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 hishas sisterbeen Connieoffered “forand theJerome solution K. Jerome of book inenclosing 1896. She an went“imposing on to groupwrite of peti- Her mysterieswas written, are butweakened have come by up andfriends how does had onethe sameacquire reaction a skull? as Wepeople completethe packing edition, and in mailing two volumes, of the many, in tralen,Conanof 1919. Doyle’sMinnesota I’ve First been MedicalFamily very, read Schoolfortunate, Dick the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in amonga great mysteryothers. – so great, my col- more thantioners,” 170 proposingbooks, which that included a new lodge dialogueempty. better suited for books thoughthad when of asking George the Burns Medical died; School, his pass- 2002.manyA Themysterious boxes. most recent box containingreprint is in the a bothSveum’s forin GyldendalDNA article testing. from that December On they Monday, wanted 2008 to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. 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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 writtenthe marvelous by Samuel work L. I Clemensshall do when(Mark One of her poems was “Ballade of our exhibits. I wrote a short, some- Mysteries”),detective containing Sherlock STUD,Holmes HOUN stories and bringing him back into translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, of The 1918. 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And what same house a last time in 1941. “La Série Noire”) and asked me to do herHanging (1900-1917) from that from clothes-line English authorswas a Katherinethe LodgeGreen andthat theshe Club.concentrated Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI anatomicalOctober shop2007 whichmeant featuredher collection, a wide radiory “Ias dramatisation wasfeatured stunned, in our of somewhat the100 book Years and Ago Sherlockmind Holmes of the late Collections, 19th century for dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. including F. Anstey (one of the 24 According to Doyle’s own correspon- varietywhich of sheskulls amassed at an astonishingwith her beloved price producedcolumn.delighted, it Dick as a and Sveumsix-part skeptical updates serial when in us 1977. on the Sowhich theand 1911 we Holmes’ are second all thankful.chief edition nemesis. was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950, ally translated into my language the I can certainly tell you that Broch- There had then been no Holmes books authors along with ACD of The Fate of After his retirement from Lloyd’s range.Wayne, I notified was ready our tosecret move circle to that I sometimesstatusI first of the openedthink drive that the for my box,”the main E.W. said motive got NilsHolmes Nordberg often hookedreferred onto SherlockMori- indicates he extended the circulation title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s dencetranslation (from of A HOUN Life in Letters and that), this in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. 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We ephemerathen decided and thateven I awould giant It’s gratifying to receive notes from attendingreputed the Gillette to be theto Brett first IIIto usecon the- auto- our coterie moved forward on crafting the mediumRare Books it is andperfectly the Sherlock suited for. a goodofficials, friend ofhistorians, John Bennett and Shaw.Holmes 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 ference at Indiana University. a press release and arranging a photo And, Holmesah yes, 2009Collections saw the at firstthe Uni ever- a Norwegian-Americanaficionados concluded and Sherlockthat - Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) Continued on page 7 shoot. Cheryll Fong (see September “nynorsk”versity translation of Minnesota of HOUN, Libraries. by ian, I appreciate all the connections. as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a Continued on page 8 Continued on page 7 SIGN was also included in the series, good deal on mine. Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 Akane Higashiyama Continued from Page 1 published his first book about Holmes the human brain, then became the first with Akane. They include: The Depth of Dr. Noah Fabricant (1904-1964) was including some well-known authors. titled “The Wisdom of Sherlock Holmes” psychopharmacologist in Japan. After the Psyche of Sherlock Holmes (original the author of Why We Became Doc- The reader is then able to compare the in July 1961 and became the first Japa- graduate school, when he was 30, he work published in 1985), Complete tors (Grune and Stratton, 1954). He stories and enjoy a collection devoted nese member of the BSI in 1962 (“The went to the USA as a Fulbright scholar Collection of the Original Drawings of the also edited Great Science Fiction About to a single theme. Curious Incident of Sherlock Holmes and studied psychopharmacology at Canon (with John Bennett Shaw, 1990), Doctors in 1963 with Groff Conklin in Japan”). In this era of Naganuma, the University of Pittsburgh and the Uni- Sherlock Holmes’s London (collection of (1904-1968), which included “The The paperback cover illustration is there were only a dozen or so scholars versity of Chicago from 1959 to 1962. photos, 1984), and translation of the 50 Great Kleinplatz Experiment” by Ar- a pencil sketch with two doctors in and enthusiasts of the Canon or ACD in He once told us that he had not joined annotated Canon by Oxford University YEARS AGO thur Conan Doyle. Groff Conklin was green scrub suits looking at a pale gray Japan, some of them exchanging letters any scion society of the Baker Street Press (1997-2002). Akane and Tsukasa’s a leading science fiction anthologist patient on a gurney who might be with Naganuma and with foreign Sher- Irregulars during this period, but certain efforts gave wider publicity to the Sher- and edited more than forty books. dead. It has that ’60s look trendy at the lockians in the BSI and SHSL (Sherlock material indicates that he contacted lockian community in Japan by publish- In 1965 “The Adventure of the time but now seems dated as midcen- Holmes Society of London). There were some American Sherlockians in 1961 ing such books. Blanched Soldier” appeared in Great The copy of Great Detective Stories tury modern. some Sherlockian/Doylean fanzines by or 1962. You may remember the article Detective Stories About Doctors, edited About Doctors held by the Sherlock Japanese scholars as well. But Naganu- by Jon Lellenberg and Peter Blau in the The two also joined Holmes-related by Groff Conklin and Noah Fabricant, Holmes Collections was owned by There are seventeen stories, includ- ma preferred to act alone and did not September 2011 issue of this newsletter events abroad, especially the pilgrim- M.D. in an original paperback edition John Bennett Shaw and has his book- ing “Midnight at the Grand Babylon invite other people to form a Japanese featuring S’ian Who’s Who & What’s What age tours to Switzerland held by SHSL. by Collier Books. The 95¢ book con- plate, and pasted above the half title is Hotel,” the only medical detective story Sherlockian society. When Richard (edited by Bill Rabe, 1961). In the sec- Akane participated in the tour three tains seventeen crimes “only medical his typed notation of pages for BLAN. written by the Edwardian novelist Hughes relocated to Hong Kong, where ond edition of S’ian Who’s Who (1962) times with Tsukasa – in 1987, 1988 science could solve.” Dr. Watson was Shaw had many anthologies in his col- Arnold Bennett, and “Miracle of the he included references to Holmes in his we see Tsukasa’s name and address in and 1991 – and alone in 2012. Their an excellent detective in his own right, lection and as an avid collector wanted Fifteen Murderers,” by journalist and writings for the Far Eastern Economic Japan. However, in the first edition I daughter Erika joined the third one in as Holmes admitted in the introducto- every one with Sherlockian content. playwright Ben Hecht, a friend of Vin- Review while working as a double agent have here, I can’t find them. 1991. Akane went to Britain many times ry passage to BLAN. The editors claim The historical importance of antholo- cent Starrett’s from Chicago. for MI6, the activities of the Baritsu with Tsukasa to gather materials for that it is the first anthology of medical gies in the post-war years was to find As a collector and a physician, I find Chapter basically ended in Japan. 