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D S o F September 2009 n Volume 13 Number 3 e t 50 Years Ago...Continued from Page 3 i H R e letters to her, written over a period of The myth of “The Ma’am” stuck and is 1. Quoting second-line English novelist Horace F Annesley Vachel to that effect. fifty-four years, have a modest “dearest with us still, the sort of social-climb- 2. See “Adrian’s Picture Book and the BSI,” pp. 67- Mam” as their salutation instead, or the ing Conan Doyle deplored and never 70 in this writer’s “Certain Rites, and Also Certain Duties” (Hazelbaker & Lellenberg, 2009). even more colloquial “Dear Mammie.” indulged in himself. One suspects 3. Donald A. Redmond, “Scholarship Translated Adrian was in possession of those let- that he would have been appalled and into Popular Biography,” in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Jon Lellenberg ters in 1948 and 1959, and knew that, angered by the Centenary Album. But (Southern Illinois University Press, 1987), pp. but claimed otherwise in this book, while the public showed little interest 123-35. According to Jock Murray of John Murray Ltd., in a personal communication to Sherlock Holmes captioning a photograph of one let- in it, biographers turned to it repeat- this writer, it had been his decision, and one that ter (on p. 52) a “Letter to The Ma’am” edly, and have passed Adrian’s exagger- initially displeased Adrian, who wanted an uncut c o l l e c t i o n s translation of Nordon’s book as published in despite its first page being clearly head- ations and deceptions along to several France. ed “My dearest Mam” in his father’s generations of their own readers.7 4. See Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, edited “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles handwriting, and actually falsifying (on Foley (Penguin Press, 2007), pp. 162, 165. p. 47) another letter’s excerpt, repro- Editor’s Note: The Sherlock Holmes 5. Letters in the University of Minnesota Library’s duced in type this time, by adding to Collections has several copies of the Sherlock Holmes Collections. “A very strange, brilliant and eccentric man who had a deep influ- C o n t e n t s it the salutation “My dearest Ma’am” Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary Album, ence on my father in his early years,” Adrian said Mr. Shaw Comes to Minneapolis when the photocopy of the letter’s orig- including both the John Murray and of Dr. Waller in a letter to Baring-Gould dated January 20, 1966. By Timothy Johnson inal in my possession shows that it was Doubleday editions. 6. “This ‘influence’ was invented entirely by Hesketh Mr. Shaw Comes to yet another of Conan Doyle’s “dearest Pearson, and is typical of his tripe,” Adrian said he note came, as so many do these days, by e-mail. The subject line in the mes- in the same letter: “Pearson was naturally drawn Minneapolis Mam” letters to his mother. to Budd for their characters had much in com- sage read “The Sherlock Holmes Collection – John Shaw.” Either one of those mon, both being charlatans.” For more about this, see the author’s Nova 57 Minor (Gaslight 1 subjects, Holmes or Shaw, get my attention pretty quickly, but when I glanced Publications, 1990). at the opening lines of the note I knew something special was in store. I was 7. The text of the letter in question appears in full T on pp. 592-93 of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in not disappointed. Letters. See also p. 5n’s editorial note on Conan 100 Years Ago Doyle’s actual way of referring to his mother. 2 The note began “My name is Pat Shaw; John was my father.” That was enough to give me pause. John Bennett Shaw, as most of you know, was a giant in the Sherlockian world and a good friend 50 Years Ago to many. Unfortunately, I came on the scene after Remembrances 3 John departed so never In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made had the opportunity to meet the man. But I am contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. From the President surrounded by him, his In Honor Of From 4 collection, and dare I Max McKuras Mike and Julie McKuras say, his spirit, every day. So I gladly jump at any In Memory Of From Acquisitions chance to meet and talk E. W. McDiarmid Mike and Julie McKuras 4 with someone who knew E. W. McDiarmid John Bergquist For any inquiries contact: John. And I count it a E. W. Ziebarth John Bergquist Timothy J. Johnson, Curator special privilege to meet Allen Mackler Gary Thaden 612-624-3552 or Musings a member of John’s fam- Photo by Johnson Tim ily and to share some Arthur Byron Sveum Richard J. Sveum [email protected] Flo Hatcher and Pat Shaw 4 memories together. Sherlock Holmes Collections Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library This was the second time in almost as many years that I had the pleasure of a visit University of Minnesota Using the Collections from one of John’s children. In June 2007 John’s daughter, Hodgie Bricke, visited the 222 21st Ave. S. 5 Collections while in town for a conference. (See Volume 11, Number 2 of this newslet- Minneapolis, MN 55455 ter for a brief report and photograph of Hodgie’s visit; an online version of the newslet- Telephone: 612-626-9166 ter is available at http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/newsletter/v11n2.pdf.) Like his sister FAX: 612-625-5525 An Update from before, Pat was going to be in town during the fourth week of July on business. He is an attorney specializing in labor law and Associate Secretary for the American Association Mailing list corrections requested— the Collections Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, of University Professors (AAUP). The AAUP’s annual Summer Institute was at Macalester we would appreciate being informed of changes 7 College in St. Paul and Pat would be in attendance as an instructor. In his note Pat wrote of address or other corrections. that he “would dearly love to spend a little [time] in the stacks that house my dad’s collection.” I responded to his note and we set a date for a Wednesday afternoon visit. Remembrances Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8 Continued on page 6

