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

Remembrances 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 In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made 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 contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 In Honor Of From The Nashville Scholars Donna and Billy Fields of the Three Pipe Problem Richard Kitts Alexian Gregory Sherlock Holmes Owen Laukkanen Julie and Mike McKuras COLLECTIONS Julie McKuras Bill Vande Water Patrick B. Shaw Mary Flo Hatcher “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) Gary Thaden Tom and Maria Gottwalt Bob and Terry Thomalen Francine and Richard Kitts Contents Echoes of Mr. Holmes by Tim Johnson In Memory Of From

Dr. Marvin Aronson Dr. Michael Kean Echoes of Mr. Holmes s you may have read elsewhere, I was absent from the office and Collections 1 for twelve weeks this past summer on a professional development leave. It Nathan Bengis Andrew Fusco was a productive and reenergizing time, one that I’ve recently reflected on in Vinnie Brosnan Joe Eckrich the University’s Archives and Special Collections departmental blog, “Primary Ai Sourcery.” Vinnie Brosnan Robert Hess 100 Years Ago James Duval Ralph Hall 2 Perhaps unknown to many of you was what awaited me at the end of this leave: a two week working trip to the United Kingdom. The trip was originally planned for last Richard Lancelyn Green Andrew Malec spring, but due to a number of factors had to be postponed until the autumn. So, a few Fred Levin Sonia Levin 50 Years Ago days after my leave ended, and just after the Labor Day holiday, I boarded a plane for London. My journey took me to the Cotswolds, into Herefordshire and along the Welsh E.W. McDiarmid Julie and Mike McKuras 3 border, south to the coast and Portsmouth, north to Oxford, east to London, and a final Joseph Moran Susan and Ben Vizoskie roundtrip to York. Along the way, I had the distinct feeling of following in the footsteps of Mr. Holmes. Dorothy Belle Pollack Susan Diamond and Allan Devitt From the President Donald Redmond Cliff Goldfarb “Therefore they gave you a handsome advance on your salary, and ran you off to the Midlands, 5 where they gave you enough work to do to prevent your going to London…” (STOC) Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory P. Christian Steinbrunner Russell Merritt The first part of my trip was unrelated to Mr. Holmes, although there were certainly Musings echoes of his adventures. I landed in the small village of Whittington to investigate an Jerry Wachs Jerry Margolin 5 archive of one of the most significant letterpress printers in the twentieth century and to For any inquiries contact: secure it for the university. “From within came the clanking of the printing-press.” (VALL) Timothy J. Johnson, Curator For the next four days I sifted through papers while enjoying the press’s annual summer 612-624-3552 or show, a village fete, tours in and around an Elizabethan manor house, and a stay at the [email protected] Acquisitions proprietor’s home near the Malvern Hills. While at the proprietor’s Herefordshire home (still identified as a farm), I stayed in an older section of the house. “I should judge it was Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library of all sorts of ages and styles, starting on a half-timbered Elizabethan foundation and end- University of Minnesota ing in a Victorian portico.” (BLAN) All of this was prelude to my true Holmesian adven- 222 21st Ave. S. An Update from ture on the south coast and in an ancient center of learning. Minneapolis, MN 55455 the Collections Telephone: 612-626-9166 “I was despatched, accordingly, in the troopship Orontes, and landed a month later on FAX: 612-625-5525 7 Portsmouth Jetty…” (STUD)

Mailing list corrections requested— I arrived in Portsmouth by train, not troopship, and landed at the railway station instead Because of the high cost of returned newsletters, of the jetty. It was five years since my last trip to Portsmouth and my introduction to the we would appreciate being informed of changes Remembrances of address or other corrections. 12 Continued on page 8