1962 is the year the above-mentioned writing books on Conan Doyle. They mystery and detection. This was the the best stories in magazines and this is a must-have unique and elusive Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, key- wrote about these travels in two books first and only edition of the book. systematically put them into a perma- volume. And then, an epoch-making event material for the history of Japanese titled Journey to Sherlock Holmes (1987) nent format. The sales were helped by occurred. In the year of Naganuma’s Sherlockiana, was published in the USA. and Journey to Sherlock Holmes 2 (1993), death, the Japanese edition of William S. The Japanese edition was published in which includes the report/journal of the Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI Baring-Gould’s Sherlock Holmes of Baker September 1977, the year following the days in New York in 1989 when Tsukasa Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting marriage of Akane and Tsukasa. JSHC was invested as an Irregular as “Baritsu”; Detective was published. Kobayashi and was formed on October 1977, and 70- the investiture was subsequently given Higashiyama, translators of the book, 80 members joined by the end of the to Akane in 2012. appealed for formation of an original year. The first general meeting was held The Akane Higashiyama Donation Japanese Sherlockian society in the in 1978, and the society had over 1200 Regrettably this “three-legged race” came postscript. The Third period started in members during its peak years. Akane to an end on September 2010. In March hile in Davos, Switzerland in September 2014 for “Alpine Adventures - Arthur Conan Doyle and Switzerland” 1977, the year that Naganuma died and says they wrote the invitation for join- of the next year we experienced a great I was pleased to see Akane Higashiyama, who inquired about donating some books and journals to the Sherlock the JSHC was founded by Kobayashi ing “casually,” and never expected the disaster when an earthquake struck Ja- Holmes Collections. It was an honor to receive such a donation, especially the materials from the Japan Sherlock and Higashiyama. Almost all the Japa- society to exist for such a long period — pan and prevented us from holding the Holmes Club. nese scholars and enthusiasts joined the nearly 40 years. general meeting. However, as mentioned W society as founding members, including in the beginning, there is a close bond Several boxes were received which came with a note that the gift was “With Best Regards of our Club” signed by Akane. Those Hirotaka Ueda, Kiyoshi Arai, and me Akane Higashiyama majored in social of friendship around Akane. One of the boxes contained a run of the club’s journal The World of Holmes, beginning with the 1979 issue; Name Origins in the Holmes [Ed. Note: all three are now members welfare at Meiji Gakuin University. things she values is this construction of Saga by Naomi Hayashi; Japanese editions of The Sign of the Four, of the Baker Street Irregulars]. As they She first met Tsukasa when she joined friendship. She says she likes to express A Study in Scarlet, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of say “someone would have eventually Japana Esperanto-Instituto (Japanese her gratitude that she could increase Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of discovered the theory of relativity even if Esperanto Institute.) Tsukasa was then friends internationally through Sherlock Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of Einstein has not existed.” Some Sher- a director of the institute and Akane Holmes. the Baskervilles, all of which contain introductions by noted Sher- lockian society would have been formed helped him with the proof-reading of lockians; A Pictorial Record of Sherlock Holmes’s London, written in in Japan after Naganuma’s, death but it the publications. By entering the insti- Akane, a Christian as was Tsukasa, often 1984 by Tsukasa Kobayashi , Akane Higushiyama and Masaharu would have been many years later, we tute, Akane made Esperantist friends as mentions the spirit of tolerance and for- Uemura, and a variety of additional publications. believe. well as Sherlockian friends, and several giveness — “it is the season of forgive- institute members later joined JSHC. ness.” (BLUE) It is a kind of motto of Our thanks, our “domo arigatou gozaimasu” go to Akane and her Tsukasa Kobayashi specialized in psy- Like most Japanese, she read the Canon JSHC now. Tsukasa had a definite policy fellow members of the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club. chiatry in the graduate school at Tokyo in her junior high school days, and that our society should be “opened” for University, but he wanted to quit his job by encountering Tsukasa she became everyone who read the entire Canon and Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI as a medical doctor as soon as possible completely absorbed in Sherlockian loved it. This policy has never changed . and become a writer/author (He had activities. been compelled to enter medical school For Akane, now visiting foreign coun- because his father was the 16th in a Tsukasa wrote and translated around tries as a Sherlockian and an Esperantist, line of medical doctors.) He moved to two hundred books, about half of it may not be too far in the distant future the department of pharmacology and which are related to Sherlock Holmes before she visits Minneapolis. Photo by Mike McKuras researched the effect of medicine on and Conan Doyle, and all except for Akane Higashiyama and Julie McKuras, two are co-authored or co-translated September 2014, Davos Switzerland

6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 From the President An Update From the Collections here is always a lot happen- I just got back from Boston, and al- ive years ago I received a thank- as the “reading” month for the school ing with the Sherlock Holmes though I missed the 75th Anniversary you note from a young man by system. Soon, Beth Nelson, librarian/ Collections. This year I’m meeting of the Speckled Band of Bos- the name of Kerry Klungtvedt media specialist for the school system, proud to announce that our ton, I was able to visit the Houghton who lived in southeastern Min- joined the conversation and details for a T Annual Meeting will be held Library and Peter Accardo, BSI. The F nesota. He taught violin and visit began to firm up. on October 21 at 7 pm at the Elmer L. BSI Archives are in good hands and guitar — facts I learned later — and Andersen Library. Our guest speaker have an updated website at bsitrust.org. wrote in appreciation for the help offered March 26th became “Sherlock Day” in will be Bonnie MacBird, who will talk during a visit to the library, and for tak- the Rushford-Peterson schools. Beth and about her new book Art in the Blood. Thanks again to all our friends who contribute to the Sherlock Holmes ing him “down stairs” to show him “the Kerry met me at Rushford School and stacks.” He went on to note that he was helped with setup. My first presenta- Photo Courtesy of Beth Nelson The planning committee has an- Collections helping us preserve telling all his friends “about this great tion was scheduled for 11 o’clock in the nounced “The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes and his world. Tim Johnson treasure” at the university, closing with high school theater to an audience of Sherlock Holmes” will take place on Have a good summer. a strong recommendation for the book third graders. They, as well as the other June 17-19, 2016. I hope you’ll plan he was reading (Arthur Conan Doyle: A students, proved an eager and receptive a link to the station’s report — on social to attend our conference next sum- Life in Letters), and hoping to visit again. audience. More than once I found myself media. Before I returned home my trip mer, where we’re featuring an exciting Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI It would be another four years until he facing a sea of outstretched and wav- to Rushford and Peterson reverberated group of speakers. across social media. Three days later I