8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 An Update from the Collections night before, he offered a gem-stud- Atkey’s nephew was the mystery writer e live in an electronic uni- ded drinking cup as a prize in the golf Philip Atkey (Barry Perowne 1908- verse with the result that The Repository is an important addi- competition. But the next morning, he 1985), known for continuing the A.J. much more of our work tion to the online resources that are found the valuable trophy had disap- Raffles series after the death of E.W. W is being done “online.” currently available. On the Holmes peared! Holmes visits the scene. He is Hornung, Conan Doyle’s brother-in- This online environment Collections web page you’ll find 100 told of members found lying on the law. includes access to indexes a number of items that may assist y e ars a g o floor at evening’s end, and he finds an and full text, reference and referrals, you with your Sherlockian research. The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections astonishing number of empty liquor Like Conan Doyle, Atkey was said to and audio/visual materials such as still Foremost among these is the online is a quarterly newsletter published by the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections and champagne bottles. He quickly be a natural story teller, but with less images, video and audio files. As was version of The Universal Sherlock Bertram Atkey’s “Sherlock Holmes in which seek to promote the activities, inter- concludes the trophy was knocked memorable outcomes. Between the noted in the lead article in this issue, Holmes bibliography produced ests and needs of the Special Collections the Case of the Drugged Golfers” onto the floor. A half drunken servant early 1900s and 1950 the Bertram the University Libraries is preparing to by Ronald De Waal and George and Rare Books Department, University of Minnesota Libraries. swept it away into his pantry with the Atkey byline appeared in many of the launch its new Media Repository. This Vanderburgh. In addition, you’ll find By Charles Press trash. high paying large circulation maga- resource will allow us to mount audio/ a multi-volume supplement to The Mail editorial correspondence c/o: zines of England and the U.S. His sto- visual materials in the online world for Universal and links to other signifi- “Holmes,” said I, as I was looking out Editor This short summary doesn’t do justice ries are remembered for touches of you to discover and use. The Holmes cant collections, societies, organiza- Julie McKuras of our window one morning, “here is a to the number of Sherlockian touches humor or dramatic incident. Collections include a rich assortment tions, and resources. One of the latest 13512 Granada Ave. madman coming!” Apple Valley, MN 55124 throughout. The parody is brief, as a of photographs and audio tapes and resource links we’ve added is Randall 952-431-1934 good parody should be, well written He wrote an early science fiction we plan on converting a number of Stock’s Conan Doyle manuscripts [email protected] My friend slipped the fully loaded with many light humorous touches. novel, novels involving the yellow these materials to a digital format and checklist. We’re always interested in hypodermic syringe—with which he Editorial Board peril and about shell shocked veter- adding them to the Repository. additional resources, so if you know was whiling away a pleasant half-hour John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Bertram Atkey was then only 29, but ans miraculously cured. He wrote on of an online resource that should be Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. after breakfast—into the pocket of his was well on his way to a successful folk of the wild, moor and mountains, The Repository is in the “Alpha” stage added to our list, please send a note dressing-gown, and looked over my and prolific writing career. He, like classic horror, on Hercules, Eskimos, at the moment, meaning that staff are our way and we’ll consider adding it to shoulder. Conan Doyle, had A. P. Watt as his early Egyptians, and King Arthur. experimenting with the “bare-bones” our web page. literary agent. He would later have He authored fiction for children and system to see how it works, uploading Copyright © 2006 “Yes. Coming to consult me,” he said, University of Minnesota Library another Sherlockian connection. In young boys, as well as scripting two some content, and generally tweak- Finally, thank you for your continued rubbing his hands. “Ha! there he is.” 1923 William Gillette dramatized and silent movies, “After Dark” in 1924 ing the system. The “Beta” release will support of the Holmes Collections. I Almost as he spoke the front door bell- The University of Minnesota is an Equal acted in Winnie and the Wolves, based and “The Secret Kingdom” in 1925. include more functions and incorpo- hope to see many of you at the annual wire was torn completely down and Opportunity Educator and Employer. on an Atkey story from The Saturday rate the things we learned from the meeting of the Friends. out through the door into the street. Evening Post. His specialty though, was using over first phase. We’ll keep you informed and over again an idea that Conan of developments on the Repository So opens “Sherlock Holmes in the Tim Johnson Atkey was born in 1880 in New Doyle originated—a short story series and let you know when we’ve added Case of the Drugged Golfers,” a Forest, on the border of the English based on a single character. His horse content from the Holmes Collections. Sherlockian parody by Bertram Atkey. counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire. racing stories in the Saturday Evening We’ll also add a link to the Repository It appeared in Fry’s, The Outdoor The Strand Magazine, in its November Post ran for fifteen episodes, followed on our web site. Magazine in November 1909, part of 1929 issue, published thumbnail by a second series of nine. In Blue a series of humorous sketches later biographies of some of its contrib- Book, a Mr. Hobart Honey, given a collected as Great Men and Golf. The uting authors. Atkey wrote he had magic pill by a grateful Tibetan lama parody was reprinted in 1982 in been married for twenty-one years, whose life he saved, was able to time Volume 15, Number 2 of the Armchair but mentions no college or military travel back in history and become, Detective. We are indebted to Otto service. He lists jobs he held before among others, a harem eunuch, Friar Penzler for his introduction of the 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 establishing himself as a writer— Tuck, a Neanderthal, a Roman centu- piece, which notes that it was chapter house agent’s tout, entertainer, sand rion, and a drunken Saxon archer. His 1929. The New Yorker called Smiler els or story collections featuring Smiler tisements, newspaper and magazine six of the series Great Men and Golf, as and gravel retailer, brick and tile comic detective series on Prosper Fair “an agreeable rogue.” Smiler liked to Bunn as well as twenty-one or more articles, and anything with a reference well as his belief that this was the first manufacturer, inventory clerk, insur- was followed by Wilson Chiddenham, refer to himself as “the old man” and other novels or short story collections. to Sherlock Holmes. His collection reprinting of the story since the origi- ance agent. advertisement canvasser, who was lame and handicapped. had other characteristics that suggest had a copy “Great Men and Golf” nal appeared in 1909. and sports journalist. He also admits John Dickson Carr’s later creation, Sir Bertram Atkey died in 1952. by Bertram Atkey, which ran in the to having played golf. My thanks to But Atkey is best remembered for a Henry Merivale. He is described as Editor’s Note: John Bennett Shaw November 1909 issue of Fry’s; The The madman is a member of an exclu- Peter Blau for supplying this elusive picturesque gentleman crook named “salty among the high toned,” favored collected Sherlockian articles and Illustrated Magazine of Sport, Travel sive Blameshot Golf Club for retired Strand article. Smiler Bunn who he created in contractions such as “m’friends,” and references; if he couldn’t get the and Outdoor Life. military officers. At a banquet the 1912 and was still writing about in seemed to be generally comically can- original, he was sure to get a copy. His tankerous. Atkey published eight nov- notebooks were extensive, with adver- Charles Press Continued on page 7