Timothy J. Johnson, Curator

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The first, from September thankfulIs vacant—toIs vacant—to to our be Friends played be played byacross you.by you. the 1351213512 Granada Granada Ave. Ave. extinct, at theThe Cincinnati following Zoo, year, and in 1909,the The Presscovers.bers come from the worlds of art, hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me benefitit 1952benefit from or ’53. the from I thinksale the of saleit the was of volume. giventhe volume. present as Shakespeare is from pres- The followingin his collection. year, in 1909, The Press bersSeptember come from 27th the ASM worlds from ofThe art, Sunday 6 Andand asnot we in walked the Collections it seemed to(but me it can ThenThen act it act well! it well! An orphan’s An orphan’s heart heart AppleApple Valley, Valley, MN MN 55124 55124 than a family.That three But, old for friends the three had metexcel that- day: to me by friends of my parents who worldent day for English.their continued At the same support, time I did Albumselectionwas of published PopeAlbum Benedictwas to aidpublished XV the at the to aid the drama, law, drama,literature, law, music literature, or sci- music or sci- That three old friends had met that day: May beat the lighter if you do. 952-431-1934952-431-1934 MagazineThis searchof the Philadelphia led to the online Press WorldCat be viewedlent reasons onThe microfilm old mentioned, old sky, ofthe The I olddecided New old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about wisegoMay forwords, beat a “conservative” the encouragement, lighter if you style, do. interest, hoping [email protected] Vatican.C3542. In the Journalists’— Sherlockian A1456. HundenOrphan world fraFund, there Basker and - asence. he Formerence. members Former have members included have includedThe old old sky, the old old sea, Finally, Doyle wrote a poem about [email protected] Journalists’ Orphan Fund, and as he standswhich in to lists complete eleven thebooks set. byThe A. Col Conan- Yorkto Tribune changeAnd in it.” thelove, newspaper which is as libraryold as they. stories.orphans Anyway, which it was was a revelation. published in andit wouldhospitality. read toI appreciate modern day the Norwe Librar-- was theville: start En hadofny thefortælling done serialization the om previous Sherlock of Theyear, Conan notables such as Charlie Chaplin, And love, which is as old as they. Theorphans next morning which was I was published off to Lon in- Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board had done the previous year, Conan notablesDoyle such translated as Charlie in NorwegianChaplin, by When I wrote to Nils Nordberg for an I’ve still got it, title page missing and Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board lections also has original issues of The at Wilson Library, the main collec- Songs of the Road, just a few pages ies’gian willingness readers as to Conan provide Doyle leave reads time to John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, ValleyHolmes of Fear. .DoyleAutoriseret In England stepped oversættelse it forwardappeared with ved a contri- Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, James donSongs for of a thevery Road short, just stay a beforefew pages going John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Doyle stepped forward with a contri- MarkBoston ElisabethTwain, Sunday Wilkie Brochmann.Post Sunday Collins, MagazineAlso James online is tionupdate at the UniversityOuthe surprised seaward of hung meMinnesota), bythe writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. Elisabethbution. Brochmann. The book, Kristiania: edited by Thomas McNeill Whistler, Sir Alexander Out seaward hung the brooding mist, after “By the North Sea.” It was for thisReferences: trip. Likewise, I am thankful to Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. in nine issues of The Strand Magazine McNeillNasjonalbiblioteket Whistler, Sir Alexander (National Library ElisabethWe Brochmann’s saw it rolling, translationfold on fold, of northaftermy dearestto“By York the possessions. andNorth an Sea.”antiquarian But It was very book few References:http://www.scoop- bution.Forlagt The book, af H. editedAschehoug by Thomas & Co. (W. from October 11th and 18th. containedWe saw it anrolling, article fold by on Filson fold, Young called “The Orphanage” and is repro-the University’s Global Programs and from SeptemberCatling 1914 and until published May 1915. by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN Andwas markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist seminar.calledof the “Thestories While Orphanage” werein London available and I visited in is myrepro- own http://www.scoop-Sincedatabase.com/bio/catling_thomas 1971 my translation of HOUN CatlingNygaard), and published 1902. 263by John p. Murray, Fleming, W. S. Gilbert, Sir Henry titledAnd “Sirmarked Arthur the greatConan Sun Doyle.” Alchemist The duced below. database.com/bio/catling_thomashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club In America thehas novel an introductory was serialized note in which gives BrochmannIrving, dates Dante listed Rossetti, as 1855-1915 Dylan Thomas, 1902, alsoTurn by all Aschehoug. its leaden edge The to interestgold. theducedlanguage London below. then, Library so I(compliments had to wait until of I Strategyhas been Alliance reprinted for fundingover a dozen a portion times has an—————. introductory 2ndnote ed. which 1911. gives 246 p. Irving,The ASM Dante was Rossetti, understandably Dylan Thomas, proud articleTurn allwas its a leaden glowing edge review to gold. of Conan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Clubhttp://www.savageclub.com/ the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh ladyseems mine! to a familylearned relation) English andto pursue found mya number interest http://www.savageclub.com/ofby this various journey. publishers, It was a goodby Aschehoug trip that thethe history AssociatedI became of the Sunday aware Fund. ofMagazine translatorIt began (ASM) in Elisabeth Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Edgar Look well, look well, oh lady mine! Copyright © 2006 “1892 with a gift of £1,000 by theof latepresentingW allacea new and Sherlock Peter Ustinov. Holmes It is cur-Doylehave as abeen manThe as greyand great below, author. here the asThis gold in England! issueabove; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- willand bear Norild fruit as now well and as Gyldendal,in the future. and University ofCopyright Minnesota © Library 2006 from BrochmannSeptember 20 in until2004 Novemberwhen I acquired ofI workswonder, by perhaps, Doyle on if the he shelves.was think- One CopyrightCopyright ©2014 © 2011 “1892 with a gift of £1,000 by the late WnovelallaceTo to meand their the Peter readers. most Ustinov. famous The Itmagazine Norwegian is cur- alsoThe Thehad grey 1911a below,colorFor edition so photographthe the goldgreyest was above; one life of inmay Conan a seriesshine ing of the Orphan’s Fund when he I’ve also read it as an audio book. It UniversityCopyright © of 2012 Minnesota Library lot 93 ofLord The GleneskConan Doyle and £500 Collec by- the late Sir rently located at 1 Whitehall Place, of the more recent titles was Michael Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Lord22, 1914,Glenesk ten and issues £500 in total.by the The late ASM Sir rentlytranslator located at of 1 the Whitehall Canon is Place, Nils Nor- Forof so books the Allgreyest published golden life in may thein thatshinelight format,of love. half ingAs EB’sof thewrote HOUN Orphan’s this? was moreFund or when less myhe 1 was included in the first ever collected Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. tion auctionJohn atWillox…Working Christie’s. Included pressmen had an introductoryLondon and paragraph their website on the indicates Doyle it on the cover and a center spread http://www.continuum.umn.edu/2014/11/ The University of Minnesota is an Equal was no stranger to Conan Doyle’s dberg, BSI (“A Norwegian Named Alloctavo, golden within the green light ofcovers love. and dust- Dirda’swrotefavourite Onthis? Conanboyhood Doyle reading. There I tend were to no be John Willox…Workingin the lotthroughout were seven pressmen the letters country and commenced two Londoncontents and page“remains their of several website one of indicates the leadingweekly it Bohemianof drawings of characters from several sabbatical-musings/Sherlock Holmes edition in Norwegian, The OpportunityUniversity of Educator Minnesota and is Employer. an Equal works. In 1905/06 they had serialized Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It (andPress indeedAlbum added all the over three £1000 to signsuncritical, of Lomax but butI think a number it was forof otherits time which I edited and part-translated Opportunity Educator and Employer. throughoutpostcards thecontributions, countryby ACD commencedto Madame and in the Broch same- year“remainsappearances oneGentleman’s thatof the highlighted leading Clubs Bohemian elementsin London.” of Conan Doyle’s books and stories. “Holmes by Any Other The Press Album editionsadded over of EB’s £1000 transla to - an excellent translation, less error-ridden 2 http://www.lib.umn.edu/pdf/holmes/v13n2.pdf Sir Nigelmann and discussing 1912 saw rights the appear to stories- and Gentleman’s Clubs in London.” the Institute of Journalists Orphan sub-librarians were active among the (wanted to do all but didn’t have contributions,the and first in theorphan same was year adopted.” Theof theName: story Translatingand the fact the that Arthur The cover photographtion) had was the taken Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than ance ofpamphlets. The Lost WorldACD .was ASM eager had toalso have the InstituteFund. of Journalists Orphan stacks. time), published in 10 volumes by Den the first orphanreader was isadopted.” assured thatThe “Every pennyConanSherlock DoyleIn had1882,Holmes been the Stories,” paidPrince a largeof Wales, laterby Arnold Gentheillustration (1869-1942), of the ahound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- printedThe two War of in Conan South Africa:Doyle’s Its stories, Cause and Fund. Norske Bokklubben (“The Norwegian reader is assuredcontributed that “Every to the penny Fund, from itsInsum 1882, publishedfor it.the TheyEdward Prince in chose Sherlock VII,of Wales, Arthurbecame later Ignatius an honorary prominent German-Americanbreaking out of photog the fog- on lations. It’s a long time since I’ve re-read Conduct translated into all languages Christy Allen, who contributes fre- Book Club”) in 1980. The tenth volume Aschehoug in EB’s time was Doyle’s “The Contest” and “The Iconoclast,” in EdwardHolmes: VII,member becameThe Detective of an the honorary &Club. He enjoyed the the dust jacket. The series it but it is my impression Continuedthat EB was from Page 4 contributedand wrote tobeginning the a prefaceFund, seventeen fromfor the its Norwegian years ago, hasKeller (1866–1924), a prominent illus- Christyrapher whoAllen,quently was who anto contributesearlythe ConanDoyle adopter fre- of (ACD)the list Musings... was a collection of pastiches and essays. main Norwegian publisher, but unfor- 1911 but acquiring the rights to a full memberThe ofCollector, theatmosphere Club. Essays He and onenjoyed suggestedthe the that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic beginningedition. seventeen beenBrochmann devoted years must ago,to the hashave keep had and a educa-trator of the time, to provide pictures Autochromeon the Lumière Internet, color is interestedphotog- in Conan Musings...Continued from Page In4 the 1990s all ten volumes were re- tunately they didn’t follow it up—there Sherlock Holmes novel was a definite John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi-quently to the ConanDoyle& Co.s Kronebibliotek (ACD) list (“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, been devotedclose relationship tionto the of keepthe withorphans…Avoiding and ACD educa- and his anyatmospherefor the tale. andBy 1914 suggested Keller that had a pro- raphy process. [Ed. Note: According printed wholesale by a short-lived pub- were no translations of VALL or The In that essay he explained on the Internet,Doyle’s Krone ispoetry. interested Library”, She wrote: in Conanmean- 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: coup.family, butexpenditure there is nothing on bricks about and hermortar, masonic the lodgetion would to the befacilities. a good On addi- December 3, never the same for Francine; she stuffedlisher rat called now LibriArte. adorn the I’ve Collections. done minor readersCase-book, and other and only interested four of parties, the stories tion of the orphans…Avoiding any videdabout drawings the challenges for approximately of 150 Doyle’sto Jon Lellenberg,poetry. Sheing Genthe wrote:that the was price a close was one them almost 60 years ago. in any ofprinciple the Conan laid Doyle down biographies. was that of savingtion to the facilities.1886, Catling On December wrote to the 3, Grand I’ve tried to do some research about missedof sharing all, she their missed interests his companionship. and most Ourrevisions forthanks writing to go the toabout textPeter hisover Blau, friends the not years, Wayne only but andinGeorgina Histhis Last issue Doyle, Bow features were author publishedtwo of of Out those: of in the expenditure on bricks and mortar, the bookstranslating and over SH600 in periodical the issues, friend of ChristopherNorwegian Morley, krone, working slightly The AssociatedACD visited Sunday Norway Magazine in June 1892 with Secretary of United Grand Lodge, the poem proper and how/why it of all, sheAnd missed when she his passedcompanionship. away, their fora writingmajorand Francine one about for butanotherhis friendsalso Bokklubbenfor Waynehelping with GeorginaNorway,Shadows: Doyle,in The a book Untold author called Story of Spioncen Outof Arthur of the- principle laid thedown child was to that its home of saving and its home1886,including to changing Catling Life, wrote NorwegianCollier’s, to the Harper’s lan Grand- Weekly withI’ve him tried on to Walt doless some Whitman than research $10 in inCamden today’sabout, 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 friends had the same reaction as people completethe packing edition, and in mailing two volumes, of the many, in tralen,Conan 1919. Doyle’s I’ve First been Family very, read fortunate, Dick was a supplementthe child.” made available to Secretaryguage, of includingUnited Grand titles: Lodge, the poem propermoney). and how/whyI’ve got some it of Andactually when shepublished passed for away, the theirfirst time in and Francine but also for helping with Shadows: The Untold Story of Arthur the childamong to its others. home and its home to and The Ladies’ Home Journal, although 1938. He was a member of The Three had when George Burns died; his pass- 2002.many The boxes. most recent reprint is in a bothSveum’s in Gyldendal article from that December they wanted 2008 to various newspapers throughout the enclosing antioners,” “imposing proposing group thatof peti- a new lodgewas written,empty. butthe havetitles, come including up Dr friends1971. had In 1966the same I had reaction been in as a TVpeople quiz the packing and mailing of the many, Conan Doyle’s First Family, read Dick the child.” this was his only contribution to the Hours for Lunch Club and the Grill- ing meant that he was together with 2011 Bokklubben volume Sherlock givewith Holmes a careful his eye due and place has incorrected a prestige a United States.Thomas The first Catling of the editedAssoci The- Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The hadshow, when winning George 10,000Burns died;kroner his for pass- my many boxes. Sveum’s article from December 2008 A Google search revealed a 1902 letter tioners,”Sherlockian proposing world. thatThe aillustrations new lodge parzerempty. Sittenpolizei Verein, serving Holmes Mysterier i utvalg (“Selected series of modern and 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 Thomasated Sundaywritten Catling Magazines by editedSamuel was L. Clemens distributed (Mark be founded for the approximately ing meant that he was together with Mysteries”), containing STUD, HOUN withstories a careful and bringing eye and him has back corrected into a The Press by Kellertranslation areMasons. admirable, of the On title January but of heThe 18,has Hounds 1887, of The as the1918. president Apartalmost infrom certainly 1931.] a missing The written photo ABBE when this Jean ered quite the local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues with fourTwain) newspapers toworked Brochmann for on Lloyd’s December noting Weekly that Newsshe , 25%as a of the membership who were What I did learn was that it was Gracie again. Johnand Bergquist The Adventures—all has provided translated us with a date.print, Soren and inEversoll, Den norske an honored Bokklubben visitor Album. Born September 23, 1838, he not receivedthe BaskervillesSavage the recognition Club. Several Lodge problems of was other consecrated exist was at istaken a reprint earlierwas ofpregnant inthe 1914 same with while title Denis publishedConan (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, 6, 1903.had By translated 1914compositor, the into magazine Norwegianwriter, wasnews his editor from lookby atyours Leaves truly. from If you’reThe Copper interested, Beeches, I’ll tofor the deciding Collections to do last the year, first continuesever com- worked for Lloyd’s Weekly News, as a Masons.Sherlockianhere. On For Januaryillustrators instance 18, no such1887, single as The Sidney word in Doylealmostin was1905, certainly on containing tour writtenin North the when lastAmerica. seven Jean 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 be happy to send you a copy for your plete edition and giving me a free rein distributed with thirteen newspapers SavageNorwegian Club Lodge suggests was consecrated a large, possibly at wasstories pregnant from withThe ReturnDenis (whoof SH. was Broch- Francinepaperback Morris mystery Swift, series ever thecalled librari- “The and its interesting authors and editors, his interest in Sherlock Holmes, compositor,reled Detective writer,1884 throughnews Story. editor The 1907. Lilly from The Library Scoop Paget, Fredericwas investedDorr Steele as Treasurer. or even There isThe no two centermonth pages before contained The Press draw Book- was collection to The Sherlock Holmes collection.thank Christy And toAllen complete for providing the story: I to present Sherlock Holmes as I think for a combined weekly print run of Freemasons’ferocious Hall and and deadly, Sir Henry canine; Irving hund bornmann’s in March HOUN of was1909, re-published just one by the an,Black planned Series” to donate (inspired her by Sherlockian the French published 50 years ago. I’d like to according to a note sent by his mother. 1866 throughManuscript 1884, Collection then editor has 15from letters to Frank Wiles,longer the Britisha formal illustrator connection of betweenings of “characterspublished). from the books of Collections. Sadly, her death in alsoinformation adapted and about translated Conan Doyle’sa Swedish poet- heSo should it’s business be. as usual at The 1,400,000. AmongDatabase, the subscriptionnewspapers biographical means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. collection“La Série to Noire”) The Sherlock and asked Holmes me to do thank Christy Allen for providing 1884 throughher (1900-1917) 1907. The from Scoop English authors wasThe investedValley ofthe Fear.as LodgeTreasurer. The and ASM theThere series Club. is had no Sirmonth Arthur before Conan The Doyle.” Press BookThesewas were October 2007 meant her collection, radiory as dramatisation featured in our of the100 book Years and Ago Sherlock Holmes Collections, for dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. Database,usingincluding the subscriptionservice F. wereAnstey biographicalthe (one Minneapolis of the 24 longer a formal connection between published).According to Doyle’s own correspon- Collections.which Sadly,she amassed her death with in her beloved informationproducedcolumn. it aboutDick as a Sveumsix-partConan updates Doyle’sserial in uspoet- 1977. on the SoSowhich it’s the business 1911 we are second asall usualthankful. edition at The was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950,elevenally illustrations translated intoby Keller my language as well the drawnI can by certainly Joseph Clement tell you thatColl Broch(1881-- There had then been no Holmes books Journalauthors, the Sunday along withStar (Washington,ACD of The Fate of the Lodge andAfter the his Club. retirement from Lloyd’s OctoberW ayne,2007 wasmeant ready her to collection, move to ry Ias sometimesstatus featured of the inthink driveour that 100 for my theYears main E.W. Ago motive Sherlockgot Nils HolmesNordberg Collections, hooked on forSherlock dictionary of Britishindicates and he Irish extended journal- the circulationas a covertitle would illustration be Bakervilleslektens of Holmes in hund, 1921),mann’s the artistdencetranslation who (from had of A HOUN Lifeillustrated in Letters and that), this in Norwegian since 1941. I did in fact D.C.)Fenella and the, 1892) Sunday and Record-Herald Jerome K. Jerome. which she amassed with her beloved column.for becoming Dick Sveum a radio updates drama producerus on the whichHolmes. we Inare his all translation thankful. he kept ists from the periodof the paperof 1800 beyond – 1950, London andhis was dressingwhich Wis gown eeklynot only Newsfor theclumsy, Catling September but–even undertook theConanAccordingvery Doyle’s 1911was to edition novels Doyle’sa worrisome Sirhas own Nigel played correspon-time. and aJean decisiveThe 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 was the wish to do this story on radio, Elizabeth Brochmann’s title, and he was (Chicago). The magazine was started After worse—suggestshis retirementediting task from a forstory Lloyd’s The about Press aAlbum pet: . Thedencepart (fromin mypregnant Alife. Life It with inwas Letters herthe first), this child Holmes at age Wayne,ries tographs,each. was readyWe ephemerathen to movedecided and to thateven I awould giant statusIt’s of gratifying the drive to for receive the E.W. notes from indicatesattending he extendedreputed the Gillette tothe be circulation theto Brett first IIIto usecon the- 20thauto- issue. By comparison, the Strand Lost World for ASM a few years previ- the medium it is perfectly suited for. a good friend of John Bennett Shaw. As by the printer and publisher Joseph WeeklyThe News Dog, Catling of the Baskervilles undertook Family.the wasstory a worrisome I ever34 and read, Doyletime. and wasJeanit hooked worried was me about her Minnesota.translate BoxesHOUN. of Ibooks, used EB’s pho- version McDiarmid Curatorship. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI of the ferencepaper beyond at Indiana London University. and was had 31 illustrations by Wiles, plus one ously. Prominently in the center of the And, ah yes, 2009 saw the first ever a Norwegian-American and Sherlock- P. Knapp (1864-1951) to compete editingActually task for the The decision Press Album was made. The for on the Master. I must have been 10 or tographs,(and also ephemera several Danish and even and a Swedish)giant It’s gratifying to receive notes from reputed to be the first to use the auto- cover which used the frontispiece from sketchespregnant is awith drawing her first of Holmes childContinued at withage on page 7 “nynorsk” translation of HOUN, by ian, I appreciate all the connections. with Sunday magazines published by as reference, but avoided copying it. Ragnar Hovland but relying I suspect a the first installment. his34 pipe and and Doyle a quote was worriedfromContinued The about Sign on ofher page 7 William Randolph Hearst and Joseph SIGN was also included in the series, good deal on mine. Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI the Four. Continued on page 7 Pulitzer for their2 ownFriends newspaper of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 2 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Continued on page 4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 22 FriendsFriends of of the the Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Holmes Collections Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 117 Echoes of Mr. Holmes Continued from Page 8 showed me a number of posters and I stayed at the Red Mullions, “a grand Beaune Press. And he asked me Scott Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Willa other materials designed for outreach mix,” Nick commented, “of The Red to design the Beaune Press logo, Cather, Maxwell Anderson, S.S. Van activities in the community. It is excit- Circle and The Three Gables.” Before which would be a combined Dine, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Ham- ing to see what Portsmouth is doing to my arrival, Nick had one final ques- printing and wine press. I was liv- mett, Sinclair Lewis, James Joyce, Ezra promote the collection. tion: would I “like the Holmesian tour, ing in an Army barracks in Geor- Pound, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Aldous or the main Oxford tour?” I told him 50 gia at the time (mid-1960s), and Huxley ,and Eugene O’Neill and in During my hours in the reading room I I preferred the former, if it might also YEARS AGO had only regular paper, a technical 1906, H.L. Mencken as editor. also had the chance to see Kate Brom- mix in a little C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, fountain pen, and a small drawing bley. Over the summer Kate visited and Inspector Morse. board of acrylic sheet. But I did a Kahn’s The Adventure of Oilock Combs the Minnesota collections and worked In 1964 the late Dean and Shirley large drawing of my logo design tells the tale of the newly divorced closely with Cheryll Fong. I had the I had all of a day with Nick, and we Dickensheet printed a small booklet and sent it to him, and he had Dr. Spotson visiting his old friend chance to meet Kate at a late-summer made the most of it. With a card which reproduced a pastiche titled it made into a small block that Oilock Combs at his Fakir Street flat. dinner party hosted by that most hospi- indicating his University affiliation “An Adventure of Oilock Combs.” The would print it an inch high. Combs, free of his morphine addiction, table of Sherlockians, Julie McKuras. By (University College), we were able to Holmes Collections holds number is drinking soda water and playing the time of my visit, Kate had returned get past the porters into a number of 73 of “the 222 copies numbered 1 to The first product, “Vintage No. 1 of the harmonica. Although Spotson is to Portsmouth and was busy working places not often seen by tourists. Nick 221B.” It included a comment at the BEAUNE PRESSINGS,” was the afore- unhappy with Combs for obtaining on her PhD at Portsmouth University. offered me an impressive list of venues end of the pamphlet: mentioned pastiche “An Adventure divorce proceeding evidence for Mrs. Her reading and focus is on Sir Arthur and colleges during our romp through Spotson, the two revert to their for- and fandom. the city. Among the colleges we visited: This acidulous but knowledge- mer roles when they are interrupted University, Merton, Christ Church, able satirical pastiche was orig- by Ysabelle, Duchess of Swabia, who My time in Portsmouth went by much Trinity, St. John’s, and Magdalen. Other inally published as “More proclaims “I AM LOST!” Combs too quickly. I am thankful to Michael, venues seen or visited included the Adventures of Oilock solves her dilemma by going outside Claire, Laura, and Kate for making my Boyle-Hooke House, University Church Combs; The Succored and looking at the house numbers. visit so enjoyable. I look forward to of St. Mary the Virgin, Dead Man’s Beauty” in the October, He later reacts contemptuously when reading Kate’s dissertation and to future Walk, Christ Church Cathedral, Rad- 1905 issue of The Smart he finds his reward is only two hun- opportunities and activities between cliffe Camera, Bodleian Library, Divinity Set Magazine. Research has dred pounds. Acidulous indeed. the Portsmouth and Minnesota School, Sheldonian Theatre, Edmund shown this title to be rhe- collections. Halley House, Blackwell’s Bookshop, torical, but has uncovered So who was the up and com- and the Oxford Union (including its little concerning the item’s ing author of “An Adventure of “Why, Morton or Johnson, the Oxford fli- library). The Holmesian highlight of author, William B. Kahn. Oilock Combs?” Bill Peschel, on ers, could romp round him.” (MISS) the tour was viewing the bust by artist This reprinting, believed his webpage http://planetpeschel. Arthur Pollen of Monsignor Ronald to be the first, constitutes com/2014/04/succored-beau- The next stop on my adventure took Knox outside the library at Trinity Vintage No. 1 of Beaune ty-223b-casebook/ wrote that me a couple of hours north by train College. Scholars may long debate Pressings, and is intended to the venerable city of Oxford. While when the “Great Game” of Sherlockian to extend Compliments of Little is known of William B. I share a last name with one of the scholarship began, but whatever the the Season to the friends Kahn, and therein lies a mystery, “fliers,” I am neither from Oxford nor final outcome I’ll admit to being a fan of Dean & Shirley Dicken- because his sole contribution, Photo by Julie McKuras much of a romper. Besides, it was of Father Knox. sheet and Vamberry’s Ltd. published in The Smart Set maga- twenty-three years since my last visit. "An Adventure of Oilock Combs" printed by the Beaune Press zine’s October issue, has earned a So, for this leg of the trip I needed Fueled by an afternoon stop and con- We don’t know if “it was the place in the pastiche canon. It was local expertise. I found it in our donor versation at the Turf Tavern, and with Beaune” that influenced Dean and republished in a limited edition in hours with her, I shared what we have and friend Nicholas Utechin. For some Lewis and Morse demands met by stops Shirley when naming their press or the of Oilock Combs.” During the period 1964 by the Beaune Press, again been up to in Minnesota, heard her time Nick has been involved with The at Merton and Magdalen colleges, the fact that Dean’s investiture, presented Smart Set was published (1900-1930) in “The Game is Afoot” anthol- perspective and update on the develop- Sherlock Holmes Society of London Eagle and Child pub, and the Morse to him in 1956, was “Vamberry, the it featured many of America’s best ogy, and was praised in LeRoy Lad ment of the Portsmouth collection, and and edited The Sherlock Holmes Journal Bar at the Randolph Hotel, we bussed Wine Merchant.” Artist Don Simpson known writers. Subtitled “The Maga- Panek’s “The Origins of the Ameri- discussed possible future collaborative from 1976 to 2006. In anticipation of back to suburban Headington for din- notes on his website that zine of Cleverness,” it was known for can Detective Story” as being one activities. Along the way I was also my visit, I contacted Nick about a pos- ner, more conversation, and a delight- presenting new authors to their large of the first to recognize how many introduced to Laura Weston, project sible rendezvous, and a date was set. ful evening at the Utechin home. My …when Sherlockian scholar Dean audience of New York’s most promi- Holmes stories involved marital officer for their Heritage Lottery-Fund- Nick picked me up at the train station, thanks to Nick and Annie for a memo- Dickensheet bought a very small nent citizens, with a standard format problems. Research revealed the ed project “Sharing Sherlock.” Laura took me to my lodging, and together rable time and to Nick for his generous printing press to publish booklets which combined a short play, a nov- existence of a William Bonn Kahn we bussed back into the city for a tour. gifts to the Collections. and other such items related to elette, poems and other clever pieces. (1882-1971) who wrote “The Holmes, he named his endeavor Contributors included O. Henry, F. Avoidance of War, a Suggestion of- Continued on page 11 Continued on page 9

