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March 2009 D S O F N Volume 13 Number 1 E T 50 Years Ago...Continued from Page 3 I H R E

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

A Letter From a Friend 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— Wayne became a member of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1978 (as “The Giant Rat of Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 6 Jan Stauber Francine and Richard Kitts we would appreciate being informed of changes Sumatra”). Francine became a member of The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes in Tom Stix Karen Anderson of address or other corrections. 1977 (as “Hatty Doran”) and was honored by the BSI as The Woman in 1983, and Dr. Richard Sturtz William Sturtz Remembrances awarded her Irregular Shilling and Investiture in 1994 (as “The Wigmore Street Post Timothy J. Johnson, Curator Dear Friends: 8 Continued on page 6 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 In profiling Carolyn Wells in your most recent issue, you’ve overlooked several of her strong Sherlockian credentials. Wells (1862- 1942) was born in Rahway, New Jersey, and despite being deaf from early childhood, wrote more than 80 books of crime fiction, parodies, and humorous verse. Among her nonfiction titles isThe Technique of the Mystery Story: A Complete Practical Study of the Theory and Structure of the Form with Examples from the Best Mystery Writers. Springfield, MA: The Home Correspondence School (1913, issued in a “new and revised edition” in 1929). The book includes numerous examples from the Canon—she references Doyle 25 times!—and includes much sound analysis of what makes the Holmes stories effective.

Wells was apparently a favorite of the Senior and Junior Editors of The Bookman magazine (Harry Thurston Peck and Arthur Sherlock Holmes Bartlett Maurice) and was a frequently-published correspondent, often on the subject of Holmes and Doyle. The May 1902 COLLECTIONS issue of The Bookman included her charming poem, “A Ballade of Detection”: “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) Savants there be who joy to read Of lofty themes in words that glow; Others prefer the poet’s screed Where liquid numbers softly flow. Contents A Travel-Worn and Battered Box Others in Balzac interest show, By Ray Betzner, BSI Or by Dumas are much impressed; Some seek grim novels full of woe— I like Detective Stories best. A Travel-Worn and ne of the great dreams Battered Box of any Sherlock Holmes To my mind nothing can exceed devotee is to find Dr. The tales of Edgar Allan Poe, 1 Watson’s travel-worn and Of Anna Katherine Green I’ve need, O battered tin dispatch- Du Boisgobey, Gaboriau; box, jammed full of notes on the I’ve Conan Doyle’s works all a-row, 100 Years Ago unrecorded cases of Sherlock And Ottolengui and the rest; Holmes. What magical hours one How other books seem tame and slow! 2 could have sorting through the con- I like Detective Stories best. tents. What unexpected treasures would it contain? The dim, elusive clues mislead, 50 Years Ago Hiding the mystery below; Some of the same experience comes To fearful pitch my mind is keyed, 3 to mind when contemplating the Opinion shuttles to and fro! latest major library acquisition: a Successive shocks I undergo box full of items relating to Vincent Ere the solution may be guessed; From the President Starrett (October 26, 1886 – Janu- Arguments and discussions grow— ary 5, 1974). As many of you would I like Detective Stories best. 4 know, Starrett was a founding mem- ber of The Baker Street Irregulars, ENVOY: author of the seminal work The Sherlock, thy subtle powers I know, Acquisitions Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1933) Spirit of search, incarnate quest, 4 and for several decades one of the To thee the laurel wreath I throw— nation’s great bookmen, amassing I like Detective Stories best. For any inquiries contact: (and sometimes selling) great collec- Photo by Tim Johnson Timothy J. Johnson, Curator Musings tions about Holmes, Stephen Crane, A woman after our own hearts! 612-624-3552 or Robert L. Stevenson, Arthur Machen [email protected] 4 and others. He was an influential book reviewer and columnist in his adopted city of Chi- Regards, cago, where his “Books Alive” column was a mainstay for decades. Les Klinger Sherlock Holmes Collections Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library An Update From the The University of Minnesota library already has one of the best public collections relating to University of Minnesota Collections Starrett. It’s appropriate, then, that this box has been added to the existing collection. 222 21st Ave. S. Purchased from a book dealer in St. Louis earlier this year, the banker’s box of Starrett Remembrances Minneapolis, MN 55455 5 memorabilia offers tempting glimpses into one of the great popular-culture bookmen of the early 20th century. Let’s slip off the lid and peer inside, shall we? In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made Telephone: 612-626-9166 contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. FAX: 612-625-5525 A Letter From a Friend There are lots of letters here, some by names familiar with the Sherlock Holmes movement: Irregulars John Bennett Shaw, Herb Tinning and Don Yates have letters here, as does Sean In Memory Of From Mailing list corrections requested— Wright. There are also notes about Charles Honce, who wrote the only detailed bibliog- Fred Levin Don Hobbs Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 8 Barbara McKuras Mike and Julie McKuras we would appreciate being informed of changes Continued on page 6 Barbara McKuras Sue and Ben Vizoskie of address or other corrections. Norman Schatell Glenn Schatell Remembrances Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8

8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 100100 Years AgoAgo ContinuedContinued fromfrom PagePage 22 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 Richard A. Newhall; Newhall’s book- The Ladies’ Home Journal, The Ladies’ Stories of battles and Where I, the creator, would mobile for “journalistic purposes.” table of contents for this 224 page plate, affixedmobile tofor the “journalistic inside cover, purposes.” has World,table Good of Housekeeping, contents for thisand 224The Sunpage.” health man’s during intrepidity and after the pregnan- The bow Orphanage and revere. Catling was active in the Institute of illustrated book includes works by in an earlier translation which I an image which brings Don Quixote The Laughingillustrated Muse book content includes pages works list by cy. This certainly would explain the So please grip this fact with Rather than wails of revised quite heavily. to mind.Journalists The first and page traveled has Shaw’s extensively the chaptersAlfred Noyes,Great Adventures, Arthur Morrison, Mainly somewhat neurotic sombremorbidity! tone of the poem. When, your ere cerebral the tangled tentacle: web is reft, bookplatethrough and hisAmerica, typed noteCanada, “TO the SIR Middle Feminine,Rosamund Clever Marriott-Watson, Animals, and Mere Eden The use of the word “lady” in the last The kid-gloved villain scowls and sneers, Give me adventures and TheThe doll main and difference its maker arebetween ARTHUREast CONAN and Europe, DOYLE, including pages 218-France Literature.Phillpotts, That lastJohn chapter Galsworthy, heading F. Ansteyis stanza seems to strongly And hapless innocence is left 100220.” during World War I. He served as a divided into three sections; Impudent fierce dinotheriums W ith mynever no own assets identical. and save EB’s sighs translation and tears, I 100 during World War I. He served as a and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100 and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100YEARS AGO suggest that it was written to/for think stems from the fact that Interviews, Rhymed Review and Letters Rather than Hewlett’s ’Tis then, just then, that in there stalks YEARS AGO delegate to the Conference of the few of the contributors. Page 20 fea- Lady Jean. Despitethey this belongdust-up, to Guiterman different ages. con -As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections The bookInternational is a collection Association of poetry of writ Journalists- to thetures Literati, the apoem title mentioned“By the North in the Sea” by ecstatic deliriums! The hero, watchful of her needs, is a quarterly newsletter published by the The March 2008 issue of this newslet- tinuedHe youwritingtalks! may Great and know, heavens, served Danish fromhow was he1925 talks for ten by atArthur Berlin Guiterman. in 1908, and He laterwas bornas precedingSir Arthur paragraph, Conan which Doyle. contains It is a short Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Among terthe featuredforeign translationsan article about of The The Flag, to American parents in Vienna,Caption: Austria The 1902 first“To edition Sir Arthur has the Conan Doyle.” The poem Frankly,Also, the Sir fact Conan, that they some were expect- to 1927Butcenturies weas presidentforgive the him, officialof for the his Authors’ deeds.written lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the Hound ofpublished the Baskervilles in 1908, from which John benefitted on November 20, 1871.Paget The illustrationfamily while thecontains second doesa brief not. biographical sketch ing hours their I’ve first eased child with may you have Leagueguage Fellowship. of Norway, His poetry and although subjects ests and needs of the Special Collections Society of Journalists during 1915. He included patriotic ballads, reflection on and Rare Books Department, University of Bennett Shaw’s collections, the one relocatedSociety three of years Journalists later to duringNew York 1915. Hethat recountslast stanza Doyle’s as written ambitions by Conan to write Doyle. And,influenced on the Doyle’s whole, decisionI am to con- LifeNorwegian is the drama in here 1911 to-day had begun the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called nature and love poems to his wife Vida, Minnesota Libraries. that was published 100 years ago has City wherepassed he awayattended on December public school 25, 1920. historic novels. About one-third into the tribute pretty to well The pleased Press Book within you. the Andsplitting Death the away, villain the of influencethe plot. entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wetBaskervilles. with North This Sea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: special significance. According to De in Manhattan and at 17 enrolled at the poem heHer writes: cheek was wet with North Sea spray, first place. Being a father himself, I’m but heIt is fromturned a realistic Danish to moreplay; was serious still strong. subjects It’s Conan Doyle’s “The Grey Dress – guage editionsCatling’s ofname the alsoCanon appears has nine in con- title is established;We walked where to the tide eye and it comesshingle meet, Scan courtesy of the University of Minnesota Librariesas he grewa complicated older. The storyAmerican but actuallyNa- Waal it was a 2nd edition, with the College of the City of New York ,where In Tellersure of he Tales could, Daniel easily Stashower empathize with Shall it end well or shall it not Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it soundsfrom far away tional biography online site states “His Editor first published in 1902. NotedHound he majored in English Literature. The Faith! as a teller of tales you’ve wrote that when Conan Doyle read NorwegianThe hero? Oh, on the the hero’s printed part page is beth BrochmannLondon. Founded and includes in 1857, scanned the mem- right. ItTo is purralso inmisleading, ripples at our because feet. it 11 yearsthe oldfatherless at the time,children which which makes would ‘Deathas different and General from Putnam,’ Ibsen’s time a ballad to the Julie McKuras collector Dr. Donald Pollack has both American National Biography Online the trick with you! this poem, first published in Decem- Is vacant—to be played by you. 13512 Granada Ave. covers. hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me it 1952benefit or ’53. from I think the saleit was of giventhe volume. in seven five-line stanzas describing the in his collection.The following year, in 1909, The Pressstates thatbers “he come won from the theWard worlds Medal of in art, ber 1912 in Life Magazine, he felt it presentThen as act Shakespeare it well! An isorphan’s from presheart- Apple Valley, MN 55124 than Stilla family.That there’s three But, a oldbone for friends theI’ve three beenhad met excel that- day: to me by friends of my parents who Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam’s Album was published to aid the Englishdrama, composition, law, literature, became music the class or sci- “deserved a response.” Conan Doyle’s ent dayMay English. beat the lighterAt the ifsame you do.time I did 952-431-1934 This search led to the online WorldCat lent reasons longingThe old mentioned, oldto pick sky, thewith I olddecided you: old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about meeting with Death, became one of [email protected] C3542. Journalists’— A1456. HundenOrphan fraFund, Basker and- as he poet andence. secretary, Former and members was elected have to included rebuttal, entitled “To an Undiscerning go for a “conservative” style, hoping which lists eleven books by A. Conan to changeAnd it.” love, which is as old as they. stories.orphans Anyway, which it was was a revelation. published in ithis would best-loved read toworks modern and daywas Norwewidely- ville: En hadny fortælling done the om previous Sherlock year, Conan Phi Betanotables Kappa. such He received as Charlie his Chaplin, B.A. in Holmes is your hero of drama Critic,” appeared in London Opinion on Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board Doyle translated in Norwegian by When I wrote to Nils Nordberg for an I’ve still got it, title page missing and giananthologized Christyreaders Allen as and Conan and quoted. Julie Doyle McKurasThe reads writer to Editorial Board Holmes. DoyleAutoriseret stepped oversættelse forward with ved a contri- 1891.”Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, James and serial; DecemberSongs 28.of the "The Road spirit, just of a the few holiday pages 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-speakingAlexander Woollcott readers often of read today. it on his Elisabeth Brochmann. Kristiania: McNeill Whistler, Sir Alexander seasonafter may “By have the moderated North Sea.” his It tone,was References: Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. bution. The book, edited by Thomas NasjonalbiblioteketMcNeill Whistler, (National Sir Alexander Library ElisabethAll Weof Brochmann’s ussaw know it rolling, where translationfold you on dugfold, of my dearest possessions. But very few radio show, [Walter] Damrosch set it Forlagt af H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Guiterman worked on the editorial staff but hiscalled poetry “The had Orphanage” seldom risen and to is such repro- http://www.scoop- Catling and published by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN the Andwas material markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist of the stories were available in my own Sinceto database.com/bio/catling_thomasmusic, 1971 and my Guiterman translation used of HOUN it as the Nygaard), 1902. 263 p. of Woman’s Home Companion and did heights":duced below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club has an introductory note which gives BrochmannIrving, dates Dante listed Rossetti, as 1855-1915 Dylan Thomas, 1902, alsoTurn by all Aschehoug. its leaden edge The to interestgold. language then, so I had to wait until I hastitlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club been piece reprinted for one of over his mosta dozen success times- —————. 2nd ed. 1911. 246 p. freelance editing for the Literary Digest, Whence he was molded – Sure there are times when one http://www.savageclub.com/ the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh ladyseems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest byful variouscollections publishers, in 1935. by Time Aschehoug magazine I became aware of translator Elisabeth Scientific News and Religious News from ’tis almost a platitude; cries with acidity, Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- Brochmann“1892 in with2004 a whengift of I £1,000acquired by the late1891 toW 1906.allace Byand 1905 Peter forty-eight Ustinov. It of is cur- The grey below, the gold above; anddescribed Norild it as as well ‘his literaryas Gyldendal, high’ and and re - University of Minnesota Library To me the most famous Norwegian The 1911Yet Foryour edition so detective,the greyest was one in life shameless inmay a seriesshine ‘Whereing of the are Orphan’sthe limits Fund of human when he I’veported also that read many it as urgedan audio its selectionbook. It for Copyright © ©2015 20112012 lot 93 ofLord The GleneskConan Doyle and £500 Collec by- the late Sirhis poemsrently had located appeared at 1 inWhitehall print and Place, Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. translator of the Canon is Nils Nor- of books ingratitudeAll published golden in – thein thatlight format,of love. half As EB’s wrote HOUNstupidity?’ this? was more or less my wasthe Pulitzerincluded Prize in the (24 first May ever1937)…[one collected tion auctionJohn atWillox…Working Christie’s. Included pressmen the followingLondon year and the their Woman’s website Home indicates it 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 Sherlockunnamed Holmes source] editionranked inhim Norwegian, with the inScan by Julie McKuras the lotthroughout were seven the letters country and commenced two Companion“remains ran his one “Strictly of the leadingGerm- Bohemian Sherlock your sleuthhound Here is a critic who says as a 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 humorists Franklin P. Adams and Don postcards by ACD to Madame Broch- Proof,”Gentleman’s reaching his Clubs largest in audience London.” to with motives ulterior platitude 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 mann discussing rights to stories and date. In 1910 he co-founded the Poetry the Institute of Journalists Orphan (wantedMarquis toas doone all of but ‘three didn’t fine have writers of Illustrationthe first from orphan The Laughing was adopted.” Muse The Name: Translating the Sneers attion) Poe’s had “Dupin” the Sidney as Paget and lessThat inclined I am guilty to take because liberties than graceful lyrics, whose poems, doubtless, pamphlets. ACD was eager to have SocietyIn of 1882, America the andPrince went of onWales, to later Fund. time), published in 10 volumes by Den Has Guiterman been remembered as reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later “veryillustration inferior!” of the hound contemporary “in gratitude Swedish or Danish trans- The War in South Africa: Its Cause and publish several books of verse includ- Norskewill be rememberedBokklubben long(“The after Norwegian many of the October 6 1924 Time predicted? Many Sherlockianscontributed enjoy to the the Fund, poetry 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 Conduct translated into all languages ing The Laughing Muse. Guiterman was LabelsChristy Gaboriau’s Allen, who clever contributes fre- Sherlock, the sleuth-hound, Bookour currently Club”) in vaunted 1980. Thehigh-brow tenth volume poets AschehougHe wrote of in Conan EB’s time Doyle was that Doyle’s “on the penned beginningby Sir Arthur seventeen Conan yearsDoyle. 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 and wrotebeginning a preface seventeen for the Norwegian years ago, has well-known for both his presentations quently “Lecoq,” to indeed,the ConanDoyle (ACD) list Musings... with motives ulterior, wasare forgotten’a collection (Time of pastiches, 6 Oct. 1924).” and essays. mainwhole, Norwegian I am pretty publisher, well pleased but withunfor - Thirty-three of his poems were collected 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- to professional groups and New York on the Internet, is interested in Conan In the 1990s all ten volumes were re- tunatelyyou.” To theyJohn didn’t Bennett follow Shaw it andup—there the in Songs of the Road and published in John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi- Merely “a& bungler,”Co.s Kronebibliotek a creature (“1 qualitiesneverSneers of the the at same Poe’soriginal. for Dupin Francine; I’m as still haunted she stuffed rat now adorn the Collections. readers and other interested parties, close relationshiption of the withorphans…Avoiding ACD and his any University’s School of Journalism about printedOn January wholesale 11, 1943 by aGuiterman short-lived col pub- - werereaders no oftranslations this newsletter, of VALL he will or The be 1911. Eleven years later The Poems of In that essay he explained Doyle’s to mock,Krone poetry. indeed! Library”, She wrote: mean- by themissed descriptions ‘very sharing inferior’.” 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, butexpenditure there is nothing on bricks about and hermortar, theverse intion magazines to the facilities. and newspapers On December 3, lisherlapsed called while LibriArte.preparing I’veto deliver done minora Case-book,remembered and as theonly author four ofof thea clever stories Arthur Conan Doyle - Collected Edition about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. in any ofprinciple the Conan laid Doyle down biographies. was that of saving and for1886, his poems Catling which wrote appeared to the Grand in a This,I’ve when tried your to do plots some and research about ofHave all, she you missed not learned, his companionship. my revisionslecturefor writing and to diedthe about text later hisover that friends the day years, fromWayne buta inlittleGeorgina His poem Last Doyle, Bowabout were authorthe Masterpublished of Out Detective. of in the was published by John Murray. Those translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACD visited Norway in June 1892 with numberSecretary of publications of United such Grand as such Lodge, as yourthe poem methods proper in story and how/whyowe it And esteemed when she communicator, passed away, their asecond majorand Francine heartone for attack. butanother alsoHis Bokklubbenforwife helping Vida sur with - Norway,WeShadows: are “pretty in The a book Untold well called pleased” Story Spioncen of withArthur him.- same Sherlockiansthe child to have its home enjoyed and the its home to changing Norwegian lan- less than $10 in today’s As for my own translation it was his sister Connie and Jerome K. Jerome Life, theenclosing New York an Times, “imposing Harper’s group and of peti- was written, but have come up friends had the same reaction as people completevivedthe packinghim. edition, The and Pittsburgh in mailing two volumes,Press of the carried many, in tralen, Conan 1919. Doyle’s I’ve First been Family very , read fortunate, Dick poetry writtenthe child.” about Sherlock Holmes; guage, including titles: More thanmoney). a trifle I’ve to gotPoe some of actuallyThat published the created for is the not first the creator?time in 2002.his obituary The most and recentphoto reprinton January is in 12, a both in Gyldendal that they wanted to among others. the Saturdaytioners,” Evening proposing Post, includingthat a new lodge empty. had when George Burns died; his pass- many boxes. Sveum’s article fromJulie DecemberMcKuras, ASH,2008 BSI Vincent Starrett’s sonnet “221B” and and Gaboriau,the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz 1943 under the heading “Arthur Guiter- the initial six issues of the New Yorker ingAs meant the creator that he I've was praised together to satiety with 2011 Bokklubben volume Sherlock givewith Holmes a careful his eye due and place has incorrected a prestige a Bill Schweikert’sThomas “ACatling Long edited Evening The with Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my A Google search revealed a 1902 letter in 1925. The verse, clever and often Sets all the Muses of Helicon Holmesman, Noted Mysterier Poet and i utvalg Playwright, (“Selected Dies.” series of modern and classical mystery Holmes”Album are just. Born two Septemberexamples that 23, 1838, he euphony-before-precision25% of the membership is the who were RecordsWhat of Dr I Watson”),did learn waspublished that it was knowledgeGraciePoe’s Monsieuragain. of Holmes, Dupin, so I washis skillconsid - John Bergquist has provided us with a date. Soren Eversoll, an honored visitor written by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark humorous, included book reviews he sorrowing. Mysteries”),The article noted containing that he STUD, was “famed HOUN in stories and bringing him back into come quickly to mind. The very first 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 and the variety, local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues Twain) toworked Brochmann for Lloyd’s noting Weekly that Newsshe , as a wrote for Life magazine, which pub- andliterary The circles Adventures—all more than halftranslated a cen- print, and in Den norske Bokklubben issue of the Baker Street Journal fea- 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, had translatedcompositor, into Norwegianwriter, news his editor from lished those reviews as “Letters to the And have admitted that in bytury…[he] yours truly. collaborated If you’re interested,with Lawrence I’ll for deciding to do the first ever com- tured Holmesian poetry. The book The 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. Sherlockian1866 pastiche through A1884, Doubled-Bar then editor- fromLiterati.”Freemasons’ Hall and Sir Henry IrvingIt seemsborn Mr. Guitermanin March of was 1909, critical just ofone my detective work beLangner happy on to ansend adaptation you a copy of Moliere’s for your plete edition and giving me a free rein Crowded Box-Room; Sherlock Holmes as Norwegian suggests a large, possibly stories from The Return of SH. Broch- paperback mystery series called “The reled Detective1884 through Story. The 1907. Lilly The Library Scoop was invested as Treasurer. There is no the Holmesmonth stories, before or The at least Press Conan Book was collection to The Sherlock Holmes collection.