Norman Schatell's Artwork by Julie Mckuras, ASH, BSI

March 2012 Volume 16 Number 1

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) Continued from Page 3 100 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.

50 Years Ago 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 8 Continued on page 6

8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 Hogan died on September 18, 1985. John Bennett Shaw wrote in the June 1986 Baker Street Journal that his friend was a “prolific writer on Holmesian subjects” whose articles appeared in “such periodicals asMalayan Police Magazine, The Brief, The Journal of Criminal Law, The Hong Kong Standard, The Air Force Magazine and Space Digest [Air Force and Space Digest] and The Baker Street Journal.” Hogan “was but a week away from assuming a full-time professorship in law at the Univer- sity of California at Los Angeles when his death occurred. Truly he was the type of urbane and articulate gentleman that Morley and Smith and Wolff would recognize as true B.S.I. material.” Sherlock Holmes Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI COLLECTIONS

“Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD)

Contents Norman Schatell's Artwork by Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI

Norman Schatell's he lead article of the June 1998 issue of this newsletter carried the simple Artwork headline: “Norman Schatell.” Written by Jon Lellenberg, the article, available 1 online at http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/newsletter/june98.pdf, highlighted the donation by the Schatell family of their late father’s artwork and corre- T spondence to the Sherlock Holmes 100 Years Ago Collections. Jon described his friend 2 Norman, an art teacher and a founder of the scion society Mrs. Hud- Acquisitions son’s Cliffdwellers, as “interested in Remembrances 2 Sherlock Holmes in theater, pastiche, In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made contributions and other forms; he was fascinated either in honor or in memory of special persons. by Sherlock Holmes as a cultural 50 Years Ago phenomenon…it was as an artist that 3 he proceeded to astonish and delight In Honor Of From the Baker Street Irregulars…However Sherlock Holmes Don Hobbs quiet his manner, when he com- Timothy Johnson Phillip and Karen Bergem From the President bined his zany sense of humor and The Nashville Scholars James Hawkins 4 his artistic talents with his intimate Gordon Speck Joe Eckrich knowledge of Sherlock Holmes, the Robert Thomalen Paul Singleton Musings results were hilarious and wonder- Richard Wein Paul Singleton ful.” Jon wrote that Norman’s work Donald Yates Charles Press 4 was “scattered across the country, but this donation to the Sherlock Holmes Friends of The Sherlock Collections at Minnesota means that For any inquiries contact: there will be a permanent home for In Memory Of From Timothy J. Johnson, Curator Holmes Collections Richard Lancelyn Green Vincent Brosnan some of it.” 612-624-3552 or Annual Meeting Edward Hardwicke Arthur E. F. Wiese Jr. Cameron Hollyer Bruce D. Aikin [email protected] It was with great pleasure that E.W. Anne Lainhart Jeffory Hart 4 McDiarmid Curator of the Sherlock Fred Levin Mike and Julie McKuras Sherlock Holmes Collections Holmes Collections Timothy Johnson Fred Levin The Norwegian Explorers Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library An Update from the received recent correspondence from Allen Mackler Philip Swiggum University of Minnesota Collections Norman Schatell’s son about an ad- 222 21st Ave. S. ditional contribution. The note from

E. W. McDiarmid Jim DeLeo Photo courtesy of Glenn Schatell E. W. McDiarmid Peter Klaus Minneapolis, MN 55455 5 Norman Schatell Glenn Schatell read “I’ve decided E. W. McDiarmid Jeffrey Klaus Telephone: 612-626-9166 to donate my share of my father, E. W. McDiarmid Michael Brahmey FAX: 612-625-5525 Some Thoughts on Norman Schatell’s, Sherlock Holmes art E. W. McDiarmid Mary McDiarmid Norman Schatell work, which he did in the 1970s, to the University of Minnesota Library.” Tim’s response Murray Shaw Madeleine Lucien-Brun was “I have enjoyed looking at your father’s art work found in the John Bennett Shaw Mailing list corrections requested— 7 Collection and am very excited and pleased to accept your very kind gift on behalf of the Jan Stauber Francine and Richard Kitts Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, Helen S. Sturtz William Sturtz we would appreciate being informed of changes University.” of address or other corrections. Remembrances 8 Continued on page 6 Timothy J. Johnson, Curator