10 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 3 100 Years Ago Continued from Page 2 50 Years Ago Continued from Page 3

To add to the promotional build up for The Valley of fered by William B. Kahn, written meeting of the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes wasn’t their only Fear for the following week, September 13, ASM had for the Society for Peace” in 1914. . . . so they hocked everything they interest. Dean was a member of the a special cover drawn by M.C. Perley. The description Could it be the same person? owned in order to raise the money, and Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, on the contents page states that it was done to show Dean got his wish, wheelchair-bound “the world’s oldest continuously-active “this artist’s interpretation in the modern German I haven’t been much more successful and delighted . . . and then of course science-fiction and fantasy club” ac- poster effect of characters in ‘The Valley of Fear.’” The in learning anything about William stubbornly lived for decades.” He was cording to their web page. Peter Blau Collections has an original sheet of this special cover B. Kahn other than finding that he is the first of the Cormorants to attend wrote that it was Dean’s “suggestion affixed to a stiff card backing. listed as one of the Jewish artists in the a BSI dinner. His obituary in the Sep- to a friend that resulted in the Sher- United States in American Jewish Year tember 1983 issue of the Baker Street lockian issue of the magazine Naked The ASM built upon the Sherlockian content in Book 5667 (Sept. 20, 1906 through Journal, written by Robert H. Steele (C21669 in De Waal), and David Mc- several of the issues. On the contents page in each Sept. 8, 1907) as author of the pas- reads: Daniel’s The Dagger Affair (1965) (The of the September issues and the first two in October tiche. There is also a William B. Kahn Man from U.N.C.L.E. #4) was dedi- there were a few paragraphs where the appearance of who wrote to the New York Times in Dean Dickensheet, the beloved cated to them, and for good reason: the novel in ASM was highlighted, usually through 1901. “Brother Hargrave” of the Scowrers they are characters in the book, which mention of the high price paid to Conan Doyle for the and Molly Maguires of San Fran- includes an atmospheric description of rights to print it, discussion of exciting plot points or The pastiche apparently appealed to cisco, died on 15 March, 1983. He their home.” JM Stine, on her web page emphasizing how well it was written and illustrated. the Dickensheets. Dean (1930-1983) was a kind and gentle man who about the Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, The editor of the ASM was certainly working to get and Shirley Davis (1934-2008) “were loved books, and his talents and wrote “The dedication is: ‘To Dean and their money’s worth out of it. both delightful people and well-suited enthusiasm made him one of our Shirley Dickensheet, Technological Ad- for each other” according to Peter finest Sherlockian scholars. Dean visors on the Hierarchy.’ Dean Dicken- By coincidence the October 18th issue also has two Blau. Ray de Groat and Marsha Pollak’s was a highly respected librarian sheet was a wonderfully crotchety old stanzas from “My Wife,” the poem by Robert Louis March 2008 Baker Street Journal “Stand and a successful editor of antholo- genius, a gentleman of the old school, Stevenson that contains the line “steel-true and blade- With Me Here Upon the Terrace” and gies, an avid collector and author a Sherlockian scholar, an expert on straight.” This line was used as Conan Doyle’s epitaph Jon Lellenberg’s Irregular Crises of the of many learned Sherlockian pa- more subjects than I can remember, on his grave marker. (The poem is incorrectly labeled Late ’Forties provides the reader with pers, and as our resident authority foremost among them San Francisco. “To My Wife,” which is a different Stevenson poem.) some information about Dean and he provided the final rulings in all He was one of Dave’s mentors, [Ed. Shirley and should be referenced to Sherlockian disputes in the Bay Note: Dave is David McDaniel] and ap- Images of a number of ASM covers can be found at learn more. They met at UCLA and Area. We will miss his counsel pears in his UNCLE books as THRUSH http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/associated- while there, Dean met Don Harden- and advice, and we will also higher-up, Ward Baldwin. His wife sunday-magazine. Several of these are from issues that brook of The Trained Cormorants, sorely miss his clever toasts, which Shirley, a formidable individual in her contained Sir Nigel, The Lost World and The Valley of becoming one of their most active always ended with the immortal own right, appears as Irene Baldwin.” Fear. members and editing their newslet- “Confusion to the Pinkertons!” Scan by Phil Bergem, courtesy of The Sherlock Holmes Collections Scan by Phil Bergem, "The Valley of Fear" in The Sunday Magazine Sept. 13, 1914 ter The Cormorants Ring. Shirley and In the same folder as the Sunday magazines there is Dean both worked at Douglas Aircraft Jon Lellenberg reports that “Dean As the Dickensheets printed their something else of relevance. This is a set of eleven in southern California in the ’50s. Ray Dickensheet was a very good friend of Beaune Pressings to extend the Com- photographic (or possibly Photostat) sheets from the and Marsha wrote “The Canon was the …Bill Blackbeard, who more than any- pliments of the Seasons, perhaps it’s original manuscript of The Valley of Fear. The eleven basis for long conversations leading one else in America preserved comic the time of year to sit down with a sheets comprise the entirety of Part II Chapter IV of to their marriage in 1956. Honey- books as an historic art/literary form. glass of Beaune and remember these the book. There is no indication of who acquired mooning in San Francisco, they met Dean urged him to write the mag- two unique Sherlockians. these manuscript photos but, as the full manuscript Anthony Boucher and Poul and Karen nificent book on Sherlock Holmes il- is in a private collection and has not been reprinted, Anderson at the Scowrers and Molly lustration that became Sherlock Holmes Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI this is an opportunity to view a part of Conan Doyle’s Maguires meetings.” They moved to in America… and Dean wrote the writing process at the moment of creation. the Bay area in 1961, and it was then foreword to it (‘The American Profile of that they bought their small press. Sherlock Holmes’).” These are a small sample of the wonderful treasures in the Sherlock Holmes Collections held in trust for Dean received his investiture of Vam- Shirley received her shilling and us all at the Elmer L. Andersen Library. Given the 100 berry, the Wine Merchant in 1956. investiture of Ivy Douglas in 1993. year anniversary of the appearance of The Valley of Peter Blau, who always knows a good Marsha Pollak described her as “one Fear, this topic has been interesting to research and story when he hears one, wrote “way feisty woman.” Their press produced a highlight. back in the 1950s, when Dean was di- number of items of Sherlockian inter- Phil Bergem, BSI agnosed with terminal cancer, Shirley est, including An ‘Undiscerning Critic’ asked him what his most fervent wish Discerned, On the Nomenclature of the was, and he said to attend an annual Brothers Moriarty, and Holmes Meets 007.