‘Schoolthank forChristy AndHusbands’ toAllen complete for[a rhymed providing the story: trans -I to present Sherlock Holmes as I think Poet was written by Theodore Blegen, ferocious and deadly, canine; hund mann’s HOUN was re-published by the BlackI Series” owe to (inspiredmy model by a dealthe French of Manuscript Collection has 15 letters to In our longerfeatured a formalbook, Guitermanconnection between Doyle’s failurepublished). to cite his influences. Was Collections. Sadly, her death in alsolationinformation adapted which andappeared about translated Conan in New Doyle’sa Swedish York poet-in heSo should it’s business be. as usual at The one of theDatabase, founders subscription of the Norwegian biographical means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. “La Série selective Noire”) work. and asked me to do her (1900-1917) from English authors acknowledgedthe Lodge his and appreciation the Club. to the this poem to be a censure of the Great October 2007 meant her collection, radio1933],ry as dramatisation andfeatured he wrote in our of the the100 libretto book Years andfor Ago the Sherlock Holmes Collections, for Explorersdictionary of Minnesota. of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. opera ‘Man Without a Country,’ a Wal- including F. Anstey (one of the 24 editors of various publications for al- Detective?According “To Sir Arthurto Doyle’s Conan own Doyle”correspon- whichBut is she it not amassed on the with verge her of beloved producedcolumn. it Dick as a Sveumsix-part updates serial in us 1977. on the Sowhich the 1911 we are second all thankful. edition was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950, ally translated into my language the I can certainly tell you that Broch- There had then been no Holmes books authors along with ACD of The Fate of lowingAfter him tohis reprint retirement the poems from Lloyd’s that ends with W ayne, inanity was ready to move to Iter sometimesstatus Damrosch of the think score drive that [from for my the Edward main E.W. motive Ever- got Nils Nordberg hooked on Sherlock But howindicates many authors he extended have written the circulation po- 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 forett becomingHale’s 1863 a shortradio story]drama produced producer by Holmes. In his translation he kept Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. Jerome. originallyWeekly appeared News, inCatling “Life, Theundertook New the Give me detectives with Minnesota. Boxes of books, pho- McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI ems aboutof theSir Arthurpaper beyond Conan Doyle?London At and waswhich is not only clumsy but–even very 1911 brainswas edition a worrisomeanalytical has played time. aJean decisive was do twoTo selections, put down tocontaining me my seven sto- wasthe Theatrethe wish Guild.” to do this story on radio, Elizabeth Brochmann’s title, and he was I was able to examine the letters while York Times,editing Woman’s task for Home Companion, . The least oner eputedperson todid, be and the thosefirst to verses use the auto-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. creation’s We ephemerathen crude decided vanity?and thateven I awould giant theIt’s medium gratifying it is to perfectly receive notes suited from for. a good friend of John Bennett Shaw. As attendingwere included the Gillettein the book to Brett The IIILaughing con- Harper’s Magazine, The Century, St. Rather than weaklings with The Dog of the Baskervilles Family. story I ever34 and read, Doyle and wasit hooked worried me about her translateHe, HOUN.the created, I used would EB’s scoff version And, ah yes, 2009 saw the first ever a Norwegian-American and Sherlock- ferenceMuse published at Indiana in 1915University. by Harper and Nicholas, Collier’s Weekly, The Bookman, morals mephitical – Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also and several would Danish sneer, and Swedish) “nynorsk” translation of HOUN, by ian, I appreciate all the connections. Brothers. John Bennett Shaw had a copy Munsey’s Magazine, Scribner’s Magazine, Continued on page 7 Puck, The Youth’s Companion, Smart Set, as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a of this book that originally belonged to ContinuedContinued on on page page 7 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 A Travel-Worn and Battered Box Continued from Page 1 raphy of Starrett’s work in 1941. That in the Pinnacle edition of The Private More intriguing, there is a bright orange Elementary My Dear Watson is a col- November 1994, he had been “[or] was book, A Vincent Starrett Library, contains Life of Sherlock Holmes was a gateway for metallic cup with lid, that may well have lection of Jaffee’s previously published a member of The Old Soldiers of Praed Starrett’s 1917 poem “Self Portrait,” and many of us in the 1970s.) On the other been purchased by Starrett on his long works, dedicated to his wife, Mary Street, The Trained Cormorants of Long Starrett’s copy of the poem is among the hand, Murphy allegedly sold books with trip to China. (He and Ray got out in Lindsley Jaffee. His foreword states that Beach, and many other of the Califor- box’s treasures. Starrett’s name in them that were not 1937 after more than a year, just before although he “often wanted to write nia societies.” Mary’s poem “Reception signed by Starrett. While he had a noble the Second Sino-Japanese War. The something that would be more direct in Elysium" was included in The Final There is correspondence regarding intention to raise money for Starrett, the experience provided inspiration for his 50 and contemporary,” he found that Adventures of Solar Pons (Solar Pons #8) Late, Later and Possibly Last, one of the deception did not endear Murphy to last major mystery novel: The Laughing YEARS AGO instead, “Here I go, however, writing published in 1998 by Mycroft and Mo- projects that Michael Murphy and Star- book dealers and collectors. With that in Buddha, also known as Murder in Peking.) nothing more immediate than a book ran. She died April 13, 1997. Mary and rett worked on together late in the old mind, it’s not surprising there is a lot of about Sherlock Holmes. Instead of Old Irving are buried together in Riverside bookman’s life. The typescript for one of correspondence involving Murphy here. Perhaps associated with this is a wooden Nicholas Meyer’s 1974 book The Seven- Virginia, we have London at the turn of National Cemetery in Riverside County, that book’s essays, “Physician: Do Your Some of the letters are intriguing, like box tied with green ribbon and in- Per-Cent Solution, and the 1976 film the century. Still the purpose of a book California. Office,” is also here. the 1973 letter from Luther Norris about scribed on the lid. The inscription has version of the story, played an impor- is to entertain, and there is nothing a reprint of the Jimmy Lavender short faded over time, but seems to say: “Col- tant part in the resurgence of interest more entertaining that Conan Doyle.” The Sherlock Holmes Collections has For the Sherlockian collector, there is stories. In the 1920s and ’30s, Laven- lection of Vincent Starrett//Tea caddy of in Sherlock Holmes. His “Acknowledg- John Bennett Shaw’s copy of Elementary one item that will elicit a groan of envy: der was Starrett’s most consistent series Ito seventh master of the Senge school ments” conveyed his thanks and rec- Part I of the book, “The Sage of Baker My Dear Watson. Affixed to the back A framed, signed copy of Starrett’s poem character, a gentleman detective whose with autograph, poet and signature.” ognition to those, as he wrote, “whose Street,” has 10 chapters: “The Final cover is a Christmas card addressed “To “221B.” It is dated 21 August, 1969 and adventures would start in the pulps but Surely this was another souvenir from works or suggestions directly influenced Problem,” “Sherlock Holmes’ Last John and Dorothy.” It’s signed from the signed by Starrett for Franklin Rhode. be reprinted well into World War II. The China. the shape and outcome” of his book. Case,” “Sherlock Holmes – Ancestor,” Jaffees, “Thanks for your Mycroftian (Rhode was a longtime member of book of Lavender short stories was even- When Leslie S. Klinger compiled The “Famous Detectives of Fiction,” “The card. Don’t think he can get through the Hugo’s Companions in Chicago and was tually published by Bookfinger in 1973. There are, alas, no new thoughts on New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, he Man with the Twisted Lip,” “Sherlock chimney at all! All the best in the New invested in 1967 as “My old friend Char- Sherlock Holmes. But there are bits and included an extensive list of references. Holmes Calling,” “The Naval Treaty,” Year from us both. P.S. Patience Moran, lie Peace” in the Baker Street Irregulars.) There are also letters from Murphy pieces which, when put into place, will Both of the aforementioned works “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” “The (one of Mary’s literary pets) sends dealing with Starrett’s sad financial state help to build out the story of Vincent cited the same book; a “slim volume” Sign of Four,” and “The Strange Story of regards too!” Oh to have a signed copy of “221B” at the end of his life and the effort to Starrett’s life. as Meyer described it, titled Elementary Jonathan Small.” Part II has only three hanging on the walls! put up a headstone on Starrett’s grave. My Dear Watson, A Series of Articles on chapters, none relating to Holmes. Irving Jaffee described his book as Starrett was never careful with money, This little box is a worthy addition to the the Great Detective, and Some Others “He Finds Them,” “Eleven Days,” perhaps “nothing more immediate Some of the more interesting items in- and his penurious later years are truly university’s collection, and shows how written by Irving L. Jaffee and published and “So That Was Mike’s Secret” had than a book about Sherlock Holmes.” volve Starrett’s second wife, Ray Latimer. heartbreaking to contemplate. continued financial support for the col- in 1965 by Theo. Gaus’ Sons, Inc. of been published previously in “Famous But his true feelings about the subject The two were deeply in love and trav- lection is an equally worthy enterprise. Brooklyn N.Y. In the Foreword to the Detective Stories, Double-Action Detective shine through with the last line of his eled the world in the 1930s. But Ray’s And there are mysteries too. book Jaffee writes that after the reader Stories, and Crack Detective and Mystery foreword, “So, instead of Hecuba I offer health deteriorated and Starrett refused “paid some 95¢ to become the pos- Stories in the 1950s and 1960s” (Blau, you Holmes. Holmes the imperturbable, to leave her side. Friends say her pre- Why is there a French book of music sessor of this book” that it is his “hope Notes From the Spermacetti Press, Dec. Holmes always entertaining, Holmes the carious emotional health, plus Starrett’s scores here? that you will get something personally 1994). “So That Was Mike’s Secret” ap- immortal!” poor financial situation, is why he went rewarding out of your purchase.” peared in the March 1959 Irish Digest. to only one meeting of the Baker Street What about the small book (printed Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI Irregulars. The box contains one of for Egyptienne Cigarettes) of The Three Irving Lincoln Jaffee was born February Jaffee married Mary Lindsley in January Ray’s Christmas cards and a letter from Musketeers by Rudyard Kipling? 