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We love the idea of keeping the memory of Sherlock Holmes alive every day. Our <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose181" target="_blank">most recent interview</a> was with Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani, editors of <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2sp90Xh" target="_blank">The Daily Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, which takes the idea to the extreme.<br />
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<i><a href="http://strandmag.com/" target="_blank">The Strand Magazine</a></i> has another approach — one they've been taking for a number of years now: the <b>Sherlock Holmes Calendar</b>.<br />
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The <a href="https://strandmag.com/product/sherlock-holmes-calendar-2020/" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Calendar 2020</a> goes beyond traditional Sherlock Holmes calendars we've seen previously, that have all Paget or Steele illustrations, or all purely dedicated to Basil Rathbone films or to the Granada series with Jeremy Brett.<br />
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The Strand notes that the Sherlock Holmes Calendar is consistently their bestselling item, largely due to never using the same illustrations from year to year.<br />
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This year, they have a treat in store for fans of the art of Sidney Paget, famous for first bringing Holmes to life for the original <i>Strand Magazine</i>. By the kind permission of several collectors, they have included the original paintings that Paget supplied to the Strand — in full color.<br />
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In addition to the Pagets, there is art by Jeffrey McKeever including his painting “Sherlock Holmes on the Prowl for Gift” and three other paintings that were commissioned by the Strand featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Also included are paintings by our friend Australian illustrator Phil Cornell who created a tribute to "The Dancing Men," and “Sherlock on Trains.”<br />
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Also interspersed you'll find a number of actors who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the screen.<br />
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Put this together with quotes, trivia, and significant dates, and you've got a calendar that no Sherlockian should be without for 2020.<br />
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The <a href="https://strandmag.com/product/sherlock-holmes-calendar-2020/" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Calendar 2020</a> is a Strand Magazine exclusive, in full color, 11"×17" on glossy paper. It's printed on heavy card stock and is coil-bound so it will open smoothly and will last as collector’s item for many years to come. Limited to 300 copies.<br />
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<b>Price:</b> $24.95<br />
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Available at: <a href="https://strandmag.com/product/sherlock-holmes-calendar-2020/">https://strandmag.com/product/sherlock-holmes-calendar-2020/</a><br />
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While you're there, you may want to check out the entire <a href="https://strandmag.com/product-category/sherlocks-shop/221b-baker-street-collection/" target="_blank">221B Baker Street Collection</a> of gifts on the Strand site. There's literally something for everyone.<br />
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The Dr. John H. Watson Fund and the #BSIWeekend

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Invitations to the <a href="http://bsiweekend.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars Weekend</a> in New York have been sent, and the public website was just updated.<br />
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Whenever folks get their invitations, there's usually a sense of surprise, relief and even trepidation. Yes, trepidation. For some people, attending the Weekend is a difficult and onerous task.<br />
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Some simply don't like to be around crowds, or perhaps detest the (often) harsh weather of New York in January. Others boycott for personal reasons. But there are some who simply can't afford the price of the accumulated events and the travel required to get there.<br />
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<b>The John H. Watson Fund</b></h2>
In the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s under Tom Stix, Jr.'s ("The Norwood Builder") term as Wiggins of <a href="http://bakerstreetirregulars.com/" target="_blank">the Baker Street Irregulars</a>, Tom created the <b>Dr. John H. Watson Fund</b>, a financial assistance package for the BSI Weekend, and credited it as his most proud achievement of leading the BSI.<br />
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The Dr. John H. Watson Fund offers financial assistance to all Sherlockians (membership in the BSI is <u>not</u> required) who might otherwise not be able to participate in the weekend's festivities. A carefully pseudonymous John H. Watson presides over the fund and welcomes contributions, which can be made by check payable to John H. Watson and sent (without return address on the envelope) to <b>Dr. Watson, c/o The Baker Street Irregulars, at 7938 Mill Stream Circle, Indianapolis, IN 46278</b>; your letters are forwarded unopened, and Dr. Watson will acknowledge your generosity. </blockquote>
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It is a wonderful resource that enables more people to enjoy one of the most important aspects of our hobby: spending time in the company of like-minded people. And while there are plenty of opportunities around the world to do this on a local level, the BSI Weekend happens just once a year and celebrates a long-standing tradition (85 years!) that was started by Christopher Morley.</div>
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Each year, the Fund is self-liquidating, meaning that assistance is granted to whatever extent is possible to the supplicants, and that generous Sherlockians are responsible for replenishing it every year. Traditionally this was done through simple check-writing, but then the BSI Cocktail Reception added <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsi-weekend/" target="_blank">an auction and drawing</a>, which also raise money for the Fund. Raffle tickets are sold throughout the weekend for some choice items and Peter Blau, BSI ("Black Peter") holds forth as an auctioneer nonpareil.<br />
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Requests for assistance should be emailed <b>immediately </b>to <a href="mailto:pw101968@aol.com">pw101968@aol.com</a><span id="goog_1324064147"></span><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1324064148"></span> to ensure timely processing.<br />
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The request for assistance <b>deadline </b>is <b>December 13, 2019</b>.<br />
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The #BSIWeekend Site Is Updated