4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 9 Echoes of Mr. Holmes Continued from Page 1 From the President Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest and standards and available for use. Now, the second floor of the Central Library. t the Friends of the Sherlock Honored for membership in the Siger- Mentor which appeared in the June its attendant staff. My account of this on my return, the archival collection The library collection is located on the Holmes Collections An- son Society included: Allen Mackler 2014 issue. earlier trip may be found in Volume 13, was almost completely processed, the same floor. Researchers are welcomed nual Membership Meeting (deceased), The Norwegian Explorers number 2 of the newsletter (“He Made finding aids and other descriptive infor- into a bright and attractive reading A we re-elected our officers and of Minnesota, John and Inez Bergquist, The keynote address, “On Conan a Journey Abroad”).ii Now it was time mation entered into the CALM database room with graphically designed walls board. Serving you for the next year The Hubbs Family, Mary McDiarmid, Doyle,” was delivered by Michael to reacquaint myself with Richard’s stel- collection management system. In addi- featuring a timeline of Sir Arthur Conan will be: President Dick Sveum, Vice Mike and Julie McKuras, Tim Johnson Dirda, BSI. Michael was able to enter- lar collection, renew friendships with tion, a prodigious amount of scanning Doyle’s life along with quotations and President John Bergquist, Secretary and Dick Sveum. The Sigerson Society tain us with his personal experience those who take such good care of the has taken place, with digital surrogates images illustrating his life and work. Mike Eckman and Treasurer Tim John- exists to support the E.W. McDiarmid reading Sherlock Holmes and urged Bequest, and meet new staff associated linked to their appropriate part in the Following a 2010 flood in the library, son. The Friends Board will include: Curatorship and can be joined by do- listeners to discover the rest of Conan with the collection. collection inventory. caused by vandals, the city council took Phil Bergem, Lucy Brusic, Julie McKu- nating a gift, pledge or bequest of ten Doyle. advantage of this unfortunate event to ras, Mike McKuras, Tim Reich, Ray thousand dollars or more. rethink how the damaged space might Riethmeier, Steve Stilwell and Gary Our membership grew with new be renovated to better use and highlight Thaden. Attending the Friends Board The Bryce Crawford, Jr. Award for Friends joining that night. Thanks one of its most valuable collections. meetings ex officio are Kris Kiesling the best article in the Friends of the again to all our Friends who contribute The result was this superb reading and Kathy McGill. Sherlock Holmes Collections News- to the Sherlock Holmes Collections room, office, and collection vaults. It letter was won in absentia by Mattias helping us preserve Sherlock Holmes was in the reading room that I enjoyed Boström, BSI for his article titled My and his world. many hours looking through collection inventories, digital image scans, and Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI reading manuscript material from Rich- ard’s collection. Michael and his team are to be congratulated on the magnifi- cent work they have done to make the Lancelyn Green Bequest accessible to an eager and grateful public. Musings Another key member of this team is e missed having Tim Phil Bergem provides us with the It was a pleasure to accompany Tim Claire Looney, who was instrumental around this summer, publishing background of The Valley of and Julie Kramer on Julie’s tour of in arranging my first visit and who although Cheryll Fong Fear in our 100 Years Ago column, and the Andersen Library. I’m a fan of her has been of such great assistance to W proved to be an able Dick Sveum covers the Annual Mem- books (http://www.juliekramerbooks. us. Claire is a senior manager with the stand-in for him. He’s written our lead bership Meeting of the Friends of the com) but I’d never had the opportunity Portsmouth City Council and took time article about his trip to the United Sherlock Holmes Collections. Our 100 to see the reporter side of her as she from her busy schedule to meet for a Kingdom as well as covering the vari- Years Ago column focuses on Dean and asked some great questions. As Tim My principal contact in Portsmouth is The Green/Doyle archives are housed in couple of hours during my visit. It was ety of activities that make up his days. Shirley Dickensheet and their Beaune said, we’re looking forward to seeing Michael Gunton, senior archivist at the secure, well-equipped storage rooms on a delight to see her again. During those Pressings. I fear a single article doesn’t how her tour ends up in a book. Portsmouth City Council and archivist do them justice so please remember, for the Lancelyn Green Bequest. In late it’s the season of forgiveness. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI July I e-mailed Michael, alerting him to a possible visit in the fall. “Excel- lent to hear from you again,” Michael replied. “You are very welcome to visit us again…and [I] would be happy to show you the progress we have made since 2009.” Michael has been with Acquisitions the collection since the beginning and accomplished an astonishing amount im Alva donated “The Six Napo- Cliff Goldfarb added The Four Pillars of Among the newsletters received were of work over the last five years. On my leons of Baltimore,” which covers the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection. District Messenger, Prescott’s Press, Cam- first visit the archival collection was that scion’s history from den House Journal, Scuttlebutt from the housed on an upper floor of the Guild J 1946-2014. Derham Groves sent Sparks 4 with the Spermaceti Press, Ineffable Twaddle, The Hall, in a long and narrow room with article “Designing the Conan Doyle Passengers Log, and the Serpentine Muse. a small adjacent office and workspace Mystery Theatre. Not so Elementary.” for himself and army of volunteers. About forty percent of the collection was processed according to archival

Continued on page 10 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 An Update from the Collections An Update from the Collections Continued from Page 6 hanks to Cheryll Fong’s I returned after the beginning of the I was excited at the opportunity and ventured into the caverns and Club. We have hosted the UMWC in fabulous work in my absence, Fall Semester, but news of my return readily agreed. I won’t go into details explored every nook and cranny the past and always look forward to I was able to come back to traveled quickly and before long a about the Moretti lecture except to say of the library. I hope that we their time in Andersen Library. After T work after my leave and number of events and classes began to that I was fascinated by the work gave Julie Kramer enough ideas their visit I received a note from their pick things up at a brisk pace, if not appear on the calendar. The first was they are doing at Stanford with their and information about how an leader, Rolaine Wright. “Thank you a sprint. I will admit to being a little an early October visit by Franco Moret- electronic literary archive. It combines archive and rare book deposi- very much for the comprehensive tour winded after those first weeks back ti, the Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell mathematics and literature in inno- tory works (without giving away and time you took informing and en- in late September. A sabbatical pace Professor in the Humanities at Stanford vative and interesting ways. Follow- too many secrets), and that tertaining our group. What a treasure is slightly different then the week-in, University. Professor Moretti was here ing the lecture we made our way to we’ll see Andersen Library (or a you are, just as the collections you week-out demands of the library. It to deliver two lectures cosponsored by Andersen Library and viewed items library very much like Andersen) introduced to us. We have much more took me a little while to get back into the University’s Institute for Advanced from the Collections, including one featured in a future adventure of respect for archiving. And our time “playing shape,” but now I’m near top Study and the Consortium for the piece that fascinated Professor Moretti: her character, TV reporter Riley with you went too quickly!” form. Study of the Premodern World. His a manuscript leaf from The Hound of Spartz. the Baskervilles. After our viewing we I thoroughly enjoy these opportunities traveled down into the caverns, ending Two other visits are worthy of to share the Collections with others. I up in the Collections vault. Profes- note. For a number of years our am passionate about what we do and sor Moretti is on the left, Professor friend Lynette Reini-Grandell, a how we care for the memory of the Hancher on the right, in the photo I faculty member at Normandale Master. I believe my passion comes snapped from their visit. Community College, has brought through in each presentation. Thank her English class here for a class you for your continuing enthusiastic I posted a Twitter “tweet” of their visit, visit. These visits are always support of our work in developing and along with the photo, which elicited and writing. We hoped to have Franco memorable and provide us with sharing these foremost materials with thank you-notes from both Professors. Moretti join us for the annual meet- an opportunity to expose students the world. I wish you all the best for Michael Hancher wrote: “Thanks for ing, but his schedule was full for the from other institutions outside the this holiday season and for the the snapshot…and thanks especially remainder of the day and evening. I University to the history and treasures New Year! for the great Sherlock Holmes display don’t know if Dirda and Moretti have that are the Holmes Collections. I’m and tour of the vast archive. It contin- met before and can only imagine the grateful to Lynette for her continuing Tim Johnson, Curator ues to amaze, even on repeated visits. conversation that might occur be- interest and support in promoting the I appreciate your taking the time to tween these two fans of Conan Doyle. use of the Collections in an academic show it to us.” Franco Moretti, back at Perhaps we might arrange for such a setting. Last, but certainly not least, Stanford, wrote: “I also want to thank conversation in the future. was a recent visit by members of the you for that tour — for me, it was an University of Minnesota Women’s unexpected, arresting discovery. Conan More visits followed. Thanks to Julie Doyle’s handwriting! I’m still shaking McKuras’s connections in the world my head as I write this.” Because he of mystery writers, we enjoyed an was so taken with Doyle’s script, I afternoon with author Julie Kramer. My first-class volunteer, Lucy Brusic, second talk, “Canon/Archive: Towards replied with a note and links to all Kramer, (quoting from her website) has been hard at work processing an Articulation of the Modern Literary four digitized manuscript pages in is “a journalist turned novelist, [who] some of our archival materials. We’re Field” was of interest to me, especially our UMedia online archive. Professor writes a mystery series set in the making a strong push to eliminate after reading his article “The Slaughter- Moretti found the images “really strik- desperate world of television news—a most of our processing backlog, to house of ing.” It was a great visit. world she knows well from her career create electronic finding aids for this Literature” which featured an extended working as a freelance news producer material, and make these collections discussion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s On the same day of this visit we wel- for NBC and CBS, as well as running fully accessible to students, faculty, stories and Doyle’s literary success. comed Pulitzer Prize-winning author the WCCO-TV I-Team in Minneapolis, and other researchers. As collections Michael Dirda to our Friends annual where she won numerous national come “online” I’ll be posting a Twitter Professor Michael Hancher from meeting. It was a delight to have Mi- investigative awards.” Ms. Kramer “tweet” announcing availability of new the University’s English department chael with us once again, to deliver the was very interested in the workings material. I invite you to follow me on contacted me prior to the lectures, in- keynote address. Michael has been a of Andersen Library and the Sherlock Twitter @sherlockUMN (the account quiring if it might be possible to show presence at one of our triennial confer- Holmes Collections, especially as a used for the Holmes Collections) or Professor Moretti some highlights from ences and combined this most recent possible venue for a future book. my general Twitter handle the Collections and give him a tour of visit with another Twin Cities literary Following a stimulating and question- @UMBookworm. Andersen Library after his final lecture. event featuring Joyce Carol Oates and filled discussion in my office we Dirda in a conversation about literature

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6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 An Update from the Collections An Update from the Collections Continued from Page 6 hanks to Cheryll Fong’s I returned after the beginning of the I was excited at the opportunity and ventured into the caverns and Club. We have hosted the UMWC in fabulous work in my absence, Fall Semester, but news of my return readily agreed. I won’t go into details explored every nook and cranny the past and always look forward to I was able to come back to traveled quickly and before long a about the Moretti lecture except to say of the library. I hope that we their time in Andersen Library. After T work after my leave and number of events and classes began to that I was fascinated by the work gave Julie Kramer enough ideas their visit I received a note from their pick things up at a brisk pace, if not appear on the calendar. The first was they are doing at Stanford with their and information about how an leader, Rolaine Wright. “Thank you a sprint. I will admit to being a little an early October visit by Franco Moret- electronic literary archive. It combines archive and rare book deposi- very much for the comprehensive tour winded after those first weeks back ti, the Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell mathematics and literature in inno- tory works (without giving away and time you took informing and en- in late September. A sabbatical pace Professor in the Humanities at Stanford vative and interesting ways. Follow- too many secrets), and that tertaining our group. What a treasure is slightly different then the week-in, University. Professor Moretti was here ing the lecture we made our way to we’ll see Andersen Library (or a you are, just as the collections you week-out demands of the library. It to deliver two lectures cosponsored by Andersen Library and viewed items library very much like Andersen) introduced to us. We have much more took me a little while to get back into the University’s Institute for Advanced from the Collections, including one featured in a future adventure of respect for archiving. And our time “playing shape,” but now I’m near top Study and the Consortium for the piece that fascinated Professor Moretti: her character, TV reporter Riley with you went too quickly!” form. Study of the Premodern World. His a manuscript leaf from The Hound of Spartz. the Baskervilles. After our viewing we I thoroughly enjoy these opportunities traveled down into the caverns, ending Two other visits are worthy of to share the Collections with others. I up in the Collections vault. Profes- note. For a number of years our am passionate about what we do and sor Moretti is on the left, Professor friend Lynette Reini-Grandell, a how we care for the memory of the Hancher on the right, in the photo I faculty member at Normandale Master. I believe my passion comes snapped from their visit. Community College, has brought through in each presentation. Thank her English class here for a class you for your continuing enthusiastic I posted a Twitter “tweet” of their visit, visit. These visits are always support of our work in developing and along with the photo, which elicited and writing. We hoped to have Franco memorable and provide us with sharing these foremost materials with thank you-notes from both Professors. Moretti join us for the annual meet- an opportunity to expose students the world. I wish you all the best for Michael Hancher wrote: “Thanks for ing, but his schedule was full for the from other institutions outside the this holiday season and for the the snapshot…and thanks especially remainder of the day and evening. I University to the history and treasures New Year! for the great Sherlock Holmes display don’t know if Dirda and Moretti have that are the Holmes Collections. I’m and tour of the vast archive. It contin- met before and can only imagine the grateful to Lynette for her continuing Tim Johnson, Curator ues to amaze, even on repeated visits. conversation that might occur be- interest and support in promoting the I appreciate your taking the time to tween these two fans of Conan Doyle. use of the Collections in an academic show it to us.” Franco Moretti, back at Perhaps we might arrange for such a setting. Last, but certainly not least, Stanford, wrote: “I also want to thank conversation in the future. was a recent visit by members of the you for that tour — for me, it was an University of Minnesota Women’s unexpected, arresting discovery. Conan More visits followed. Thanks to Julie Doyle’s handwriting! I’m still shaking McKuras’s connections in the world my head as I write this.” Because he of mystery writers, we enjoyed an was so taken with Doyle’s script, I afternoon with author Julie Kramer. My first-class volunteer, Lucy Brusic, second talk, “Canon/Archive: Towards replied with a note and links to all Kramer, (quoting from her website) has been hard at work processing an Articulation of the Modern Literary four digitized manuscript pages in is “a journalist turned novelist, [who] some of our archival materials. We’re Field” was of interest to me, especially our UMedia online archive. Professor writes a mystery series set in the making a strong push to eliminate after reading his article “The Slaughter- Moretti found the images “really strik- desperate world of television news—a most of our processing backlog, to house of ing.” It was a great visit. world she knows well from her career create electronic finding aids for this Literature” which featured an extended working as a freelance news producer material, and make these collections discussion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s On the same day of this visit we wel- for NBC and CBS, as well as running fully accessible to students, faculty, stories and Doyle’s literary success. comed Pulitzer Prize-winning author the WCCO-TV I-Team in Minneapolis, and other researchers. As collections Michael Dirda to our Friends annual where she won numerous national come “online” I’ll be posting a Twitter Professor Michael Hancher from meeting. It was a delight to have Mi- investigative awards.” Ms. Kramer “tweet” announcing availability of new the University’s English department chael with us once again, to deliver the was very interested in the workings material. I invite you to follow me on contacted me prior to the lectures, in- keynote address. Michael has been a of Andersen Library and the Sherlock Twitter @sherlockUMN (the account quiring if it might be possible to show presence at one of our triennial confer- Holmes Collections, especially as a used for the Holmes Collections) or Professor Moretti some highlights from ences and combined this most recent possible venue for a future book. my general Twitter handle the Collections and give him a tour of visit with another Twin Cities literary Following a stimulating and question- @UMBookworm. Andersen Library after his final lecture. event featuring Joyce Carol Oates and filled discussion in my office we Dirda in a conversation about literature