12, 1914 in New York City. In Elemen- 1963. She was a professor of English at her physician referencing her health tary My Dear Watson, the “About the Hunter College for over 40 years, the issues. There is also her typescript of a Or the October 1885 issue of Frank Author” paragraph states that he was recipient of numerous academic awards story, “Thousands of Other Young Men,” Leslie’s Illustrated Sunday Magazine? (One “educated at George Washington High and “the author of eleven books of which deserves additional attention. possibility for the latter: Starrett was a School and New York University. He is poetry” as reported in the March 1977 lifelong baseball fan and the magazine engaged in government work, but his Baker Street Journal upon publication of The box was sold by Michael Murphy, has a major story on the playoffs be- chief outside interest is writing articles her article “Yes Dear Little Medea, There BSI (“The Noble Bachelor”), Starrett’s tween Chicago and New York.) which have been published in various Was and Is a Professor Moriarty.” To- late-in-life friend. Murphy elicits mixed magazines and newspapers. He has gether with her husband they wrote five responses. On the one hand, he cared Not all of the contents are papers, and traveled extensively in the United States, pastiches that Luther Norris published for Starrett, promoting the old writer’s some of the most intriguing items are Canada, and the British Isles; and his in Beyond Baker Street in 1973. Irving work and writing complementary three dimensional. war experience took him to Okinawa Jaffee also wrote “Sherlock Holmes biographical pieces that helped ensure and Japan.” The “war experience” he And The Habanera,” which appeared Starrett’s reputation for new generations. There is a faint whiff of tobacco here, includes was serving as a Private in the in issue 2 of the Baker Street Gazette. Murphy’s books like Starrett Vs. Machen: from the empty box of Chateau Coronas United States Army. The couple resided in Seal Beach, and a Record of Discovery and Correspondence that is inside. Starrett loved smoking as Peter Blau wrote when Irving died in and Shaking Hands with Immortality: cigars, and there are many photographs Encomiums for Vincent Starrett, give vital of him with an unlit stogie between his insights into Starrett’s life and passions. teeth. (Murphy’s biographical entry on Starrett

6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 From the President An Update From the Collections n this issue you will read about nesota conference The Misadventures of nation in addition to your membership ate spring, in an academic Collections made 189 donor contacts. recent acquisitions of important Sherlock Holmes. I hope that everyone to help with collection activities. Please schedule, is a time to wrap • We taught 322 classes to 3,836 material and original artwork. I will make the trip to Minnesota next remember to send in your renewed summer and bring a friend. Friends membership using the enclosed things up. Summer, when attendees totaling to 1,051 hours of am very proud of all the things students are mostly absent from instruction. It took us about 462 I we have accomplished to make envelope. Costs for producing and mail- L campus, is a time for projects, hours to prepare this instruction. ing this newsletter continue to increase the Sherlock Holmes Collections the This summer we got to see a new Sher- conferences, and vacation. Each period Of these classes, 19 (5.9%), taught world center for all things Sherlockian. lockian film,Mr. Holmes, with an aging and we find it necessary to mail only to those Friends who are able to help offset is productive, but with very different to 578 people (15.1%), were The 2015 Annual Membership Meeting detective still trying to solve a case. cadences. Frenetic spring rhythms pulse connected with the Holmes

our costs. Johnson Photo by Tim will take place on October 21st at 7 PM Soon we will get season four of Elemen- through the library as students scramble Collections. in the Elmer L. Andersen Library. The tary and a Victorian episode of the BBC to finish projects, papers, and tests. With • Staff retrieved 42,773 items for use Book Club Visitors special guest speaker will be Bonnie Sherlock. Many new books are coming Thanks again to all our friends who the arrival of finals and commencement, by researchers or for processing MacBird. Her new book Art in the Blood out, and Sherlock Holmes’s popularity contribute to the Sherlock Holmes Col- the campus noticeably shifts to a differ- activities, with 444 of these items, will be featured. is as high as ever. The Sherlock Holmes lections helping us preserve Sherlock ent pace. Faculty and staff — including about 1% of the total, coming from Collections is busy trying to keep up Holmes and his world. See you soon at librarians, archivists, and curators — the Holmes Collections. Another important date to mark on with popular culture while remember- the Annual Membership Meeting. breathe a sigh of relief for having made your calendar is June 17-19, 2016 ing our scholarly roots. it through another year. The respite, In these updates we always try to put when we will hold our triennial Min- Each year we ask you to consider a do- Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI however, is brief. Energy and intensity faces to those numbers, for the num- shift from students and classrooms to bers tell us only so much. At the end of processing rooms, collection stacks, April, we hosted one of our last classes projects waiting in the wings, and visit- for the semester, graduate English stu- ing scholars. Our reading room may be dents from St. Thomas University. Their Acquisitions busiest during summer months. professor, Alexis Easley, regularly brings her classes to Andersen Library, while at T at mory Lee recently donated an he Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Statistics are one measure of our activ- other times we find her in the reading original piece of art, pictured a Stanford bookstore sale when I was ity. We collect statistics for the depart- room, working on her own research. In here. Emory, and his previous a graduate student. That led me to ment of Archives and Special Collec- early May we welcomed Dave McLaugh- gift to the Holmes Collections, reading the Doubleday edition of the tions based on a fiscal year running lin from Emmanuel College, Cambridge E was featured in the September collected writings while neglecting my Johnson Photo by Tim from July 1 to June 30. Sixteen units University for an extended research stay. 2006 issue of this newsletter. In that studies, I must admit.” within the department report numbers. Dave is currently researching a doctoral Dave McLaughlin lead article Emory wrote of his collect- Here’s a brief snapshot of how 2014- thesis on travel writing and the world Association and the School of Library ing mania that “what got me started 2015 unfolded for us: of Sherlock Holmes. In mid-May we was buying a copy of Vincent Starrett’s and Information Science at Simmons hosted an evening meeting of a local College. Throughout the spring and • Staff from all units served 15,162 book club that has been together for summer I’ve also met with colleagues to individuals. 8,449 of these nearly three decades. Later, in July, it plan what we hope will be a series of ex- interactions involved reference was my privilege to spend five hours citing state-wide exhibitions during the queries (some quite extensive) with a graduate class from St. Catherine summer of 2017 highlighting the best while another 6,713 contacts University’s library and information books and manuscripts in Minnesota. I concerned non-reference science program. Mr. Holmes figured am sure that a number of items from the Photo by Tim Johnson Photo by Tim transactions. For the Holmes prominently during our class time. A gift from Emory Lee Holmes Collections will find their way Collections this meant 217 reference into this exhibit. queries (2.6% of the total) and 364 May marked the beginning of a number Musings non-reference contacts (5.4%). of professional meetings, conferences, Finally, in case you missed it, Minnesota • Our highest months of activity and other gatherings. First out of the gate Public Radio (MPR) presented a nice ’d like to thank Ray Betzner, who covers the poem “To Sir Arthur Conan Dick Sveum has covered some impor- were July, October, March, and June. was a meeting of the Twin Cities Archives piece on the Collections in July on their wrote about the acquisition of Doyle” written by Arthur Guiterman tant dates on our Sherlockian calendar, • 2,024 people arranged appointments Round Table — otherwise known as website. Tracy Mumford, a digital books materials relating to Vincent Star- and included in the 1915 collection The including the Friends of the Sherlock with us to discuss collections and TCART — at the American Swedish In- producer for MPR, spent a number of rett that was recently added to the Laughing Muse. Holmes Collections Annual Meeting on their work while 1,439 walked in stitute. This was followed in June by the hours with interviews and visits prepar- I Holmes Collections. If there is a October 21st at 7 PM in the Elmer L. without an appointment seeking annual conference of the Rare Books and ing the article, which you can read at theme to this issue, it would seem to I’d also like to thank Les Klinger for Andersen Library. Bonnie MacBird will help. Another 12,212 individuals Manuscript Section of the Association of http://goo.gl/h34rex. be the number of references to poetry. taking the time to write about Carolyn be our guest speaker, and her new book contacted us by telephone or email. College and Research Libraries in Oak- Ray wrote “Oh to have a signed copy of Wells, the subject of last issue’s 100 Art in the Blood will be featured. Tim For the Holmes Collections this land, California and the Twin Cities Rare Now, with travels over until October “221B” hanging on the walls!” I think Years Ago column, and “her strong Johnson gives us an update on both meant 70 appointments (3.5%), and Antiquarian Book Fair at the state (when I’ll make three presentations on we all share that desire. Sherlockian credentials” that weren’t his activities as Curator of the Sherlock 14 walk-ins (1%), and 498 telephone fairgrounds in St. Paul. In July, a number the Collections in Illinois) we’re prepar- included in that article. As editor of Holmes Collections as well as the activi- calls or emails (4.1%). of library staff celebrated research and ing for the beginning of classes. I hope Our 50 Years Ago focuses on Irving this newsletter, I have to say that the ties within the Collections. • 6,759 users of our services were from publication accomplishments. In a short you’ve had an enjoyable summer. We Jaffee’s Elementary My Dear Watson, A author of that article apparently left out outside the University of Minnesota presentation, I outlined our current look forward to seeing many of you at Series of Articles on the Great Detective, some relevant information. I will talk to We hope that all of you will take this compared to 5,204 people interest in collecting materials from the annual meeting of the Friends in and Some Others, and our 100 Years Ago myself strongly about this. opportunity to continue to support connected with the University while the newer Sherlockian fandom. I am October. Thank you for your ongoing the Sherlock Holmes Collections. Your 2,695 visitors did not state an drafting an article with assistant curator interest and support of the Sherlock generosity is greatly appreciated. affiliation. For the Holmes Cheryll Fong that we hope to submit for Holmes Collections at the University of Collections this translated to 309 publication in the fall. At the end of July Minnesota! external users (4.6%) and 200 I traveled to Boston for Library History Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI Tim Johnson University connections (3.8%). Seminar XIII, hosted by the Library His- Curator During the year the Holmes tory Roundtable of the American Library