2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 Mr. Shaw Comes to Minneapolis... Continued from Page 1 5 to put these and other digital record- town to eat and the sites to visit. of all six family members lost in the Holmes), gives short shrift to Dr. Wednesday morning arrived and I was ings in the new Media Repository that Great War, and a touching picture of Joseph Bell’s role, and leaves another anticipating the afternoon visit. Then is being developed by the University Like Paul, and often with a similar Conan Doyle at his brother’s grave in early influence, Dr. George Budd, the phone rang. It was Pat. Weather Libraries. The Repository includes sup- abrasiveness and impatience, John France. unmentioned—Adrian having been had delayed his flight from the East port for the delivery of audio, video, was an early apostle of the Church infuriated by Hesketh Pearson attribut- coast and he would not arrive until and still images to the web. of Holmes. Happily because my And the book marks the debut of one ing his father’s literary imagination to 5y e ars0 a g o 6 later in the day. It looked like the visit father understood that a day on of Conan Doyle’s best biographers, Budd’s boisterous example. was off. I was dismayed. A line from From the office we moved down into the road with a destination of Pierre Nordon. Signing himself “P. his earlier e-mail had told me that the stacks, stopping along the way to people who like to talk, read, eat, Arthur Conan Doyle Weil-Nordon, M.A.,” Nordon was writ- The remainder of the Centenary Album beginning Thursday his “commitments take photos next to the 221B sign that and drink was much superior to Centenary Album ing his doctoral dissertation for the is a poorly designed and near-exhaust- as an instructor of various workshops stood in John’s yard in Sante Fe. It was any give day of school, I took road Sorbonne on Conan Doyle, and was ing scrapbook about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the champion of justice, the war will begin in earnest and it would be a special time as we moved from shelf trips with him. We ain’t talkin’ By Jon Lellenberg grateful to Adrian for access to the much more difficult for me to make to shelf, items from his father’s col- glamour-travel here! Wichita; Little closely-guarded family archives. (The hero, the social reformer, the knight who rose above prejudice to defend my way over to your library.” But a lection evoking memories and more Rock; Wichita Falls; Joplin; and “There is perhaps no greater fallacy than dissertation, published as a book in George Edalji, Roger Casement, and ray of hope followed in the next sen- stories. Before we knew it, the time a goodly number of completely the view that a son’s opinion on his France in 1964, appeared in English in tence: “But, if need be, I would do my had flown, and it was time for Pat forgettable towns, with one or 1966, but cut down to mere popular Oscar Slater—even, for once, Conan father must be favourably prejudiced.” 3 damnedest if Wednesday afternoon is and Flo to head back to St. Paul. We a couple burgs that might have biography in length and character. ) Doyle the apostle of spiritualism. All this is valid, but those who respect not possible.” paused for another photograph near passed for cities in our part of the With those words in 1959, Adrian For the Centenary Album the young Conan Doyle would prefer it less our Linus/Sherlock statue and then world. I don’t know the names of Conan Doyle opened his most ambi- scholar wrote seventeen coffee-table- shrilly, and not as a jumble of pictures, That ray of hope expanded into possi- said our goodbyes. More memories the scion societies he left in his tious piece of filial hagiography sized pages on “Some Aspects of Sir quotations, letters, newspaper and bility when a phone call from Pat later had been made. wake but I’d bet the mortgage since The True Conan Doyle, his thin Arthur Conan Doyle’s Works and magazine clippings, telegrams, snatch- in the day created the opportunity for money that a few of them are still 1945 attempt to marginalize Hesketh Personality.” If he began by projecting es of speeches, book covers, heraldry, a visit on Thursday afternoon. I made Some time after our visit I wrote to around today. Pearson’s 1943 biography of Adrian’s Adrian’s demeaning view that critics of and other memorabilia with no critical sure my calendar was clear and we Pat and asked if he would share a few father, Conan Doyle, His Life and Art. Conan Doyle are “men who, by pre- judgment behind it, nor theme beyond were set to go. My anticipation rose more reminiscences of his father. He I can’t pass for a Sherlockian but The Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary tending to guide our judgments, will glorification. a second time as I looked forward to was happy to do so and wrote the fol- I also can’t resist picking up my Album renewed his efforts, on the for some obscure reason best known to meeting Pat. lowing: copy of the Canon now and again propitious 100th anniversary of his themselves, misrepresent or diminish, One unfortunate effect of this treat- and leaving this life behind for a father’s birth, to present Sir Arthur either in their work or their person, ment was to distort subsequent biogra- He arrived, as planned, the next day. I John Shaw was a bookman, an while. John’s affinity for Doyle and as nothing less than “a king among the most admirable figures of a liter- phy by inflating Conan Doyle’s mother was struck, immediately, by the resem- odd breed of humankind which Holmes was, at bottom, rooted in men and a tremendous personality for ary heritage,” Nordon’s essay is still a Mary Foley, grandiloquently and inac- blance to his father, and played on this is becoming odder I suppose but his love of people and ideas and good.”1 worthwhile contribution to the litera- a bit as we moved to my office. Pat oh what a rich world he and his life. Plus it helped take his mind ture, enough so that one suspects the curately, to “The Ma’am.” That she was a proud and strong woman and a great was accompanied by a colleague, Flo kind inhabit. And, what a legacy off Joe McCarthy and Richard It was a commercial flop. Its coerced true author of that passage was Adrian. influence in her son’s life is certainly Hatcher, from Southern Connecticut he left! The Shaw clan took long Nixon. U.S. publisher, Kenneth McCormick of true, but Adrian sought to set her on State University, who was also in town road trips. This was before cars Doubleday & Co., called it “this big, But Nordon was misled on other a higher plane of his own making. He for the AAUP Summer Institute. As had air conditioning, and over- I didn’t have the chance to meet John, tiresome Conan Doyle book,”2 and the points as well. The statement that had gotten John Dickson Carr to use we sat in my office, I pointed to the heated radiators were the norm but my visit with Pat felt as if I’d publics of America and Britain left the the originals of the “H.B.” political the term in his 1948 Life of Sir Arthur picture above the shelf, a portrait of his not the exception. John prepared touched a bit of the aura, a chip off the majority of copies unsold on the hands cartoons and caricatures by Conan Conan Doyle, and now strove to make father as Mycroft Holmes (by Charles a reading list for us kids well in old block. It was a moving and special of Doubleday and of John Murray Ltd. Doyle’s celebrated artist grandfather it permanent via the Centenary Album Meyer and a gift to the Collection from advance to assure some basic time for both of us. Pat later wrote But it was a milestone in Conan Doyle John Doyle were “given to the nation” by connecting it directly to primary Jon Lellenberg). Pat thought the visage knowledge about whatever region that “John was an overwhelming but biography nonetheless, for both good (by Prince Metternich of all people), source material. It first refers to Mary a bit stern but appreciated the likeness, of the country or the country to giving man and a wonderful father. and bad reasons. For those interested to repose in the British Museum, was Foley as “The Ma’am” on p. 38, in a as he did the doll of his father that sits the north of ours we were visit- Being amidst the vestiges of a long life in the life of Sherlock Holmes’s creator untrue; we now know (from evidence glorifying section of the book with that on the card catalog in our suite. While ing. “Knowledge,” I learned early lived happily and fruitfully touched me (despite Adrian’s assertion that creating in Adrian’s hands at the time) that they title, and on pp. 38-39 alone the term we chatted, Pat told a few stories from this wise man also comes in profoundly.” And I appreciated Flo’s the best-known character in litera- were sold by the family to the British appears five times as headings or cap- about his father, such as the time he the form of fiction. So our “knowl- presence as well, and the chance I had ture was nearly the least of his noble Museum in 1882, the division of the tions to excerpts of letters written by was with his father in New York when edge” of, for example, Quebec to share the enthusiasm with her. She father’s vast achievements), it brought proceeds a sore point for the young 4 her, with many more such examples members of ASH boycotted the annual included what we learned from later thanked me for “the verve and together family photographs often Conan Doyle. The essay misdirects scattered throughout the book. Baker Street Irregulars dinner. He also Maria Chapdelaine. John Shaw’s joy” I brought to my work. I like to not seen before, and many quotations readers away from the family secret of had the chance to listen to a couple of First Commandment of travel: go think that I’m just doing my small part about Conan Doyle from writers and Charles Altamont Doyle’s alcoholism, In reality, Conan Doyle seldom recordings that I had recently digitized to the second-hand bookstore; to continue the legacy of John Bennett public figures—though only laudatory gives little idea of the role in Conan addressed or referred to his mother of his father speaking at Sherlockian nine times out of ten, the propri- Shaw. ones. Filial piety, even in an extreme Doyle’s earlier life of Dr. Bryan Charles as “Ma’am.” The vast majority of his gatherings in Minneapolis. We hope etor will know the best places in form, can have its useful side: one Waller (later acknowledged by Adrian more than one thousand surviving page, for example, has scarce pictures in letters to William S. Baring-Gould then at work on The Annotated Sherlock Continued on page 8