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6 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 7 Echoes of Mr. Holmes Continued from Page 1 From the President Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest and standards and available for use. Now, the second floor of the Central Library. t the Friends of the Sherlock Honored for membership in the Siger- Mentor which appeared in the June its attendant staff. My account of this on my return, the archival collection The library collection is located on the Holmes Collections An- son Society included: Allen Mackler 2014 issue. earlier trip may be found in Volume 13, was almost completely processed, the same floor. Researchers are welcomed nual Membership Meeting (deceased), The Norwegian Explorers number 2 of the newsletter (“He Made finding aids and other descriptive infor- into a bright and attractive reading A we re-elected our officers and of Minnesota, John and Inez Bergquist, The keynote address, “On Conan a Journey Abroad”).ii Now it was time mation entered into the CALM database room with graphically designed walls board. Serving you for the next year The Hubbs Family, Mary McDiarmid, Doyle,” was delivered by Michael to reacquaint myself with Richard’s stel- collection management system. In addi- featuring a timeline of Sir Arthur Conan will be: President Dick Sveum, Vice Mike and Julie McKuras, Tim Johnson Dirda, BSI. Michael was able to enter- lar collection, renew friendships with tion, a prodigious amount of scanning Doyle’s life along with quotations and President John Bergquist, Secretary and Dick Sveum. The Sigerson Society tain us with his personal experience those who take such good care of the has taken place, with digital surrogates images illustrating his life and work. Mike Eckman and Treasurer Tim John- exists to support the E.W. McDiarmid reading Sherlock Holmes and urged Bequest, and meet new staff associated linked to their appropriate part in the Following a 2010 flood in the library, son. The Friends Board will include: Curatorship and can be joined by do- listeners to discover the rest of Conan with the collection. collection inventory. caused by vandals, the city council took Phil Bergem, Lucy Brusic, Julie McKu- nating a gift, pledge or bequest of ten Doyle. advantage of this unfortunate event to ras, Mike McKuras, Tim Reich, Ray thousand dollars or more. rethink how the damaged space might Riethmeier, Steve Stilwell and Gary Our membership grew with new be renovated to better use and highlight Thaden. Attending the Friends Board The Bryce Crawford, Jr. Award for Friends joining that night. Thanks one of its most valuable collections. meetings ex officio are Kris Kiesling the best article in the Friends of the again to all our Friends who contribute The result was this superb reading and Kathy McGill. Sherlock Holmes Collections News- to the Sherlock Holmes Collections room, office, and collection vaults. It letter was won in absentia by Mattias helping us preserve Sherlock Holmes was in the reading room that I enjoyed Boström, BSI for his article titled My and his world. many hours looking through collection inventories, digital image scans, and Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI reading manuscript material from Rich- ard’s collection. Michael and his team are to be congratulated on the magnifi- cent work they have done to make the Lancelyn Green Bequest accessible to an eager and grateful public. Musings Another key member of this team is e missed having Tim Phil Bergem provides us with the It was a pleasure to accompany Tim Claire Looney, who was instrumental around this summer, publishing background of The Valley of and Julie Kramer on Julie’s tour of in arranging my first visit and who although Cheryll Fong Fear in our 100 Years Ago column, and the Andersen Library. I’m a fan of her has been of such great assistance to W proved to be an able Dick Sveum covers the Annual Mem- books (http://www.juliekramerbooks. us. Claire is a senior manager with the stand-in for him. He’s written our lead bership Meeting of the Friends of the com) but I’d never had the opportunity Portsmouth City Council and took time article about his trip to the United Sherlock Holmes Collections. Our 100 to see the reporter side of her as she from her busy schedule to meet for a Kingdom as well as covering the vari- Years Ago column focuses on Dean and asked some great questions. As Tim My principal contact in Portsmouth is The Green/Doyle archives are housed in couple of hours during my visit. It was ety of activities that make up his days. Shirley Dickensheet and their Beaune said, we’re looking forward to seeing Michael Gunton, senior archivist at the secure, well-equipped storage rooms on a delight to see her again. During those Pressings. I fear a single article doesn’t how her tour ends up in a book. Portsmouth City Council and archivist do them justice so please remember, for the Lancelyn Green Bequest. In late it’s the season of forgiveness. Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI July I e-mailed Michael, alerting him to a possible visit in the fall. “Excel- lent to hear from you again,” Michael replied. “You are very welcome to visit us again…and [I] would be happy to show you the progress we have made since 2009.” Michael has been with Acquisitions the collection since the beginning and accomplished an astonishing amount im Alva donated “The Six Napo- Cliff Goldfarb added The Four Pillars of Among the newsletters received were of work over the last five years. On my leons of Baltimore,” which covers the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection. District Messenger, Prescott’s Press, Cam- first visit the archival collection was that scion’s history from den House Journal, Scuttlebutt from the housed on an upper floor of the Guild J 1946-2014. Derham Groves sent Sparks 4 with the Spermaceti Press, Ineffable Twaddle, The Hall, in a long and narrow room with article “Designing the Conan Doyle Passengers Log, and the Serpentine Muse. a small adjacent office and workspace Mystery Theatre. Not so Elementary.” for himself and army of volunteers. About forty percent of the collection was processed according to archival

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To add to the promotional build up for The Valley of fered by William B. Kahn, written meeting of the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes wasn’t their only Fear for the following week, September 13, ASM had for the Society for Peace” in 1914. . . . so they hocked everything they interest. Dean was a member of the a special cover drawn by M.C. Perley. The description Could it be the same person? owned in order to raise the money, and Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, on the contents page states that it was done to show Dean got his wish, wheelchair-bound “the world’s oldest continuously-active “this artist’s interpretation in the modern German I haven’t been much more successful and delighted . . . and then of course science-fiction and fantasy club” ac- poster effect of characters in ‘The Valley of Fear.’” The in learning anything about William stubbornly lived for decades.” He was cording to their web page. Peter Blau Collections has an original sheet of this special cover B. Kahn other than finding that he is the first of the Cormorants to attend wrote that it was Dean’s “suggestion affixed to a stiff card backing. listed as one of the Jewish artists in the a BSI dinner. His obituary in the Sep- to a friend that resulted in the Sher- United States in American Jewish Year tember 1983 issue of the Baker Street lockian issue of the magazine Naked The ASM built upon the Sherlockian content in Book 5667 (Sept. 20, 1906 through Journal, written by Robert H. Steele (C21669 in De Waal), and David Mc- several of the issues. On the contents page in each Sept. 8, 1907) as author of the pas- reads: Daniel’s The Dagger Affair (1965) (The of the September issues and the first two in October tiche. There is also a William B. Kahn Man from U.N.C.L.E. #4) was dedi- there were a few paragraphs where the appearance of who wrote to the New York Times in Dean Dickensheet, the beloved cated to them, and for good reason: the novel in ASM was highlighted, usually through 1901. “Brother Hargrave” of the Scowrers they are characters in the book, which mention of the high price paid to Conan Doyle for the and Molly Maguires of San Fran- includes an atmospheric description of rights to print it, discussion of exciting plot points or The pastiche apparently appealed to cisco, died on 15 March, 1983. He their home.” JM Stine, on her web page emphasizing how well it was written and illustrated. the Dickensheets. Dean (1930-1983) was a kind and gentle man who about the Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, The editor of the ASM was certainly working to get and Shirley Davis (1934-2008) “were loved books, and his talents and wrote “The dedication is: ‘To Dean and their money’s worth out of it. both delightful people and well-suited enthusiasm made him one of our Shirley Dickensheet, Technological Ad- for each other” according to Peter finest Sherlockian scholars. Dean visors on the Hierarchy.’ Dean Dicken- By coincidence the October 18th issue also has two Blau. Ray de Groat and Marsha Pollak’s was a highly respected librarian sheet was a wonderfully crotchety old stanzas from “My Wife,” the poem by Robert Louis March 2008 Baker Street Journal “Stand and a successful editor of antholo- genius, a gentleman of the old school, Stevenson that contains the line “steel-true and blade- With Me Here Upon the Terrace” and gies, an avid collector and author a Sherlockian scholar, an expert on straight.” This line was used as Conan Doyle’s epitaph Jon Lellenberg’s Irregular Crises of the of many learned Sherlockian pa- more subjects than I can remember, on his grave marker. (The poem is incorrectly labeled Late ’Forties provides the reader with pers, and as our resident authority foremost among them San Francisco. “To My Wife,” which is a different Stevenson poem.) some information about Dean and he provided the final rulings in all He was one of Dave’s mentors, [Ed. Shirley and should be referenced to Sherlockian disputes in the Bay Note: Dave is David McDaniel] and ap- Images of a number of ASM covers can be found at learn more. They met at UCLA and Area. We will miss his counsel pears in his UNCLE books as THRUSH http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/associated- while there, Dean met Don Harden- and advice, and we will also higher-up, Ward Baldwin. His wife sunday-magazine. Several of these are from issues that brook of The Trained Cormorants, sorely miss his clever toasts, which Shirley, a formidable individual in her contained Sir Nigel, The Lost World and The Valley of becoming one of their most active always ended with the immortal own right, appears as Irene Baldwin.” Fear. members and editing their newslet- “Confusion to the Pinkertons!” Scan by Phil Bergem, courtesy of The Sherlock Holmes Collections Scan by Phil Bergem, "The Valley of Fear" in The Sunday Magazine Sept. 13, 1914 ter The Cormorants Ring. Shirley and In the same folder as the Sunday magazines there is Dean both worked at Douglas Aircraft Jon Lellenberg reports that “Dean As the Dickensheets printed their something else of relevance. This is a set of eleven in southern California in the ’50s. Ray Dickensheet was a very good friend of Beaune Pressings to extend the Com- photographic (or possibly Photostat) sheets from the and Marsha wrote “The Canon was the …Bill Blackbeard, who more than any- pliments of the Seasons, perhaps it’s original manuscript of The Valley of Fear. The eleven basis for long conversations leading one else in America preserved comic the time of year to sit down with a sheets comprise the entirety of Part II Chapter IV of to their marriage in 1956. Honey- books as an historic art/literary form. glass of Beaune and remember these the book. There is no indication of who acquired mooning in San Francisco, they met Dean urged him to write the mag- two unique Sherlockians. these manuscript photos but, as the full manuscript Anthony Boucher and Poul and Karen nificent book on Sherlock Holmes il- is in a private collection and has not been reprinted, Anderson at the Scowrers and Molly lustration that became Sherlock Holmes Julie McKuras, ASH, BSI this is an opportunity to view a part of Conan Doyle’s Maguires meetings.” They moved to in America… and Dean wrote the writing process at the moment of creation. the Bay area in 1961, and it was then foreword to it (‘The American Profile of that they bought their small press. Sherlock Holmes’).” These are a small sample of the wonderful treasures in the Sherlock Holmes Collections held in trust for Dean received his investiture of Vam- Shirley received her shilling and us all at the Elmer L. Andersen Library. Given the 100 berry, the Wine Merchant in 1956. investiture of Ivy Douglas in 1993. year anniversary of the appearance of The Valley of Peter Blau, who always knows a good Marsha Pollak described her as “one Fear, this topic has been interesting to research and story when he hears one, wrote “way feisty woman.” Their press produced a highlight. back in the 1950s, when Dean was di- number of items of Sherlockian inter- Phil Bergem, BSI agnosed with terminal cancer, Shirley est, including An ‘Undiscerning Critic’ asked him what his most fervent wish Discerned, On the Nomenclature of the was, and he said to attend an annual Brothers Moriarty, and Holmes Meets 007.