4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 From the President An Update From the Collections n this issue you will read about nesota conference The Misadventures of nation in addition to your membership ate spring, in an academic Collections made 189 donor contacts. recent acquisitions of important Sherlock Holmes. I hope that everyone to help with collection activities. Please schedule, is a time to wrap • We taught 322 classes to 3,836 material and original artwork. I will make the trip to Minnesota next remember to send in your renewed summer and bring a friend. Friends membership using the enclosed things up. Summer, when attendees totaling to 1,051 hours of am very proud of all the things students are mostly absent from instruction. It took us about 462 I we have accomplished to make envelope. Costs for producing and mail- L campus, is a time for projects, hours to prepare this instruction. ing this newsletter continue to increase the Sherlock Holmes Collections the This summer we got to see a new Sher- conferences, and vacation. Each period Of these classes, 19 (5.9%), taught world center for all things Sherlockian. lockian film,Mr. Holmes, with an aging and we find it necessary to mail only to those Friends who are able to help offset is productive, but with very different to 578 people (15.1%), were The 2015 Annual Membership Meeting detective still trying to solve a case. cadences. Frenetic spring rhythms pulse connected with the Holmes

our costs. Johnson Photo by Tim will take place on October 21st at 7 PM Soon we will get season four of Elemen- through the library as students scramble Collections. in the Elmer L. Andersen Library. The tary and a Victorian episode of the BBC to finish projects, papers, and tests. With • Staff retrieved 42,773 items for use Book Club Visitors special guest speaker will be Bonnie Sherlock. Many new books are coming Thanks again to all our friends who the arrival of finals and commencement, by researchers or for processing MacBird. Her new book Art in the Blood out, and Sherlock Holmes’s popularity contribute to the Sherlock Holmes Col- the campus noticeably shifts to a differ- activities, with 444 of these items, will be featured. is as high as ever. The Sherlock Holmes lections helping us preserve Sherlock ent pace. Faculty and staff — including about 1% of the total, coming from Collections is busy trying to keep up Holmes and his world. See you soon at librarians, archivists, and curators — the Holmes Collections. Another important date to mark on with popular culture while remember- the Annual Membership Meeting. breathe a sigh of relief for having made your calendar is June 17-19, 2016 ing our scholarly roots. it through another year. The respite, In these updates we always try to put when we will hold our triennial Min- Each year we ask you to consider a do- Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI however, is brief. Energy and intensity faces to those numbers, for the num- shift from students and classrooms to bers tell us only so much. At the end of processing rooms, collection stacks, April, we hosted one of our last classes projects waiting in the wings, and visit- for the semester, graduate English stu- ing scholars. Our reading room may be dents from St. Thomas University. Their Acquisitions busiest during summer months. professor, Alexis Easley, regularly brings her classes to Andersen Library, while at T at mory Lee recently donated an he Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Statistics are one measure of our activ- other times we find her in the reading original piece of art, pictured a Stanford bookstore sale when I was ity. We collect statistics for the depart- room, working on her own research. In here. Emory, and his previous a graduate student. That led me to ment of Archives and Special Collec- early May we welcomed Dave McLaugh- gift to the Holmes Collections, reading the Doubleday edition of the tions based on a fiscal year running lin from Emmanuel College, Cambridge E was featured in the September collected writings while neglecting my Johnson Photo by Tim from July 1 to June 30. Sixteen units University for an extended research stay. 2006 issue of this newsletter. In that studies, I must admit.” within the department report numbers. Dave is currently researching a doctoral Dave McLaughlin lead article Emory wrote of his collect- Here’s a brief snapshot of how 2014- thesis on travel writing and the world Association and the School of Library ing mania that “what got me started 2015 unfolded for us: of Sherlock Holmes. In mid-May we was buying a copy of Vincent Starrett’s and Information Science at Simmons hosted an evening meeting of a local College. Throughout the spring and • Staff from all units served 15,162 book club that has been together for summer I’ve also met with colleagues to individuals. 8,449 of these nearly three decades. Later, in July, it plan what we hope will be a series of ex- interactions involved reference was my privilege to spend five hours citing state-wide exhibitions during the queries (some quite extensive) with a graduate class from St. Catherine summer of 2017 highlighting the best while another 6,713 contacts University’s library and information books and manuscripts in Minnesota. I concerned non-reference science program. Mr. Holmes figured am sure that a number of items from the Photo by Tim Johnson Photo by Tim transactions. For the Holmes prominently during our class time. A gift from Emory Lee Holmes Collections will find their way Collections this meant 217 reference into this exhibit. queries (2.6% of the total) and 364 May marked the beginning of a number Musings non-reference contacts (5.4%). of professional meetings, conferences, Finally, in case you missed it, Minnesota • Our highest months of activity and other gatherings. First out of the gate Public Radio (MPR) presented a nice ’d like to thank Ray Betzner, who covers the poem “To Sir Arthur Conan Dick Sveum has covered some impor- were July, October, March, and June. was a meeting of the Twin Cities Archives piece on the Collections in July on their wrote about the acquisition of Doyle” written by Arthur Guiterman tant dates on our Sherlockian calendar, • 2,024 people arranged appointments Round Table — otherwise known as website. Tracy Mumford, a digital books materials relating to Vincent Star- and included in the 1915 collection The including the Friends of the Sherlock with us to discuss collections and TCART — at the American Swedish In- producer for MPR, spent a number of rett that was recently added to the Laughing Muse. Holmes Collections Annual Meeting on their work while 1,439 walked in stitute. This was followed in June by the hours with interviews and visits prepar- I Holmes Collections. If there is a October 21st at 7 PM in the Elmer L. without an appointment seeking annual conference of the Rare Books and ing the article, which you can read at theme to this issue, it would seem to I’d also like to thank Les Klinger for Andersen Library. Bonnie MacBird will help. Another 12,212 individuals Manuscript Section of the Association of http://goo.gl/h34rex. be the number of references to poetry. taking the time to write about Carolyn be our guest speaker, and her new book contacted us by telephone or email. College and Research Libraries in Oak- Ray wrote “Oh to have a signed copy of Wells, the subject of last issue’s 100 Art in the Blood will be featured. Tim For the Holmes Collections this land, California and the Twin Cities Rare Now, with travels over until October “221B” hanging on the walls!” I think Years Ago column, and “her strong Johnson gives us an update on both meant 70 appointments (3.5%), and Antiquarian Book Fair at the state (when I’ll make three presentations on we all share that desire. Sherlockian credentials” that weren’t his activities as Curator of the Sherlock 14 walk-ins (1%), and 498 telephone fairgrounds in St. Paul. In July, a number the Collections in Illinois) we’re prepar- included in that article. As editor of Holmes Collections as well as the activi- calls or emails (4.1%). of library staff celebrated research and ing for the beginning of classes. I hope Our 50 Years Ago focuses on Irving this newsletter, I have to say that the ties within the Collections. • 6,759 users of our services were from publication accomplishments. In a short you’ve had an enjoyable summer. We Jaffee’s Elementary My Dear Watson, A author of that article apparently left out outside the University of Minnesota presentation, I outlined our current look forward to seeing many of you at Series of Articles on the Great Detective, some relevant information. I will talk to We hope that all of you will take this compared to 5,204 people interest in collecting materials from the annual meeting of the Friends in and Some Others, and our 100 Years Ago myself strongly about this. opportunity to continue to support connected with the University while the newer Sherlockian fandom. I am October. Thank you for your ongoing the Sherlock Holmes Collections. Your 2,695 visitors did not state an drafting an article with assistant curator interest and support of the Sherlock generosity is greatly appreciated. affiliation. For the Holmes Cheryll Fong that we hope to submit for Holmes Collections at the University of Collections this translated to 309 publication in the fall. At the end of July Minnesota! external users (4.6%) and 200 I traveled to Boston for Library History Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI Tim Johnson University connections (3.8%). Seminar XIII, hosted by the Library His- Curator During the year the Holmes tory Roundtable of the American Library

4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 A Travel-Worn and Battered Box Continued from Page 1 raphy of Starrett’s work in 1941. That in the Pinnacle edition of The Private More intriguing, there is a bright orange Elementary My Dear Watson is a col- November 1994, he had been “[or] was book, A Vincent Starrett Library, contains Life of Sherlock Holmes was a gateway for metallic cup with lid, that may well have lection of Jaffee’s previously published a member of The Old Soldiers of Praed Starrett’s 1917 poem “Self Portrait,” and many of us in the 1970s.) On the other been purchased by Starrett on his long works, dedicated to his wife, Mary Street, The Trained Cormorants of Long Starrett’s copy of the poem is among the hand, Murphy allegedly sold books with trip to China. (He and Ray got out in Lindsley Jaffee. His foreword states that Beach, and many other of the Califor- box’s treasures. Starrett’s name in them that were not 1937 after more than a year, just before although he “often wanted to write nia societies.” Mary’s poem “Reception signed by Starrett. While he had a noble the Second Sino-Japanese War. The something that would be more direct in Elysium" was included in The Final There is correspondence regarding intention to raise money for Starrett, the experience provided inspiration for his 50 and contemporary,” he found that Adventures of Solar Pons (Solar Pons #8) Late, Later and Possibly Last, one of the deception did not endear Murphy to last major mystery novel: The Laughing YEARS AGO instead, “Here I go, however, writing published in 1998 by Mycroft and Mo- projects that Michael Murphy and Star- book dealers and collectors. With that in Buddha, also known as Murder in Peking.) nothing more immediate than a book ran. She died April 13, 1997. Mary and rett worked on together late in the old mind, it’s not surprising there is a lot of about Sherlock Holmes. Instead of Old Irving are buried together in Riverside bookman’s life. The typescript for one of correspondence involving Murphy here. Perhaps associated with this is a wooden Nicholas Meyer’s 1974 book The Seven- Virginia, we have London at the turn of National Cemetery in Riverside County, that book’s essays, “Physician: Do Your Some of the letters are intriguing, like box tied with green ribbon