8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 Some100 Years Thoughts Ago Continued on Norman from Page 2 Schatell 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 page, the following advertisement There are four versions of the Samuel mobile for “journalistic purposes.” table of contents for this 224 page appears: “Amateurs are recommended Frenchtable edition of contents listed in for Ronald this 224 B. Depage By Donaldhealth Pollock during and after the pregnan- and lookingThe Orphanage back over our correspon- to Sir ArthurCatling Conan was active Doyle’s in the one-act Institute of Waal’sillustrated Universal book Sherlock includes Holmes works: by cy. This certainly would explain the dence at inthat an time, earlier I was translation amused which to see I play, ‘Waterloo’Journalists (played and traveled by Sir extensivelyHenry Alfred Noyes, Arthur Morrison, wassomewhat fortunate sombre to be tone able of to the cor poem.- that NormWhen,revised encouraged ere the quite tangled heavily. me web to disagree is reft, Irving),through published America, at one Canada, shilling, the and Middle • TheRosamund first English Marriott-Watson, edition, published Eden respondThe use withof the Norman word “lady” Schatell in the last with hisThe identification kid-gloved villain of scowlsone or andtwo sneers, The main difference between also a duologueEast and Europe, entitled, including ‘A Duet,’ France AugustPhillpotts, 1912, John which Galsworthy, has a F. Anstey onstanza three seems different to strongly fronts between objects,And recognizing hapless innocence the humorous is left 100published during at sixpence.” World War I. He served as a khaki-colored cover and no 1975 and his untimely death in potentialWithmy in no aown satiricassets and save reference EB’s sighs translation and to tears,the I 100 during World War I. He served as a and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100 and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a YEARS AGO suggest that it was written to/for I 1980. I’m astonished to realize, kind of’Tis’Tis debatethink then,then, juststemsjustthat then,then, comprised from thatthat the inin facttheremuchthere that stalksstalks delegate to the Conference of the exteriorfew of adsthe contributors.(with publisher’s Page ads 20 fea- YEARS AGO more thanLady 30Jean. years later, that we ex- of Sherlockianthey belong writing. to Norm’sdifferent work ages. As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections SamuelInternational French, Ltd., Association and Samuel of Journalists ontures p. 125-26 the poem for “Bythe playsthe North of Sea” by The hero, watchful of her needs, is a quarterly newsletter published by the The March 2008 issue of this newslet- changed letters and other materials for appearedHe you talks!in many may Great know,issues heavens, Danishof BSMhow washein talksthat for Frenchat [Inc.] Berlin are in companies1908, and foundedlater as AlfredSir Arthur Sutro); Conan Doyle. It is a short Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections "THEAmong SPECKLED terthe featuredforeign translationsBAND"—an article about of The The Flag, in 1830 by the theatrical publishersCaption: The 1902 first edition has the only fiveAlso, years; the fact I still that think they ofwere Norm expect- as period,But andcenturies we heforgive was the him,so officialimportant for his deeds.written to us lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the FROMHound ofSTAGEpublished the Baskervilles TO in PAGE1908, from which John benefitted Samuel French and ThomasPaget illustrationLacey. while the• second A 2nd does impression, not. with thinner someoneing Itheir knew first for child much may longer, have but and to hisguage friends of Norway,that we publishedand although a ests and needs of the Special Collections and Rare Books Department, University of Bennett Shaw’s collections, the one Essentially,Society the of companies Journalists publish during 1915. He paperlast stanza and aas dark written green by paper Conan Doyle. it just influencedshows that Doyle’s he was decision one of those to con- memorialLifeNorwegian isessay the drama by Irving in here 1911 Kamil,to-day had Harlanbegun the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called Minnesota Libraries. Bythat Leslie was Klinger,published BSI 100 years ago has scripts passedin the U.S.away and on DecemberU.K. for theatri 25, 1920.- cover; figurestribute who isto Thepresent Press even Book whenin the he Umansky,Andsplitting Deathand John the away, villainBennett the of influence theShaw plot. in entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wet Baskervilles. with North ThisSea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: special significance. According to De cal productions and act as the play- Her cheek was wet with North Sea spray, was absent.first place. Being a father himself, I’m BSM 22,It is fromshortly a realistic Danish after play; Norm’swas still death strong. in It’s Conan Doyle’s “The Grey Dress – guage editionsCatling’s ofname the alsoCanon appears has nine in con- title is established;We walked where to the tide eye and it comesshingle meet, Scan courtesy of the University of Minnesota Libraries a complicated story but actually ArthurWaal it Conanwas a 2nd Doyle edition, struggled with during the wrights’ agents in licensing amateur • A 3rd impression, with a light sure he could easily empathize with 1980. ShallI don’t it end think well we or evershall honoredit not Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it fromsounds far away sure he could easily empathize with Editor hisfirst writing published career in to1902. achieve Noted consistentHound and theatrical productions. Today, the brownThe longpaper waves cover rolled published from far inaway My initial introduction to Norm was anotherNorwegianThe Sherlockian hero? Oh, on the thelike hero’s printed that, part except 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 as different from Ibsen’s time to the Julie McKuras successcollector on Dr. the Donald stage, Pollackwith more has than both companies list hundreds of available 1928 (with publisher’s ads on through our little journal Baker Street for JohnIs vacant—to Nieminski be – played a founder by you. of BSM 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. ain half-dozen his collection.The following plays. For year, Sherlockians, in 1909, The Pressplayscriptsbers comethrough from their the website worlds atof art, p. 125-26And as we for walked plays itof seemed to me Miscellanea. Norm first appeared in – presentwhoThen died as act severalShakespeare it well! years An later,isorphan’s from also presheart too- Apple Valley, MN 55124 however,Album the playwas waspublished “The Speck to aid- the www.samuelfrench.com. drama, law, literature, music or sci- than Gertrudea family.That three But,E. Jenningsold for friends the threeand had a metexcel that- day: BSMto me in by March friends 1977, of my issue parents 9, at whothe early.ent dayMay English. beat the lighterAt the if same you do. time I did 952-431-1934 This search led to the online WorldCat lent reasonsThe old mentioned, old sky, the I olddecided old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about [email protected] ledC3542. Band,” Journalists’— firstA1456. performed OrphanHunden fraFund,on Basker4 June and- as he ence. Former members have included coverThe ad old for old seven sky, the plays, old old the sea, first outsetFinally, of our thirdDoyle year wrote of apublication, poem about go for a “conservative” style, hoping which lists eleven books by A. Conan to changeAnd it.” love, which is as old as they. butstories. I hadorphans Anyway, been which in it correspondence was was a revelation.published with in Normit would turned read out to tomodern be a modest day Norwe col- - 1910ville: En at hadnythe fortælling Adelphidone the Theatre,om previous Sherlock Strand, year, Conan The publishednotables versionsuch as ofCharlie “The SpeckChaplin,- being The Rising Generation); and 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 gian Christyreaders Allen as Conan and Julie Doyle McKuras reads to Editorial Board inHolmes London.. DoyleAutoriseret During stepped Conanoversættelse forward Doyle’s with ved a contri- led Band”Mark differs Twain, from Wilkie that Collins,actually James him sinceSongs at of least the RoadNovember, just a 1975few pages lector of editions of The Hound of the John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Elisabeth Brochmann. Also online is update Outhe surprised seaward hung me theby writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. lifetime,Elisabeth the Brochmann. play ran for Kristiania: five months in performed on opening night. Page 5 • A fourth impression, with a light about afterdeveloping “By the theNorth series Sea.” of drawIt was- Baskervilles,References: among other Sherlockian Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. bution. The book, edited by Thomas NasjonalbiblioteketMcNeill Whistler, (National Sir Alexander Library ElisabethWe Brochmann’s saw it rolling, translationfold on fold, of my dearest possessions. But very few London,Forlagt af then H. Aschehoug was taken up& Co.by touring(W. of the script lists the cast of charac- brownWe saw paper it rolling, cover, fold published on fold, in ings thatcalled we “Thepublished Orphanage” as The andArts is repro- works,http://www.scoop- and we shared that interest in a Catling and published by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN Andwas markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist andof the Crafts stories Holmes. were available (Readers in of my this own seriesSincedatabase.com/bio/catling_thomas of 1971 letters my over translation several years.of HOUN There productionsNygaard), 1902. in England, 263 p. an American ters for the initial performance and 1929 (with a cover ad for five 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 gold.interest language then, so I had to wait until I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club run—————. in late 1910, 2nd a ed. revival 1911. in 246London p. in includes the character “Mrs. Soames” plays,Turn the all firstits leaden being edgeSecrets to gold.). newsletter will be familiar with his is hasmuchhttp://www.savageclub.com/ been bibliographic reprinted over detail a dozen there timesthat the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh lady seems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest earlyI became 1911, aware and ofa successful translator newElisabeth pro- played by Miss Gwendolyn Floyd. In legendary envelopes.) His drawings wouldby various be boring publishers, to most by readers, Aschehoug but Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- ductionBrochmann “1892in 1921. in with2004 Last a whengift year, of I I£1,000 acquirededited byan the latethe performance,Wallace and Mrs. Peter Soames Ustinov. was It oneis cur- NeedlessThe to greysay, below,all are the quite gold scarce, above; but were chaotic and brilliant, with a deep evenand so Norild Norm’s as enthusiasmwell as Gyldendal, is present and University of Minnesota Library To me the most famous Norwegian The 1911For edition so the greyest was one life inmay a seriesshine ing of the Orphan’s Fund when he I’ve also read it as an audio book. It Copyright © 20122011 illustratedlot 93 ofLord The edition GleneskConan of theDoyle and play, £500 Collec including by- the late Sirof fourr clientsently located interviewed at 1 Whitehall by Holmes Place, the Collections have copies of each. sense of humor and playfulness that in every letter, and his discovery that Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. translator of the Canon is Nils Nor- of booksAll published golden in thein thatlight format,of love. half As EB’swrote HOUN this? was more or less my was included in the first ever collected photographstion auctionJohn atWillox…Workingof Christie’s.the 1910 production.Included pressmen in Act LondonII, before and he theirmeets website Enid Stonor, indicates it Somewhat different versions of the explored unexpected connections – his he owned an especially rare variant of 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 in the lotthroughout were seven the letters country and commenced two the principal“remains client one involvedof the leading in the Bohemian play can be found in Richard Lance- Prof. Moriarty bobble head figure in theSherlock American Holmes first editionedition inofThe Norwegian, Hound Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It Press(and Albumindeed added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time Inpostcards 1912, Samuel by ACD French, to Madame Ltd., Brochpub- - mysteryGentleman’s at Stoke Moran. Clubs Thisin London.” charac- lyn Green’s The Uncollected Sherlock BSM 9 was a wonderful evocation of – whichthe state I edited with the and April part-translated 1902 publica - contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden lishedmann discussinga script for rightsThe Speckled to stories Band: and ter, and the interview scene, is omitted Holmesthe (Penguin Institute Books,of Journalists 1983) andOrphan my the image of the professor’s oscillating tion(wanted date – to was do broadcastall but didn’t with have infec - the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than Anpamphlets. Adventure ACD of Sherlock was eager Holmes to have. Its from theIn published1882, the Princeversion of and Wales, was laterin own TheFund. Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes head in the form of the collectible dolls tioustime), joy. published in 10 volumes by Den reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- priceThe War was in one South shilling Africa: sixpence Its Cause (and and fact deleted from the play by Conan (Gasogene Books, 2009) (The Sherlock popular at the time. One of my favorite Norske Bokklubben (“The Norwegian contributed to the Fund, from its publishedEdward in Sherlock VII, became an honorary breaking out of the fog on lations. It’s a long time since I’ve re-read forConduct five translatedguineas, amateur into all languagesproductions Doyle at some point during the play’s HolmesChristy Reference Allen, Library, who contributes vol. 10). fre- projects was “The Wonderful Dog That Finally,Book Club”)I was equally in 1980. grateful The tenth for volume NormAschehoug and he in in turn EB’s senttime onwas to Doyle’s Peter. beginning seventeen years ago, has Holmes:member The Detective of the &Club. He enjoyed the the dust jacket. The series it but it is my impression Continuedthat EB was from Page 4 ofand the wrote playbeginning acould preface be seventeen formounted). the Norwegian years (I ownago, has theatrical run, because (he wrote to quently to the ConanDoyle (ACD) list DoesMusings... Nothing Snapback Demonstrator” Norm’swas a legworkcollection as of he pastiches tracked downand essays. I remembermain Norwegian this as the publisher, quintessence but unfor of - The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic aedition. copy that beenBrochmann has devoted a sticker must to theon have itskeep cover had and a educa- Lyn Harding, the actor portraying on the Internet, is interested in Conan (BSM #10) the instructions to which informationIn the 1990s on all Langdon ten volumes McCormick, were re - scholarlytunately generosity. they didn’t follow it up—there John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi- & Co.s Kronebibliotek (“1 qualitiesnever of the the same original. for Francine; I’m still haunted she stuffed rat now adorn the Collections. readers and other interested parties, statingclose relationship “Revisedtion of the Price withorphans…Avoiding 2/- ACD Net”—that and his any Dr. Grimesby Rylott) “I felt as if the conclude “… the dog will quickly re- anprinted early 20th wholesale century by playwright a short-lived who pub - were no translations of VALL or The In that essay he explained Doyle’sKrone poetry. Library”, She wrote: mean- by themissed descriptions sharing theirof the interests moor as and I read most Our thanks go to Peter Blau, not only and this issue features two of those: is,family, two butshillings).expenditure there is Opposite nothing on bricks theabout and title hermortar, theAudiencetion were to the held facilities. too long On from December the 3, turn to its starting position having done hadlisher written called “The LibriArte. Burglar I’ve and done the Lady,”minor ThroughoutCase-book, the and too only brief four time of I thecorre stories- 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 plot.” 1886, Catling wrote to the Grand I’ve tried to do some research about nothing.”of all, sheHis missedstyle was his absurdist companionship. in a revisions1906for writingSherlock to the about Holmestext hisover friendsversus the years, WayneRaffles but spondedinGeorgina His withLast Doyle, NormBow were author– he published reminded of Out of in methe translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACD visited Norway in June 1892 with Secretary of United Grand Lodge, the poem proper and how/why it the Andbest sensewhen –she a “workingpassed away, model” their of thriller,a majorand notableFrancine one for as butanother a stage also forBokklubbenvehicle helping for with in oneNorway,Shadows: letter in thatThe a book Untoldwe had called Story never Spioncen of metArthur in - the child to its home and its home to changing Norwegian lan- less than $10 in today’s As for my own translation it was his sister Connie and Jerome K. Jerome enclosing an “imposing group of peti- was written, but have come up the friends17 steps had should the same give reactionanyone pauseas people Gentlemancompletethe packing edition,Jim Corbett,and inmailing two the volumes, offamous the many, in person,tralen,Conan despite 1919.Doyle’s being I’ve First been atFamily the very BSI, read fortunate, week Dick- the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in among others. tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty. – andhad extraordinarily when George clever.Burns died;I have his a pass- boxer.2002.many I Thehad boxes. mostdiscovered recent a reprint copy of is the in a endboth Sveum’sonce in or Gyldendal articletwice atfrom the that Decembersame they time wanted 2008– he to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz list ofing ideas meant he that sent he us, was many together of which with script2011 of Bokklubben the play, and volume was working Sherlock on wasgive withalways Holmes a careful a joy his to eye dueknow, and place hasa delightful incorrected a prestige a Thomas Catling edited The Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my A Google search revealed a 1902 letter did not make it into print, at least in anHolmes article aboutMysterier it, but i utvalg could (“Selected find little correspondentseries of modern with aand self-consciously classical mystery Album. Born September 23, 1838, he euphony-before-precision25% of the membership is the who were RecordsWhat of Dr I Watson”),did learn waspublished that it was knowledgeGracie again. of Holmes, so I was consid- John Bergquist has provided us with a date. Soren Eversoll, an honored visitor written by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark BSM, and among them I find “The ‘Fool informationMysteries”), on containing McCormick, STUD, the HOUNauthor. amusedstories sense and ofbringing his own him slightly back madinto translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, ofThe 1918. Apartalmost from certainly a missing written ABBE when this Jean ered quite the local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues Twain) toworked Brochmann for Lloyd’s noting Weekly that Newsshe , as a Your Hostess’ Fake Second Stain” and Normand Thesuspected Adventures—all that the library translated and ar - style.print, I recently and in wroteDen norske an update Bokklubben of my 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 “Working Model of the Great Grimpen chivesby yours of the truly. Lincoln If you’re Center interested, might have I’ll originalfor deciding article on to “Thedo the Burglar first everand comthe - Acquisitions 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- from Freemasons’ Hall and Sir Henry Irving born in March of 1909, just one Mire.” informationbe happy to about send thisyou once-famous a copy for your Lady”plete and edition had a andchance giving to reviewme a free my rein Norwegianwas invested suggests as a Treasurer.large, possibly There is no stories frommonth The before Return The of Press SH. Book Brochwas- paperbackcollection mystery to The series Sherlock called Holmes “The butcollection. thankby 1976 Christy Andelusive toAllen completeauthor, for providing so the he story:spent I correspondenceto present Sherlock with Norm Holmes and as the I think reled Detective1884atherine through Story. Cooke The 1907. Lillyadded The Library the Scoop program for the 2012 Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s annual dinner to the ferocious and deadly, canine; hund mann’s HOUN was re-published by the ABlack yearCollections. Series” later, in (inspired the Sadly, March her by 1978deaththe French issuein hoursalsoinformation adaptedhunting andthrough about translated Conan ancient Doyle’sa Swedishfiles poet- documentsheSo should it’s business he be. sent asme, usual and atI wasThe once ManuscriptDatabase,Collections. Collection subscription “A has Whale 15 lettersbiographical of a Time”to was heldlonger on January a formal 7, 2012connection at The between House of Commons.published). means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. (“LaBSM Série #13) Noire”) we started and askeda short me series to do of andradio records, dramatisation and dutifully of the passed book andalong again pleased to be in the presence of her (1900-1917)dictionary from of British English and authors Irish journal- the Lodge and the Club. October 2007 meant her collection, ry as featured in our 100 Years Ago Sherlock Holmes Collections, for about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- Norm’sa selection drawings of Sherlock we called Holmes “The stories. An- anythingproduced he it found. as a six-part My subsequent serial in 1977.ar- thisSo remarkable the 1911 secondcharacter. edition was what includingistsDon F. from Anstey Hobbs the (one period donated of theof 1800a 24 copy – of1950, Lukoli Chikchika Apisa, A Choctaw Translation of The AdventureAccording of the toSpeckled Doyle’s Band own. correspon- which she amassed with her beloved column. Dick Sveum updates us on the which we are all thankful. ally translatedAfter his into retirement my language from the I can certainly tell you that Broch- thropologicalThere had then Holmes” been no based Holmes on hisbooks cre - ticleI sometimes on the play think owed that much my mainto Norm’s motive got Nils Nordberg hooked on Sherlock Cauthors indicatesalongTranslated with he ACDextendedby Gilbert of The the Breedlove, Fate circulation of it was printedAfter byhis Fairdale retirement Press, from Flower Lloyd’s Mound, TX indence 2011. (from A Life in Letters), this Wayne, was ready to move to status of the drive for the E.W. title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s translation of HOUN and that in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. Jerome. , Catling undertook the ative Sherlockian takes on an extraor- assistance.for becoming Norm a radiowas also drama sending producer his Holmes. In his translation he kept of the paper beyond London and waswhich Wis eeklynot only News clumsy, Catling but–even undertook the very 1911was edition a worrisome has played time. aJean decisive was do twoMinnesota. selections, Boxes containing of books, seven pho- sto- McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI I was able to examine the letters while dinary range of anthropological and findingswas the towish Peter to doBlau; this Blau story helpfully on radio, Elizabeth Brochmann’s title, and he was worse—suggestsediting task a forstory The about Press aAlbum pet: . The part in mypregnant life. It with was herthe first child Holmes at age ries tographs,each. We ephemerathen decided and thateven I awould giant It’s gratifying to receive notes from attendingreputed the Gillette to be theto Brett first IIIto usecon the- auto- archaeological objects. I provided the forwardedthe medium them it ison perfectly to me, including suited for. a good friend of John Bennett Shaw. As The Dog of the Baskervilles Family. story I ever34 and read, Doyle and wasit hooked worried me about her translate HOUN. I used EB’s version ference at Indiana University. brief introductory text for the drawings, manyAnd, items ah yes, that 2009 I had saw originally the first sent ever to a Norwegian-American and Sherlock- Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) Continued on page 7 “nynorsk” translation of HOUN, by ian, I appreciate all the connections. as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a Continued on page 7 SIGN was also included in the series, good deal on mine. Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 ing President in 1966. His other mem- dinner and in April, the latter what Norman Schatell's Artwork Continued from Page 1 berships included the American As- he called the Edgar W. Smith Birth- sociation of University Professors, the day Honors (Smith’s birthday having unique, and he worked in a number of spirit, “since it is a little like being a Société d’Histoire du Droit, the Royal been April 1st). Those tended to be mediums. He taught art at Union Hill detective.” Glenn also worked in New Institute of Philosophy, the Seldon for people not likely to attend an an- High School in Union City, New Jersey, York City as a community activist for Society, the Stair Society, the Civil War nual dinner in New York and receive where his wife, Diana, worked as the housing issues. His sister Amy is a Round Table of Southern California, their investitures in person.” Later that secretary to the principal for 25 years. drama teacher at a school for dyslexic Phi Delta Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Phi same year Hogan’s “Opportunities for students. The Schatell family grew with Delta Kappa. He was a visiting profes- Asteroidal Crime” was reprinted in His love, starting in his youth, was the addition of two granddaughters, 5YEARS0 AGO sor at California Lutheran College the December BSJ. He had three more the Canon. He also had a fondness for born after their grandfather’s passing. 1972-1974 and professor at Woodbury articles that ran in the BSJ, the last one many other types of mystery stories. Glenn’s daughter, Elena, is a student at 50 years ago, the Soviets were leading University beginning in 1973. In 1974 appearing in 1968. He corresponded with Vincent Starrett Kenyon College in Ohio, and his niece, he began as a lecturer at U.C.L.A. and Howard Haycraft and dreamed of Natasha Miller, is the Communications the way in the space race and there was rising unease about what nation, and Contemporary Authors Online indicates Saul Cohen, who lived in Los Angeles joining the Baker Street Irregulars. In Director for KickinKitchenTV. that Hogan had “‘Dictionary reading at the same time as Hogan, recently 1973 he was invested in the BSI and what ideology, would control space. Why was the Soviet Union in the competence’ in Latin, Greek, French, wrote of their association, which began given the name “Jonathan Small”. As Tim Johnson notes that in the time he’s German, Spanish, and Russian. He dis- when Hogan “had [an] idea for [a] the donations of his artwork to the spent going over the donated artwork, lead? John C. Hogan, in his June 1962 Air Force and Space Digest (published covered the original records of the U.S. book and even had a contract with Sherlock Holmes Collections indicate, he’s constantly struck by both what a Supreme Court in the basement of the Prentice-Hall, but found that he didn’t