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There you'll find all of the information related to the Weekend, from the schedule of events to resources and reservation forms, as well as a neatly summarized section with a single page to print out.</span><br />
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<li>If you're sharing this on social media, please use the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BSIWeekend&src=typd" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">#BSIWeekend</a>. This makes it easier to follow the topic (despite <i>who</i> you're following), makes photos easier to find, and increases the chances of creating a trending topic that could get media attention.</li>
<li>This year, accommodations are only at the <b>Roosevelt Hotel</b>, which is also the site of the <b>Distinguished Speaker Lecture</b> for the first time.</li>
<li>If you have any suggestions for people attending for the first time, <b>please email us or leave a comment below</b>; we'll be posting our annual <a href="http://ihose.co/bsi2019tips" rel="nofollow" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">tips for getting the most out of the BSI Weekend</a> next week, and it would be great to include yours.</li>
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And don't miss <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose74" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;">Episode 74</a> of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose74" rel="nofollow" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">recapping the 2015 BSI Weekend</a>:</div>
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Announcing The Conan Doyle Review

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We've received news from Ashley Polasek (whom you may recall from <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose177" target="_blank">Episode 177: Being Sherlock)</a> that she is launching a new publication: <i>The Conan Doyle Review</i>.<br />
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You might be asking, "Is this necessary?" Well, hold that thought for a moment. A quick word about where we are.<br />
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As you're probably aware, there is the <a href="http://www.acdfriends.org/" target="_blank">Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a>, a group specifically focused on the support of said collection at the Toronto Public Library.<br />
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Separately, <b>The Arthur Conan Doyle Society</b> was established by Christopher Roden, BSI ("Sir Henry Baskerville") and Barbara Roden, BSI ("Beryl Stapleton"), but is now defunct. From the late 1980s through the late 1990s, they published <i>The Parish Magazine</i>, the newsletter of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society and <i>ACD: The Journal of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society</i>.<br />
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But for 20 years, there has been nothing in terms of a dedicated place for scholarship about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br />
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Certainly the Sherlockian and Doylean communities do not lack for publications, in terms of the traditional (journals, books, and newsletters) and the new (online outlets to discuss publications past an present).<br />
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Dr. Polasek raises an excellent point about the scholarship that's doing nothing in the night-time:<br />
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Today, Polasek announced the launch of <i>The Conan Doyle R</i><i>eview</i>. She'll be serving as Founding Editor-in-Chief. <b>Dr. Kate Brombley</b> will be the Senior Associate Editor and <b>Mary Alcaro</b> is the Associate Editor.<br />
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The editorial board is growing and the team will be working through the winter and spring to set up its peer-review management system, promote the journal’s mission, advertise, and raise funds.<br />
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The expectation is that they'll begin accepting submissions from independent scholars in the summer and will publish the first issue in the spring of 2021.<br />
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Meanwhile, you can find them on Twitter as <a href="http://twitter.com/acdreview" target="_blank">@ACDReview</a> and on <a href="http://facebook.com/acdreview" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and questions can be directed to editor@acdreview.org.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary – One Is the Loneliest Number

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When we think of Sherlock Holmes, there are two visions that come to mind: one is with the trusty and stalwart Dr. Watson by his side; the other is sitting alone in his Baker Street flat, smoking and thinking through a knotty problem.<br />
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Throughout much of his career, Holmes had Watson along as a trusted companion and biographer. Only occasionally did Watson leave for married life and his medical practice – but even then, Holmes would summon him to join a case ("Come at once if convenient – if inconvenient, come all the same." [CREE]).<br />
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The last three words in particular note how deeply it affected him.<br />
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The dates in those two stories mentioned above (BLAN, CREE) are of particular interest. Holmes's disappointment in Watson's absence in "The Blanched Soldier" is self-reported as January 1903. It must have been a fairly fresh wound, with Watson getting married (a second time?) in late 1902.<br />
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In <i><a href="https://amzn.to/33CIuqj" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street</a></i>, William S. Baring-Gould dates it as October 1902. (He also claims it was Watson's <i>third</i> marriage.)<br />
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But when we get to "The Creeping Man," Watson – and the internal dates that help Holmes pinpoint the nighttime activity – indicate that this case occurred in September 1903. By that time, Holmes had gotten over his disappointment and was rather curt with Watson, perhaps indicating that he was done with the self-pity and simply and unemotionally requested his comrade along for the adventure.<br />
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Whatever happened in those ensuing months, we can only hazard a guess. Meanwhile, the boys of Baker Street Elementary are grappling with the pangs of loneliness...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary – One Is the Loneliest Number

“a creeping, shrinking sensation” [CHAS] When we think of Sherlock Holmes, there are two visions that come to mind: one is with th...