and in- Per-Cent Solution, and the 1976 film the century. Still the purpose of a book California. Office,” is also here. the 1973 letter from Luther Norris about scribed on the lid. The inscription has version of the story, played an impor- is to entertain, and there is nothing a reprint of the Jimmy Lavender short faded over time, but seems to say: “Col- tant part in the resurgence of interest more entertaining that Conan Doyle.” The Sherlock Holmes Collections has For the Sherlockian collector, there is stories. In the 1920s and ’30s, Laven- lection of Vincent Starrett//Tea caddy of in Sherlock Holmes. His “Acknowledg- John Bennett Shaw’s copy of Elementary one item that will elicit a groan of envy: der was Starrett’s most consistent series Ito seventh master of the Senge school ments” conveyed his thanks and rec- Part I of the book, “The Sage of Baker My Dear Watson. Affixed to the back A framed, signed copy of Starrett’s poem character, a gentleman detective whose with autograph, poet and signature.” ognition to those, as he wrote, “whose Street,” has 10 chapters: “The Final cover is a Christmas card addressed “To “221B.” It is dated 21 August, 1969 and adventures would start in the pulps but Surely this was another souvenir from works or suggestions directly influenced Problem,” “Sherlock Holmes’ Last John and Dorothy.” It’s signed from the signed by Starrett for Franklin Rhode. be reprinted well into World War II. The China. the shape and outcome” of his book. Case,” “Sherlock Holmes – Ancestor,” Jaffees, “Thanks for your Mycroftian (Rhode was a longtime member of book of Lavender short stories was even- When Leslie S. Klinger compiled The “Famous Detectives of Fiction,” “The card. Don’t think he can get through the Hugo’s Companions in Chicago and was tually published by Bookfinger in 1973. There are, alas, no new thoughts on New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, he Man with the Twisted Lip,” “Sherlock chimney at all! All the best in the New invested in 1967 as “My old friend Char- Sherlock Holmes. But there are bits and included an extensive list of references. Holmes Calling,” “The Naval Treaty,” Year from us both. P.S. Patience Moran, lie Peace” in the Baker Street Irregulars.) There are also letters from Murphy pieces which, when put into place, will Both of the aforementioned works “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” “The (one of Mary’s literary pets) sends dealing with Starrett’s sad financial state help to build out the story of Vincent cited the same book; a “slim volume” Sign of Four,” and “The Strange Story of regards too!” Oh to have a signed copy of “221B” at the end of his life and the effort to Starrett’s life. as Meyer described it, titled Elementary Jonathan Small.” Part II has only three hanging on the walls! put up a headstone on Starrett’s grave. My Dear Watson, A Series of Articles on chapters, none relating to Holmes. Irving Jaffee described his book as Starrett was never careful with money, This little box is a worthy addition to the the Great Detective, and Some Others “He Finds Them,” “Eleven Days,” perhaps “nothing more immediate Some of the more interesting items in- and his penurious later years are truly university’s collection, and shows how written by Irving L. Jaffee and published and “So That Was Mike’s Secret” had than a book about Sherlock Holmes.” volve Starrett’s second wife, Ray Latimer. heartbreaking to contemplate. continued financial support for the col- in 1965 by Theo. Gaus’ Sons, Inc. of been published previously in “Famous But his true feelings about the subject The two were deeply in love and trav- lection is an equally worthy enterprise. Brooklyn N.Y. In the Foreword to the Detective Stories, Double-Action Detective shine through with the last line of his eled the world in the 1930s. But Ray’s And there are mysteries too. book Jaffee writes that after the reader Stories, and Crack Detective and Mystery foreword, “So, instead of Hecuba I offer health deteriorated and Starrett refused “paid some 95¢ to become the pos- Stories in the 1950s and 1960s” (Blau, you Holmes. Holmes the imperturbable, to leave her side. Friends say her pre- Why is there a French book of music sessor of this book” that it is his “hope Notes From the Spermacetti Press, Dec. Holmes always entertaining, Holmes the carious emotional health, plus Starrett’s scores here? that you will get something personally 1994). “So That Was Mike’s Secret” ap- immortal!” poor financial situation, is why he went rewarding out of your purchase.” peared in the March 1959 Irish Digest. to only one meeting of the Baker Street What about the small book (printed Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI Irregulars. The box contains one of for Egyptienne Cigarettes) of The Three Irving Lincoln Jaffee was born February Jaffee married Mary Lindsley in January Ray’s Christmas cards and a letter from Musketeers by Rudyard Kipling? 12, 1914 in New York City. In Elemen- 1963. She was a professor of English at her physician referencing her health tary My Dear Watson, the “About the Hunter College for over 40 years, the issues. There is also her typescript of a Or the October 1885 issue of Frank Author” paragraph states that he was recipient of numerous academic awards story, “Thousands of Other Young Men,” Leslie’s Illustrated Sunday Magazine? (One “educated at George Washington High and “the author of eleven books of which deserves additional attention. possibility for the latter: Starrett was a School and New York University. He is poetry” as reported in the March 1977 lifelong baseball fan and the magazine engaged in government work, but his Baker Street Journal upon publication of The box was sold by Michael Murphy, has a major story on the playoffs be- chief outside interest is writing articles her article “Yes Dear Little Medea, There BSI (“The Noble Bachelor”), Starrett’s tween Chicago and New York.) which have been published in various Was and Is a Professor Moriarty.” To- late-in-life friend. Murphy elicits mixed magazines and newspapers. He has gether with her husband they wrote five responses. On the one hand, he cared Not all of the contents are papers, and traveled extensively in the United States, pastiches that Luther Norris published for Starrett, promoting the old writer’s some of the most intriguing items are Canada, and the British Isles; and his in Beyond Baker Street in 1973. Irving work and writing complementary three dimensional. war experience took him to Okinawa Jaffee also wrote “Sherlock Holmes biographical pieces that helped ensure and Japan.” The “war experience” he And The Habanera,” which appeared Starrett’s reputation for new generations. There is a faint whiff of tobacco here, includes was serving as a Private in the in issue 2 of the Baker Street Gazette. Murphy’s books like Starrett Vs. Machen: from the empty box of Chateau Coronas United States Army. The couple resided in Seal Beach, and a Record of Discovery and Correspondence that is inside. Starrett loved smoking as Peter Blau wrote when Irving died in and Shaking Hands with Immortality: cigars, and there are many photographs Encomiums for Vincent Starrett, give vital of him with an unlit stogie between his insights into Starrett’s life and passions. teeth. (Murphy’s biographical entry on Starrett

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This certainly would explain the So please grip this fact with Rather than wails of revised quite heavily. to mind.Journalists The first and page traveled has Shaw’s extensively the chaptersAlfred Noyes,Great Adventures, Arthur Morrison, Mainly somewhat neurotic sombremorbidity! tone of the poem. When, your ere cerebral the tangled tentacle: web is reft, bookplatethrough and hisAmerica, typed noteCanada, “TO the SIR Middle Feminine,Rosamund Clever Marriott-Watson, Animals, and Mere Eden The use of the word “lady” in the last The kid-gloved villain scowls and sneers, Give me adventures and TheThe doll main and difference its maker arebetween ARTHUREast CONAN and Europe, DOYLE, including pages 218-France Literature.Phillpotts, That lastJohn chapter Galsworthy, heading F. Ansteyis stanza seems to strongly And hapless innocence is left 100220.” during World War I. He served as a divided into three sections; Impudent fierce dinotheriums W ith mynever no own assets identical. and save EB’s sighs translation and tears, I 100 during World War I. He served as a and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100 and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100YEARS AGO suggest that it was written to/for think stems from the fact that Interviews, Rhymed Review and Letters Rather than Hewlett’s ’Tis then, just then, that in there stalks YEARS AGO delegate to the Conference of the few of the contributors. Page 20 fea- Lady Jean. Despitethey this belongdust-up, to Guiterman different ages. con -As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections The bookInternational is a collection Association of poetry of writ Journalists- to thetures Literati, the apoem title mentioned“By the North in the Sea” by ecstatic deliriums! The hero, watchful of her needs, is a quarterly newsletter published by the The March 2008 issue of this newslet- tinuedHe youwritingtalks! may Great and know, heavens, served Danish fromhow was he1925 talks for ten by atArthur Berlin Guiterman. in 1908, and He laterwas bornas precedingSir Arthur paragraph, Conan which Doyle. contains It is a short Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Among terthe featuredforeign translationsan article about of The The Flag, to American parents in Vienna,Caption: Austria The 1902 first“To edition Sir Arthur has the Conan Doyle.” The poem Frankly,Also, the Sir fact Conan, that they some were expect- to 1927Butcenturies weas presidentforgive the him, officialof for the his Authors’ deeds.written lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the Hound ofpublished the Baskervilles in 1908, from which John benefitted on November 20, 1871.Paget The illustrationfamily while thecontains second doesa brief not. biographical sketch ing hours their I’ve first eased child with may you have Leagueguage Fellowship. of Norway, His poetry and although subjects ests and needs of the Special Collections Society of Journalists during 1915. He included patriotic ballads, reflection on and Rare Books Department, University of Bennett Shaw’s collections, the one relocatedSociety three of years Journalists later to duringNew York 1915. Hethat recountslast stanza Doyle’s as written ambitions by Conan to write Doyle. And,influenced on the Doyle’s whole, decisionI am to con- LifeNorwegian is the drama in here 1911 to-day had begun the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called nature and love poems to his wife Vida, Minnesota Libraries. that was published 100 years ago has City wherepassed he awayattended on December public school 25, 1920. historic novels. About one-third into the tribute pretty to well The pleased Press Book within you. the Andsplitting Death the away, villain the of influencethe plot. entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wetBaskervilles. with North This Sea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: special significance. According to De in Manhattan and at 17 enrolled at the poem heHer writes: cheek was wet with North Sea spray, first place. Being a father himself, I’m but heIt is fromturned a realistic Danish to moreplay; was serious still strong. subjects It’s Conan Doyle’s “The Grey Dress – guage editionsCatling’s ofname the alsoCanon appears has nine in con- title is established;We walked where to the tide eye and it comesshingle meet, Scan courtesy of the University of Minnesota Librariesas he grewa complicated older. The storyAmerican but actuallyNa- Waal it was a 2nd edition, with the College of the City of New York ,where In Tellersure of he Tales could, Daniel easily Stashower empathize with Shall it end well or shall it not Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it soundsfrom far away tional biography online site states “His Editor first published in 1902. NotedHound he majored in English Literature. The Faith! as a teller of tales you’ve wrote that when Conan Doyle read NorwegianThe hero? Oh, on the the hero’s printed part page is beth BrochmannLondon. Founded and includes in 1857, scanned