Courtesy of the University Minnesota Libraries by the Air Force Association) article Holmes was a frequent subject of his skilled artist Schatell was and his won- Court Building in Washington, 1954 know quite enough and his lawyer Norman Schatell's artwork work. It was printed in The Baker Street derful sense of humor, and how “his “Opportunities for Asteroidal Crime” suggested that the beneficiary of that and…contributed to the revival of in- gave him my name. The book was Journal, The Armchair Detective, The art invites you to get into the stories.” terest in Supreme Court Justice Joseph easy to write (nary a footnote) and… Artist and teacher Norman Schatell was Sherlock Holmes Journal and Baker Street On Tim’s project list for this year is “famous scientific criminal” Professor born April 25, 1925 in Hudson Coun- James Moriarty and his mathematical Story by publication of his previously was published by P-H in 1965. It was Miscellanea. He also drew cartoons on obtaining high-resolution scans of the unidentified articles.” reviewed by Robert Kirsch, Book Edi- ty, New Jersey. His father, Nathan, was the front of dozens of envelopes and treasures donated by Glenn Schatell. theories might have been “the Soviet an Internal Revenue Agent who was space-science program.” Hogan wrote tor of the Los Angeles Times, on June mailed them to Sherlockians, as well Those digital files will be available Hogan had two appearances in the 7, 1965. (I know that because I have active in local politics and a member of as creating and giving many other me- later this year on the U Media Archive that “a lost tome on space written by the Union City Board of Education. His the late but little-lamented Professor Baker Street Journal in 1961, the same a copy of the review stuck in my copy mentos to his friends. (http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/taxonomy/ year he contributed an article to the of the book.) Kirsch began: ‘About mother, Eva, was involved in the North term/740). Glenn was also happy to Moriarty” had been mentioned in the Hudson County Jewish Community. November 1961 issue of the above Fordham Law Review. In the September the most useful book I have read in Along with Diana, who passed away in report that plans are in place for a book issue, “Sherlock Holmes and Outer a long time bears the rather austere He attended Emerson High School in December 2004, he co-founded Mrs. to be published by the Battered Silicon publication, adding it was “the greatest Union City, New Jersey and joined the scientific literary achievement of the Space” discussed Prof. Moriarty’s bril- title, An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Hudson’s Cliffdwellers with Harlan Dispatch Box Press that will contain liance in mathematics and bemoaned Publishing and the Law (Prentice-Hall: Navy after graduating, serving in the Umansky and Irving Kamil. The society reproductions of his father’s art. Both late nineteenth century; yet no copies South Pacific during World War II. of it exist today in the Western world.” the inability to locate The Dynamics of $5.50) by John C. Hogan and Saul still uses a bust of Holmes and the of- in book form, and at the University of an Asteroid. Hogan believed “Professor Cohen. It solves a particular problem Glenn wrote that “From 1943 to 1946 ficial Mrs. Hudson paddle that Norman Minnesota’s Sherlock Holmes Col- He questioned the possibility that the he drew over 200 cartoons about Navy Soviets had copies of the book, which Moriarty’s criminal mind obviously for me, that of recommending a book created. His friend Peter Blau remem- lections, Sherlockians will have an was not studying the orbits and veloci- which will answer the assortment of life in the Philippines, Australia and bers “Norm had great fun with a pre- opportunity to discover, or rediscover he felt included “valuable data on Hawaii. His art work is now part of the space orbits and rocket trajectories.” ties of ‘asteroids’…for purely scientific questions I receive in the mail on the sentation to his Sherlockian society in for many, the unique talent of Norman reasons…It is shown in a recently legal problems of research, writing Library of Congress’s Veterans History New Jersey about Picasso having asked Schatell. He urged readers to alert Scotland Yard Project.” He attained the rank of Third- should a copy be located. published article that the policing of and publishing.’” Like their mutual Holmes for assistance when Picasso crime will be a major problem in outer friend, “John Hogan was well endowed Class Gunner’s mate, and because of was accused of having stolen the Mona his size (he was 6' 4"), he often moved While the whereabouts of Moriarty’s space.” He wrote that Moriarty desired corporeally, so he had that in common Lisa . . . Norm showed pages from a an “establishment of a criminal ‘upper- with John Shaw. I remember Hogan artillery shells around Navy bases and Picasso sketchbook that had interesting book remains a mystery, we do know taught fellow sailors how to take apart a bit more about the author, John world’ located on an isolated asteroid telling me that since his wife did not Sherlockian imagery . . . deerstalker, in outer space corresponding to the like getting up for an early breakfast, and reassemble large weapons. violin, etc. . . . and of course he had Charles Hogan. Born November 13, 1919 in Pilot Point, Texas, he ‘underworld’ of crime on earth!” “A it was his habit to have breakfast at a forged everything. I also recall a display Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story” was different restaurant every morning and Norman took night classes from of Norm’s three-dimensional Sherlock- graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in New York University and graduated economics in 1942 and served in the published in the December issue. he traveled far and wide in search of ian artwork at the John Bennett Shaw the perfect breakfast.” Saul wrote in the with a degree in art education, and workshop in Hoboken . . . and Harlan U.S. Army in 1942-43. He went on to later received a Master’s Degree in art receive his M.A. in political science in 1962 was a busy year for Hogan’s new The Really Ragged Shaw, published Umansky delivering a lecture about Sherlockian interests. On June 1962 by the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box education from Hunter College. Glenn how wonderful Norm’s artwork was, 1946, teaching credentials in 1965, describes his father as “always taking and Ph.D. in 1972. He married his John Bennett Shaw, writing on sta- this year, that Shaw called him in 1970 holding up copies of Baker Street Mis- tionery from his Tulsa Book Shop, con- as they were both new transplants to classes, attending summer programs cellanea and note cards and such.” wife, Nancy, in October of 1951, the in art at Ohio State University and Mill- year after he began his career as a legal tacted the Rand Corporation. Hogan Santa Fe. “He had been given my name replied on June 18, enclosing copies of by a mutual friend and member of the ersville State College in Pennsylvania… The talented Mr. Schatell died on April administrator at the RAND Corpora- he spent many summers as an arts and tion of Santa Monica, California. He several of his articles and signing the Baker Street Irregulars, John C. Hogan, 17, 1980 in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. letter “John C. Hogan B.S.I.” As Jon and he invited me to attend a meeting crafts counselor at summer camps. The Courtesy of the University Minnesota Libraries was a member of the American Society His son, Glenn Schatell, who now lives Lellenberg notes, “Hogan’s investiture he was calling to form a new Sherlock- campers used to call him Uncle Elmer in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, for Legal History, serving on their because he was always having them use board in a number of positions, includ- was announced in the June 1962 BSJ. ian scion society.” That society was The worked for 30 years in the insurance Norman Schatell's artwork In those days Julian Wolff awarded Brothers Three of Moriarty named after Elmer’s glue. He also taught elementary industry. In one of his positions at New school age children and adult educa- investitures both at the January annual the town Moriarty, not far from Shaw’s York Life he worked as a Death Claims home. tion classes.” His artistic talents were Analyst, which was in his father’s Continued on page 8