Photo courtesy of Bonnie MacBird returned, but the seed of an idea was ing hands, each child keen to answer a planted that would bear fruit. question or offer a comment. My foray heard from a Texas member of The Bea- Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird into the world of Holmes with the third con Society, a scion society of The Baker Kerry’s second visit was the annual grade audience was followed by a second Street Irregulars that provides school meeting of the Friends of the Sherlock presentation to fourth and fifth graders, teachers “with local resources to bring Holmes Collections last October. During to which the public was also invited. the magic of Sherlock Holmes to life in Added to the Collections the meeting it was announced that cur- With the public came a reporter from the the classroom,” asking if I would share rent membership in the Friends stood at local CBS television affiliate and an- materials from my presentation. Catherine Cooke donated the program he Sherlock Holmes Collec- 399. This remarkable number prompted other reporter from the local newspaper. for the Sherlock Holmes Society of tions recently received a copy Kerry to action. As the meeting wound Interviews were given after the second I am happy to share those resources, London’s event “The Stoddart Dinner,” of The Lighter Side of Sher- down, Kerry engaged me in some presentation before Kerry and I drove a and perhaps work on developing more. which was held at the Langham Hotel lock Holmes, The Sherlockian friendly haggling. He was very inter- short distance to the hamlet of Peterson, What started as an invitation to visit T Artwork of Norman Schatell, on August 30, 2014. a group of schoolkids and talk about ested in becoming the 400th member grabbed a quick and delicious bite from a gift from MX Publishing and Glenn of the Friends, but wondered if I might the local café, and headed to the middle Mr. Holmes and our Collections is now David and Terri Haugen donated a Schatell, who compiled the book be able to offer something in return. school. The café owner, also a Holmes freighted with possibilities. Reading, be bronze sculpture of Sherlock Holmes featuring his father’s artwork. Glenn’s What he wished was not for himself. He enthusiast, joined us for the afternoon it a Holmes story or any favorite tale, to the Collections. The artwork was introductory note “About My Dad” asked whether I was willing to come to presentations. In rapid-fire succession is a powerful exercise. It is a path one created by artist Wah Ming Chang. states that his father loved to share his southeastern Minnesota and make a pre- I talked about Mr. Holmes and the can follow for a lifetime and share with Tim Johnson discussed this gift in his “humorous cartoons and illustrations” sentation to students in his hometown Collections to three different groups of family and friends. Over these summer article about Sherlock Seattle in our and “He would be happy to know about Mr. Holmes and the Collections. I sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. We months I hope you find an opportu- March 2015 issue and noted the late that many new Sherlock Holmes fans readily and enthusiastically agreed! The wrapped up by mid-afternoon, my voice nity to share a book (or books!) with Wah Ming is best known as the creator will smile and laugh when they look Friends gained a new member, and we somewhat shredded after five presenta- someone, especially someone younger of “Star Trek” props, including the at his cartoons and drawings.” The expanded our outreach audience. tions in less than four hours, but thrilled than yourself. It is a special thing in life communicator and tricorder. Sherlock Holmes Collections news- by the students’ engagement. to share a love of reading, to watch an letter has featured Norman Schatell’s Plans for a visit began almost imme- enthusiasm for reading grow and expand artwork in past issues, particularly the Bonnie MacBird’s new book Art in the in another life.

Scan by Julie McKuras diately. Kerry contacted Chuck Ehler, On the way home I stopped off in Roch- Blood will appear in bookstores on March 2012 issue, which highlighted superintendent of the Rushford-Peterson ester to visit family and was pleasantly September 10; the author has donated the large contribution by the Schatell Schools, who thought a visit “would be surprised to see the day’s events reported Have a great summer, and thank you for an advance reading copy. As Dick The Lighter Side of Sherlock Holmes, family to the Collections. In the Win- a wonderful idea.” Mr. Ehler suggested on the evening news. Other family your continued interest in and Sveum noted in his column, Bonnie The Sherlockian Artwork of Norman Schatell ter 2013 Baker Street Journal, Editor I come in March, as this was designated members in Iowa, tuned to the same support of the Collections. will be the guest speaker at the Annual Steven Rothman wrote “All readers station, posted the news — along with of the BSJ, all Sherlockians with an Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collec- Tim Johnson, Curator ounce of humor in their souls, should tions meeting to be held October 21 at make sure they own this. Available 7 pm at the Andersen Library. from Amazon.com or the publisher’s On the Air website, mxpublishing.co.uk.” Glenn’s Julie McKuras donated the program, n a Friday afternoon, I found interview. On January 23rd, I met Richard Sherlock Holmes Collections). Tim talked tumblr blog is available at www.light- commemorative pin and poster from myself sitting in a studio at Dawes at the KFAI studio to be inter- about the history of the Collections, the sidesherlockholmes.tumblr.com the May 31st screening at San Francis- KFAI Radio in the Cedar- viewed about the Norwegian Explorers, power of seeing the original manuscript co’s Castro Theatre of the William Gil- Riverside area of Minneapolis Sherlock Holmes and, in particular, the pages of the Hound, and the Collections’ An interview with Glenn, which he lette film“Sherlock Holmes,” part of the O talking about Sherlock Holmes. Explorers’ connection to the Collections at place within the University and the wider describes as a “real tribute to my San Francisco Silent Film Festival. This As president of the Norwegian Explorers the University of Minnesota. My interview world. The result is a nice advertisement dad,” can be heard at http://www. 1916 film, long considered lost, was I have given PowerPoint presentations, lasted 40 minutes and resulted in two for the Norwegian Explorers and the ihearofsherlock.com/2015/05/the- produced by Essanay Studios and is an off-the-cuff short pitches, and welcome to minutes in the six and one half minute Sherlock Holmes Collections. lighter-side-of-sherlock-holmes.html#. adaptation of Gillette’s 1899 play. The our conference introductions on Sherlock final product (Minnesota Sherlockiana). VUkmXo5Viko digital restoration was by the Festival’s Holmes, but this was my first sit-in- Subsequently, Mr. Dawes interviewed Tim Gary Thaden Robert Byrne and Russell Merritt, BSI. Johnson Photo by Tim front-of-a-microphone-at-a-radio-station Johnson (E.W. McDiarmid Curator the