the mem- right. ItTo is purralso inmisleading, ripples at our because feet. it 11 yearsthe oldfatherless at the time,children which which makes would ‘Deathas different and General from Putnam,’ Ibsen’s time a ballad to the Julie McKuras collector Dr. Donald Pollack has both American National Biography Online the trick with you! this poem, first published in Decem- Is vacant—to be played by you. 13512 Granada Ave. covers. hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me it 1952benefit or ’53. from I think the saleit was of giventhe volume. in seven five-line stanzas describing the in his collection.The following year, in 1909, The Pressstates thatbers “he come won from the theWard worlds Medal of in art, ber 1912 in Life Magazine, he felt it presentThen as act Shakespeare it well! An isorphan’s from presheart- Apple Valley, MN 55124 than Stilla family.That there’s three But, a oldbone for friends theI’ve three beenhad met excel that- day: to me by friends of my parents who Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam’s Album was published to aid the Englishdrama, composition, law, literature, became music the class or sci- “deserved a response.” Conan Doyle’s ent dayMay English. beat the lighterAt the ifsame you do.time I did 952-431-1934 This search led to the online WorldCat lent reasons longingThe old mentioned, oldto pick sky, thewith I olddecided you: old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about meeting with Death, became one of [email protected] C3542. Journalists’— A1456. HundenOrphan fraFund, Basker and- as he poet andence. secretary, Former and members was elected have to included rebuttal, entitled “To an Undiscerning go for a “conservative” style, hoping which lists eleven books by A. Conan to changeAnd it.” love, which is as old as they. stories.orphans Anyway, which it was was a revelation. published in ithis would best-loved read toworks modern and daywas Norwewidely- ville: En hadny fortælling done the om previous Sherlock year, Conan Phi Betanotables Kappa. such He received as Charlie his Chaplin, B.A. in Holmes is your hero of drama Critic,” appeared in London Opinion on Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board Doyle translated in Norwegian by When I wrote to Nils Nordberg for an I’ve still got it, title page missing and giananthologized Christyreaders Allen as and Conan and quoted. Julie Doyle McKurasThe reads writer to Editorial Board Holmes. DoyleAutoriseret stepped oversættelse forward with ved a contri- 1891.”Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, James and serial; DecemberSongs 28.of the "The Road spirit, just of a the few holiday pages 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-speakingAlexander Woollcott readers often of read today. it on his Elisabeth Brochmann. Kristiania: McNeill Whistler, Sir Alexander seasonafter may “By have the moderated North Sea.” his It tone,was References: Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. bution. The book, edited by Thomas NasjonalbiblioteketMcNeill Whistler, (National Sir Alexander Library ElisabethAll Weof Brochmann’s ussaw know it rolling, where translationfold you on dugfold, of my dearest possessions. But very few radio show, [Walter] Damrosch set it Forlagt af H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Guiterman worked on the editorial staff but hiscalled poetry “The had Orphanage” seldom risen and to is such repro- http://www.scoop- Catling and published by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN the Andwas material markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist of the stories were available in my own Sinceto database.com/bio/catling_thomasmusic, 1971 and my Guiterman translation used of HOUN it as the Nygaard), 1902. 263 p. of Woman’s Home Companion and did heights":duced below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club has an introductory note which gives BrochmannIrving, dates Dante listed Rossetti, as 1855-1915 Dylan Thomas, 1902, alsoTurn by all Aschehoug. its leaden edge The to interestgold. language then, so I had to wait until I hastitlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club been piece reprinted for one of over his mosta dozen success times- —————. 2nd ed. 1911. 246 p. freelance editing for the Literary Digest, Whence he was molded – Sure there are times when one http://www.savageclub.com/ the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh ladyseems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest byful variouscollections publishers, in 1935. by Time Aschehoug magazine I became aware of translator Elisabeth Scientific News and Religious News from ’tis almost a platitude; cries with acidity, Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- Brochmann“1892 in with2004 a whengift of I £1,000acquired by the late1891 toW 1906.allace Byand 1905 Peter forty-eight Ustinov. It of is cur- The grey below, the gold above; anddescribed Norild it as as well ‘his literaryas Gyldendal, high’ and and re - University of Minnesota Library To me the most famous Norwegian The 1911Yet Foryour edition so detective,the greyest was one in life shameless inmay a seriesshine ‘Whereing of the are Orphan’sthe limits Fund of human when he I’veported also that read many it as urgedan audio its selectionbook. It for Copyright © ©2015 20112012 lot 93 ofLord The GleneskConan Doyle and £500 Collec by- the late Sirhis poemsrently had located appeared at 1 inWhitehall print and Place, Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. translator of the Canon is Nils Nor- of books ingratitudeAll published golden in – thein thatlight format,of love. half As EB’s wrote HOUNstupidity?’ this? was more or less my wasthe Pulitzerincluded Prize in the (24 first May ever1937)…[one collected tion auctionJohn atWillox…Working Christie’s. Included pressmen the followingLondon year and the their Woman’s website Home indicates it 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 Sherlockunnamed Holmes source] editionranked inhim Norwegian, with the inScan by Julie McKuras the lotthroughout were seven the letters country and commenced two Companion“remains ran his one “Strictly of the leadingGerm- Bohemian Sherlock your sleuthhound Here is a critic who says as a 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 humorists Franklin P. Adams and Don postcards by ACD to Madame Broch- Proof,”Gentleman’s reaching his Clubs largest in audience London.” to with motives ulterior platitude 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 mann discussing rights to stories and date. In 1910 he co-founded the Poetry the Institute of Journalists Orphan (wantedMarquis toas doone all of but ‘three didn’t fine have writers of Illustrationthe first from orphan The Laughing was adopted.” Muse The Name: Translating the Sneers attion) Poe’s had “Dupin” the Sidney as Paget and lessThat inclined I am guilty to take because liberties than graceful lyrics, whose poems, doubtless, pamphlets. ACD was eager to have SocietyIn of 1882, America the andPrince went of onWales, to later Fund. time), published in 10 volumes by Den Has Guiterman been remembered as reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later “veryillustration inferior!” of the hound contemporary “in gratitude Swedish or Danish trans- The War in South Africa: Its Cause and publish several books of verse includ- Norskewill be rememberedBokklubben long(“The after Norwegian many of the October 6 1924 Time predicted? Many Sherlockianscontributed enjoy to the the Fund, poetry 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 Conduct translated into all languages ing The Laughing Muse. Guiterman was LabelsChristy Gaboriau’s Allen, who clever contributes fre- Sherlock, the sleuth-hound, Bookour currently Club”) in vaunted 1980. Thehigh-brow tenth volume poets AschehougHe wrote of in Conan EB’s time Doyle was that Doyle’s “on the penned beginningby Sir Arthur seventeen Conan yearsDoyle. 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 and wrotebeginning a preface seventeen for the Norwegian years ago, has well-known for both his presentations quently “Lecoq,” to indeed,the ConanDoyle (ACD) list Musings... with motives ulterior, wasare forgotten’a collection (Time of pastiches, 6 Oct. 1924).” and essays. mainwhole, Norwegian I am pretty publisher, well pleased but withunfor - Thirty-three of his poems were collected 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- to professional groups and New York on the Internet, is interested in Conan In the 1990s all ten volumes were re- tunatelyyou.” To theyJohn didn’t Bennett follow Shaw it andup—there the in Songs of the Road and published in John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi- Merely “a& bungler,”Co.s Kronebibliotek a creature (“1 qualitiesneverSneers of the the at same Poe’soriginal. for Dupin Francine; I’m as still haunted she stuffed rat now adorn the Collections. readers and other interested parties, close relationshiption of the withorphans…Avoiding ACD and his any University’s School of Journalism about printedOn January wholesale 11, 1943 by aGuiterman short-lived col pub- - werereaders no oftranslations this newsletter, of VALL he will or The be 1911. Eleven years later The Poems of In that essay he explained Doyle’s to mock,Krone poetry. indeed! Library”, She wrote: mean- by themissed descriptions ‘very sharing inferior’.” 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, butexpenditure there is nothing on bricks about and hermortar, theverse intion magazines to the facilities. and newspapers On December 3, lisherlapsed called while LibriArte.preparing I’veto deliver done minora Case-book,remembered and as theonly author four ofof thea clever stories Arthur Conan Doyle - Collected Edition about the challenges of ing that the price was one them almost 60 years ago. in any ofprinciple the Conan laid Doyle down biographies. was that of saving and for1886, his poems Catling which wrote appeared to the Grand in a This,I’ve when tried your to do plots some and research about ofHave all, she you missed not learned, his companionship. my revisionslecturefor writing and to diedthe about text later hisover that friends the day years, fromWayne buta inlittleGeorgina His poem Last Doyle, Bowabout were authorthe Masterpublished of Out Detective. of in the was published by John Murray. Those translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACD visited Norway in June 1892 with numberSecretary of publications of United such Grand as such Lodge, as yourthe poem methods proper in story and how/whyowe it And esteemed when she communicator, passed away, their asecond majorand Francine heartone for attack. butanother alsoHis Bokklubbenforwife helping Vida sur with - Norway,WeShadows: are “pretty in The a book Untold well called pleased” Story Spioncen of withArthur him.