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Volume 35 Number 1 Fall 2012 The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto Volume 35 Number 1 Fall 2012 Canadian Holmes is published by The Bootmakers of Toronto, the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada. Bootprints (editors) are Mark and JoAnn Alberstat, 46 Kingston Crescent, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B3A 2M2 Canada, to whom letters and editorial submissions should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] Membership and subscription rates Canadian Individual - Cdn$35.00 Canadian Joint (One copy of CH per household) - Cdn$45.00 Canadian Student (Full-time student 16+) - Cdn$25.00 U.S. Individual - US$40.00 U.S. Associate - US$35.00 International - US$40.00 Past Issues of Canadian Holmes, including postage - Cdn$12.00 per copy Further Subscription information and details are available on the society’s website, www.torontobootmakers.com. Business correspondence should be addressed to The Bootmakers of Toronto, PO Box 1157, TDC Postal Station, 77 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1P2 Canada. Copyright © 2012 The Bootmakers of Toronto. Copyright in all individual articles is hereby assigned to their respective authors. Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement Number 40038614, The Bootmakers of Toronto, PO Box 1157, TDC Postal Station, 77 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5K 1P2 Canada. Return postage guaranteed. ISSN 0319-4493. Printed in Canada. Cover: Two images from Dangerous Work. Reprinted from Dangerous Work courtesy of Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. Canadian Holmes Volume 35 Number 1 Fall 2012 One hundred and thirty-third issue Contents Canadian Holmes Fall 2012 Volume 35 Number 1 Traces of Bootprints 1 By Mark Alberstat Song for ‘The Six Napoleons’ 2 By Karen Campbell From Mrs. Hudson’s Kitchen 3 By Wendy Heyman-Marsaw Undershaw saved, thanks to campaigners 4 The Affair of the Resurrected Story 5 By Peter Calamai Oh Sinner Man – Where You Gonna Run To? – Sir Arthur 8 and Sir George By Hartley R. Nathan and Clifford S. Goldfarb Strictly Personal: Doug Wrigglesworth 17 The Fraudulent Medium and the Supernatural in The Hound of the Baskervilles 19 By David M. Beck ‘The Devil’s Foot’ Essay Contest 25 By Donny Zaldin and Barbara Rusch The Greek Fabricator 28 By Bruce Harris Reflections on the Cottingley Fairies – A Review 33 By Don Roebuck Letters From Lomax 34 By Peggy Perdue News Notes From Across the Country 36 Bootmakers’ Diary 37 By Donny Zaldin RACES OF BOOTPRINTS Sherlock into the Time Machine Once Again Arthur Conan Doyle’s life has been well documented. He wrote a prodigious amount of prose, poetry, songs and plays; most of them have not stood the test of time though they are still enjoyable to read. When we think of Doyle we can conjure up a variety of pictures of him, always well dressed and looking like a man of his time. Our favourite detective, however, continues to be updated and seems to be a character not out of time, but a timeless character. This fall, CBS is updating Sherlock Holmes again; this time placing him in modern-day New York City, the metropolis that brought you Friends, not to mention endless episodes of Law and Order and CSI: NY. Of course, this timemachine for Doyle’s characters has been at work before. Rathbone updated Holmes, pitting him against Nazis. CBS’s Elementary is, in part, an American reaction to the popular BBC Sherlock series which has placed Holmes and Watson in rooms on a 21st-century Baker Street. All this at the same time that Robert Downey Jr. reminds movie goers that Sherlock is from the Victorian age. These parallel yet different interpretations give the detective not only a multiple personality but an extensive and up-to-date wardrobe gives today’s viewers a Sherlock as comfortable in Victorian tweeds as he is carrying an iPad. Taking us all back to a different time is the newly published Doyle diary Dangerous Work. In this issue Peter Calamai, author of the 2011 Cameron Hollyer lecture, reviews the newly released book for us. This work is Doyle’s diary while he was surgeon on board the S.S. Hope in 1880. We also take a further look into the life of Sir George Lewis, a well-known Victorian barrister, thanks to Hartley Nathan and Cliff Goldfarb. Results of the ‘The Devils Foot’ essay contest are also revealed with thanks to Donny Zaldin and Barbara Rusch for compiling that article. Those pieces, along with an assortment of other Sherlockian goodies, should get all of our Canadian Holmes readers in the mood for CBS’s new series and if that doesn’t tweak your Sherlockian