Sherlock Holmes, a gift from 4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections David and Terri Haugen Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 From the President An Update From the Collections here is always a lot happen- I just got back from Boston, and al- ive years ago I received a thank- as the “reading” month for the school ing with the Sherlock Holmes though I missed the 75th Anniversary you note from a young man by system. Soon, Beth Nelson, librarian/ Collections. This year I’m meeting of the Speckled Band of Bos- the name of Kerry Klungtvedt media specialist for the school system, proud to announce that our ton, I was able to visit the Houghton who lived in southeastern Min- joined the conversation and details for a T Annual Meeting will be held Library and Peter Accardo, BSI. The F nesota. He taught violin and visit began to firm up. on October 21 at 7 pm at the Elmer L. BSI Archives are in good hands and guitar — facts I learned later — and Andersen Library. Our guest speaker have an updated website at bsitrust.org. wrote in appreciation for the help offered March 26th became “Sherlock Day” in will be Bonnie MacBird, who will talk during a visit to the library, and for tak- the Rushford-Peterson schools. Beth and about her new book Art in the Blood. Thanks again to all our friends who contribute to the Sherlock Holmes ing him “down stairs” to show him “the Kerry met me at Rushford School and stacks.” He went on to note that he was helped with setup. My first presenta- Photo Courtesy of Beth Nelson The planning committee has an- Collections helping us preserve telling all his friends “about this great tion was scheduled for 11 o’clock in the nounced “The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes and his world. Tim Johnson treasure” at the university, closing with high school theater to an audience of Sherlock Holmes” will take place on Have a good summer. a strong recommendation for the book third graders. They, as well as the other June 17-19, 2016. I hope you’ll plan he was reading (Arthur Conan Doyle: A students, proved an eager and receptive a link to the station’s report — on social to attend our conference next sum- Life in Letters), and hoping to visit again. audience. More than once I found myself media. Before I returned home my trip mer, where we’re featuring an exciting Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI It would be another four years until he facing a sea of outstretched and wav- to Rushford and Peterson reverberated group of speakers. across social media. Three days later I

Photo courtesy of Bonnie MacBird returned, but the seed of an idea was ing hands, each child keen to answer a planted that would bear fruit. question or offer a comment. My foray heard from a Texas member of The Bea- Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird into the world of Holmes with the third con Society, a scion society of The Baker Kerry’s second visit was the annual grade audience was followed by a second Street Irregulars that provides school meeting of the Friends of the Sherlock presentation to fourth and fifth graders, teachers “with local resources to bring Holmes Collections last October. During to which the public was also invited. the magic of Sherlock Holmes to life in Added to the Collections the meeting it was announced that cur- With the public came a reporter from the the classroom,” asking if I would share rent membership in the Friends stood at local CBS television affiliate and an- materials from my presentation. Catherine Cooke donated the program he Sherlock Holmes Collec- 399. This remarkable number prompted other reporter from the local newspaper. for the Sherlock Holmes Society of tions recently received a copy Kerry to action. As the meeting wound Interviews were given after the second I am happy to share those resources, London’s event “The Stoddart Dinner,” of The Lighter Side of Sher- down, Kerry engaged me in some presentation before Kerry and I drove a and perhaps work on developing more. which was held at the Langham Hotel lock Holmes, The Sherlockian friendly haggling. He was very inter- short distance to the hamlet of Peterson, What started as an invitation to visit T Artwork of Norman Schatell, on August 30, 2014. a group of schoolkids and talk about ested in becoming the 400th member grabbed a quick and delicious bite from a gift from MX Publishing and Glenn of the Friends, but wondered if I might the local café, and headed to the middle Mr. Holmes and our Collections is now David and Terri Haugen donated a Schatell, who compiled the book be able to offer something in return. school. The café owner, also a Holmes freighted with possibilities. Reading, be bronze sculpture of Sherlock Holmes featuring his father’s artwork. Glenn’s What he wished was not for himself. He enthusiast, joined us for the afternoon it a Holmes story or any favorite tale, to the Collections. The artwork was introductory note “About My Dad” asked whether I was willing to come to presentations. In rapid-fire succession is a powerful exercise. It is a path one created by artist Wah Ming Chang. states that his father loved to share his southeastern Minnesota and make a pre- I talked about Mr. Holmes and the can follow for a lifetime and share with Tim Johnson discussed this gift in his “humorous cartoons and illustrations” sentation to students in his hometown Collections to three different groups of family and friends. Over these summer article about Sherlock Seattle in our and “He would be happy to know about Mr. Holmes and the Collections. I sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. We months I hope you find an opportu- March 2015 issue and noted the late that many new Sherlock Holmes fans readily and enthusiastically agreed! The wrapped up by mid-afternoon, my voice nity to share a book (or books!) with Wah Ming is best known as the creator will smile and laugh when they look Friends gained a new member, and we somewhat shredded after five presenta- someone, especially someone younger of “Star Trek” props, including the at his cartoons and drawings.” The expanded our outreach audience. tions in less than four hours, but thrilled than yourself. It is a special thing in life communicator and tricorder. Sherlock Holmes Collections news- by the students’ engagement. to share a love of reading, to watch an letter has featured Norman Schatell’s Plans for a visit began almost imme- enthusiasm for reading grow and expand artwork in past issues, particularly the Bonnie MacBird’s new book Art in the in another life.

Scan by Julie McKuras diately. Kerry contacted Chuck Ehler, On the way home I stopped off in Roch- Blood will appear in bookstores on March 2012 issue, which highlighted superintendent of the Rushford-Peterson ester to visit family and was pleasantly September 10; the author has donated the large contribution by the Schatell Schools, who thought a visit “would be surprised to see the day’s events reported Have a great summer, and thank you for an advance reading copy. As Dick The Lighter Side of Sherlock Holmes, family to the Collections. In the Win- a wonderful idea.” Mr. Ehler suggested on the evening news. Other family your continued interest in and Sveum noted in his column, Bonnie The Sherlockian Artwork of Norman Schatell ter 2013 Baker Street Journal, Editor I come in March, as this was designated members in Iowa, tuned to the same support of the Collections. will be the guest speaker at the Annual Steven Rothman wrote “All readers station, posted the news — along with of the BSJ, all Sherlockians with an Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collec- Tim Johnson, Curator ounce of humor in their souls, should tions meeting to be held October 21 at make sure they own this. Available 7 pm at the Andersen Library. from Amazon.com or the publisher’s On the Air website, mxpublishing.co.uk.” Glenn’s Julie McKuras donated the program, n a Friday afternoon, I found interview. On January 23rd, I met Richard Sherlock Holmes Collections). Tim talked tumblr blog is available at www.light- commemorative pin and poster from myself sitting in a studio at Dawes at the KFAI studio to be inter- about the history of the Collections, the sidesherlockholmes.tumblr.com the May 31st screening at San Francis- KFAI Radio in the Cedar- viewed about the Norwegian Explorers, power of seeing the original manuscript co’s Castro Theatre of the William Gil- Riverside area of Minneapolis Sherlock Holmes and, in particular, the pages of the Hound, and the Collections’ An interview with Glenn, which he lette film“Sherlock Holmes,” part of the O talking about Sherlock Holmes. Explorers’ connection to the Collections at place within the University and the wider describes as a “real tribute to my San Francisco Silent Film Festival. This As president of the Norwegian Explorers the University of Minnesota. My interview world. The result is a nice advertisement dad,” can be heard at http://www. 1916 film, long considered lost, was I have given PowerPoint presentations, lasted 40 minutes and resulted in two for the Norwegian Explorers and the ihearofsherlock.com/2015/05/the- produced by Essanay Studios and is an off-the-cuff short pitches, and welcome to minutes in the six and one half minute Sherlock Holmes Collections. lighter-side-of-sherlock-holmes.html#. adaptation of Gillette’s 1899 play. The our conference introductions on Sherlock final product (Minnesota Sherlockiana). VUkmXo5Viko digital restoration was by the Festival’s Holmes, but this was my first sit-in- Subsequently, Mr. Dawes interviewed Tim Gary Thaden Robert Byrne and Russell Merritt, BSI. Johnson Photo by Tim front-of-a-microphone-at-a-radio-station Johnson (E.W. McDiarmid Curator the

