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Sherlock Holmes C O L L E C T I O September 2000 D S O F N Volume 4 Number 3 E T Remembrances I H R In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made contributions either in honor or in memory of special per- E sons. Due to the number of people who made donations in Mac McDiarmid’s memory, we will list them as one group. F IN HONOR OF FROM Anonymous Ted Friedman Nancy Beiman Laura Kuhn Dr. Howard Burchell Richard M. Caplan Bob Burr Laura Kuhn Sherlock Holmes Mark Conrad Laura Kuhn COLLECTIONS "The Insoluble Puzzles" Laura Kuhn Carole McCormick Laura Kuhn “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) Austin McLean Charles Press Bob Thomalen Paul Singleton 221Beach Alexian Gregory photo by Julie McKuras Peter Blau, Mac McDiarmid, Michael Whelan Contents Some Personal Recollections of the Early August 1998 Founders' Footprints Conference IN MEMORY OF FROM Some Personal Days of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Errett W. McDiarmid Cheryl Anderson, Thomas Arlander, Pauline Cartford, Mary Cermak, Recollections of the Early By Andrew Malec, B.S.I. Susan Davern, Wendell and Marjorie DeBoer, Frank and Genevieve Di Gangi, Days of the Sherlock Pj Doyle, Karen Ellery, Joan Fabian, Aurelio and Marana Floria, Paul and Ruth Holmes Collections am pleased to be afforded this undergraduate days. I attended my initial Fonstad, Lisl Gaal, Alma Gaona, Belen Gaona-Keithley, Thomas and Lynda Garnett, opportunity to draw together some Norwegian Explorers meeting in 1975 Dennis and Caroline Gebhard, David Hammer, Robert Holloway, Karen Hoyle, 1 of my earliest memories of the (on the occasion of John Bennett Shaw’s Margaret S. Hubbs, Marjorie Jambor, Carol Johnson, Hugh Klein, Janice Dolejki, development of the Sherlock first visit to Minnesota) but did not meet 100 Years Ago I Bobbi Masquelier, Richard and Rosemary McHugh, D. E. Meyer, Robert Minish, Holmes Collections, as well as some of Mac though we had exchanged corre- Forrest G. Moore, Frederick and Lynda Morlock, Terry Mueller, Merlin and 2 my encounters with E.W. McDiarmid spondence—he was in the hospital recov- Gladys Nelson, Susan Nelson, Carol Pavlik, David and Margaret Peterson, ("Mac") and others who played vital roles ering from a heart attack. In those days Michael and Janice Pluta, Laura Rice, Lucy C. Robertson, Albert and Julia 50 Years Ago during this period. Rosenblatt, Sally Ruvelson, Edward Stanford, Richard J. Sveum, Mabel Thompson, Though I relate these Karen Titrud, Jane Von Hagen, Judith Brown-Wescott, 3 events from a person- Arthur Conan Doyle Leslie S. Klinger From the President al perspective, I am in Dennis France Julie McKuras fact recording the Dennis France J. L. Weiner 4 accomplishments of Capt. Wiley Sampson Robert F. Cairo, Jr. Acquisitions others who generally Dorothy Rowe Shaw Karen Ellery chose to downplay 4 their significant con- Musings tributions to the beginnings of what 5 has become the largest Sherlock For any inquiries contact: An Update from Holmes collection in Timothy J. Johnson, Curator the Collections the world. During 612-624-3552 or most of the time in photo – John Bennett Shaw's Collection [email protected] 6 question I was more Andrew Malec and Mac McDiarmid, July 1983 Using the Sherlock an observer and ben- Sherlock Holmes Collections Holmes Collections Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library eficiary of their tremendous labors than the Iraldi collection was housed in Walter University of Minnesota 8 an active participant. Holmes was lost Library under the supervision of Karen 222 21st Ave. S. without his Boswell and they, too deserve Nelson Hoyle, Curator of the Kerlan and Minneapolis, MN 55455 E.W. McDiarmid: a chronicler. Hess collections. I began to do volunteer photo by Julie McKuras Telephone: 612-624-7526 A Friend To All work with the collection but it cannot be E.W. Ziebarth, "Sigerson" Mac McDiarmid, Bryce L. Crawford, Jr. FAX: 612-626-9353 Who Knew Him Three of the Founders of the Norwegian Explorers My first indication that the University of said my endeavors then amounted to November 1998 9 Minnesota Library was demonstrating much. Timothy J. Johnson, Curator special interest in Sherlock Holmes came A McDiarmid Bibliography when I read of the acquisition of the Mac and I eventually met and kept in Mailing list corrections requested— 10 James C. Iraldi collection in The touch as I became active in the Explorers. Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, Minnesota Daily, in 1974, during my Indeed, it was largely due to his influ- we would appreciate being informed of changes Remembrances of address or other corrections. 