6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 From the President An Update from the Collections n January 13, 2012, as Holmes conference held here and the Annual Membership Meeting will take place on Monday, April 30 at 7 pm. The Ladies of Crocus Hill form the core of each week’s discussion. movies, the BBC series “Sherlock,” President of the Friends collaboration among the institutions The group has a special arrangement “House,” “playing the game,” Dr. Hench of the Sherlock Holmes that Keep the Memory Green. Our guest speaker will be Jon Lellen- berg, a member of our editorial board. anuary and February were with a well-known children’s bookstore and John Bennett Shaw, Larry Millet Collections, I was pleased special months for me, espe- in St. Paul, “The Red Balloon,” to stock and Laurie R. King. The list went on O to make a donation to the I enjoyed seeing all our Friends in New I am looking forward to seeing our cially the Wednesdays of those whatever books are being used for the and their curiosity was infectious. Our Baker Street Irregulars Archive. The York for the Birthday Weekend and Friends soon and appreciate everyone’s dedication to our mission. Please con- months, starting immediately seminars. In my case it was the Bantam last session together, towards the end of presentation was made at the annual hope to see more of you throughout J after the New Year. For it was Classics paperback, The Complete February, featured a showing of Jeremy sider making a donation of money or Baker Street Irregulars dinner where the year. We are in the early stages of on that first Wednesday in January that Sherlock Holmes. With class plan and Brett’s performance in “A Scandal in I presented the materials to Thomas planning a conference in Minnesota in material. With your help we are making The Sherlock Holmes Collections a I began an eight week seminar with reading list in place we were ready to Bohemia” and the inevitable follow-up J. Francis, BSI (“The Imperial Opera the summer of 2013. about two dozen of the most enthu- begin our time together. discussion on this portrayal in relation of Warsaw”), Chairman of the Baker World Center for research and study of all things Sherlockian. siastic and delightful women I have to the original tale. It was all such a Street Irregulars Trust. In my remarks I The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes met. In my mind I dubbed the group Prior to our first meeting I invited the grand time. highlighted the 2010 Spirit of Sherlock Collections combined 2011-2012 Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI “the Ladies of Crocus Hill” after the group to take advantage of the holidays neighborhood in St. Paul where most and read A Study in Scarlet in addition But the story doesn’t end there. The of them live and where we met. This to “The Speckled Band.” We hit the group has truly caught the Sherlock- distinguished group of retired women ground running a few days into the ian bug and asked for a follow-up visit has been meeting for nearly fifty years new year and for the next eight weeks to the University to see some of the in their “neighborhood seminar.” One (much like the first readers of the collection. The date has been set for of my colleagues at the University, stories in The Strand) looked forward late in April. We plan on meeting in Musings Professor Theofanis Stavrou of the His- with anticipation to our next gathering. the conference room that houses Allen tory department, was one of their first We followed with “The Red-Headed Mackler’s rendition of the 221B sitting hristopher Morley had the age everyone to review the first article For our 50 Years Ago Piece, we look at lecturers in the mid 1960s. Collectively League,” “The Dancing Men,” and room and adorned, along one wall, perfect title for his 1944 about this talented Sherlockian artist John C. Hogan and his writings about the group decides on a subject of com- “The Final Problem” before diving into with the maps by Julian Wolff acquired Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Wat- in the June 1998 issue of this newslet- Professor Moriarty. Saul Cohen and mon interest and then goes out into the The Hound of the Baskervilles. Follow- from Jerry Margolin a couple of years son: A Textbook of Friendship. ter. Jon Lellenberg provided us with Jon Lellenberg contributed a great deal surrounding academic community to ing our adventures on the moor and ago. I can’t wait. C In this issue, we called upon a very affectionate look at this “quiet to the column. Tim Johnson has my find someone qualified to speak on the those times “when the powers of evil several of our friends for information and shy” man whose artwork had just thanks for his assistance as well. matter. are exalted” we turned our attention My deepest thanks go to Lucy Shepard about their friends, and without their arrived at the Collections. I would like to “The Empty House,” “A Scandal in and Kathy Skor, leaders of the group, help those articles would have been to thank Don Pollock and Peter Blau In closing, we remember Fred Levin, The invitation to spend these Wednes- Bohemia,” and finished with “The Mus- for the invitation to share Sherlock impossible to write. It’s always good for their additional insights into Norm who passed away in mid-February. day afternoons came about because of a grave Ritual” (with a further invitation Holmes and Conan Doyle with their to have the facts, but our friends have Schatell and to Glenn Schatell for his Fred was a long-time friend, both talk I gave on Holmes and the Col- to read “His Last Bow”). (Many in the friends in the seminar. And special given us a more complete picture of generosity. personally and to the Sherlock Holmes lections in 2010 to a group of retired group read more of the stories and one thanks as well to Nancy Martin and the times and personalities of those Collections. He was an early subject men in St. Paul as part of the John B. member confided in me that it was her Perrin Lilly for opening their homes mentioned in this issue. And as is In our 100 Years Ago column, Les in this newsletter when we discussed Colman Lecture Series. My talk was favorite bedtime reading. This expand- for the sessions. Everyone in the group generally the case, when we call upon Klinger writes about the 1912 Samuel his collection of Yiddish editions of the “extremely well received” according to ed reading on their own created even shone with their comments and ques- friends for their expertise in particular French, Ltd., edition of the script for Canon in the March 1998 issue. As Sue many reports and word filtered to some more interesting discussions as we met tions. This line from “The Beryl Coro- subjects, they give so much of their The Speckled Band: An Adventure of and Ben Vizoskie noted in their notice of the spouses from this group who de- each week. They were eager for more.) net” might give you a sense of how I time and effort. Sherlock Holmes. Les was the perfect about Fred’s death to the members cided to contact me to see if I might be feel towards this band of extraordinary person to discuss this script; his new of The Three Garridebs, “Fred was a interested in talking with them about The weeks sped by much too quickly. women: “It was a bright, crisp Febru- Our lead article highlights the recent book is The Illustrated Speckled Band, gentleman and a gentle man, and we Sherlock Holmes. I was. On many Wednesdays we found our- ary morning, and the snow of the day donation of materials from the late published this year by Gasogene will miss his warmth and friendship selves going over our allotted time of before still lay deep upon the ground, Norman Schatell. I would encour- Books. and his sense of humor.” An initial exploratory email from Lucy two hours. The basic schedule called shimmering brightly in the wintry sun.” Wade Shepard, one of the leaders of the for us to start at 1pm and talk for an My “ladies of Crocus Hill” shimmered Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI group, was followed by a meeting over hour before breaking for tea, coffee, in the wintry sun with the joy of be- coffee near the Macalester College cam- and any number of goodies brought ing reacquainted, or discovering for pus in St. Paul. I liked Lucy from the by the good ladies each week before the first time, the world of Sherlock start and had a very good feeling about reconvening and enjoying another Holmes. It will be a time I long remem- how this might develop into something forty minutes or so together. Besides ber and cherish. special. Early in December the details the stories themselves we spent a great were in place. I decided to adapt Sir Ar- deal of time talking about Sir Arthur, Timothy Johnson Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Annual Meeting thur’s list of favorite Holmes stories into Christopher Morley and the Baker a reading list for the class that would Street Irregulars, the new Guy Ritchie he Annual Membership meeting for the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections will be held on Monday, April 30 at 7 pm at the Elmer L. Andersen Library. Our guest speaker will be Jon Lellenberg, who recently co-edited for publication The Narrative of John Smith, a previously presumed to be “lost” early work of Arthur Conan Doyle. Jon will also be discussing new projects underway for 2012. If you have questions, please contact Richard Sveum at T [email protected].