6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 From the President Using the Collections he Friends of the Sherlock Adventure of the Three Students” and Its has set a target of at least twenty dollars large group toured the Elmer Minnesota. We were thrilled to see all L. Andersen Library this summer. Holmes Collections will Publication in Facsimile. Please mark your as the annual donation in order to be eli- L. Andersen Library and the treasures and to touch/examine some She particularly enjoyed the Kerlan convene for our Annual calendars and plan to attend! gible to receive the Friends newsletter. the Holmes Collections this of them. We also enjoyed the display of Children’s Collection as well as the Membership Meeting on A summer. They were here for Wodehouse stories and other displays Sherlock Holmes Collections. T Thursday November 19 at It is that time of year to make an annual We are thankful for all our Friends and the P.G. Wodehouse conference, “The that we saw in passing.” Evelyn Herzog 7:00 PM at the Elmer L. Andersen contribution to the collections. Enclosed look forward to seeing you at the mem- Little Wodehouse on the Prairie.” Elaine was happy to see her needlepoint pillow Yale Stenzler, a member of Watson’s Tin Library. The meeting will include a short with this issue of the newsletter you will bership meeting. With your help we will and Joe Coppola, who were part of the she made for John Bennett Shaw. Box of Ellicott City, Maryland, took a business meeting and election, along find our appeal letter and a remittance make The Sherlock Holmes Collections group, later wrote “Thanks so much tour of the Sherlock Holmes Collections with the curator’s State of the Collections envelope. We hope you will be able to a World Center for research and study of for the wonderful tour of the Sherlock Cindy Menas, a resident of the Twin while visiting the Twin Cities. Address. The Keynote Address will give a generous donation, and keep in all things Sherlockian. Holmes Collection at the University of Cities, toured the Elmer be presented by John Bergquist, B.S.I. mind that that donation may be time and is titled, The Manuscript of “The and material, not just money. The board Richard J. Sveum, M.D., B.S.I. Acquisitions ob Coghill donated the program a publication that serves South Puget from the May 8, 2009 Speckled Sound. The article written by Karla Band of Boston dinner. Stover, in her column “Walkabouts,” discusses Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and B Joe Coppola used his time his visit to Tacoma in June 1923. during his recent tour at the Andersen

Library to add two items to the Jon Lellenberg donated a copy of the Photo by Julie McKuras Sherlock Holmes Collections. Joe pre- booklet he prepared for his presenta-

sented Tim Johnson with The Mycroft tion given on July 12, 2009 to the Front Row – Marilyn MacGregor, Evelyn Herzog, Pachara Yongvongpaibul Photo by Julie McKuras Julie by Photo Holmes Society of Syracuse pin, and a Sub-Librarians’ Annual Luncheon in Marilyn MacGregor Back Row – Tim Johnson, Maureen Cavalluzzi, Carol Cavalluzzi, copy of Voices from the Stranger’s Room, Chicago, as well as a copy of his talk, Elaine Coppolla, Joe Coppolla, Len Lawson, Brian Taves published in February 2008 by The “History Detective: Researching the BSI Mycroft Holmes Society Press, and Archival Histories.” Included was also edited by Joe and Elaine Coppola. the program for the 35th (Irregular) Annual Meeting of the Sub-Librarians

Geoffrey Jeffery of Tacoma, WA sent scion of the Baker Street Irregulars as Photo by Julie McKuras the March 2009 issue of Senior Scene, well as the latest issue of Caxtonian. Joe Coppola and Tim Johnson

Musings lthough it is still late summer a “milestone in Conan Doyle biography Buzzing ’Round Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and as we prepare this issue to go nonetheless, for both good and bad Looking Over Sir Arthur’s Shoulder, both avail- to press, fall is in the air here in reasons.” Dick Sveum, in column From able through George Vanderburgh’s The Minnesota. Summer has been a the President, gives us the details of the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box Press, http:// A Photo by Julie McKuras busy time at the Holmes Collections, with a annual Friends of the Sherlock Holmes www.batteredbox.com. Cindy Menas and Tim Johnson number of visitors and tours. We hope you Collections Meeting, which is scheduled enjoy seeing photos of those visitors. for November 19. In our last issue, our 100 Years Ago column featured Robin Dunbar and his book,