interest get online and order a copy of Dangerous Work. It’s not every day that you get to read an unpublished work by the timeless author we all love. Canadian Holmes Fall 2012 1 Song for ‘The Six Napoleons’ The following song parody was written and performed by Karen Campbell and Craig Brtnik for the April 28, 2012, meeting of The Bootmakers. That’s Napoleon (sung to the tune of ‘That’s Amore’) In Napoli the Borgias’ reign they were just greedy, not insane When a guy gets his kicks from a weird idée fixe That’s Napoleon When he breaks bric-a-brac like his mind’s out of whack That’s Napoleon Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling on the police black Maria Folks will say, “What the hey?” Run away Like their pants were on fire. When you search for a pearl like it was your best girl That’s Napoleon When you leave in the street plaster shards at your feet You're a thief When you act like you’re crazed but you know you're not crazy, signore Scuzza me, but you see, though we say Napoli That’s Napoleon! 2 Canadian Holmes Fall 2012 From Mrs. Hudson’s Kitchen This column is by Mrs. Hudson herself and dictated to Wendy Heyman-Marsaw, a Sherlockian living in Halifax. The Irregulars Come to Call hat on earth is this? I cried, for at this moment, there came the pattering of many steps in the hall, and on the stairs, accompanied by audible expressions of disgust upon the part of our landlady. It’s the Baker Street division of the detective force, said my companion gravely; and as he spoke there rushed into the room half a dozen of the dirtiest and most ragged street Arabs that I ever clapped eyes on. - STUD You must remember that Mr. Holmes had but recently occupied rooms at 221B. I didn’t know what to think his intentions were. The urchins’ loud and disorderly conduct, filthy bodies and clothes were extremely distressing. I feared for my lovely rugs and pristine walls. Then I heard Mr. Holmes call them to attention and directed Wiggins – the eldest, and I suppose the leader of this band of mud larks, to represent the group in future. Mr. Holmes further explained their usefulness in gaining information for his cases. I had little exposure to children, as my dear husband passed away before we could start a family. I began to reconsider my first impressions and reflected on the difficult lives of the children. Some may have been orphans or cast aside by parents who could not afford to keep them. Many wore unmatched boots and ill- fitting ragged clothing. Baths and regular meals were alien to them. I discovered one to be a little girl who never had a dress or doll. Mr. Holmes was no doubt the first person of the upper classes to value them, accord them dignity and offer money to improve their lot for work well done. He paid them a shilling a day with a guinea bonus for the one who found the object of their investigation. I was shamed by my initial uncharitable and superficial response. From that day forward I invited the children into my kitchen and fed them simple, nourishing meals and a treat for their pudding. All I asked was that they wash their hands and faces in the scullery sink. Here are some recipes they particularly enjoyed: Toad-In-The-Hole for six Ingredients: 6 oz. flour, 1 pt. milk, 3 eggs, butter, slices of leftover mutton, 2 fine diced kidneys (or substitute 6 good-quality beef or pork sausages), pepper and salt. Canadian Holmes Fall 2012 3 Mode: Make a smooth batter of flour, milk, eggs in the above proportion; butter a baking dish, and pour in the batter. Into this place slices of mutton, kidneys or the sausages; bake about 1 hour or rather longer, and send it to the table in the dish it was baked in. Roly-Poly Jam Pudding for 6 Ingredients: ¾ lb. suet crust, ¾ lb. any kind of jam. Mode: Make a nice, light suet crust and roll out to thickness of ½ inch. Spread jam equally over it, leaving a small margin of paste without any, where the pudding joins. Roll it up, fasten ends securely and tie it in a floured cloth; put the pudding into boiling water and boil for 2 hours. Mincemeat or marmalade can be substituted for the jam. Undershaw saved, thanks to campaigners Undershaw, Conan Doyle’s home, has been saved from redevelopment, thanks to a high-court decision in London in late May. Undershaw is a Grade II listed building at Hindhead Crossing near Haslemere, Surry. Doyle lived there from 1897 to 1907 and wrote 13 Holmes adventures in the house, including The Hound of the Baskervilles. John Gibson, cofounder of the Undershaw Preservation Trust, told The Guardian newspaper, “This is a place which is steeped in history and should be treated with reverence.
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