12 Continued on page 10 12 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 incalculable", (Bell 45) and even 12) The 1955 publication of Irving Early Days of The Sherlock Holmes attempted to identify Jack the Ripper Wallace’s The Fabulous Originals, at the time of the crimes. Bell which included a chapter about Joseph Collections received numerous medical honors, Bell called "The Real Sherlock work by F.D. Steele, and the "particu- achieving the position of President of Holmes", prompted Adrian Conan larly noteworthy … William Gillette the Royal College of Surgeons, and Doyle to threaten legal action against material, which is primarily from the was well liked by patients, fellow fac- Wallace. Adamant in his quest to Gillette estate." Stern concluded with 100 ulty and students. have his father seen as the true model YEARS AGO for Holmes, Adrian reacted negatively the opinion "the scope and quality of the Hench Collection could probably The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections One of those students was Arthur to Hesketh Pearson’s references to Bell John Bennett Shaw filed a copy of not be duplicated today." Though this is a quarterly newsletter published by the Conan Doyle. He was chosen by Bell in his 1943 Conan Doyle, His Life and Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections "The Making of Sherlock Holmes", was early in Stern’s career, and he to be his out-patient clerk, allowing Art, and called the book a "fakeogra- which seek to promote the activities, inter- written by A.M., in his notebook of phy", according to Jon Lellenberg. would subsequently participate in the ests and needs of the Special Collections him close observation of the doctor’s and Rare Books Department, University of periodical articles from the period Adrian had helped shape John formation of some equally important interaction with patients. Bell was photo – John Bennett Shaw's Collection Minnesota Libraries. before 1903. In the Vol. 14, 1900 collections, it is still an indication of known for his powers of deduction, Dickson Carr’s 1949 The Life of Sir issue of The Young Man, A.M. noted the impression it made at the time. July 1983 Mail editorial correspondence c/o: impressing upon students the need to Arthur Conan Doyle, and in the same "Adventures on the Air" Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle's statement: Editor use all of their senses in making a fashion, insisted that William Baring- John Bennett Shaw, Austin McLean, Julie McKuras "Sherlock Holmes…is the literary The Hench bequest received consider- Edith Meiser, Mac McDiarmid 13512 Granada Ave. diagnosis. As Ely Liebow states, "Joe Gould review with him the introducto- embodiment of my memory of a able publicity among Holmes enthusi- Apple Valley, MN 55124 Bell gave Doyle the scientific method, ry chapters of The Annotated Sherlock 952-431-1934 Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh asts but not as well known is that cer- unenviable task of editing my text for the voice, the stoic face, but most of Holmes, excluding any reference to 952-431-5965 Fax University". tain valuable items listed in the 1966 the exhibit brochure, a composition [email protected] all the true touchstone, the aspect of Wallace’s book. He sent Baring-Gould Metzdorf appraisal did not come with replete with schoolboy howlers and Holmes that instantly and forever a manuscript, "The Real Sherlock Editorial Board That professor was Dr. Joseph Bell, a the rest of the collection in 1978. written in what he accurately described raised him above all other detectives Holmes", which was originally intend- Bruce Southworth, Dr. Richard Sveum, fourth generation physician in a family Included among the missing were two as my "turgid prose." This work, by Timothy Johnson and made him more recognizable than ed but not used as the introduction to known throughout Edinburgh, leaves from the manuscript to The the way, would have justifiably lapsed almost any other literary creation: the Pierre Nordon’s Conan Doyle. This Copyright © 2000 Scotland. He was born there on Dec. Hound of the Baskervilles, the full into permanent obscurity had it not University of Minnesota Library ingenious, insouciant, lightning essay and Adrian’s correspondence are 2, 1837, and was the eldest son of Dr. part of the Baring-Gould papers, manuscript to the non-Holmes story been posted on the Internet by a cur- The University of Minnesota is an Equal deduction…" (10) Opportunity Educator and Employer. Benjamin and Cecilia Bell. He attend- donated to the University of "The Horror of the Heights," a number rent incumbent of Special Collections. ed the University of Edinburgh, "the of significant early Arthur Conan Doyle John Jenson was much involved in the In May, 1892, Conan Doyle acknowl- Minnesota. In his pamphlet "The most celebrated medical school in the letters, and some 70 additional sketch- physical mounting of this and subse- edged that Bell was his model for the Real Sherlock Holmes", E. W. world" (Liebow 40) and graduated in es and drawings by Frederic Dorr quent exhibits, in the early days bene- Great Detective. Bell, a modest man McDiarmid questions the distinct pos- 1859.
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