Sherlock Holmes, a gift from 4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections David and Terri Haugen Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 Akane Higashiyama Continued from Page 1 published his first book about Holmes the human brain, then became the first with Akane. They include: The Depth of Dr. Noah Fabricant (1904-1964) was including some well-known authors. titled “The Wisdom of Sherlock Holmes” psychopharmacologist in Japan. After the Psyche of Sherlock Holmes (original the author of Why We Became Doc- The reader is then able to compare the in July 1961 and became the first Japa- graduate school, when he was 30, he work published in 1985), Complete tors (Grune and Stratton, 1954). He stories and enjoy a collection devoted nese member of the BSI in 1962 (“The went to the USA as a Fulbright scholar Collection of the Original Drawings of the also edited Great Science Fiction About to a single theme. Curious Incident of Sherlock Holmes and studied psychopharmacology at Canon (with John Bennett Shaw, 1990), Doctors in 1963 with Groff Conklin in Japan”). In this era of Naganuma, the University of Pittsburgh and the Uni- Sherlock Holmes’s London (collection of (1904-1968), which included “The The paperback cover illustration is there were only a dozen or so scholars versity of Chicago from 1959 to 1962. photos, 1984), and translation of the 50 Great Kleinplatz Experiment” by Ar- a pencil sketch with two doctors in and enthusiasts of the Canon or ACD in He once told us that he had not joined annotated Canon by Oxford University YEARS AGO thur Conan Doyle. Groff Conklin was green scrub suits looking at a pale gray Japan, some of them exchanging letters any scion society of the Baker Street Press (1997-2002). Akane and Tsukasa’s a leading science fiction anthologist patient on a gurney who might be with Naganuma and with foreign Sher- Irregulars during this period, but certain efforts gave wider publicity to the Sher- and edited more than forty books. dead. It has that ’60s look trendy at the lockians in the BSI and SHSL (Sherlock material indicates that he contacted lockian community in Japan by publish- In 1965 “The Adventure of the time but now seems dated as midcen- Holmes Society of London). There were some American Sherlockians in 1961 ing such books. Blanched Soldier” appeared in Great The copy of Great Detective Stories tury modern. some Sherlockian/Doylean fanzines by or 1962. You may remember the article Detective Stories About Doctors, edited About Doctors held by the Sherlock Japanese scholars as well. But Naganu- by Jon Lellenberg and Peter Blau in the The two also joined Holmes-related by Groff Conklin and Noah Fabricant, Holmes Collections was owned by There are seventeen stories, includ- ma preferred to act alone and did not September 2011 issue of this newsletter events abroad, especially the pilgrim- M.D. in an original paperback edition John Bennett Shaw and has his book- ing “Midnight at the Grand Babylon invite other people to form a Japanese featuring S’ian Who’s Who & What’s What age tours to Switzerland held by SHSL. by Collier Books. The 95¢ book con- plate, and pasted above the half title is Hotel,” the only medical detective story Sherlockian society. When Richard (edited by Bill Rabe, 1961). In the sec- Akane participated in the tour three tains seventeen crimes “only medical his typed notation of pages for BLAN. written by the Edwardian novelist Hughes relocated to Hong Kong, where ond edition of S’ian Who’s Who (1962) times with Tsukasa – in 1987, 1988 science could solve.” Dr. Watson was Shaw had many anthologies in his col- Arnold Bennett, and “Miracle of the he included references to Holmes in his we see Tsukasa’s name and address in and 1991 – and alone in 2012. Their an excellent detective in his own right, lection and as an avid collector wanted Fifteen Murderers,” by journalist and writings for the Far Eastern Economic Japan. However, in the first edition I daughter Erika joined the third one in as Holmes admitted in the introducto- every one with Sherlockian content. playwright Ben Hecht, a friend of Vin- Review while working as a double agent have here, I can’t find them. 1991. Akane went to Britain many times ry passage to BLAN. The editors claim The historical importance of antholo- cent Starrett’s from Chicago. for MI6, the activities of the Baritsu with Tsukasa to gather materials for that it is the first anthology of medical gies in the post-war years was to find As a collector and a physician, I find Chapter basically ended in Japan. 1962 is the year the above-mentioned writing books on Conan Doyle. They mystery and detection. This was the the best stories in magazines and this is a must-have unique and elusive Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, key- wrote about these travels in two books first and only edition of the book. systematically put them into a perma- volume. And then, an epoch-making event material for the history of Japanese titled Journey to Sherlock Holmes (1987) nent format. The sales were helped by occurred. In the year of Naganuma’s Sherlockiana, was published in the USA. and Journey to Sherlock Holmes 2 (1993), death, the Japanese edition of William S. The Japanese edition was published in which includes the report/journal of the Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI Baring-Gould’s Sherlock Holmes of Baker September 1977, the year following the days in New York in 1989 when Tsukasa Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting marriage of Akane and Tsukasa. JSHC was invested as an Irregular as “Baritsu”; Detective was published. Kobayashi and was formed on October 1977, and 70- the investiture was subsequently given Higashiyama, translators of the book, 80 members joined by the end of the to Akane in 2012. appealed for formation of an original year. The first general meeting was held The Akane Higashiyama Donation Japanese Sherlockian society in the in 1978, and the society had over 1200 Regrettably this “three-legged race” came postscript. The Third period started in members during its peak years. Akane to an end on September 2010. In March hile in Davos, Switzerland in September 2014 for “Alpine Adventures - Arthur Conan Doyle and Switzerland” 1977, the year that Naganuma died and says they wrote the invitation for join- of the next year we experienced a great I was pleased to see Akane Higashiyama, who inquired about donating some books and journals to the Sherlock the JSHC was founded by Kobayashi ing “casually,” and never expected the disaster when an earthquake struck Ja- Holmes Collections. It was an honor to receive such a donation, especially the materials from the Japan Sherlock and Higashiyama. Almost all the Japa- society to exist for such a long period — pan and prevented us from holding the Holmes Club. nese scholars and enthusiasts joined the nearly 40 years. general meeting. However, as mentioned W society as founding members, including in the beginning, there is a close bond Several boxes were received which came with a note that the gift was “With Best Regards of our Club” signed by Akane. Those Hirotaka Ueda, Kiyoshi Arai, and me Akane Higashiyama majored in social of friendship around Akane. One of the boxes contained a run of the club’s journal The World of Holmes, beginning with the 1979 issue; Name Origins in the Holmes [Ed. Note: all three are now members welfare at Meiji Gakuin University. things she values is this construction of Saga by Naomi Hayashi; Japanese editions of The Sign of the Four, of the Baker Street Irregulars]. As they She first met Tsukasa when she joined friendship. She says she likes to express A Study in Scarlet, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of say “someone would have eventually Japana Esperanto-Instituto (Japanese her gratitude that she could increase Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of discovered the theory of relativity even if Esperanto Institute.) Tsukasa was then friends internationally through Sherlock Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of Einstein has not existed.” Some Sher- a director of the institute and Akane