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The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto Volume 32 Number 3 Spring 2010 The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto Volume 32 Number 3 Spring 2010 Canadian Holmes is published by The Bootmakers of Toronto, the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada. Bootprints (editors) are Mark and JoAnn Alberstat, 46 Kingston Crescent, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B3A 2M2 Canada, to whom letters and editorial submissions should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] Membership and subscription Rates Canadian Individual - Cdn$35.00 Canadian Joint (One copy of CH per household) - Cdn$45.00 Canadian Student (Full-time student 16+) - Cdn$25.00 U.S. Individual - US$35.00 U.S. Associate - US$30.00 International - US$35.00 Past Issues of Canadian Holmes, including postage - Cdn$12.00 per copy Further Subscription information and details are available on the society’s web site, www.bootmakers.ca. Business correspondence should be addressed to The Bootmakers of Toronto, PO Box 1157, TDC Postal Station, 77 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1P2 Canada. Copyright © 2010 The Bootmakers of Toronto. Copyright in all individual articles is hereby assigned to their respective authors. Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement Number 40038614, The Bootmakers of Toronto, PO Box 1157, TDC Postal Station, 77 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5K 1P2 Canada. Return postage guaranteed. ISSN 0319-4493. Printed in Canada. Cover: ACD’s caricature on the cover is courtesy of Jim Naylor, a UK-based caricaturist. This cartoon is used with his permission. Naylor’s work has appeared in more than 200 publications world-wide and can be purchased at: www.cartoonists.co.uk Canadian Holmes Volume 32 Number 3 Spring 2010 One hundred and twenty-third issue RACES OF BOOTPRINTS Discovering a Copper Beech “You see, but you do not observe.” I was reminded recently of Holmes’ rebuke of Dr. Watson, delivered in A Scandal in Bohemia, after making a discovery about a historic site in my Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, neighbourhood. I learned from a letter published in a local community newspaper that Greenvale School, a century-old schoolhouse now being converted into condos, has a 150-year-old copper beech on its grounds. This was an exciting piece of information for a member of the Spence Munros. Our society is named after Colonel Spence Munro, who is mentioned in The Adventure of the Copper Beeches as being on his way to Halifax, Nova Scotia. I also found myself bewildered that I hadn’t previously noticed the majestic tree, all that remains from what was once a businessman’s grand estate. Renowned architect Andrew Cobb, responsible for several impressive buildings in the Halifax region, designed the school, built in 1914 on the estate grounds. I’ve driven by the downtown site regularly for almost 20 years, always glancing at the elegant old building on its large lot. The red brick structure, with tall windows and a portico entry, stood empty and derelict for many years. Now that the controversial development is well underway, there’s even more to see. The bones of the original building are being incorporated into the development, along with modern additions and upgrades. But now I also look for the 100-year-old trees scattered around grounds, especially our society’s namesake. The copper beech was heavily damaged by Hurricane Juan in 2003 but is still standing, protected by heritage regulations. At this time of year, its stately branches are black and bare. The signs of life brought by spring will appear any day now, since I’ve realized how important it is to “see the forest for the trees.” We kick off this issue with a focus on Dr. John H. Watson. Bruce Aikin’s elementary look at our favourite biographer is quickly followed up by a Watsonian inspired toast and cartoon. Bruce also gets a nod of thanks for a page of photographs of the Bootmakers’ annual dinner. As always, the editors would like to encourage all those reading this issue to consider submitting their own work for publication. Without you, we would be like a copper beech in the winter, devoid of interest and a skeleton of what we could be. Canadian Holmes Spring 2010 1 Toronto Dominion Bank has a summer reading program for kids. In the summer of 2009, they used a bit of Sherlockian imagery. Here are just some of those pictures. 