4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 From the President An Update from the Collections n January 13, 2012, as Holmes conference held here and the Annual Membership Meeting will take place on Monday, April 30 at 7 pm. The Ladies of Crocus Hill form the core of each week’s discussion. movies, the BBC series “Sherlock,” President of the Friends collaboration among the institutions The group has a special arrangement “House,” “playing the game,” Dr. Hench of the Sherlock Holmes that Keep the Memory Green. Our guest speaker will be Jon Lellen- berg, a member of our editorial board. anuary and February were with a well-known children’s bookstore and John Bennett Shaw, Larry Millet Collections, I was pleased special months for me, espe- in St. Paul, “The Red Balloon,” to stock and Laurie R. King. The list went on O to make a donation to the I enjoyed seeing all our Friends in New I am looking forward to seeing our cially the Wednesdays of those whatever books are being used for the and their curiosity was infectious. Our Baker Street Irregulars Archive. The York for the Birthday Weekend and Friends soon and appreciate everyone’s dedication to our mission. Please con- months, starting immediately seminars. In my case it was the Bantam last session together, towards the end of presentation was made at the annual hope to see more of you throughout J after the New Year. For it was Classics paperback, The Complete February, featured a showing of Jeremy sider making a donation of money or Baker Street Irregulars dinner where the year. We are in the early stages of on that first Wednesday in January that Sherlock Holmes. With class plan and Brett’s performance in “A Scandal in I presented the materials to Thomas planning a conference in Minnesota in material. With your help we are making The Sherlock Holmes Collections a I began an eight week seminar with reading list in place we were ready to Bohemia” and the inevitable follow-up J. Francis, BSI (“The Imperial Opera the summer of 2013. about two dozen of the most enthu- begin our time together. discussion on this portrayal in relation of Warsaw”), Chairman of the Baker World Center for research and study of all things Sherlockian. siastic and delightful women I have to the original tale. It was all such a Street Irregulars Trust. In my remarks I The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes met. In my mind I dubbed the group Prior to our first meeting I invited the grand time. highlighted the 2010 Spirit of Sherlock Collections combined 2011-2012 Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI “the Ladies of Crocus Hill” after the group to take advantage of the holidays neighborhood in St. Paul where most and read A Study in Scarlet in addition But the story doesn’t end there. The of them live and where we met. This to “The Speckled Band.” We hit the group has truly caught the Sherlock- distinguished group of retired women ground running a few days into the ian bug and asked for a follow-up visit has been meeting for nearly fifty years new year and for the next eight weeks to the University to see some of the in their “neighborhood seminar.” One (much like the first readers of the collection. The date has been set for of my colleagues at the University, stories in The Strand) looked forward late in April. We plan on meeting in Musings Professor Theofanis Stavrou of the His- with anticipation to our next gathering. the conference room that houses Allen tory department, was one of their first We followed with “The Red-Headed Mackler’s rendition of the 221B sitting hristopher Morley had the age everyone to review the first article For our 50 Years Ago Piece, we look at lecturers in the mid 1960s. Collectively League,” “The Dancing Men,” and room and adorned, along one wall, perfect title for his 1944 about this talented Sherlockian artist John C. Hogan and his writings about the group decides on a subject of com- “The Final Problem” before diving into with the maps by Julian Wolff acquired Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Wat- in the June 1998 issue of this newslet- Professor Moriarty. Saul Cohen and mon interest and then goes out into the The Hound of the Baskervilles. Follow- from Jerry Margolin a couple of years son: A Textbook of Friendship. ter. Jon Lellenberg provided us with Jon Lellenberg contributed a great deal surrounding academic community to ing our adventures on the moor and ago. I can’t wait. C In this issue, we called upon a very affectionate look at this “quiet to the column. Tim Johnson has my find someone qualified to speak on the those times “when the powers of evil several of our friends for information and shy” man whose artwork had just thanks for his assistance as well. matter. are exalted” we turned our attention My deepest thanks go to Lucy Shepard about their friends, and without their arrived at the Collections. I would like to “The Empty House,” “A Scandal in and Kathy Skor, leaders of the group, help those articles would have been to thank Don Pollock and Peter Blau In closing, we remember Fred Levin, The invitation to spend these Wednes- Bohemia,” and finished with “The Mus- for the invitation to share Sherlock impossible to write. It’s always good for their additional insights into Norm who passed away in mid-February. day afternoons came about because of a grave Ritual” (with a further invitation Holmes and Conan Doyle with their to have the facts, but our friends have Schatell and to Glenn Schatell for his Fred was a long-time friend, both talk I gave on Holmes and the Col- to read “His Last Bow”). (Many in the friends in the seminar. And special given us a more complete picture of generosity. personally and to the Sherlock Holmes lections in 2010 to a group of retired group read more of the stories and one thanks as well to Nancy Martin and the times and personalities of those Collections. He was an early subject men in St. Paul as part of the John B. member confided in me that it was her Perrin Lilly for opening their homes mentioned in this issue. And as is In our 100 Years Ago column, Les in this newsletter when we discussed Colman Lecture Series. My talk was favorite bedtime reading. This expand- for the sessions. Everyone in the group generally the case, when we call upon Klinger writes about the 1912 Samuel his collection of Yiddish editions of the “extremely well received” according to ed reading on their own created even shone with their comments and ques- friends for their expertise in particular French, Ltd., edition of the script for Canon in the March 1998 issue. As Sue many reports and word filtered to some more interesting discussions as we met tions. This line from “The Beryl Coro- subjects, they give so much of their The Speckled Band: An Adventure of and Ben Vizoskie noted in their notice of the spouses from this group who de- each week. They were eager for more.) net” might give you a sense of how I time and effort. Sherlock Holmes. Les was the perfect about Fred’s death to the members cided to contact me to see if I might be feel towards this band of extraordinary person to discuss this script; his new of The Three Garridebs, “Fred was a interested in talking with them about The weeks sped by much too quickly. women: “It was a bright, crisp Febru- Our lead article highlights the recent book is The Illustrated Speckled Band, gentleman and a gentle man, and we Sherlock Holmes. I was. On many Wednesdays we found our- ary morning, and the snow of the day donation of materials from the late published this year by Gasogene will miss his warmth and friendship selves going over our allotted time of before still lay deep upon the ground, Norman Schatell. I would encour- Books. and his sense of humor.” An initial exploratory email from Lucy two hours. The basic schedule called shimmering brightly in the wintry sun.” Wade Shepard, one of the leaders of the for us to start at 1pm and talk for an My “ladies of Crocus Hill” shimmered Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI group, was followed by a meeting over hour before breaking for tea, coffee, in the wintry sun with the joy of be- coffee near the Macalester College cam- and any number of goodies brought ing reacquainted, or discovering for pus in St. Paul. I liked Lucy from the by the good ladies each week before the first time, the world of Sherlock start and had a very good feeling about reconvening and enjoying another Holmes. It will be a time I long remem- how this might develop into something forty minutes or so together. Besides ber and cherish. special. Early in December the details the stories themselves we spent a great were in place. I decided to adapt Sir Ar- deal of time talking about Sir Arthur, Timothy Johnson Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Annual Meeting thur’s list of favorite Holmes stories into Christopher Morley and the Baker a reading list for the class that would Street Irregulars, the new Guy Ritchie he Annual Membership meeting for the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections will be held on Monday, April 30 at 7 pm at the Elmer L. Andersen Library. Our guest speaker will be Jon Lellenberg, who recently co-edited for publication The Narrative of John Smith, a previously presumed to be “lost” early work of Arthur Conan Doyle. Jon will also be discussing new projects underway for 2012. If you have questions, please contact Richard Sveum at T [email protected].