Holmes. the Baskervilles, all of which contain introductions by noted Sher- lockian society would have been formed helped him with the proof-reading of lockians; A Pictorial Record of Sherlock Holmes’s London, written in in Japan after Naganuma’s, death but it the publications. By entering the insti- Akane, a Christian as was Tsukasa, often 1984 by Tsukasa Kobayashi , Akane Higushiyama and Masaharu would have been many years later, we tute, Akane made Esperantist friends as mentions the spirit of tolerance and for- Uemura, and a variety of additional publications. believe. well as Sherlockian friends, and several giveness — “it is the season of forgive- institute members later joined JSHC. ness.” (BLUE) It is a kind of motto of Our thanks, our “domo arigatou gozaimasu” go to Akane and her Tsukasa Kobayashi specialized in psy- Like most Japanese, she read the Canon JSHC now. Tsukasa had a definite policy fellow members of the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club. chiatry in the graduate school at Tokyo in her junior high school days, and that our society should be “opened” for University, but he wanted to quit his job by encountering Tsukasa she became everyone who read the entire Canon and Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI as a medical doctor as soon as possible completely absorbed in Sherlockian loved it. This policy has never changed . and become a writer/author (He had activities. been compelled to enter medical school For Akane, now visiting foreign coun- because his father was the 16th in a Tsukasa wrote and translated around tries as a Sherlockian and an Esperantist, line of medical doctors.) He moved to two hundred books, about half of it may not be too far in the distant future the department of pharmacology and which are related to Sherlock Holmes before she visits Minneapolis. Photo by Mike McKuras researched the effect of medicine on and Conan Doyle, and all except for Akane Higashiyama and Julie McKuras, two are co-authored or co-translated September 2014, Davos Switzerland

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John Kendrick Included pressmen Bangs with theLondon solution; and it their was websitea “confound indicates- it of readers she undoubtedly considers professor mysteriously appeared years death of Sherlock Holmes’ archenemy.” 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 inand the August lotthroughout were Derleth seven thein letters Thecountry Misadven and commenced two- ed moving-picture“remains one stunt.” of the leadingHolmes’s Bohemian full and sufficient reward.” Douglas later, after the fatal encounter with Mr. SherlockThe story Holmes continued: edition in Norwegian, Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It (andPress indeedAlbum added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time postcardstures of Sherlock by ACD Holmes to Madame. That book Broch - explanationGentleman’s was erroneous, Clubs in London.”yet Watson Greene of Crippen and Landru and Holmes? What if, those remains some- which I edited and part-translated contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden mannbrought discussing readers “the rights finest to stories of these and voices his usual “Marvelous, Holmes, authorthe of Institute John Dickson of Journalists Carr: The Orphan Man how found their way into the hands (wanted to do all but didn’t have the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than pamphlets.parodies and ACD pastiches,” was eager as notedto have by marvelous!”In 1882, the Prince of Wales, later Who ExplainedFund. Miracles and editor of of a mysterious “collector”? And, what time), published in 10 volumes by Den “My immediate thought was reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- Theeditor War Ellery in South Queen. Africa: (“Ellery Its Cause Queen” and several anthologies, was kind enough if this secretive someone sent such Norske Bokklubben (“The Norwegian that it can’t be Moriarty be- 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 Conductwere cousins translated Manfred into Lee all languagesand Frederic The author of the parody, Carolyn to provideChristy a contemporaryAllen, who contributes view of her fre- remains to the Collections? So began Book Club”) in 1980. The tenth volume Aschehougcause thein EB’sskull time has wasless Doyle’sfrontal 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 andDannay wrote beginning“The a preface Dying seventeen forDetective” the Norwegian years BSI) ago, has Wells, a voracious reader, writer and writing.quently to the ConanDoyle (ACD) list a taleMusings... that was woven and re-worked was a collection of pastiches and essays. maindevelopment Norwegian publisher, than I would but unforhave - The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic edition. beenBrochmann devoted must to the have keep had and a educa- poet, was born in 1862 in Rahway on the Internet, is interested in Conan over the next few weeks by our biblio- In the 1990s all ten volumes were re- tunatelyexpected they didn’t from afollow man ofit up—therehis 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, closeThe story relationshiption opens of the with withorphans…Avoiding the ACD Society and hisof any New Jersey. Although hard of hear- The prolific Carolyn Wells was as graphic schemers. printed wholesale by a short-lived pub- were intellect.”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: family,Infallible butexpenditure Detectives there is nothing onmeeting bricks about in and their hermortar, theing aftertion a boutto the with facilities. scarlet On fever, December she 3, well-known during her lifetime for lisher called LibriArte. I’ve done minor Case-book, and only four of the stories about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. inFakir any Street ofprinciple the rooms. Conan laid President Doyle down biographies. was Holmes that of saving worked1886, as a librarianCatling wrote for the to Rahwaythe Grand her nonsenseI’ve tried verse to do and some children’s research about Weof decided all, she that missed the hiscurious companionship. artifact revisionsfor writing to the about text hisover friends the years, Wayne but inGeorgina HisJohnson Last Doyle, Bow sent were author the publishedskull of Outto foren of in the - translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACDarrives visited and advises Norway them in June that 1892 a reward with LibrarySecretary Association of United and wrote Grand her Lodge, first booksthe as poemfor her proper detective and novels.how/why it shouldAnd bewhen Moriarty’s she passed skull. away, But theirwhere a majorand Francine one for butanother also Bokklubbenfor helping with Norway,Shadows:sics inexperts The a book Untold in called the Story University 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 hishas sisterbeen Connieoffered “forand theJerome solution K. Jerome of book inenclosing 1896. She an went“imposing on to groupwrite of peti- Her mysterieswas written, are butweakened have come by up andfriends how does had onethe sameacquire reaction a skull? as Wepeople completethe packing edition, and in mailing two volumes, of the many, in tralen,Conanof 1919. Doyle’sMinnesota I’ve First been MedicalFamily very, read Schoolfortunate, Dick the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in amonga great mysteryothers. – so great, my col- more thantioners,” 170 proposingbooks, which that included a new lodge dialogueempty. better suited for books thoughthad when of asking George the Burns Medical died; School, his pass- 2002.manyA Themysterious boxes. most recent box containingreprint is in the a bothSveum’s forin GyldendalDNA article testing. from that December On they Monday, wanted 2008 to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz leagues, that I fear none of you will be humor, poetry and books for children, for teenagers, but they are often buting instead meant enlisted that he awas fifth together accomplice with 2011skull Bokklubben of Professor volume James Sherlock Mori- givewith HolmesJohnson a careful his got eye due the and placenews has inthatcorrected a prestigeit is a Thomas Catling edited The Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my Aable Google to solve search it, or revealed even to a help 1902 me letter in as well as writing for newspapers. imaginative and ingenious. skilled in obtaining unusual items for Holmesarty Mysterier — archenemy i utvalg to (“Selectedrenowned series— of indeedmodern — and Moriarty’s classical skull. 