4 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 9 Echoes of Mr. Holmes Continued from Page 8 showed me a number of posters and I stayed at the Red Mullions, “a grand Beaune Press. And he asked me Scott Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Willa other materials designed for outreach mix,” Nick commented, “of The Red to design the Beaune Press logo, Cather, Maxwell Anderson, S.S. Van activities in the community. It is excit- Circle and The Three Gables.” Before which would be a combined Dine, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Ham- ing to see what Portsmouth is doing to my arrival, Nick had one final ques- printing and wine press. I was liv- mett, Sinclair Lewis, James Joyce, Ezra promote the collection. tion: would I “like the Holmesian tour, ing in an Army barracks in Geor- Pound, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Aldous or the main Oxford tour?” I told him 50 gia at the time (mid-1960s), and Huxley ,and Eugene O’Neill and in During my hours in the reading room I I preferred the former, if it might also YEARS AGO had only regular paper, a technical 1906, H.L. Mencken as editor. also had the chance to see Kate Brom- mix in a little C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, fountain pen, and a small drawing bley. Over the summer Kate visited and Inspector Morse. board of acrylic sheet. But I did a Kahn’s The Adventure of Oilock Combs the Minnesota collections and worked In 1964 the late Dean and Shirley large drawing of my logo design tells the tale of the newly divorced closely with Cheryll Fong. I had the I had all of a day with Nick, and we Dickensheet printed a small booklet and sent it to him, and he had Dr. Spotson visiting his old friend chance to meet Kate at a late-summer made the most of it. With a card which reproduced a pastiche titled it made into a small block that Oilock Combs at his Fakir Street flat. dinner party hosted by that most hospi- indicating his University affiliation “An Adventure of Oilock Combs.” The would print it an inch high. Combs, free of his morphine addiction, table of Sherlockians, Julie McKuras. By (University College), we were able to Holmes Collections holds number is drinking soda water and playing the time of my visit, Kate had returned get past the porters into a number of 73 of “the 222 copies numbered 1 to The first product, “Vintage No. 1 of the harmonica. Although Spotson is to Portsmouth and was busy working places not often seen by tourists. Nick 221B.” It included a comment at the BEAUNE PRESSINGS,” was the afore- unhappy with Combs for obtaining on her PhD at Portsmouth University. offered me an impressive list of venues end of the pamphlet: mentioned pastiche “An Adventure divorce proceeding evidence for Mrs. Her reading and focus is on Sir Arthur and colleges during our romp through Spotson, the two revert to their for- and fandom. the city. Among the colleges we visited: This acidulous but knowledge- mer roles when they are interrupted University, Merton, Christ Church, able satirical pastiche was orig- by Ysabelle, Duchess of Swabia, who My time in Portsmouth went by much Trinity, St. John’s, and Magdalen. Other inally published as “More proclaims “I AM LOST!” Combs too quickly. I am thankful to Michael, venues seen or visited included the Adventures of Oilock solves her dilemma by going outside Claire, Laura, and Kate for making my Boyle-Hooke House, University Church Combs; The Succored and looking at the house numbers. visit so enjoyable. I look forward to of St. Mary the Virgin, Dead Man’s Beauty” in the October, He later reacts contemptuously when reading Kate’s dissertation and to future Walk, Christ Church Cathedral, Rad- 1905 issue of The Smart he finds his reward is only two hun- opportunities and activities between cliffe Camera, Bodleian Library, Divinity Set Magazine. Research has dred pounds. Acidulous indeed. the Portsmouth and Minnesota School, Sheldonian Theatre, Edmund shown this title to be rhe- collections. Halley House, Blackwell’s Bookshop, torical, but has uncovered So who was the up and com- and the Oxford Union (including its little concerning the item’s ing author of “An Adventure of “Why, Morton or Johnson, the Oxford fli- library). The Holmesian highlight of author, William B. Kahn. Oilock Combs?” Bill Peschel, on ers, could romp round him.” (MISS) the tour was viewing the bust by artist This reprinting, believed his webpage http://planetpeschel. Arthur Pollen of Monsignor Ronald to be the first, constitutes com/2014/04/succored-beau- The next stop on my adventure took Knox outside the library at Trinity Vintage No. 1 of Beaune ty-223b-casebook/ wrote that me a couple of hours north by train College. Scholars may long debate Pressings, and is intended to the venerable city of Oxford. While when the “Great Game” of Sherlockian to extend Compliments of Little is known of William B. I share a last name with one of the scholarship began, but whatever the the Season to the friends Kahn, and therein lies a mystery, “fliers,” I am neither from Oxford nor final outcome I’ll admit to being a fan of Dean & Shirley Dicken- because his sole contribution, Photo by Julie McKuras much of a romper. Besides, it was of Father Knox. sheet and Vamberry’s Ltd. published in The Smart Set maga- twenty-three years since my last visit. "An Adventure of Oilock Combs" printed by the Beaune Press zine’s October issue, has earned a So, for this leg of the trip I needed Fueled by an afternoon stop and con- We don’t know if “it was the place in the pastiche canon. It was local expertise. I found it in our donor versation at the Turf Tavern, and with Beaune” that influenced Dean and republished in a limited edition in hours with her, I shared what we have and friend Nicholas Utechin. For some Lewis and Morse demands met by stops Shirley when naming their press or the of Oilock Combs.” During the period 1964 by the Beaune Press, again been up to in Minnesota, heard her time Nick has been involved with The at Merton and Magdalen colleges, the fact that Dean’s investiture, presented Smart Set was published (1900-1930) in “The Game is Afoot” anthol- perspective and update on the develop- Sherlock Holmes Society of London Eagle and Child pub, and the Morse to him in 1956, was “Vamberry, the it featured many of America’s best ogy, and was praised in LeRoy Lad ment of the Portsmouth collection, and and edited The Sherlock Holmes Journal Bar at the Randolph Hotel, we bussed Wine Merchant.” Artist Don Simpson known writers. Subtitled “The Maga- Panek’s “The Origins of the Ameri- discussed possible future collaborative from 1976 to 2006. In anticipation of back to suburban Headington for din- notes on his website that zine of Cleverness,” it was known for can Detective Story” as being one activities. Along the way I was also my visit, I contacted Nick about a pos- ner, more conversation, and a delight- presenting new authors to their large of the first to recognize how many introduced to Laura Weston, project sible rendezvous, and a date was set. ful evening at the Utechin home. My …when Sherlockian scholar Dean audience of New York’s most promi- Holmes stories involved marital officer for their Heritage Lottery-Fund- Nick picked me up at the train station, thanks to Nick and Annie for a memo- Dickensheet bought a very small nent citizens, with a standard format problems. Research revealed the ed project “Sharing Sherlock.” Laura took me to my lodging, and together rable time and to Nick for his generous printing press to publish booklets which combined a short play, a nov- existence of a William Bonn Kahn we bussed back into the city for a tour. gifts to the Collections. and other such items related to elette, poems and other clever pieces. (1882-1971) who wrote “The Holmes, he named his endeavor Contributors included O. Henry, F. Avoidance of War, a Suggestion of- Continued on page 11 Continued on page 9