4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 ing President in 1966. His other mem- dinner and in April, the latter what Norman Schatell's Artwork Continued from Page 1 berships included the American As- he called the Edgar W. Smith Birth- sociation of University Professors, the day Honors (Smith’s birthday having unique, and he worked in a number of spirit, “since it is a little like being a Société d’Histoire du Droit, the Royal been April 1st). Those tended to be mediums. He taught art at Union Hill detective.” Glenn also worked in New Institute of Philosophy, the Seldon for people not likely to attend an an- High School in Union City, New Jersey, York City as a community activist for Society, the Stair Society, the Civil War nual dinner in New York and receive where his wife, Diana, worked as the housing issues. His sister Amy is a Round Table of Southern California, their investitures in person.” Later that secretary to the principal for 25 years. drama teacher at a school for dyslexic Phi Delta Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Phi same year Hogan’s “Opportunities for students. The Schatell family grew with Delta Kappa. He was a visiting profes- Asteroidal Crime” was reprinted in His love, starting in his youth, was the addition of two granddaughters, 5YEARS0 AGO sor at California Lutheran College the December BSJ. He had three more the Canon. He also had a fondness for born after their grandfather’s passing. 1972-1974 and professor at Woodbury articles that ran in the BSJ, the last one many other types of mystery stories. Glenn’s daughter, Elena, is a student at 50 years ago, the Soviets were leading University beginning in 1973. In 1974 appearing in 1968. He corresponded with Vincent Starrett Kenyon College in Ohio, and his niece, he began as a lecturer at U.C.L.A. and Howard Haycraft and dreamed of Natasha Miller, is the Communications the way in the space race and there was rising unease about what nation, and Contemporary Authors Online indicates Saul Cohen, who lived in Los Angeles joining the Baker Street Irregulars. In Director for KickinKitchenTV. that Hogan had “‘Dictionary reading at the same time as Hogan, recently 1973 he was invested in the BSI and what ideology, would control space. Why was the Soviet Union in the competence’ in Latin, Greek, French, wrote of their association, which began given the name “Jonathan Small”. As Tim Johnson notes that in the time he’s German, Spanish, and Russian. He dis- when Hogan “had [an] idea for [a] the donations of his artwork to the spent going over the donated artwork, lead? John C. Hogan, in his June 1962 Air Force and Space Digest (published covered the original records of the U.S. book and even had a contract with Sherlock Holmes Collections indicate, he’s constantly struck by both what a Supreme Court in the basement of the Prentice-Hall, but found that he didn’t