The Detective Business. It was gratifying to Evelyn Herzog and the needlepoint Photo by Julie McKuras Tim Johnson has written about his visit We are very happy to welcome a new writer pillow she made for John Bennett Shaw. with Pat Shaw and Flo Hatcher, as well to our newsletter. Charlie Press, of East hear from several readers about this article, as updating us on his continued progress Lansing, Michigan, has visited the Sherlock including those who helped me with the to make Sherlockian materials avail- Holmes Collections a number of times, as research. Again, kudos to those librarians. able not only those visiting Minneapolis, a researcher and as a conference attendee. but through online access as well. Jon His special area of interest is the subject of We hope that you will be able to make Lellenberg is the author of our 50 Years Ago Sherlockian parodies and pastiches that a generous contribution to the Sherlock piece, the Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary were written during Conan Doyle’s lifetime. Holmes Collections and continue to receive

Album, a publication that Jon describes as He is the author of Parodies and Pastiches this newsletter. Photo by Julie McKuras Yale Stenzler

Julie McKuras, A.S.H., B.S.I. Photo by Julie McKuras Pachara Yongvongpaibul 4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 From the President Using the Collections he Friends of the Sherlock Adventure of the Three Students” and Its has set a target of at least twenty dollars large group toured the Elmer Minnesota. We were thrilled to see all L. Andersen Library this summer. Holmes Collections will Publication in Facsimile. Please mark your as the annual donation in order to be eli- L. Andersen Library and the treasures and to touch/examine some She particularly enjoyed the Kerlan convene for our Annual calendars and plan to attend! gible to receive the Friends newsletter. the Holmes Collections this of them. We also enjoyed the display of Children’s Collection as well as the Membership Meeting on A summer. They were here for Wodehouse stories and other displays Sherlock Holmes Collections. T Thursday November 19 at It is that time of year to make an annual We are thankful for all our Friends and the P.G. Wodehouse conference, “The that we saw in passing.” Evelyn Herzog 7:00 PM at the Elmer L. Andersen contribution to the collections. Enclosed look forward to seeing you at the mem- Little Wodehouse on the Prairie.” Elaine was happy to see her needlepoint pillow Yale Stenzler, a member of Watson’s Tin Library. The meeting will include a short with this issue of the newsletter you will bership meeting. With your help we will and Joe Coppola, who were part of the she made for John Bennett Shaw. Box of Ellicott City, Maryland, took a business meeting and election, along find our appeal letter and a remittance make The Sherlock Holmes Collections group, later wrote “Thanks so much tour of the Sherlock Holmes Collections with the curator’s State of the Collections envelope. We hope you will be able to a World Center for research and study of for the wonderful tour of the Sherlock Cindy Menas, a resident of the Twin while visiting the Twin Cities. Address. The Keynote Address will give a generous donation, and keep in all things Sherlockian. Holmes Collection at the University of Cities, toured the Elmer be presented by John Bergquist, B.S.I. mind that that donation may be time and is titled, The Manuscript of “The and material, not just money. The board Richard J. Sveum, M.D., B.S.I. Acquisitions ob Coghill donated the program a publication that serves South Puget from the May 8, 2009 Speckled Sound. The article written by Karla Band of Boston dinner. Stover, in her column “Walkabouts,” discusses Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and B Joe Coppola used his time his visit to Tacoma in June 1923. during his recent tour at the Andersen

Library to add two items to the Jon Lellenberg donated a copy of the Photo by Julie McKuras Sherlock Holmes Collections. Joe pre- booklet he prepared for his presenta-

Album, a publication that Jon describes as He is the author of Parodies and Pastiches this newsletter. Photo by Julie McKuras Yale Stenzler