- same Sherlockiansthe child to have its home enjoyed and the its home to changing Norwegian lan- less than $10 in today’s As for my own translation it was his sister Connie and Jerome K. Jerome Life, theenclosing New York an Times, “imposing Harper’s group and of peti- was written, but have come up friends had the same reaction as people completevivedthe packinghim. edition, The and Pittsburgh in mailing two volumes,Press of the carried many, in tralen, Conan 1919. Doyle’s I’ve First been Family very , read fortunate, Dick poetry writtenthe child.” about Sherlock Holmes; guage, including titles: More thanmoney). a trifle I’ve to gotPoe some of actuallyThat published the created for is the not first the creator?time in 2002.his obituary The most and recentphoto reprinton January is in 12, a both in Gyldendal that they wanted to among others. the Saturdaytioners,” Evening proposing Post, includingthat a new lodge empty. had when George Burns died; his pass- many boxes. Sveum’s article fromJulie DecemberMcKuras, ASH,2008 BSI Vincent Starrett’s sonnet “221B” and and Gaboriau,the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz 1943 under the heading “Arthur Guiter- the initial six issues of the New Yorker ingAs meant the creator that he I've was praised together to satiety with 2011 Bokklubben volume Sherlock givewith Holmes a careful his eye due and place has incorrected a prestige a Bill Schweikert’sThomas “ACatling Long edited Evening The with Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my A Google search revealed a 1902 letter in 1925. The verse, clever and often Sets all the Muses of Helicon Holmesman, Noted Mysterier Poet and i utvalg Playwright, (“Selected Dies.” series of modern and classical mystery Holmes”Album are just. Born two Septemberexamples that 23, 1838, he euphony-before-precision25% of the membership is the who were RecordsWhat of Dr I Watson”),did learn waspublished that it was knowledgeGraciePoe’s Monsieuragain. of Holmes, Dupin, so I washis skillconsid - John Bergquist has provided us with a date. Soren Eversoll, an honored visitor written by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark humorous, included book reviews he sorrowing. Mysteries”),The article noted containing that he STUD, was “famed HOUN in stories and bringing him back into come quickly to mind. The very first 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 and the variety, local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues Twain) toworked Brochmann for Lloyd’s noting Weekly that Newsshe , as a wrote for Life magazine, which pub- andliterary The circles Adventures—all more than halftranslated a cen- print, and in Den norske Bokklubben issue of the Baker Street Journal fea- 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, had translatedcompositor, into Norwegianwriter, news his editor from lished those reviews as “Letters to the And have admitted that in bytury…[he] yours truly. collaborated If you’re interested,with Lawrence I’ll for deciding to do the first ever com- tured Holmesian poetry. The book The 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. Sherlockian1866 pastiche through A1884, Doubled-Bar then editor- fromLiterati.”Freemasons’ Hall and Sir Henry IrvingIt seemsborn Mr. Guitermanin March of was 1909, critical just ofone my detective work beLangner happy on to ansend adaptation you a copy of Moliere’s for your plete edition and giving me a free rein Crowded Box-Room; Sherlock Holmes as Norwegian suggests a large, possibly stories from The Return of SH. Broch- paperback mystery series called “The reled Detective1884 through Story. The 1907. Lilly The Library Scoop was invested as Treasurer. There is no the Holmesmonth stories, before or The at least Press Conan Book was collection to The Sherlock Holmes collection.‘Schoolthank forChristy AndHusbands’ toAllen complete for[a rhymed providing the story: trans -I to present Sherlock Holmes as I think Poet was written by Theodore Blegen, ferocious and deadly, canine; hund mann’s HOUN was re-published by the BlackI Series” owe to (inspiredmy model by a dealthe French of Manuscript Collection has 15 letters to In our longerfeatured a formalbook, Guitermanconnection between Doyle’s failurepublished). to cite his influences. Was Collections. Sadly, her death in alsolationinformation adapted which andappeared about translated Conan in New Doyle’sa Swedish York poet-in heSo should it’s business be. as usual at The one of theDatabase, founders subscription of the Norwegian biographical means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. “La Série selective Noire”) work. and asked me to do her (1900-1917) from English authors acknowledgedthe Lodge his and appreciation the Club. to the this poem to be a censure of the Great October 2007 meant her collection, radio1933],ry as dramatisation andfeatured he wrote in our of the the100 libretto book Years andfor Ago the Sherlock Holmes Collections, for Explorersdictionary of Minnesota. of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. opera ‘Man Without a Country,’ a Wal- including F. Anstey (one of the 24 editors of various publications for al- Detective?According “To Sir Arthurto Doyle’s Conan own Doyle”correspon- whichBut is she it not amassed on the with verge her of beloved producedcolumn. it Dick as a Sveumsix-part updates serial in us 1977. on the Sowhich the 1911 we are second all thankful. edition was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950, ally translated into my language the I can certainly tell you that Broch- There had then been no Holmes books authors along with ACD of The Fate of lowingAfter him tohis reprint retirement the poems from Lloyd’s that ends with W ayne, inanity was ready to move to Iter sometimesstatus Damrosch of the think score drive that [from for my the Edward main E.W. motive Ever- got Nils Nordberg hooked on Sherlock But howindicates many authors he extended have written the circulation po- 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 forett becomingHale’s 1863 a shortradio story]drama produced producer by Holmes. In his translation he kept Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. Jerome. originallyWeekly appeared News, inCatling “Life, Theundertook New the Give me detectives with Minnesota. Boxes of books, pho- McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI ems aboutof theSir Arthurpaper beyond Conan Doyle?London At and waswhich is not only clumsy but–even very 1911 brainswas edition a worrisomeanalytical has played time. aJean decisive was do twoTo selections, put down tocontaining me my seven sto- wasthe Theatrethe wish Guild.” to do this story on radio, Elizabeth Brochmann’s title, and he was I was able to examine the letters while York Times,editing Woman’s task for Home Companion, . The least oner eputedperson todid, be and the thosefirst to verses use the auto-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. creation’s We ephemerathen crude decided vanity?and thateven I awould giant theIt’s medium gratifying it is to perfectly receive notes suited from for. a good friend of John Bennett Shaw. As attendingwere included the Gillettein the book to Brett The IIILaughing con- Harper’s Magazine, The Century, St. Rather than weaklings with The Dog of the Baskervilles Family. story I ever34 and read, Doyle and wasit hooked worried me about her translateHe, HOUN.the created, I used would EB’s scoff version And, ah yes, 2009 saw the first ever a Norwegian-American and Sherlock- ferenceMuse published at Indiana in 1915University. by Harper and Nicholas, Collier’s Weekly, The Bookman, morals mephitical – Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also and several would Danish sneer, and Swedish) “nynorsk” translation of HOUN, by ian, I appreciate all the connections. Brothers. John Bennett Shaw had a copy Munsey’s Magazine, Scribner’s Magazine, Continued on page 7 Puck, The Youth’s Companion, Smart Set, as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a of this book that originally belonged to ContinuedContinued on on page page 7 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 September 2015 Volume 19 Number 3

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

A Letter From a Friend 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— Wayne became a member of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1978 (as “The Giant Rat of Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 6 Jan Stauber Francine and Richard Kitts we would appreciate being informed of changes Sumatra”). Francine became a member of The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes in Tom Stix Karen Anderson of address or other corrections. 1977 (as “Hatty Doran”) and was honored by the BSI as The Woman in 1983, and Dr. Richard Sturtz William Sturtz Remembrances awarded her Irregular Shilling and Investiture in 1994 (as “The Wigmore Street Post Timothy J. Johnson, Curator Dear Friends: 8 Continued on page 6 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 In profiling Carolyn Wells in your most recent issue, you’ve overlooked several of her strong Sherlockian credentials. Wells (1862- 1942) was born in Rahway, New Jersey, and despite being deaf from early childhood, wrote more than 80 books of crime fiction, parodies, and humorous verse. Among her nonfiction titles isThe Technique of the Mystery Story: A Complete Practical Study of the Theory and Structure of the Form with Examples from the Best Mystery Writers. Springfield, MA: The Home Correspondence School (1913, issued in a “new and revised edition” in 1929). The book includes numerous examples from the Canon—she references Doyle 25 times!—and includes much sound analysis of what makes the Holmes stories effective.

Wells was apparently a favorite of the Senior and Junior Editors of The Bookman magazine (Harry Thurston Peck and Arthur Sherlock Holmes Bartlett Maurice) and was a frequently-published correspondent, often on the subject of Holmes and Doyle. The May 1902 COLLECTIONS issue of The Bookman included her charming poem, “A Ballade of Detection”: “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) Savants there be who joy to read Of lofty themes in words that glow; Others prefer the poet’s screed Where liquid numbers softly flow. Contents A Travel-Worn and Battered Box Others in Balzac interest show, By Ray Betzner, BSI Or by Dumas are much impressed; Some seek grim novels full of woe— I like Detective Stories best. A Travel-Worn and ne of the great dreams Battered Box of any Sherlock Holmes To my mind nothing can exceed devotee is to find Dr. The tales of Edgar Allan Poe, 1 Watson’s travel-worn and Of Anna Katherine Green I’ve need, O battered tin dispatch- Du Boisgobey, Gaboriau; box, jammed full of notes on the I’ve Conan Doyle’s works all a-row, 100 Years Ago unrecorded cases of Sherlock And Ottolengui and the rest; Holmes. What magical hours one How other books seem tame and slow! 2 could have sorting through the con- I like Detective Stories best. tents. What unexpected treasures would it contain? The dim, elusive clues mislead, 50 Years Ago Hiding the mystery below; Some of the same experience comes To fearful pitch my mind is keyed, 3 to mind when contemplating the Opinion shuttles to and fro! latest major library acquisition: a Successive shocks I undergo box full of items relating to Vincent Ere the solution may be guessed; From the President Starrett (October 26, 1886 – Janu- Arguments and discussions grow— ary 5, 1974). As many of you would I like Detective Stories best. 4 know, Starrett was a founding mem- ber of The Baker Street Irregulars, ENVOY: author of the seminal work The Sherlock, thy subtle powers I know, Acquisitions Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1933) Spirit of search, incarnate quest, 4 and for several decades one of the To thee the laurel wreath I throw— nation’s great bookmen, amassing I like Detective Stories best. For any inquiries contact: (and sometimes selling) great collec- Photo by Tim Johnson Timothy J. Johnson, Curator Musings tions about Holmes, Stephen Crane, A woman after our own hearts! 612-624-3552 or Robert L. Stevenson, Arthur Machen [email protected] 4 and others. He was an influential book reviewer and columnist in his adopted city of Chi- Regards, cago, where his “Books Alive” column was a mainstay for decades. Les Klinger Sherlock Holmes Collections Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library An Update From the The University of Minnesota library already has one of the best public collections relating to University of Minnesota Collections Starrett. It’s appropriate, then, that this box has been added to the existing collection. 222 21st Ave. S. Purchased from a book dealer in St. Louis earlier this year, the banker’s box of Starrett Remembrances Minneapolis, MN 55455 5 memorabilia offers tempting glimpses into one of the great popular-culture bookmen of the early 20th century. Let’s slip off the lid and peer inside, shall we? In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made Telephone: 612-626-9166 contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. FAX: 612-625-5525 A Letter From a Friend There are lots of letters here, some by names familiar with the Sherlock Holmes movement: Irregulars John Bennett Shaw, Herb Tinning and Don Yates have letters here, as does Sean In Memory Of From Mailing list corrections requested— Wright. There are also notes about Charles Honce, who wrote the only detailed bibliog- Fred Levin Don Hobbs Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, 8 Barbara McKuras Mike and Julie McKuras we would appreciate being informed of changes Continued on page 6 Barbara McKuras Sue and Ben Vizoskie of address or other corrections. Norman Schatell Glenn Schatell Remembrances Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8

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