2 Canadian Holmes Spring 2010 Dr. Watson: An Elementary Analysis By Bruce D. Aikin, M.Bt., Sh.D. This paper was first presented on June 9, 2007, at the 35th Anniversary of the Bootmakers of Toronto. e are called Sherlockians, although without Dr. Watson none of us would be here. It is the writings of John H. Watson that we all love W and enjoy time and time again. In 1999, Dr. Owen Dudley Edwards, General Editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series, was the Distinguished Speaker at the Baker Street Irregulars weekend in New York City. The title of his lecture was Dr. Watson: Portrait of a Genius. It was supposed to be forty-five minutes long. He took about an hour and a half. When discussing Watson, the challenge is not what to say but what not to say. This paper is meant to be an elementary introduction to Dr. Watson, not an exhaustive biography of our favorite biographer. However, I would like to use another definition of the word “elementary” rather than “simple” or “basic.” The word also means “having to do with elements.” As a professional chemist I am used to examining the elements in a sample. Although in the case of Dr. Watson, I am reminded of my course in Qualitative Organic Analysis, where the professor gave us a mixture of four or five compounds and we had to separate them and properly identify each one. With the Good Doctor, the analysis is certainly a very complex one. Unlike the Periodic Table of the Elements, where it is certain that all of the naturally occurring elements are known, there are both known and unknown elements in the compound mixture known as John H. Watson. Unknown element number one: Family and early life. What we know about Dr. Watson is what he tells us in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Since his purpose is to tell about Holmes, he often minimizes what he reveals about himself. Where was he born? Who were his mother and father? What did his father do for a living? What about his family heritage? Did he have brothers and sisters? The answers to these questions are largely unknown. We know only of one older brother, who is mentioned very briefly in The Sign of Four. Watson had given Holmes a watch which recently came into his possession. He Canadian Holmes Spring 2010 3 wanted to see what Holmes could tell him about the previous owner. “Though unsatisfactory, my research has not been entirely barren,” he observed, staring up at the ceiling with dreamy, lack-lustre eyes. “Subject to your correction, I should judge that the watch belonged to your elder brother, who inherited it from your father.” “That you gather, no doubt, from the H. W. upon the back?” “Quite so. The W. suggests your own name. The date of the watch is nearly fifty years back, and the initials are as old as the watch: so it was made for the last generation. Jewellery usually descends to the eldest son, and he is most likely to have the same name as the father. Your father has, if I remember right, been dead many years. It has, therefore, been in the hands of your eldest brother.” “Right, so far,” said I. “Anything else?” “He was a man of untidy habits ― very untidy and careless. He was left with good prospects, but he threw away his chances, lived for some time in poverty with occasional short intervals of prosperity, and finally, taking to drink, he died.” Holmes said he never knew Watson had a brother until he handed him the watch. Curiously, he says Watson’s eldest brother. Was there another brother between them in age who had predeceased the eldest? Again, we have no information on the subject. In the first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, after Watson is wounded in Afghanistan at the Battle of Maiwand, he is sent back to England and given a wound pension to help him recuperate. One would expect someone in this situation to go to his family to recover his health. But all Watson says is: “I had neither kith nor kin in England.” His only support was his government pension. Was he alienated from his family? Holmes’ description of the oldest brother “taking to drink” is a tantalizing clue, but no explanation is ever given. Why does he specifically say he had no family in England, and not Britain? Did he have family in Scotland, Wales or Ireland? He mentioned in The Sign of Four that he had been in Australia at some time but gives no details. And who sent Doctor Watson his deceased eldest brother’s watch and from where? We have no information from which to draw any conclusions. Unknown element number two: Watson’s education. In The Naval Treaty, Watson says: “During my school-days I had been intimately associated with a lad named Percy Phelps, who was of much the same age as myself, though he was two classes ahead of me.” Percy Phelps was the nephew of a very important political figure, “Lord Holdhurst, the great conservative politician.” So the school must have been an exclusive one. In The Sussex Vampire, Holmes’ client, Mr. Robert Ferguson, says, “I believe your friend Watson played Rugby for Blackheath when I was three-quarter for Richmond.” Both Blackheath and Richmond are part of Greater London, so they must have played Rugby during their University days.
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