Julie McKuras, A.S.H., B.S.I. Photo by Julie McKuras Pachara Yongvongpaibul 4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 Mr. Shaw Comes to Minneapolis... Continued from Page 1 5 to put these and other digital record- town to eat and the sites to visit. of all six family members lost in the Holmes), gives short shrift to Dr. Wednesday morning arrived and I was ings in the new Media Repository that Great War, and a touching picture of Joseph Bell’s role, and leaves another anticipating the afternoon visit. Then is being developed by the University Like Paul, and often with a similar Conan Doyle at his brother’s grave in early influence, Dr. George Budd, the phone rang. It was Pat. Weather Libraries. The Repository includes sup- abrasiveness and impatience, John France. unmentioned—Adrian having been had delayed his flight from the East port for the delivery of audio, video, was an early apostle of the Church infuriated by Hesketh Pearson attribut- coast and he would not arrive until and still images to the web. of Holmes. Happily because my And the book marks the debut of one ing his father’s literary imagination to 5y e ars0 a g o 6 later in the day. It looked like the visit father understood that a day on of Conan Doyle’s best biographers, Budd’s boisterous example. was off. I was dismayed. A line from From the office we moved down into the road with a destination of Pierre Nordon. Signing himself “P. his earlier e-mail had told me that the stacks, stopping along the way to people who like to talk, read, eat, Arthur Conan Doyle Weil-Nordon, M.A.,” Nordon was writ- The remainder of the Centenary Album beginning Thursday his “commitments take photos next to the 221B sign that and drink was much superior to Centenary Album ing his doctoral dissertation for the is a poorly designed and near-exhaust- as an instructor of various workshops stood in John’s yard in Sante Fe. It was any give day of school, I took road Sorbonne on Conan Doyle, and was ing scrapbook about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the champion of justice, the war will begin in earnest and it would be a special time as we moved from shelf trips with him. We ain’t talkin’ By Jon Lellenberg grateful to Adrian for access to the much more difficult for me to make to shelf, items from his father’s col- glamour-travel here! Wichita; Little closely-guarded family archives. (The hero, the social reformer, the knight who rose above prejudice to defend my way over to your library.” But a lection evoking memories and more Rock; Wichita Falls; Joplin; and “There is perhaps no greater fallacy than dissertation, published as a book in George Edalji, Roger Casement, and ray of hope followed in the next sen- stories. Before we knew it, the time a goodly number of completely the view that a son’s opinion on his France in 1964, appeared in English in tence: “But, if need be, I would do my had flown, and it was time for Pat forgettable towns, with one or 1966, but cut down to mere popular Oscar Slater—even, for once, Conan father must be favourably prejudiced.” 3 damnedest if Wednesday afternoon is and Flo to head back to St. Paul. We a couple burgs that might have biography in length and character. ) Doyle the apostle of spiritualism. All this is valid, but those who respect not possible.” paused for another photograph near passed for cities in our part of the With those words in 1959, Adrian For the Centenary Album the young Conan Doyle would prefer it less our Linus/Sherlock statue and then world. I don’t know the names of Conan Doyle opened his most ambi- scholar wrote seventeen coffee-table- shrilly, and not as a jumble of pictures, That ray of hope expanded into possi- said our goodbyes. More memories the scion societies he left in his tious piece of filial hagiography sized pages on “Some Aspects of Sir quotations, letters, newspaper and bility when a phone call from Pat later had been made. wake but I’d bet the mortgage since The True Conan Doyle, his thin Arthur Conan Doyle’s Works and magazine clippings, telegrams, snatch- in the day created the opportunity for money that a few of them are still 1945 attempt to marginalize Hesketh Personality.” If he began by projecting es of speeches, book covers, heraldry, a visit on Thursday afternoon. I made Some time after our visit I wrote to around today. Pearson’s 1943 biography of Adrian’s Adrian’s demeaning view that critics of and other memorabilia with no critical sure my calendar was clear and we Pat and asked if he would share a few father, Conan Doyle, His Life and Art. Conan Doyle are “men who, by pre- judgment behind it, nor theme beyond were set to go. My anticipation rose more reminiscences of his father. He I can’t pass for a Sherlockian but The Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary tending to guide our judgments, will glorification. a second time as I looked forward to was happy to do so and wrote the fol- I also can’t resist picking up my Album renewed his efforts, on the for some obscure reason best known to meeting Pat. lowing: copy of the Canon now and again propitious 100th anniversary of his themselves, misrepresent or diminish, One unfortunate effect of this treat- and leaving this life behind for a father’s birth, to present Sir Arthur either in their work or their person, ment was to distort subsequent biogra- He arrived, as planned, the next day. I John Shaw was a bookman, an while. John’s affinity for Doyle and as nothing less than “a king among the most admirable figures of a liter- phy by inflating Conan Doyle’s mother was struck, immediately, by the resem- odd breed of humankind which Holmes was, at bottom, rooted in men and a tremendous personality for ary heritage,” Nordon’s essay is still a Mary Foley, grandiloquently and inac- blance to his father, and played on this is becoming odder I suppose but his love of people and ideas and good.”1 worthwhile contribution to the litera- a bit as we moved to my office. Pat oh what a rich world he and his life. Plus it helped take his mind ture, enough so that one suspects the curately, to “The Ma’am.” That she was a proud and strong woman and a great was accompanied by a colleague, Flo kind inhabit. And, what a legacy off Joe McCarthy and Richard It was a commercial flop. Its coerced true author of that passage was Adrian. influence in her son’s life is certainly Hatcher, from Southern Connecticut he left! The Shaw clan took long Nixon. U.S. publisher, Kenneth McCormick of true, but Adrian sought to set her on State University, who was also in town road trips. This was before cars Doubleday & Co., called it “this big, But Nordon was misled on other a higher plane of his own making. He for the AAUP Summer Institute. As had air conditioning, and over- I didn’t have the chance to meet John, tiresome Conan Doyle book,”2 and the points as well. The statement that had gotten John Dickson Carr to use we sat in my office, I pointed to the heated radiators were the norm but my visit with Pat felt as if I’d publics of America and Britain left the the originals of the “H.B.” political the term in his 1948 Life of Sir Arthur picture above the shelf, a portrait of his not the exception. John prepared touched a bit of the aura, a chip off the majority of copies unsold on the hands cartoons and caricatures by Conan Conan Doyle, and now strove to make father as Mycroft Holmes (by Charles a reading list for us kids well in old block. It was a moving and special of Doubleday and of John Murray Ltd. Doyle’s celebrated artist grandfather it permanent via the Centenary Album Meyer and a gift to the Collection from advance to assure some basic time for both of us. Pat later wrote But it was a milestone in Conan Doyle John Doyle were “given to the nation” by connecting it directly to primary Jon Lellenberg). Pat thought the visage knowledge about whatever region that “John was an overwhelming but biography nonetheless, for both good (by Prince Metternich of all people), source material. It first refers to Mary a bit stern but appreciated the likeness, of the country or the country to giving man and a wonderful father. and bad reasons. For those interested to repose in the British Museum, was Foley as “The Ma’am” on p. 38, in a as he did the doll of his father that sits the north of ours we were visit- Being amidst the vestiges of a long life in the life of Sherlock Holmes’s creator untrue; we now know (from evidence glorifying section of the book with that on the card catalog in our suite. While ing. “Knowledge,” I learned early lived happily and fruitfully touched me (despite Adrian’s assertion that creating in Adrian’s hands at the time) that they title, and on pp. 38-39 alone the term we chatted, Pat told a few stories from this wise man also comes in profoundly.” And I appreciated Flo’s the best-known character in litera- were sold by the family to the British appears five times as headings or cap- about his father, such as the time he the form of fiction. So our “knowl- presence as well, and the chance I had ture was nearly the least of his noble Museum in 1882, the division of the tions to excerpts of letters written by was with his father in New York when edge” of, for example, Quebec to share the enthusiasm with her. She father’s vast achievements), it brought proceeds a sore point for the young 4 her, with many more such examples members of ASH boycotted the annual included what we learned from later thanked me for “the verve and together family photographs often Conan Doyle. The essay misdirects scattered throughout the book. Baker Street Irregulars dinner. He also Maria Chapdelaine. John Shaw’s joy” I brought to my work. I like to not seen before, and many quotations readers away from the family secret of had the chance to listen to a couple of First Commandment of travel: go think that I’m just doing my small part about Conan Doyle from writers and Charles Altamont Doyle’s alcoholism, In reality, Conan Doyle seldom recordings that I had recently digitized to the second-hand bookstore; to continue the legacy of John Bennett public figures—though only laudatory gives little idea of the role in Conan addressed or referred to his mother of his father speaking at Sherlockian nine times out of ten, the propri- Shaw. ones. Filial piety, even in an extreme Doyle’s earlier life of Dr. Bryan Charles as “Ma’am.” The vast majority of his gatherings in Minneapolis. We hope etor will know the best places in form, can have its useful side: one Waller (later acknowledged by Adrian more than one thousand surviving page, for example, has scarce pictures in letters to William S. Baring-Gould then at work on The Annotated Sherlock Continued on page 8