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 writtenthe marvelous by Samuel work L. I Clemensshall do when(Mark One of her poems was “Ballade of our exhibits. I wrote a short, some- Mysteries”),detective containing Sherlock STUD,Holmes HOUN stories and bringing him back into translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, of The 1918. Apartalmost from certainly a missing written ABBE when this Jean ered quite the local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues Twain)ferreting toworked it Brochmann out.” for The Lloyd’s great noting Weeklymystery? that Newsshe , as a Baker Street” which appeared with As Charlie Press wrote, “Everyone what bizarre note to our unknowing and The— was Adventures—all delivered last translatedmonth, print,Moriarty’s and in Den death norske at BokklubbenReichen- 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, hadInspector translatedcompositor, Spyor, into while Norwegianwriter, riding news the his editor from other Holmes and Conan Doyle ar- needs a little escape once in a while.” companion: “I need to find a full- by yoursanonymously, truly. If you’re to Timothy interested, John I’ll- for decidingbach Falls to do now the considered first ever com a - 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. SherlockianElevated1866 Road pastiche through through A1884, theDoubled-Bar East then Side, editor- fromticles inFreemasons’ the August Hall 15, 1908and Sir Collier’s. Henry IrvingCarolynborn Wells in provided March of that1909, for just many one sized human skull (preferably plastic) be happyson at to the send University you a copy of Minnefor your- plete certaintyedition and giving me a free rein Norwegian suggests a large, possibly stories from The Return of SH. Broch- paperback mystery series called “The reledspied Detective a clothes-line1884 through Story. strungThe 1907. Lilly between The Library Scoop Aroundwas 1910 invested she became as Treasurer. so inter There- is no readers.month before The Press Book was fairlycollection quickly. to Any The ideas Sherlock where Holmes I could collection.thanksota Christy Libraries. 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 Manuscriptwindows in Collectiona tenement has house 15 lettersarea. to ested inlonger the mystery a formal novels connection of Anna between published). acquireCollections. one?” He Sadly, suggested her death an onlinein alsoinformation adapted and about translated Conan Doyle’sa Swedish poet- heSo should it’sMoriarty business be. was as ausual criminal at The master- 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 herHanging (1900-1917) from that from clothes-line English authorswas a Katherinethe LodgeGreen andthat theshe Club.concentrated Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI anatomicalOctober shop2007 whichmeant featuredher collection, a wide radiory “Ias dramatisation wasfeatured stunned, in our of somewhat the100 book Years and Ago Sherlockmind Holmes of the late Collections, 19th century for dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. including F. Anstey (one of the 24 According to Doyle’s own correspon- varietywhich of sheskulls amassed at an astonishingwith her beloved price producedcolumn.delighted, it Dick as a and Sveumsix-part skeptical updates serial when in us 1977. on the Sowhich theand 1911 we Holmes’ are second all thankful.chief edition nemesis. was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950, ally translated into my language the I can certainly tell you that Broch- There had then been no Holmes books authors along with ACD of The Fate of After his retirement from Lloyd’s range.Wayne, I notified was ready our tosecret move circle to that I sometimesstatusI first of the openedthink drive that the for my box,”the main E.W. said motive got NilsHolmes Nordberg often hookedreferred onto SherlockMori- indicates he extended the circulation title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s dencetranslation (from of A HOUN Life in Letters and that), this in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. Jerome. , Catling undertook the the “artifact” had been ordered and for becomingJohnson, aa radiowell-known drama producerSherlock Holmes.arty Inas histhe translation“Napoleon heof keptcrime.” of the paper beyond London and waswhich Wis eeklynot only News clumsy, Catling but–even undertook the very 1911was edition a worrisome has played time. aJean decisive was do twoMinnesota. selections, Boxes containing of books, seven pho- sto- McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI I was able to examine the letters while would soon arrive. In the meantime, was theHolmes wish expertto do this and story curator on ofradio, ElizabethNearly Brochmann’s all law enforcement 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 attendingreputed the Gillette to be theto Brett first IIIto usecon the- auto- our coterie moved forward on crafting the mediumRare Books it is andperfectly the Sherlock suited for. a goodofficials, friend ofhistorians, John Bennett and Shaw.Holmes 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 ference at Indiana University. a press release and arranging a photo And, Holmesah yes, 2009Collections saw the at firstthe Uni ever- a Norwegian-Americanaficionados concluded and Sherlockthat - Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) Continued on page 7 shoot. Cheryll Fong (see September “nynorsk”versity translation of Minnesota of HOUN, Libraries. by ian, I appreciate all the connections. as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a Continued on page 8 Continued on page 7 SIGN was also included in the series, good deal on mine. Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 July 2015 Volume 19 Number 2

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bottle of Courvoisier plus one fifth of the history of the scion mentioned earlier, The physical book is an interesting F New Jersey cognac, with the note: ‘Tell Thomas Hart reports that a publication artifact in itself, featuring quarter bind- the bartender to serve the Courvoisier fund was established as early as 1952 ing with textured morocco-colored first. Then by the time the Sons get to (with the princely sum of $4.00.) Hart, as endpapers of the same stock as the the New Jersey cognac, they may not treasurer of the Publication Committee, covers. spot the difference’” (250). Today, goes on to apologize to the membership Lellenberg says of Starr, “I’m convinced for “his many exhortations for funds, and Leaves from The Copper Beeches was fol- Sherlock Holmes that Julian Wolff [who took over leader- many stern admonitions against failure, lowed up by a second volume, More ship of the Baker Street Irregulars under made at meetings” over the years. Leaves from The Copper Beeches, in COLLECTIONS the title “Commissionaire” after Smith’s 1976. The Sons are still flourishing as untimely death in 1960] would have an active scion society; perhaps some- “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) retired as Commissionaire sooner than he day we will be able to look forward to did if Bill Starr had not died at a some- a third volume. what early age in 1976 and had been Contents around in the early ’80s to take over.” John Bergquist, BSI Francine and Wayne Swift By Peter E. Blau, ASH, BSI Leaves from The Copper Beeches was par- Francine and Wayne Swift tially financed by contributions from Illustration by H.W. Starr, captioned “The appeal t has been said that marriages between two Sherlockians are the most permanent. members of the Sons, who are listed in for the Publication Fund,” printed in Jon 1 Many Sherlockians have found it easy enough to persuade a spouse to enjoy the Lellenberg’s Irregular Crises of the Late ’Forties the acknowledgments. In his memoir of Sherlockian world, but when two people who already are Sherlockians marry they (New York, 1999) Continued from Page 7 100 Years Ago I will sooner or later merge their collections, as well as their lives. And there is no custody battle, whether over the car, the house, the pets, or the children, that can possi- 2 bly match the difficulty of dividing a collection that has no duplicates.