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Episode 181: The Daily Sherlock Holmes

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<b>Levi Stahl</b> and <b>Stacey Shintani</b> are the authors of <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2sp90Xh" target="_blank">The Daily Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Quote from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective</a></i>, published by the University of Chicago Press. In actuality, the quotes are from across the entirety of the publicly-available Sherlock Holmes stories, with the exception of the handful of stories from <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> not yet out of copyright.<br />
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With 378 quotes (that's one for each day of the year, plus an introductory quote for each month), how does one chose the appropriate quotes for an entire daily devotional? What patterns did Levi and Stacey discover? What Easter eggs await?<br />
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Our conversation traces their fascinating journey from shared reading experiences to individual research, reveals a delightful process and an enticing spreadsheet resulting in a book that can be enjoyed by the newest Sherlock Holmes fan to the most erudite scholar.<br />
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Episode 181: The Daily Sherlock Holmes

“well acquainted with his daily routine” [RESI] When we named our show I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, it was an acknowledgmen...

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Baker Street Elementary – Knowledge of British Law

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Sherlock Holmes and the legal profession are no strangers. Indeed, Holmes himself understood the law; recall Watson's list "<i>Sherlock Holmes</i>—his limits" in which Watson wrote that Holmes had "a good practical knowledge of British law."<br />
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The Sherlockian world is no stranger to legal wranglings, going back to the Conan Doyle sons Denis and his hothead brother Adrian (to whom the head of the BSI at the time referred as "Adrenaline"), who contested the positioning of their father as the Literary Agent by the tongue-in-cheek Irregulars.<br />
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And Sherlockians are fortunate to have a number of legal minds within the ranks of the Irregulars who can lend themselves to judicial-Sherlockian matters, including the likes of Leslie S. Klinger, Albert Rosenblatt, Andrew Peck, Betsy Rosenblatt, and many more. In fact, you can see the application of some of their work in <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2018/12/28/canon-law/">Canon Law</a></i> by the BSI Press.<br />
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New Book from the BSI Press: Aboriginals

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<b>"all the principal members" [FINA]</b></h4>
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At the "<a href="http://bsiarchivelilly.org/">Building an Archive</a>" conference that celebrated the opening of the <a href="http://bsitrust.org/">BSI Archive</a>'s new home, the Baker Street Irregulars Press announced <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/11/11/aboriginals/">a new book</a>.<br />
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"Once upon a time, a man invited a group of his friends to join him for lunch and conversation about his favorite literary figure. Eighty-five years later, the Baker Street Irregulars continues, and the group of friends who have attended its Dinners or joined its ranks numbers in the thousands. Who was that man, and who were those friends?"</blockquote>
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<i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/11/11/aboriginals/">"Aboriginals": The Earliest Baker Street Irregulars, 1934-1940</a></i> by Harrison and Linda Hunt is the first book of its kind by the BSI Press: a collection of short biographies about the men and women who were associated with the BSI from its earliest days.<br />
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"Women?" we hear you asking? Yes, a number of women correctly answered the famous <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2006/08/may-be-mere-intellectual-puzzle-to-you_28.html#.XdAyvVdKjb0">crossword puzzle</a> that was something of an entrance exam to the BSI in its formative year. <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose89">Women were finally recognized as members in 1991</a>.<br />
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According to the Baker Street Irregulars website:<br />
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"This book presents capsule biographies and photographs of the earliest, “aboriginal,” Irregulars, — many of them remarkably accomplished individuals — including heretofore obscure solvers of the crossword puzzle that conferred membership to a fortunate few."</blockquote>
Harrison (Terry) and Linda have created sections that recognize the different levels of involvement of these individuals over time: <b>The Stalwarts</b>, <b>Dinner Attendees</b>, <b>The Irregular Irregulars</b>, and <b>Crossword Puzzle Solvers</b>.<br />
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Reading through these summaries of their lives brings a number of surprises (at least to this writer).<br />
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"...it is clear from the life-stories told here that the Irregulars and their guests have always been an eclectic bunch...Some came to the Dinner out of intense interest in the subject matter; others came solely out of friendship, while a few never attended at all. Though some may be famous, I promise you all are fascinating."</div>
— From the Foreword by Leslie S. Klinger, General Editor, Biography Series</blockquote>
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If you're interested in the personalities that laid the groundwork for the Sherlockian movement, this is an essential book to have. It's just <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/11/11/aboriginals/">$24.95 from the BSI Press</a>. Tell them IHOSE sent you.<br />
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<b>Related:</b><br />
Our recap of the event, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose180">Episode 180: Live from the Lilly Library</a>.<br />
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