6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 An Update from the Collections night before, he offered a gem-stud- Atkey’s nephew was the mystery writer e live in an electronic uni- ded drinking cup as a prize in the golf Philip Atkey (Barry Perowne 1908- verse with the result that The Repository is an important addi- competition. But the next morning, he 1985), known for continuing the A.J. much more of our work tion to the online resources that are found the valuable trophy had disap- Raffles series after the death of E.W. W is being done “online.” currently available. On the Holmes peared! Holmes visits the scene. He is Hornung, Conan Doyle’s brother-in- This online environment Collections web page you’ll find 100 told of members found lying on the law. includes access to indexes a number of items that may assist y e ars a g o floor at evening’s end, and he finds an and full text, reference and referrals, you with your Sherlockian research. The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections astonishing number of empty liquor Like Conan Doyle, Atkey was said to and audio/visual materials such as still Foremost among these is the online is a quarterly newsletter published by the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections and champagne bottles. He quickly be a natural story teller, but with less images, video and audio files. As was version of The Universal Sherlock Bertram Atkey’s “Sherlock Holmes in which seek to promote the activities, inter- concludes the trophy was knocked memorable outcomes. Between the noted in the lead article in this issue, Holmes bibliography produced ests and needs of the Special Collections the Case of the Drugged Golfers” onto the floor. A half drunken servant early 1900s and 1950 the Bertram the University Libraries is preparing to by Ronald De Waal and George and Rare Books Department, University of Minnesota Libraries. swept it away into his pantry with the Atkey byline appeared in many of the launch its new Media Repository. This Vanderburgh. In addition, you’ll find By Charles Press trash. high paying large circulation maga- resource will allow us to mount audio/ a multi-volume supplement to The Mail editorial correspondence c/o: zines of England and the U.S. His sto- visual materials in the online world for Universal and links to other signifi- “Holmes,” said I, as I was looking out Editor This short summary doesn’t do justice ries are remembered for touches of you to discover and use. The Holmes cant collections, societies, organiza- Julie McKuras of our window one morning, “here is a to the number of Sherlockian touches humor or dramatic incident. Collections include a rich assortment tions, and resources. One of the latest 13512 Granada Ave. madman coming!” Apple Valley, MN 55124 throughout. The parody is brief, as a of photographs and audio tapes and resource links we’ve added is Randall 952-431-1934 good parody should be, well written He wrote an early science fiction we plan on converting a number of Stock’s Conan Doyle manuscripts [email protected] My friend slipped the fully loaded with many light humorous touches. novel, novels involving the yellow these materials to a digital format and checklist. We’re always interested in hypodermic syringe—with which he Editorial Board peril and about shell shocked veter- adding them to the Repository. additional resources, so if you know was whiling away a pleasant half-hour John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Bertram Atkey was then only 29, but ans miraculously cured. He wrote on of an online resource that should be Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. after breakfast—into the pocket of his was well on his way to a successful folk of the wild, moor and mountains, The Repository is in the “Alpha” stage added to our list, please send a note dressing-gown, and looked over my and prolific writing career. He, like classic horror, on Hercules, Eskimos, at the moment, meaning that staff are our way and we’ll consider adding it to shoulder. Conan Doyle, had A. P. Watt as his early Egyptians, and King Arthur. experimenting with the “bare-bones” our web page. literary agent. He would later have He authored fiction for children and system to see how it works, uploading Copyright © 2006 “Yes. Coming to consult me,” he said, University of Minnesota Library another Sherlockian connection. In young boys, as well as scripting two some content, and generally tweak- Finally, thank you for your continued rubbing his hands. “Ha! there he is.” 1923 William Gillette dramatized and silent movies, “After Dark” in 1924 ing the system. The “Beta” release will support of the Holmes Collections. I Almost as he spoke the front door bell- The University of Minnesota is an Equal acted in Winnie and the Wolves, based and “The Secret Kingdom” in 1925. include more functions and incorpo- hope to see many of you at the annual wire was torn completely down and Opportunity Educator and Employer. on an Atkey story from The Saturday rate the things we learned from the meeting of the Friends. out through the door into the street. Evening Post. His specialty though, was using over first phase. We’ll keep you informed and over again an idea that Conan of developments on the Repository So opens “Sherlock Holmes in the Tim Johnson Atkey was born in 1880 in New Doyle originated—a short story series and let you know when we’ve added Case of the Drugged Golfers,” a Forest, on the border of the English based on a single character. His horse content from the Holmes Collections. Sherlockian parody by Bertram Atkey. counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire. racing stories in the Saturday Evening We’ll also add a link to the Repository It appeared in Fry’s, The Outdoor The Strand Magazine, in its November Post ran for fifteen episodes, followed on our web site. Magazine in November 1909, part of 1929 issue, published thumbnail by a second series of nine. In Blue a series of humorous sketches later biographies of some of its contrib- Book, a Mr. Hobart Honey, given a collected as Great Men and Golf. The uting authors. Atkey wrote he had magic pill by a grateful Tibetan lama parody was reprinted in 1982 in been married for twenty-one years, whose life he saved, was able to time Volume 15, Number 2 of the Armchair but mentions no college or military travel back in history and become, Detective. We are indebted to Otto service. He lists jobs he held before among others, a harem eunuch, Friar Penzler for his introduction of the 100 Years Ago...Continued from Page 2 establishing himself as a writer— Tuck, a Neanderthal, a Roman centu- piece, which notes that it was chapter house agent’s tout, entertainer, sand rion, and a drunken Saxon archer. His 1929. The New Yorker called Smiler els or story collections featuring Smiler tisements, newspaper and magazine six of the series Great Men and Golf, as and gravel retailer, brick and tile comic detective series on Prosper Fair “an agreeable rogue.” Smiler liked to Bunn as well as twenty-one or more articles, and anything with a reference well as his belief that this was the first manufacturer, inventory clerk, insur- was followed by Wilson Chiddenham, refer to himself as “the old man” and other novels or short story collections. to Sherlock Holmes. His collection reprinting of the story since the origi- ance agent. advertisement canvasser, who was lame and handicapped. had other characteristics that suggest had a copy “Great Men and Golf” nal appeared in 1909. and sports journalist. He also admits John Dickson Carr’s later creation, Sir Bertram Atkey died in 1952. by Bertram Atkey, which ran in the to having played golf. My thanks to But Atkey is best remembered for a Henry Merivale. He is described as Editor’s Note: John Bennett Shaw November 1909 issue of Fry’s; The The madman is a member of an exclu- Peter Blau for supplying this elusive picturesque gentleman crook named “salty among the high toned,” favored collected Sherlockian articles and Illustrated Magazine of Sport, Travel sive Blameshot Golf Club for retired Strand article. Smiler Bunn who he created in contractions such as “m’friends,” and references; if he couldn’t get the and Outdoor Life. military officers. At a banquet the 1912 and was still writing about in seemed to be generally comically can- original, he was sure to get a copy. His tankerous. Atkey published eight nov- notebooks were extensive, with adver- Charles Press Continued on page 7