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This certainly would explain the dence at inthat an time, earlier I was translation amused which to see I play, ‘Waterloo’Journalists (played and traveled by Sir extensivelyHenry Alfred Noyes, Arthur Morrison, wassomewhat fortunate sombre to be tone able of to the cor poem.- that NormWhen,revised encouraged ere the quite tangled heavily. me web to disagree is reft, Irving),through published America, at one Canada, shilling, the and Middle • TheRosamund first English Marriott-Watson, edition, published Eden respondThe use withof the Norman word “lady” Schatell in the last with hisThe identification kid-gloved villain of scowlsone or andtwo sneers, The main difference between also a duologueEast and Europe, entitled, including ‘A Duet,’ France AugustPhillpotts, 1912, John which Galsworthy, has a F. Anstey onstanza three seems different to strongly fronts between objects,And recognizing hapless innocence the humorous is left 100published during at sixpence.” World War I. He served as a khaki-colored cover and no 1975 and his untimely death in potentialWithmy in no aown satiricassets and save reference EB’s sighs translation and to tears,the I 100 during World War I. He served as a and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a 100 and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a YEARS AGO suggest that it was written to/for I 1980. I’m astonished to realize, kind of’Tis’Tis debatethink then,then, juststemsjustthat then,then, comprised from thatthat the inin facttheremuchthere that stalksstalks delegate to the Conference of the exteriorfew of adsthe contributors.(with publisher’s Page ads 20 fea- YEARS AGO more thanLady 30Jean. years later, that we ex- of Sherlockianthey belong writing. to Norm’sdifferent work ages. As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections SamuelInternational French, Ltd., Association and Samuel of Journalists ontures p. 125-26 the poem for “Bythe playsthe North of Sea” by The hero, watchful of her needs, is a quarterly newsletter published by the The March 2008 issue of this newslet- changed letters and other materials for appearedHe you talks!in many may Great know,issues heavens, Danishof BSMhow washein talksthat for Frenchat [Inc.] Berlin are in companies1908, and foundedlater as AlfredSir Arthur Sutro); Conan Doyle. It is a short Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections "THEAmong SPECKLED terthe featuredforeign translationsBAND"—an article about of The The Flag, in 1830 by the theatrical publishersCaption: The 1902 first edition has the only fiveAlso, years; the fact I still that think they ofwere Norm expect- as period,But andcenturies we heforgive was the him,so officialimportant for his deeds.written to us lan- which seek to promote the activities, inter- President of the British International poem, and there is a facsimile of the FROMHound ofSTAGEpublished the Baskervilles TO in PAGE1908, from which John benefitted Samuel French and ThomasPaget illustrationLacey. while the• second A 2nd does impression, not. with thinner someoneing Itheir knew first for child much may longer, have but and to hisguage friends of Norway,that we publishedand although a ests and needs of the Special Collections and Rare Books Department, University of Bennett Shaw’s collections, the one Essentially,Society the of companies Journalists publish during 1915. He paperlast stanza and aas dark written green by paper Conan Doyle. it just influencedshows that Doyle’s he was decision one of those to con- memorialLifeNorwegian isessay the drama by Irving in here 1911 Kamil,to-day had Harlanbegun the Union Jack Club. One of the Don Hobbs’ The Galactic Sherlock me by the first translator, who called Minnesota Libraries. Bythat Leslie was Klinger,published BSI 100 years ago has scripts passedin the U.S.away and on DecemberU.K. for theatri 25, 1920.- cover; figurestribute who isto Thepresent Press even Book whenin the he Umansky,Andsplitting Deathand John the away, villainBennett the of influence theShaw plot. in entries in The Flag was Sir Arthur Holmes bibliography of foreign lan- the storyHer Hunden cheek was fra wet Baskervilles. with North ThisSea spray, Mail editorial correspondence c/o: special significance. According to De cal productions and act as the play- Her cheek was wet with North Sea spray, was absent.first place. Being a father himself, I’m BSM 22,It is fromshortly a realistic Danish after play; Norm’swas still death strong. in It’s Conan Doyle’s “The Grey Dress – guage editionsCatling’s ofname the alsoCanon appears has nine in con- title is established;We walked where to the tide eye and it comesshingle meet, Scan courtesy of the University of Minnesota Libraries a complicated story but actually ArthurWaal it Conanwas a 2nd Doyle edition, struggled with during the wrights’ agents in licensing amateur • A 3rd impression, with a light sure he could easily empathize with 1980. ShallI don’t it end think well we or evershall honoredit not Unpublished Dialogue from ‘A Duet.’”books junctionlisted as translationswith The Savage by Elisa Club- of close toThe the longoriginal; waves and rolled it fromsounds far away sure he could easily empathize with Editor hisfirst writing published career in to1902. achieve Noted consistentHound and theatrical productions. Today, the brownThe longpaper waves cover rolled published from far inaway My initial introduction to Norm was anotherNorwegianThe Sherlockian hero? Oh, on the thelike hero’s printed that, part except 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 as different from Ibsen’s time to the Julie McKuras successcollector on Dr. the Donald stage, Pollackwith more has than both companies list hundreds of available 1928 (with publisher’s ads on through our little journal Baker Street for JohnIs vacant—to Nieminski be – played a founder by you. of BSM 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. ain half-dozen his collection.The following plays. For year, Sherlockians, in 1909, The Pressplayscriptsbers comethrough from their the website worlds atof art, p. 125-26And as we for walked plays itof seemed to me Miscellanea. Norm first appeared in – presentwhoThen died as act severalShakespeare it well! years An later,isorphan’s from also presheart too- Apple Valley, MN 55124 however,Album the playwas waspublished “The Speck to aid- the www.samuelfrench.com. drama, law, literature, music or sci- than Gertrudea family.That three But,E. Jenningsold for friends the threeand had a metexcel that- day: BSMto me in by March friends 1977, of my issue parents 9, at whothe early.ent dayMay English. beat the lighterAt the if same you do. time I did 952-431-1934 This search led to the online WorldCat lent reasonsThe old mentioned, old sky, the I olddecided old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about [email protected] ledC3542. Band,” Journalists’— firstA1456. performed OrphanHunden fraFund,on Basker4 June and- as he ence. Former members have included coverThe ad old for old seven sky, the plays, old old the sea, first outsetFinally, of our thirdDoyle year wrote of apublication, poem about go for a “conservative” style, hoping which lists eleven books by A. Conan to changeAnd it.” love, which is as old as they. butstories. I hadorphans Anyway, been which in it correspondence was was a revelation.published with in Normit would turned read out to tomodern be a modest day Norwe col- - 1910ville: En at hadnythe fortælling Adelphidone the Theatre,om previous Sherlock Strand, year, Conan The publishednotables versionsuch as ofCharlie “The SpeckChaplin,- being The Rising Generation); and 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 gian Christyreaders Allen as Conan and Julie Doyle McKuras reads to Editorial Board inHolmes London.. DoyleAutoriseret During stepped Conanoversættelse forward Doyle’s with ved a contri- led Band”Mark differs Twain, from Wilkie that Collins,actually James him sinceSongs at of least the RoadNovember, just a 1975few pages lector of editions of The Hound of the John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Elisabeth Brochmann. Also online is update Outhe surprised seaward hung me theby writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. lifetime,Elisabeth the Brochmann. play ran for Kristiania: five months in performed on opening night. Page 5 • A fourth impression, with a light about afterdeveloping “By the theNorth series Sea.” of drawIt was- Baskervilles,References: among other Sherlockian Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. bution. The book, edited by Thomas NasjonalbiblioteketMcNeill Whistler, (National Sir Alexander Library ElisabethWe Brochmann’s saw it rolling, translationfold on fold, of my dearest possessions. But very few London,Forlagt af then H. Aschehoug was taken up& Co.by touring(W. of the script lists the cast of charac- brownWe saw paper it rolling, cover, fold published on fold, in ings thatcalled we “Thepublished Orphanage” as The andArts is repro- works,http://www.scoop- and we shared that interest in a Catling and published by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN Andwas markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist andof the Crafts stories Holmes. were available (Readers in of my this own seriesSincedatabase.com/bio/catling_thomas of 1971 letters my over translation several years.of HOUN There productionsNygaard), 1902. in England, 263 p. an American ters for the initial performance and 1929 (with a cover ad for five 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 gold.interest language then, so I had to wait until I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club run—————. in late 1910, 2nd a ed. revival 1911. in 246London p. in includes the character “Mrs. Soames” plays,Turn the all firstits leaden being edgeSecrets to gold.). newsletter will be familiar with his is hasmuchhttp://www.savageclub.com/ been bibliographic reprinted over detail a dozen there timesthat the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh lady seems mine! to learned English to pursue my interest earlyI became 1911, aware and ofa successful translator newElisabeth pro- played by Miss Gwendolyn Floyd. In legendary envelopes.) His drawings wouldby various be boring publishers, to most by readers, Aschehoug but Copyright © 2006 have beenThe as grey great below, here the as gold in England! above; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- ductionBrochmann “1892in 1921. in with2004 Last a whengift year, of I I£1,000 acquirededited byan the latethe performance,Wallace and Mrs. Peter Soames Ustinov. was It oneis cur- NeedlessThe to greysay, below,all are the quite gold scarce, above; but were chaotic and brilliant, with a deep evenand so Norild Norm’s as enthusiasmwell as Gyldendal, is present and University of Minnesota Library To me the most famous Norwegian The 1911For edition so the greyest was one life inmay a seriesshine ing of the Orphan’s Fund when he I’ve also read it as an audio book. It Copyright © 20122011 illustratedlot 93 ofLord The edition GleneskConan of theDoyle and play, £500 Collec including by- the late Sirof fourr clientsently located interviewed at 1 Whitehall by Holmes Place, the Collections have copies of each. sense of humor and playfulness that in every letter, and his discovery that Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. translator of the Canon is Nils Nor- of booksAll published golden in thein thatlight format,of love. half As EB’swrote HOUN this? was more or less my was included in the first ever collected photographstion auctionJohn atWillox…Workingof Christie’s.the 1910 production.Included pressmen in Act LondonII, before and he theirmeets website Enid Stonor, indicates it Somewhat different versions of the explored unexpected connections – his he owned an especially rare variant of 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 in the lotthroughout were seven the letters country and commenced two the principal“remains client one involvedof the leading in the Bohemian play can be found in Richard Lance- Prof. Moriarty bobble head figure in theSherlock American Holmes first editionedition inofThe Norwegian, Hound Opportunity Educator and Employer. Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It Press(and Albumindeed added all the over three £1000 to uncritical, but I think it was for its time Inpostcards 1912, Samuel by ACD French, to Madame Ltd., Brochpub- - mysteryGentleman’s at Stoke Moran. Clubs Thisin London.” charac- lyn Green’s The Uncollected Sherlock BSM 9 was a wonderful evocation of – whichthe state I edited with the and April part-translated 1902 publica - contributions, and in the same year “Holmes by Any Other editions of EB’s transla- an excellent translation, less error-ridden lishedmann discussinga script for rightsThe Speckled to stories Band: and ter, and the interview scene, is omitted Holmesthe (Penguin Institute Books,of Journalists 1983) andOrphan my the image of the professor’s oscillating tion(wanted date – to was do broadcastall but didn’t with have infec - the first orphan was adopted.” The Name: Translating the tion) had the Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than Anpamphlets. Adventure ACD of Sherlock was eager Holmes to have. Its from theIn published1882, the Princeversion of and Wales, was laterin own TheFund. Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes head in the form of the collectible dolls tioustime), joy. published in 10 volumes by Den reader is assured that “Every penny SherlockIn 1882,Holmes the Stories,” Prince of Wales, later illustration of the hound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- priceThe War was in one South shilling Africa: sixpence Its Cause (and and fact deleted from the play by Conan (Gasogene Books, 2009) (The Sherlock popular at the time. One of my favorite Norske Bokklubben (“The Norwegian contributed to the Fund, from its publishedEdward in Sherlock VII, became an honorary breaking out of the fog on lations. It’s a long time since I’ve re-read forConduct five translatedguineas, amateur into all languagesproductions Doyle at some point during the play’s HolmesChristy Reference Allen, Library, who contributes vol. 10). fre- projects was “The Wonderful Dog That Finally,Book Club”)I was equally in 1980. grateful The tenth for volume NormAschehoug and he in in turn EB’s senttime onwas to Doyle’s Peter. beginning seventeen years ago, has Holmes:member The Detective of the &Club. He enjoyed the the dust jacket. The series it but it is my impression Continuedthat EB was from Page 4 ofand the wrote playbeginning acould preface be seventeen formounted). the Norwegian years (I ownago, has theatrical run, because (he wrote to quently to the ConanDoyle (ACD) list DoesMusings... Nothing Snapback Demonstrator” Norm’swas a legworkcollection as of he pastiches tracked downand essays. I remembermain Norwegian this as the publisher, quintessence but unfor of - The Collector,atmosphere Essays and on suggestedthe that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic aedition. copy that beenBrochmann has devoted a sticker must to theon have itskeep cover had and a educa- Lyn Harding, the actor portraying on the Internet, is interested in Conan (BSM #10) the instructions to which informationIn the 1990s on all Langdon ten volumes McCormick, were re - scholarlytunately generosity. they didn’t follow it up—there John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi- & Co.s Kronebibliotek (“1 qualitiesnever of the the same original. for Francine; I’m still haunted she stuffed rat now adorn the Collections. readers and other interested parties, statingclose relationship “Revisedtion of the Price withorphans…Avoiding 2/- ACD Net”—that and his any Dr. Grimesby Rylott) “I felt as if the conclude “… the dog will quickly re- anprinted early 20th wholesale century by playwright a short-lived who pub - were no translations of VALL or The In that essay he explained Doyle’sKrone poetry. Library”, She wrote: mean- by themissed descriptions sharing theirof the interests moor as and I read most Our thanks go to Peter Blau, not only and this issue features two of those: is,family, two butshillings).expenditure there is Opposite nothing on bricks theabout and title hermortar, theAudiencetion were to the held facilities. too long On from December the 3, turn to its starting position having done hadlisher written called “The LibriArte. Burglar I’ve and done the Lady,”minor ThroughoutCase-book, the and too only brief four time of I thecorre stories- 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 plot.” 1886, Catling wrote to the Grand I’ve tried to do some research about nothing.”of all, sheHis missedstyle was his absurdist companionship. in a revisions1906for writingSherlock to the about Holmestext hisover friendsversus the years, WayneRaffles but spondedinGeorgina His withLast Doyle, NormBow were author– he published reminded of Out of in methe translating SH in the Norwegian krone, slightly ACD visited Norway in June 1892 with Secretary of United Grand Lodge, the poem proper and how/why it the Andbest sensewhen –she a “workingpassed away, model” their of thriller,a majorand notableFrancine one for as butanother a stage also forBokklubbenvehicle helping for with in oneNorway,Shadows: letter in thatThe a book Untoldwe had called Story never Spioncen of metArthur in - the child to its home and its home to changing Norwegian lan- less than $10 in today’s As for my own translation it was his sister Connie and Jerome K. Jerome enclosing an “imposing group of peti- was written, but have come up the friends17 steps had should the same give reactionanyone pauseas people Gentlemancompletethe packing edition,Jim Corbett,and inmailing two the volumes, offamous the many, in person,tralen,Conan despite 1919.Doyle’s being I’ve First been atFamily the very BSI, read fortunate, week Dick- the child.” guage, including titles: money). I’ve got some of actually published for the first time in among others. tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty. – andhad extraordinarily when George clever.Burns died;I have his a pass- boxer.2002.many I Thehad boxes. mostdiscovered recent a reprint copy of is the in a endboth Sveum’sonce in or Gyldendal articletwice atfrom the that Decembersame they time wanted 2008– he to tioners,” proposing that a new lodge empty.the titles, including Dr 1971. In 1966 I had been in a TV quiz list ofing ideas meant he that sent he us, was many together of which with script2011 of Bokklubben the play, and volume was working Sherlock on wasgive withalways Holmes a careful a joy his to eye dueknow, and place hasa delightful incorrected a prestige a Thomas Catling edited The Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The show, winning 10,000 kroner for my A Google search revealed a 1902 letter did not make it into print, at least in anHolmes article aboutMysterier it, but i utvalg could (“Selected find little correspondentseries of modern with aand self-consciously classical mystery Album. Born September 23, 1838, he euphony-before-precision25% of the membership is the who were RecordsWhat of Dr I Watson”),did learn waspublished that it was knowledgeGracie again. of Holmes, so I was consid- John Bergquist has provided us with a date. Soren Eversoll, an honored visitor written by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark BSM, and among them I find “The ‘Fool informationMysteries”), on containing McCormick, STUD, the HOUNauthor. amusedstories sense and ofbringing his own him slightly back madinto translationMasons. of the On title January of The 18, Hounds 1887, ofThe 1918. Apartalmost from certainly a missing written ABBE when this Jean ered quite the local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues Twain) toworked Brochmann for Lloyd’s noting Weekly that Newsshe , as a Your Hostess’ Fake Second Stain” and Normand Thesuspected Adventures—all that the library translated and ar - style.print, I recently and in wroteDen norske an update Bokklubben of my 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 “Working Model of the Great Grimpen chivesby yours of the truly. Lincoln If you’re Center interested, might have I’ll originalfor deciding article on to “Thedo the Burglar first everand comthe - Acquisitions 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- from Freemasons’ Hall and Sir Henry Irving born in March of 1909, just one Mire.” informationbe happy to about send thisyou once-famous a copy for your Lady”plete and edition had a andchance giving to reviewme a free my rein Norwegianwas invested suggests as a Treasurer.large, possibly There is no stories frommonth The before Return The of Press SH. Book Brochwas- paperbackcollection mystery to The series Sherlock called Holmes “The butcollection. thankby 1976 Christy Andelusive toAllen completeauthor, for providing so the he story:spent I correspondenceto present Sherlock with Norm Holmes and as the I think reled Detective1884atherine through Story. Cooke The 1907. Lillyadded The Library the Scoop program for the 2012 Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s annual dinner to the ferocious and deadly, canine; hund mann’s HOUN was re-published by the ABlack yearCollections. Series” later, in (inspired the Sadly, March her by 1978deaththe French issuein hoursalsoinformation adaptedhunting andthrough about translated Conan ancient Doyle’sa Swedishfiles poet- documentsheSo should it’s business he be. sent asme, usual and atI wasThe once ManuscriptDatabase,Collections. Collection subscription “A has Whale 15 lettersbiographical of a Time”to was heldlonger on January a formal 7, 2012connection at The between House of Commons.published). means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. (“LaBSM Série #13) Noire”) we started and askeda short me series to do of andradio records, dramatisation and dutifully of the passed book andalong again pleased to be in the presence of her (1900-1917)dictionary from of British English and authors Irish journal- the Lodge and the Club. October 2007 meant her collection, ry as featured in our 100 Years Ago Sherlock Holmes Collections, for about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- Norm’sa selection drawings of Sherlock we called Holmes “The stories. An- anythingproduced he it found. as a six-part My subsequent serial in 1977.ar- thisSo remarkable the 1911 secondcharacter. edition was what includingistsDon F. from Anstey Hobbs the (one period donated of theof 1800a 24 copy – of1950, Lukoli Chikchika Apisa, A Choctaw Translation of The AdventureAccording of the toSpeckled Doyle’s Band own. correspon- which she amassed with her beloved column. Dick Sveum updates us on the which we are all thankful. ally translatedAfter his into retirement my language from the I can certainly tell you that Broch- thropologicalThere had then Holmes” been no based Holmes on hisbooks cre - ticleI sometimes on the play think owed that much my mainto Norm’s motive got Nils Nordberg hooked on Sherlock Cauthors indicatesalongTranslated with he ACDextendedby Gilbert of The the Breedlove, Fate circulation of it was printedAfter byhis Fairdale retirement Press, from Flower Lloyd’s Mound, TX indence 2011. (from A Life in Letters), this Wayne, was ready to move to status of the drive for the E.W. title would be Bakervilleslektens hund, mann’s translation of HOUN and that in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact Fenella, 1892) and Jerome K. Jerome. , Catling undertook the ative Sherlockian takes on an extraor- assistance.for becoming Norm a radiowas also drama sending producer his Holmes. In his translation he kept of the paper beyond London and waswhich Wis eeklynot only News clumsy, Catling but–even undertook the very 1911was edition a worrisome has played time. aJean decisive was do twoMinnesota. selections, Boxes containing of books, seven pho- sto- McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI I was able to examine the letters while dinary range of anthropological and findingswas the towish Peter to doBlau; this Blau story helpfully on radio, Elizabeth Brochmann’s title, and he was worse—suggestsediting task a forstory The about Press aAlbum pet: . The part in mypregnant life. It with was herthe first child Holmes at age ries tographs,each. We ephemerathen decided and thateven I awould giant It’s gratifying to receive notes from attendingreputed the Gillette to be theto Brett first IIIto usecon the- auto- archaeological objects. I provided the forwardedthe medium them it ison perfectly to me, including suited for. a good friend of John Bennett Shaw. As The Dog of the Baskervilles Family. story I ever34 and read, Doyle and wasit hooked worried me about her translate HOUN. I used EB’s version ference at Indiana University. brief introductory text for the drawings, manyAnd, items ah yes, that 2009 I had saw originally the first sent ever to a Norwegian-American and Sherlock- Actually the decision was made for on the Master. I must have been 10 or (and also several Danish and Swedish) Continued on page 7 “nynorsk” translation of HOUN, by ian, I appreciate all the connections. as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a Continued on page 7 SIGN was also included in the series, good deal on mine. Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 March 2012 Volume 16 Number 1

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