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This earlier completion dreamsWith no ormy assets possible own save and collaborations. sighs EB’s and translation tears, I YEARS100 AGO during World War I. He served asand a Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a suggest that it was written to/for With no assets save sighs and tears, 100 and Jerome K. Jerome, to name but a YEARS AGO 100 advertising exposure. Both the ASM also allowed an earlier publication of suggest that it was written to/for I came’Tis then, homethink just with then,stems new thatfrom ideas in the there and fact stalks that delegate to the Conference of the few of the contributors. Page 20 fea- Lady Jean. ’Tis then, just then, that in there stalks The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections YEARSYEARS AGO AGOand Every Weekdelegate fell tovictim the Conference to paper of the the book fewedition. of the The contributors. American Pageedi- 20 fea- Lady Jean. The hero,they watchful belong of to her different needs, ages. As The Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections InternationalInternational Association Association of Journalists of Journaliststures the poemtures the “By poem the North “By the Sea” North by Sea” by projectsThe to hero, contemplate watchful of and her aneeds, deep is ais quarterly a quarterly newsletter newsletter published published by by the the The March 2008The issue March of 2008 this newslet-issue of this newslet-shortages during World War I and had tion from George H. Doran Company He talks!He youtalks! Great may Great heavens, know, heavens, Danishhow how he talkswashe talks for Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections September 1914 was a period of tur- at Berlin in 1908,at Berlin and in later1908, as and later as Sir ArthurSir Conan Arthur Doyle. Conan It Doyle.is a short It is a short Also, the fact that they were expect- appreciation for our partners in other Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections ter featuredAmong an terthe article featuredforeign about translationsan Thearticle Flag about ,of The The Flagceased, publication by mid-1918.Caption: The 1902was first released edition hasin theFebruary 1915, while Also, the fact that they were expect- But weBut forgivecenturies we forgive him, the him, for official hisfor deeds.his deeds.written lan- whichwhich seek seek to topromote promote the the activities, activities, inter- inter- President ofPresident the British of Internationalthe British Internationalpoem, andpoem, there and is a therefacsimile is a facsimile of the of the organizations. Friendships are impor- ests and needs of the Special Collections publishedmoil andHound change,in of1908,published the Baskervillesin which Europe in 1908,benefitted and from whichelse John- benefitted Paget illustration while the second does not. ing theiring first their child first maychild have may have guage of Norway, and although ests and needs of the Special Collections Society of Journalists during 1915. He lastin England stanza as the written Smith, by Elder Conan & Co.Doyle. edi- tant; deepening those bonds even more andand Rare Rare Books Books Department, Department, University University of of where.Bennett World Shaw’s War I, collections,declared a monththe one Society of Journalists during 1915. He last stanza as written by Conan Doyle. influencedinfluenced Doyle’s Doyle’s decision decision to con- to con- Life isLife theNorwegian is drama the drama here in here to-day1911 to-day had begun the Union Jackthe Club. Union One Jack of Club.the One of theThe SherlockDon Hobbs’ Holmes The Galactic Collections Sherlock tionme did by not the appear first translator,until June 1915.who called so. Representing the Collections to our MinnesotaMinnesota Libraries. Libraries. earlier,that was was intensifying published with100 yearsmore agoand has passed awaypassed on December away on 25,December 1920. 25, 1920. tributetribute to The to Press The BookPress inBook thein the And DeathAndsplitting Death the villainthe away, villain of the the of influencetheplot. plot. entries in The entriesFlag was in SirThe Arthur Flag was Sir Arthurhas originalHolmes bibliographymagazines of ofnine foreign of the lan - Herthe cheek story Herwas Hunden cheekwet with was fra North wetBaskervilles. with Sea North spray, ThisSea spray, from Danish was still strong. It’s MailMail editorial editorial correspondence correspondence c/o: c/o: more specialbattles significance.and death. September According to De first place.first place.Being Beinga father a father himself, himself, I’m I’mfriends,It is aIt realistic donors,is a realistic play; and play; professional col- Conan Doyle’sConan “The GreyDoyle’s Dress “The – Grey Dress –Catling’sten issuesguage name containing editionsCatling’s also appearsofname Thethe ValleyalsoCanon in appearscon- of has nine in con- TheWe titleASM walked is preceded established;We where walked tide the where and toappearance the shingle tide eye and it meet, comesshingleof meet, Scan courtesy of the University of Minnesota Libraries a complicated story but actually also sawWaal the it deathwas a of2nd the edition, last passen with- the sure hesure could he couldeasily easilyempathize empathize with with leaguesShall Shallit here end it wellandend wellorabroad shall or shall itis notan it notimpor- Unpublished DialogueUnpublished from Dialogue ‘A Duet.’” from ‘A Duet.’”junctionFear,books with with thejunctionlisted The Pittsburgh as Savage translationswith SundayThe Club Savage of byPost Elisa Club- of TheThe closeValley long to ofwavesThe the Fear longoriginal; rolled with waves fromtwo and rolled promofar it awaysoundsfrom- far away Norwegian on the printed page is EditorEditor first published in 1902. NotedHound the fatherless children which would tantThe part hero?The of hero? Oh,our Oh,thework. hero’sthe Ihero’s am part continuallypart Julie McKuras ger pigeon, once numerous and now London.beth Founded BrochmannLondon. in Founded 1857, and includes the in mem-1857, scanned the mem- To right.purr in It To ripplesis purralso atinmisleading, ourripples feet. at our because feet. it the11 fatherlessyears old atchildren the time, which which would makes as different from Ibsen’s time to the Julie McKuras collector Dr. Donald Pollack has both being the source. A photocopy of the tional issues. The first, from September thankfulIs vacant—toIs vacant—to to our be Friends played be played byacross you.by you. the 1351213512 Granada Granada Ave. Ave. extinct, at theThe Cincinnati following Zoo, year, and in 1909,the The Presscovers.bers come from the worlds of art, hints thatAnd Baskerville as we walked is ait placeseemed rather to me benefitit 1952benefit from or ’53. the from I thinksale the of saleit the was of volume. giventhe volume. present as Shakespeare is from pres- The followingin his collection. year, in 1909, The Press bersSeptember come from 27th the ASM worlds from ofThe art, Sunday 6 Andand asnot we in walked the Collections it seemed to(but me it can ThenThen act it act well! it well! An orphan’s An orphan’s heart heart AppleApple Valley, Valley, MN MN 55124 55124 than a family.That three But, old for friends the three had metexcel that- day: to me by friends of my parents who worldent day for English.their continued At the same support, time I did Albumselectionwas of published PopeAlbum Benedictwas to aidpublished XV the at the to aid the drama, law, drama,literature, law, music literature, or sci- music or sci- That three old friends had met that day: May beat the lighter if you do. 952-431-1934952-431-1934 MagazineThis searchof the Philadelphia led to the online Press WorldCat be viewedlent reasons onThe microfilm old mentioned, old sky, ofthe The I olddecided New old sea, not knew Finally,about my Doyle interest wrote in a detective poem about wisegoMay forwords, beat a “conservative” the encouragement, lighter if you style, do. interest, hoping [email protected] Vatican.C3542. In the Journalists’— Sherlockian A1456. HundenOrphan world fraFund, there Basker and - asence. he Formerence. members Former have members included have includedThe old old sky, the old old sea, Finally, Doyle wrote a poem about [email protected] Journalists’ Orphan Fund, and as he standswhich in to lists complete eleven thebooks set. byThe A. Col Conan- Yorkto Tribune changeAnd in it.” thelove, newspaper which is as libraryold as they. stories.orphans Anyway, which it was was a revelation. published in andit wouldhospitality. read toI appreciate modern day the Norwe Librar-- was theville: start En hadofny thefortælling done serialization the om previous Sherlock of Theyear, Conan notables such as Charlie Chaplin, And love, which is as old as they. Theorphans next morning which was I was published off to Lon in- Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board had done the previous year, Conan notablesDoyle such translated as Charlie in NorwegianChaplin, by When I wrote to Nils Nordberg for an I’ve still got it, title page missing and Christy Allen and Julie McKuras Editorial Board lections also has original issues of The at Wilson Library, the main collec- Songs of the Road, just a few pages ies’gian willingness readers as to Conan provide Doyle leave reads time to John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, ValleyHolmes of Fear. .DoyleAutoriseret In England stepped oversættelse it forwardappeared with ved a contri- Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, James donSongs for of a thevery Road short, just stay a beforefew pages going John Bergquist, Timothy Johnson, Doyle stepped forward with a contri- MarkBoston ElisabethTwain, Sunday Wilkie Brochmann.Post Sunday Collins, MagazineAlso James online is tionupdate at the UniversityOuthe surprised seaward of hung meMinnesota), bythe writing:brooding mist, slightly the worse for wear, yet one of English-speaking readers of today. Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. Elisabethbution. Brochmann. The book, Kristiania: edited by Thomas McNeill Whistler, Sir Alexander Out seaward hung the brooding mist, after “By the North Sea.” It was for thisReferences: trip. Likewise, I am thankful to Jon Lellenberg, Richard J. Sveum, M.D. in nine issues of The Strand Magazine McNeillNasjonalbiblioteket Whistler, Sir Alexander (National Library ElisabethWe Brochmann’s saw it rolling, translationfold on fold, of northaftermy dearestto“By York the possessions. andNorth an Sea.”antiquarian But It was very book few References:http://www.scoop- bution.Forlagt The book, af H. editedAschehoug by Thomas & Co. (W. from October 11th and 18th. containedWe saw it anrolling, article fold by on Filson fold, Young called “The Orphanage” and is repro-the University’s Global Programs and from SeptemberCatling 1914 and until published May 1915. by John Murray,of Norway),Fleming, which W. S.had Gilbert, Elisabeth Sir Henry HOUN Andwas markedactually the first great published Sun Alchemist seminar.calledof the “Thestories While Orphanage” werein London available and I visited in is myrepro- own http://www.scoop-Sincedatabase.com/bio/catling_thomas 1971 my translation of HOUN CatlingNygaard), and published 1902. 263by John p. Murray, Fleming, W. S. Gilbert, Sir Henry titledAnd “Sirmarked Arthur the greatConan Sun Doyle.” Alchemist The duced below. database.com/bio/catling_thomashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Club In America thehas novel an introductory was serialized note in which gives BrochmannIrving, dates Dante listed Rossetti, as 1855-1915 Dylan Thomas, 1902, alsoTurn by all Aschehoug. its leaden edge The to interestgold. theducedlanguage London below. then, Library so I(compliments had to wait until of I Strategyhas been Alliance reprinted for fundingover a dozen a portion times has an—————. introductory 2ndnote ed. which 1911. gives 246 p. Irving,The ASM Dante was Rossetti, understandably Dylan Thomas, proud articleTurn allwas its a leaden glowing edge review to gold. of Conan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Clubhttp://www.savageclub.com/ the history of the Fund. It began in along withHerbert some Beerbohm books and Tree, letters. Edgar in the newLook Holmes well, look adventure well, oh ladyseems mine! to a familylearned relation) English andto pursue found mya number interest http://www.savageclub.com/ofby this various journey. publishers, It was a goodby Aschehoug trip that thethe history AssociatedI became of the Sunday aware Fund. ofMagazine translatorIt began (ASM) in Elisabeth Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Edgar Look well, look well, oh lady mine! Copyright © 2006 “1892 with a gift of £1,000 by theof latepresentingW allacea new and Sherlock Peter Ustinov. Holmes It is cur-Doylehave as abeen manThe as greyand great below, author. here the asThis gold in England! issueabove; in Holmes.I wonder, perhaps, if he was think- willand bear Norild fruit as now well and as Gyldendal,in the future. and University ofCopyright Minnesota © Library 2006 from BrochmannSeptember 20 in until2004 Novemberwhen I acquired ofI workswonder, by perhaps, Doyle on if the he shelves.was think- One CopyrightCopyright ©2014 © 2011 “1892 with a gift of £1,000 by the late WnovelallaceTo to meand their the Peter readers. most Ustinov. famous The Itmagazine Norwegian is cur- alsoThe Thehad grey 1911a below,colorFor edition so photographthe the goldgreyest was above; one life of inmay Conan a seriesshine ing of the Orphan’s Fund when he I’ve also read it as an audio book. It UniversityCopyright © of 2012 Minnesota Library lot 93 ofLord The GleneskConan Doyle and £500 Collec by- the late Sir rently located at 1 Whitehall Place, of the more recent titles was Michael Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Lord22, 1914,Glenesk ten and issues £500 in total.by the The late ASM Sir rentlytranslator located at of 1 the Whitehall Canon is Place, Nils Nor- Forof so books the Allgreyest published golden life in may thein thatshinelight format,of love. half ingAs EB’sof thewrote HOUN Orphan’s this? was moreFund or when less myhe 1 was included in the first ever collected Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. tion auctionJohn atWillox…Working Christie’s. Included pressmen had an introductoryLondon and paragraph their website on the indicates Doyle it on the cover and a center spread http://www.continuum.umn.edu/2014/11/ The University of Minnesota is an Equal was no stranger to Conan Doyle’s dberg, BSI (“A Norwegian Named Alloctavo, golden within the green light ofcovers love. and dust- Dirda’swrotefavourite Onthis? Conanboyhood Doyle reading. There I tend were to no be John Willox…Workingin the lotthroughout were seven pressmen the letters country and commenced two Londoncontents and page“remains their of several website one of indicates the leadingweekly it Bohemianof drawings of characters from several sabbatical-musings/Sherlock Holmes edition in Norwegian, The OpportunityUniversity of Educator Minnesota and is Employer. an Equal works. In 1905/06 they had serialized Sigerson” 1981). In 1995 he wrote jacket.The It (andPress indeedAlbum added all the over three £1000 to signsuncritical, of Lomax but butI think a number it was forof otherits time which I edited and part-translated Opportunity Educator and Employer. throughoutpostcards thecontributions, countryby ACD commencedto Madame and in the Broch same- year“remainsappearances oneGentleman’s thatof the highlighted leading Clubs Bohemian elementsin London.” of Conan Doyle’s books and stories. “Holmes by Any Other The Press Album editionsadded over of EB’s £1000 transla to - an excellent translation, less error-ridden 2 http://www.lib.umn.edu/pdf/holmes/v13n2.pdf Sir Nigelmann and discussing 1912 saw rights the appear to stories- and Gentleman’s Clubs in London.” the Institute of Journalists Orphan sub-librarians were active among the (wanted to do all but didn’t have contributions,the and first in theorphan same was year adopted.” Theof theName: story Translatingand the fact the that Arthur The cover photographtion) had was the taken Sidney Paget and less inclined to take liberties than ance ofpamphlets. The Lost WorldACD .was ASM eager had toalso have the InstituteFund. of Journalists Orphan stacks. time), published in 10 volumes by Den the first orphanreader was isadopted.” assured thatThe “Every pennyConanSherlock DoyleIn had1882,Holmes been the Stories,” paidPrince a largeof Wales, laterby Arnold Gentheillustration (1869-1942), of the ahound contemporary Swedish or Danish trans- printedThe two War of in Conan South Africa:Doyle’s Its stories, Cause and Fund. Norske Bokklubben (“The Norwegian reader is assuredcontributed that “Every to the penny Fund, from itsInsum 1882, publishedfor it.the TheyEdward Prince in chose Sherlock VII,of Wales, Arthurbecame later Ignatius an honorary prominent German-Americanbreaking out of photog the fog- on lations. It’s a long time since I’ve re-read Conduct translated into all languages Christy Allen, who contributes fre- Book Club”) in 1980. The tenth volume Aschehoug in EB’s time was Doyle’s “The Contest” and “The Iconoclast,” in EdwardHolmes: VII,member becameThe Detective of an the honorary &Club. He enjoyed the the dust jacket. The series it but it is my impression Continuedthat EB was from Page 4 contributedand wrote tobeginning the a prefaceFund, seventeen fromfor the its Norwegian years ago, hasKeller (1866–1924), a prominent illus- Christyrapher whoAllen,quently was who anto contributesearlythe ConanDoyle adopter fre- of (ACD)the list Musings... was a collection of pastiches and essays. main Norwegian publisher, but unfor- 1911 but acquiring the rights to a full memberThe ofCollector, theatmosphere Club. Essays He and onenjoyed suggestedthe the that a was called H. Aschehoug especially good at maintaining the poetic beginningedition. seventeen beenBrochmann devoted years must ago,to the hashave keep had and a educa-trator of the time, to provide pictures Autochromeon the Lumière Internet, color is interestedphotog- in Conan Musings...Continued from Page In4 the 1990s all ten volumes were re- tunately they didn’t follow it up—there Sherlock Holmes novel was a definite John Bennettmasonic Shaw lodge Library. would be a good addi-quently to the ConanDoyle& Co.s Kronebibliotek (ACD) list (“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, been devotedclose relationship tionto the of keepthe withorphans…Avoiding and ACD educa- and his anyatmospherefor the tale. andBy 1914 suggested Keller that had a pro- raphy process. [Ed. Note: According printed wholesale by a short-lived pub- were no translations of VALL or The In that essay he explained on the Internet,Doyle’s Krone ispoetry. interested Library”, She wrote: in Conanmean- 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: coup.family, butexpenditure there is nothing on bricks about and hermortar, masonic the lodgetion would to the befacilities. a good On addi- December 3, never the same for Francine; she stuffedlisher rat called now LibriArte. adorn the I’ve Collections. done minor readersCase-book, and other and only interested four of parties, the stories tion of the orphans…Avoiding any videdabout drawings the challenges for approximately of 150 Doyle’sto Jon Lellenberg,poetry. Sheing Genthe wrote:that the was price a close was one them almost 60 years ago. in any ofprinciple the Conan laid Doyle down biographies. was that of savingtion to the facilities.1886, Catling On December wrote to the 3, Grand I’ve tried to do some research about missedof sharing all, she their missed interests his companionship. and most Ourrevisions forthanks writing to go the toabout textPeter hisover Blau, friends the not years, Wayne only but andinGeorgina Histhis Last issue Doyle, Bow features were author publishedtwo of of Out those: of in the expenditure on bricks and mortar, the bookstranslating and over SH600 in periodical the issues, friend of ChristopherNorwegian Morley, krone, working slightly The AssociatedACD visited Sunday Norway Magazine in June 1892 with Secretary of United Grand Lodge, the poem proper and how/why it of all, sheAnd missed when she his passedcompanionship. away, their fora writingmajorand Francine one about for butanotherhis friendsalso Bokklubbenfor Waynehelping with GeorginaNorway,Shadows: Doyle,in The a book Untold author called Story of Spioncen Outof Arthur of the- principle laid thedown child was to that its home of saving and its home1886,including to changing Catling Life, wrote NorwegianCollier’s, to the Harper’s lan Grand- Weekly withI’ve him tried on to Walt doless some Whitman than research $10 in inCamden today’sabout, 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 friends had the same reaction as people completethe packing edition, and in mailing two volumes, of the many, in tralen,Conan 1919. Doyle’s I’ve First been Family very, read fortunate, Dick was a supplementthe child.” made available to Secretaryguage, of includingUnited Grand titles: Lodge, the poem propermoney). and how/whyI’ve got some it of Andactually when shepublished passed for away, the theirfirst time in and Francine but also for helping with Shadows: The Untold Story of Arthur the childamong to its others. home and its home to and The Ladies’ Home Journal, although 1938. He was a member of The Three had when George Burns died; his pass- 2002.many The boxes. most recent reprint is in a bothSveum’s in Gyldendal article from that December they wanted 2008 to various newspapers throughout the enclosing antioners,” “imposing proposing group thatof peti- a new lodgewas written,empty. butthe havetitles, come including up Dr friends1971. had In 1966the same I had reaction been in as a TVpeople quiz the packing and mailing of the many, Conan Doyle’s First Family, read Dick the child.” this was his only contribution to the Hours for Lunch Club and the Grill- ing meant that he was together with 2011 Bokklubben volume Sherlock givewith Holmes a careful his eye due and place has incorrected a prestige a United States.Thomas The first Catling of the editedAssoci The- Press “Anotherbe foundedexample forof the approximately Watson’s optegnelser (“The hadshow, when winning George 10,000Burns died;kroner his for pass- my many boxes. Sveum’s article from December 2008 A Google search revealed a 1902 letter tioners,”Sherlockian proposing world. thatThe aillustrations new lodge parzerempty. Sittenpolizei Verein, serving Holmes Mysterier i utvalg (“Selected series of modern and 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 Thomasated Sundaywritten Catling Magazines by editedSamuel was L. Clemens distributed (Mark be founded for the approximately ing meant that he was together with Mysteries”), containing STUD, HOUN withstories a careful and bringing eye and him has back corrected into a The Press by Kellertranslation areMasons. admirable, of the On title January but of heThe 18,has Hounds 1887, of The as the1918. president Apartalmost infrom certainly 1931.] a missing The written photo ABBE when this Jean ered quite the local Sherlock Holmes look at Leaves from The Copper Beeches, to the Collections last year, continues with fourTwain) newspapers toworked Brochmann for on Lloyd’s December noting Weekly that Newsshe , 25%as a of the membership who were What I did learn was that it was Gracie again. Johnand Bergquist The Adventures—all has provided translated us with a date.print, Soren and inEversoll, Den norske an honored Bokklubben visitor Album. Born September 23, 1838, he not receivedthe BaskervillesSavage the recognition Club. Several Lodge problems of was other consecrated exist was at istaken a reprint earlierwas ofpregnant inthe 1914 same with while title Denis publishedConan (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, 6, 1903.had By translated 1914compositor, the into magazine Norwegianwriter, wasnews his editor from lookby atyours Leaves truly. from If you’reThe Copper interested, Beeches, I’ll tofor the deciding Collections to do last the year, first continuesever com- worked for Lloyd’s Weekly News, as a Masons.Sherlockianhere. On For Januaryillustrators instance 18, no such1887, single as The Sidney word in Doylealmostin was1905, certainly on containing tour writtenin North the when lastAmerica. seven Jean 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 be happy to send you a copy for your plete edition and giving me a free rein distributed with thirteen newspapers SavageNorwegian Club Lodge suggests was consecrated a large, possibly at wasstories pregnant from withThe ReturnDenis (whoof SH. was Broch- Francinepaperback Morris mystery Swift, series ever thecalled librari- “The and its interesting authors and editors, his interest in Sherlock Holmes, compositor,reled Detective writer,1884 throughnews Story. editor The 1907. Lilly from The Library Scoop Paget, Fredericwas investedDorr Steele as Treasurer. or even There isThe no two centermonth pages before contained The Press draw Book- was collection to The Sherlock Holmes collection.thank Christy And toAllen complete for providing the story: I to present Sherlock Holmes as I think for a combined weekly print run of Freemasons’ferocious Hall and and deadly, Sir Henry canine; Irving hund bornmann’s in March HOUN of was1909, re-published just one by the an,Black planned Series” to donate (inspired her by Sherlockian the French published 50 years ago. I’d like to according to a note sent by his mother. 1866 throughManuscript 1884, Collection then editor has 15from letters to Frank Wiles,longer the Britisha formal illustrator connection of betweenings of “characterspublished). from the books of Collections. Sadly, her death in alsoinformation adapted and about translated Conan Doyle’sa Swedish poet- heSo should it’s business be. as usual at The 1,400,000. AmongDatabase, the subscriptionnewspapers biographical means any dog, big or small. And what same house a last time in 1941. collection“La Série to Noire”) The Sherlock and asked Holmes me to do thank Christy Allen for providing 1884 throughher (1900-1917) 1907. The from Scoop English authors wasThe investedValley ofthe Fear.as LodgeTreasurer. The and ASM theThere series Club. is had no Sirmonth Arthur before Conan The Doyle.” Press BookThesewas were October 2007 meant her collection, radiory as dramatisation featured in our of the100 book Years and Ago Sherlock Holmes Collections, for dictionary of British and Irish journal-about “…of the Baskervilles.” If liter- a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories. Database,usingincluding the subscriptionservice F. wereAnstey biographicalthe (one Minneapolis of the 24 longer a formal connection between published).According to Doyle’s own correspon- Collections.which Sadly,she amassed her death with in her beloved informationproducedcolumn. it aboutDick as a Sveumsix-partConan updates Doyle’sserial in uspoet- 1977. on the SoSowhich it’s the business 1911 we are second asall usualthankful. edition at The was what ists from the period of 1800 – 1950,elevenally illustrations translated intoby Keller my language as well the drawnI can by certainly Joseph Clement tell you thatColl Broch(1881-- There had then been no Holmes books Journalauthors, the Sunday along withStar (Washington,ACD of The Fate of the Lodge andAfter the his Club. retirement from Lloyd’s OctoberW ayne,2007 wasmeant ready her to collection, move to ry Ias sometimesstatus featured of the inthink driveour that 100 for my theYears main E.W. 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bottle of Courvoisier plus one fifth of the history of the scion mentioned earlier, The physical book is an interesting F New Jersey cognac, with the note: ‘Tell Thomas Hart reports that a publication artifact in itself, featuring quarter bind- the bartender to serve the Courvoisier fund was established as early as 1952 ing with textured morocco-colored first. Then by the time the Sons get to (with the princely sum of $4.00.) Hart, as endpapers of the same stock as the the New Jersey cognac, they may not treasurer of the Publication Committee, covers. spot the difference’” (250). Today, goes on to apologize to the membership Lellenberg says of Starr, “I’m convinced for “his many exhortations for funds, and Leaves from The Copper Beeches was fol- Sherlock Holmes that Julian Wolff [who took over leader- many stern admonitions against failure, lowed up by a second volume, More ship of the Baker Street Irregulars under made at meetings” over the years. Leaves from The Copper Beeches, in COLLECTIONS the title “Commissionaire” after Smith’s 1976. The Sons are still flourishing as untimely death in 1960] would have an active scion society; perhaps some- “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) retired as Commissionaire sooner than he day we will be able to look forward to did if Bill Starr had not died at a some- a third volume. what early age in 1976 and had been Contents around in the early ’80s to take over.” John Bergquist, BSI Francine and Wayne Swift By Peter E. Blau, ASH, BSI Leaves from The Copper Beeches was par- Francine and Wayne Swift tially financed by contributions from Illustration by H.W. Starr, captioned “The appeal t has been said that marriages between two Sherlockians are the most permanent. members of the Sons, who are listed in for the Publication Fund,” printed in Jon 1 Many Sherlockians have found it easy enough to persuade a spouse to enjoy the Lellenberg’s Irregular Crises of the Late ’Forties the acknowledgments. In his memoir of Sherlockian world, but when two people who already are Sherlockians marry they (New York, 1999) 100 Years Ago I will sooner or later merge their collections, as well as their lives. And there is no custody battle, whether over the car, the house, the pets, or the children, that can possi- 2 bly match the difficulty of dividing a collection that has no duplicates.