2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 D S o F September 2009 n Volume 13 Number 3 e t 50 Years Ago...Continued from Page 3 i H R e letters to her, written over a period of The myth of “The Ma’am” stuck and is 1. Quoting second-line English novelist Horace F Annesley Vachel to that effect. fifty-four years, have a modest “dearest with us still, the sort of social-climb- 2. See “Adrian’s Picture Book and the BSI,” pp. 67- Mam” as their salutation instead, or the ing Conan Doyle deplored and never 70 in this writer’s “Certain Rites, and Also Certain Duties” (Hazelbaker & Lellenberg, 2009). even more colloquial “Dear Mammie.” indulged in himself. One suspects 3. Donald A. Redmond, “Scholarship Translated Adrian was in possession of those let- that he would have been appalled and into Popular Biography,” in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Jon Lellenberg ters in 1948 and 1959, and knew that, angered by the Centenary Album. But (Southern Illinois University Press, 1987), pp. but claimed otherwise in this book, while the public showed little interest 123-35. According to Jock Murray of John Murray Ltd., in a personal communication to Sherlock Holmes captioning a photograph of one let- in it, biographers turned to it repeat- this writer, it had been his decision, and one that ter (on p. 52) a “Letter to The Ma’am” edly, and have passed Adrian’s exagger- initially displeased Adrian, who wanted an uncut c o l l e c t i o n s translation of Nordon’s book as published in despite its first page being clearly head- ations and deceptions along to several France. ed “My dearest Mam” in his father’s generations of their own readers.7 4. See Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, edited “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles handwriting, and actually falsifying (on Foley (Penguin Press, 2007), pp. 162, 165. p. 47) another letter’s excerpt, repro- Editor’s Note: The Sherlock Holmes 5. Letters in the University of Minnesota Library’s duced in type this time, by adding to Collections has several copies of the Sherlock Holmes Collections. “A very strange, brilliant and eccentric man who had a deep influ- C o n t e n t s it the salutation “My dearest Ma’am” Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary Album, ence on my father in his early years,” Adrian said Mr. Shaw Comes to Minneapolis when the photocopy of the letter’s orig- including both the John Murray and of Dr. Waller in a letter to Baring-Gould dated January 20, 1966. By Timothy Johnson inal in my possession shows that it was Doubleday editions. 6. “This ‘influence’ was invented entirely by Hesketh Mr. Shaw Comes to yet another of Conan Doyle’s “dearest Pearson, and is typical of his tripe,” Adrian said he note came, as so many do these days, by e-mail. The subject line in the mes- in the same letter: “Pearson was naturally drawn Minneapolis Mam” letters to his mother. to Budd for their characters had much in com- sage read “The Sherlock Holmes Collection – John Shaw.” Either one of those mon, both being charlatans.” For more about this, see the author’s Nova 57 Minor (Gaslight 1 subjects, Holmes or Shaw, get my attention pretty quickly, but when I glanced Publications, 1990). at the opening lines of the note I knew something special was in store. I was 7. The text of the letter in question appears in full T on pp. 592-93 of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in not disappointed. Letters. See also p. 5n’s editorial note on Conan 100 Years Ago Doyle’s actual way of referring to his mother. 2 The note began “My name is Pat Shaw; John was my father.” That was enough to give me pause. John Bennett Shaw, as most of you know, was a giant in the Sherlockian world and a good friend 50 Years Ago to many. Unfortunately, I came on the scene after Remembrances 3 John departed so never In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made had the opportunity to meet the man. But I am contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. From the President surrounded by him, his In Honor Of From 4 collection, and dare I Max McKuras Mike and Julie McKuras say, his spirit, every day. So I gladly jump at any In Memory Of From Acquisitions chance to meet and talk E. W. McDiarmid Mike and Julie McKuras 4 with someone who knew E. W. McDiarmid John Bergquist For any inquiries contact: John. And I count it a E. W. Ziebarth John Bergquist Timothy J. Johnson, Curator special privilege to meet Allen Mackler Gary Thaden 612-624-3552 or Musings a member of John’s fam- Photo by Johnson Tim ily and to share some Arthur Byron Sveum Richard J. Sveum [email protected] Flo Hatcher and Pat Shaw 4 memories together. Sherlock Holmes Collections Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library This was the second time in almost as many years that I had the pleasure of a visit University of Minnesota Using the Collections from one of John’s children. In June 2007 John’s daughter, Hodgie Bricke, visited the 222 21st Ave. S. 5 Collections while in town for a conference. (See Volume 11, Number 2 of this newslet- Minneapolis, MN 55455 ter for a brief report and photograph of Hodgie’s visit; an online version of the newslet- Telephone: 612-626-9166 ter is available at http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/newsletter/v11n2.pdf.) Like his sister FAX: 612-625-5525 An Update from before, Pat was going to be in town during the fourth week of July on business. He is an attorney specializing in labor law and Associate Secretary for the American Association Mailing list corrections requested— the Collections Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, of University Professors (AAUP). The AAUP’s annual Summer Institute was at Macalester we would appreciate being informed of changes 7 College in St. Paul and Pat would be in attendance as an instructor. In his note Pat wrote of address or other corrections. that he “would dearly love to spend a little [time] in the stacks that house my dad’s collection.” I responded to his note and we set a date for a Wednesday afternoon visit. Remembrances Timothy J. Johnson, Curator 8 Continued on page 6

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