April Fool's Day So for two Sherlockians it’s a matter only of the better, and never the worse. That cer- 50 Years Ago tainly was true of Wayne B. Swift and Francine Morris, who were Sherlockians when 3 they met for the first time. Francine started her Sherlockian life in Texas, where she was Remembrances a librarian; she founded The Sub-Librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars in the From the President American Library Association, and In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made 4 was one of the founders of The contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. Practical, But Limited, Geologists at an informal luncheon in the Zodiac In Honor Of From Musings Room at Nieman Marcus in Dallas. Peter Blau Arthur E.F. Wiese Jr. 4 When she moved to Washington she Fred Levin Cliff Goldfarb quickly became a member of The Red Circle, and was one of the ring- In Memory Of From An Update from leaders in planning the society’s full- Paul Churchill John Baesch and Evelyn Herzog For any inquiries contact: the Collections fledged costume party at the Paul Churchill Thomas Drucker Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 5 National Press Club. Paul Churchill Warren Randall 612-624-3552 or Wayne was from Nebraska, an elec- Joseph Gillies Michael Kean [email protected] of The Sherlock Photo courtesy Holmes Collections Allen Mackler Patricia Nelson Recent Acquisitions Wayne and Francine Swift trical engineer and a teacher, and an Allen Mackler Once Upon A Crime Mystery Bookstore Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 early convert to the world of com- Allen Mackler Philip Swiggum Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library puters. When he moved to Washington he decided to take an adult-education course in Beatrice McCaffrie John Lockwood University of Minnesota Sherlock Holmes at a local community college and soon attended his first Sherlockian E.W. McDiarmid Michael Brahmey 222 21st Ave. S. To the Editor function, a running of The Silver Blaze (Southern Division) at Pimlico Race Track in E.W. McDiarmid Jim DeLeo Minneapolis, MN 55455 6 Maryland, where he and Francine quickly discovered they shared more than an interest E.W. McDiarmid Jeffrey Klaus Telephone: 612-626-9166 in Sherlock Holmes. They courted , and wed, and had many happy years together, shar- 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— Moriarty fell to his death follow- was inside a box addressed to Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory Wayne became a member of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1978 (as “The Giant Rat of 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 ing his epic 1891 struggle with Johnson. It had no return ad- 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 Holmes atop the Reichenbach dress. Ultimately, Johnson said, Falls in Switzerland. the skull will become part of the Holmes Collections at the But until now, there was no University of Minnesota, which, physical proof of Moriarty’s in fact — no fooling — is the death. This stunning discovery largest collection of Sherlock at the University of Minnesota Holmes material in the world. Sherlock Holmes apparently puts this mystery to COLLECTIONS bed. Johnson said that grass, By all accounts, our little tale was both Photo courtesy of University Minnesota leaves, and mud found on the fun and a success. Hits to the Libraries’ skull were linked to the Reichen- main website spiked during the day. Tim Johnson “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) bach Falls region, providing fur- Links to the story and accompanying or complimenting us on our sense of ther evidence that the skull was slideshow reverberated through online humor. One of our favorite comments recovered in the gorge beneath social media. Commenters engaged in encapsulated all thoughts on our little Contents the falls. the fun, staging arguments based on the joke: “I love this day. And the Holmes Akane Higashiyama and the Japan photographic evidence that the skull Collection.” The skull and a note that said was far too small for Moriarty, claiming Sherlock Holmes Club By Masamichi (“Mitch”) Higurashi, BSI simply “Professor Moriarty” the skull was still in their possession, Tim Johnson, Curator Akane Higashiyama and the Japan [Ed. Note: Akane Higashiyama recently Sherlock Holmes Club gifted The Sherlock Holmes Collections Musings with a collection of books and journals t was with pleasure that the Sherlock Holmes Collections received the gift from Akane Higashiyama, and it seemed appropri- 1 from Japan. A listing of that donation ate to highlight not just the donation but our generous donor as well. Mitch Higurashi happily accepted our request to write follows this article.] about this very special woman who is an honored founder of the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club, and we thank him. 100 Years Ago Our 100 Years Ago Column features a parody by Carolyn Wells, and I thank Douglas Greene for giving me an appraisal of her or almost five years, Akane I writing. Dick Sveum has authored the 50 Years Ago column with a look at the anthology Great Detective Stories About Doctors 2 Higashiyama has represented which contains “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier.” It seemed like a good idea to have a physician write about a story featuring JSHC (Japan Sherlock Holmes a physician and which was placed with the publisher by a physician acting as literary agent. Dick has given us the dates for the An- 50 Years Ago Club), after the death of Tsukasa Kobayashi, her husband and club nual Meeting of the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections and the 2016 conference “The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.” F Photo courtesy of Mitch Higurashi Gary Thaden has contributed a piece about his outreach on behalf of the Norwegian Explorers and the Sherlock Holmes Collections. 3 co-founder. As you might know, JSHC has a different policy from the BSI and Tsukasa Kobayashi and Akane Higashiyama Tim Johnson, busy as ever, has written about his current “media darling” status on behalf of the Holmes Collections continues. European societies — it has neither “president/ The Akane Higashiyama chairman” nor administrative council. Kobayashi We’ve received any number of donations and we’ve highlighted a few, but space limitations prevent us from listing the numerous Donation journals and books that arrive. They are just as appreciated. and Higashiyama, co-founders, were a kind of “secretariat” or “bureau chief” or “organizer 3 and administrative manager.” However, for our founding members, JSHC is “the society Enjoy your summer days and plan to join us next summer, June 17-19, for “The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.” Kobayashi and Higashiyama made.” Now the activity of the society, one of the largest in the world, centers around her, and all the senior members, whom I refer to as “old-timers,” Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI From the President admire her and are impressed with her character. Though the policy is never changed, the construction of the society is beginning to improve in these five years with the assistance of 4 old-timers.

For any inquiries contact: Added to the Collections To describe Akane’s background and herself, I first need to explain the background of Tsu- Timothy J. Johnson, Curator kasa Kobayashi and JSHC. 612-624-3552 or 4 [email protected] In my introduction to Japan and Sherlock Holmes (ed. by Hirayama, Higurashi and Ueda, An Update from 2004, BSI), the history of the Sherlockiana and Holmes community in Japan is divided into Sherlock Holmes Collections the Collections three periods — “prehistoric age” before World War II, the period from 1948 to 1977, and Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library the period after 1977. In the “prehistoric age” no one called themselves Sherlockians. There University of Minnesota 5 were a few mystery/crime story writers who introduced the Canon and Conan Doyle to 222 21st Ave. S. Japan as well as Japanese magazines which reported on foreign Sherlockian activity. Minneapolis, MN 55455 On the Air Telephone: 612-626-9166 In 1948, three years after the end of WWII, a branch of the BSI named the Baritsu Chapter FAX: 612-625-5525 5 was founded by about a dozen Japanese, American, and Australian men, including Austra- lian journalist Richard Hughes. In the brief history of Japanese Sherlockiana that I wrote for Japan and Sherlock Holmes I wrote that Kohki Naganuma as well as Count Makino, a Mailing list corrections requested— April Fool's Day Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, pre-war Minister, and Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida had been founding members of the we would appreciate being informed of changes 7 Baritsu Society. I would like to take this opportunity to correct that. Instead, it was during of address or other corrections. the second period that Naganuma, while never a member of the Baritsu Chapter, pursued Musings his independent Sherlockian studies and wrote books on Holmes and ACD. Naganuma Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8 Continued on page 6

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