Remembrances 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 In supporting the Sherlock Holmes Collections, many donors have made 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 contributions either in honor or in memory of special persons. 8 Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections 1 In Honor Of From The Nashville Scholars Donna and Billy Fields of the Three Pipe Problem Richard Kitts Alexian Gregory Sherlock Holmes Owen Laukkanen Julie and Mike McKuras COLLECTIONS Julie McKuras Bill Vande Water Patrick B. Shaw Mary Flo Hatcher “Your merits should be publicly recognized” (STUD) Gary Thaden Tom and Maria Gottwalt Bob and Terry Thomalen Francine and Richard Kitts Contents Echoes of Mr. Holmes by Tim Johnson In Memory Of From

Dr. Marvin Aronson Dr. Michael Kean Echoes of Mr. Holmes s you may have read elsewhere, I was absent from the office and Collections 1 for twelve weeks this past summer on a professional development leave. It Nathan Bengis Andrew Fusco was a productive and reenergizing time, one that I’ve recently reflected on in Vinnie Brosnan Joe Eckrich the University’s Archives and Special Collections departmental blog, “Primary Ai Sourcery.” Vinnie Brosnan Robert Hess 100 Years Ago James Duval Ralph Hall 2 Perhaps unknown to many of you was what awaited me at the end of this leave: a two week working trip to the United Kingdom. The trip was originally planned for last Richard Lancelyn Green Andrew Malec spring, but due to a number of factors had to be postponed until the autumn. So, a few Fred Levin Sonia Levin 50 Years Ago days after my leave ended, and just after the Labor Day holiday, I boarded a plane for London. My journey took me to the Cotswolds, into Herefordshire and along the Welsh E.W. McDiarmid Julie and Mike McKuras 3 border, south to the coast and Portsmouth, north to Oxford, east to London, and a final Joseph Moran Susan and Ben Vizoskie roundtrip to York. Along the way, I had the distinct feeling of following in the footsteps of Mr. Holmes. Dorothy Belle Pollack Susan Diamond and Allan Devitt From the President Donald Redmond Cliff Goldfarb “Therefore they gave you a handsome advance on your salary, and ran you off to the Midlands, 5 where they gave you enough work to do to prevent your going to London…” (STOC) Jan Stauber Alexian Gregory P. Christian Steinbrunner Russell Merritt The first part of my trip was unrelated to Mr. Holmes, although there were certainly Musings echoes of his adventures. I landed in the small village of Whittington to investigate an Jerry Wachs Jerry Margolin 5 archive of one of the most significant letterpress printers in the twentieth century and to For any inquiries contact: secure it for the university. “From within came the clanking of the printing-press.” (VALL) Timothy J. Johnson, Curator For the next four days I sifted through papers while enjoying the press’s annual summer 612-624-3552 or show, a village fete, tours in and around an Elizabethan manor house, and a stay at the [email protected] Acquisitions proprietor’s home near the Malvern Hills. While at the proprietor’s Herefordshire home (still identified as a farm), I stayed in an older section of the house. “I should judge it was Sherlock Holmes Collections 5 Suite 111, Elmer L. Andersen Library of all sorts of ages and styles, starting on a half-timbered Elizabethan foundation and end- University of Minnesota ing in a Victorian portico.” (BLAN) All of this was prelude to my true Holmesian adven- 222 21st Ave. S. An Update from ture on the south coast and in an ancient center of learning. Minneapolis, MN 55455 the Collections Telephone: 612-626-9166 “I was despatched, accordingly, in the troopship Orontes, and landed a month later on FAX: 612-625-5525 7 Portsmouth Jetty…” (STUD)

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