I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 225: Evidence Boxes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I’ll show you a grim little bit of evidence” [RETI] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbXu2wOUVAaLtKmrUVhS991AYw1LWugmw9xeJHWvG3uus3ru7CpV4jfjQkwxRE6sRlR-2YDi1tjrTg7gLGe_aZLwoDZ5WNwOG033KBDlcMQ0DTb0hpXYh7pSCUulutloQyQdU4Af9CWW0g/s1200/Evidence+Box+contents.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbXu2wOUVAaLtKmrUVhS991AYw1LWugmw9xeJHWvG3uus3ru7CpV4jfjQkwxRE6sRlR-2YDi1tjrTg7gLGe_aZLwoDZ5WNwOG033KBDlcMQ0DTb0hpXYh7pSCUulutloQyQdU4Af9CWW0g/w640-h480/Evidence+Box+contents.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>Paul Churchill, BSI (“Corot”) delighted in recreating evidence boxes for each Sherlock Holmes story. After his death in 2008, Deborah Clark became their steward.</p><p>Regular attendees of Watson's Tin Box see evidence boxes at every monthly meeting, but we wanted to give you a peek inside as well. Debbie sat down with us to detail what these evidence boxes are, how Paul created them, and what makes them so special. </p><p>The contents inside them (and outside of some of them) are astounding in their reality and detail, bringing the Sherlock Holmes stories to life in a unique way. We have posted <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/56803056" target="_blank">photos of some of the contents</a>.</p><p>And of course, we have another <b>Canonical Couplet</b> to challenge your acuity. If you are chosen as a winner, you'll get <i>The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook</i> by Peter Haining. 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Episode 225: Evidence Boxes

“I’ll show you a grim little bit of evidence” [RETI] Paul Churchill, BSI (“Corot”) delighted in recreating evidence boxes for each Sherlock...

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by Scott Monty

Thinking About Money in the Sherlock Holmes Stories

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"certain arguments, metallic or otherwise" [COPP] </h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6C5ev3dNz-qw1SgMzQV71RnfPB66-N0e6IzMJDnzs-nKJTdwd9KHaMhdv88S-k8YJpXRiTrrqPJvCB3w1vll4JtPZctpEzVa_s-fXw3LMd6rmSfbz_RqDcUv6UnnbWuxhcaBXxKwcpPa0/s640/French+Gold+in+The+Red-Headed+League.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6C5ev3dNz-qw1SgMzQV71RnfPB66-N0e6IzMJDnzs-nKJTdwd9KHaMhdv88S-k8YJpXRiTrrqPJvCB3w1vll4JtPZctpEzVa_s-fXw3LMd6rmSfbz_RqDcUv6UnnbWuxhcaBXxKwcpPa0/w640-h480/French+Gold+in+The+Red-Headed+League.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image credit: <a href="https://youtu.be/PTtiR9j-IQw" target="_blank">YouTube</a></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Money figures in most of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and the reader misses some of the point without a reliable answer to the question, "How much is that really?" For North American readers, more specifically: what would the equivalent be in today's US dollars?   <br /><br /><div>How lavish was that £6,000 cheque from the Duke of Holdernesse?   <br /><br />How pricy was that 8d glass of sherry? (Here we get into the messy calculations: twelve pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound, so a pound would buy a round of sherry for 30 people at an expensive hotel.)  <br /><br />How "nicely" could Mary Sutherland get along on the annual income of £100 from her trust fund?  <br /><br /><br /> The obvious way to address this kind of question is a comparison of canonical sums with today's prices, such as the $18 rock bottom price for a glass of port (sherry doesn't seem to be available) at the Palm Court at New York's Plaza Hotel. </div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, no single multiplier seems to work, especially for the luckless researcher who tries to take into account incomes (Mycroft Holmes's "four hundred and fifty pounds a year") as well as prices. It does appear that salaries were low in the Victorian era— but one must remember that hardly anybody paid income tax, and that there were no iPhones, cable packages, sushi or gym memberships to gobble up a modest middle-class income.  <br /><br /> Three or four decades ago, I used that sort of hand-waving calculation to proclaim that £1 in Sherlock Holmes's era had the purchasing power of $100 in modern times. That made the Baker Street Irregulars' daily shilling the equivalent of a $5 bill. </div><div><br /></div><div>Later, as prices kept rising, I amended my rule of thumb to say that the pound was worth $120 ("<a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2018/01/canonical-currency-in-present-day-terms.html#.YVH_u5pKjb0" target="_blank">Canonical Currency in Present-Day Terms</a>"), at the unfortunate cost of complicated mental arithmetic when the subject was, say, Watson's wound pension of eleven shillings and sixpence a day. That would work out to (brings calculator into play) $2,070 a month, not generous but unfortunately plausible.  <br /><br /> Other enthusiasts have done the calculation in other ways, such as converting the 11/6 (or the Duke's £6,000, as the case may be) to US dollars at the traditional rate of $5 to £1, and inflating the result by the 125-year inflation factor of about 3,000 per cent. </div><div><br /></div><div>Alternatively, one could calculate inflation first and transatlantic currency exchange afterwards (the pound is worth about $1.40 US these days). The calculation is a simple one, as Sherlock Holmes mendaciously said in "Silver Blaze."</div><div><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">A Value Proposition</h3> Recently, however, it struck me that there's another way to look at the matter. After all, the pound, the basic unit of British currency, is tied firmly to the value of precious metals in two different ways.   <br /><br /> First of all, it's the pound sterling. If you go back far enough £1 was the negotiable value of a "Troy pound" (373 grams) of silver. </div><div><br /></div><div>And second, it was in Victorian times almost entirely represented by a gold coin, a "sovereign", that wasn't just worth a pound, it literally was a pound. A sovereign, according to several trustworthy books of reference, contained 123.27 grains, or 7.98 grams, of gold (see also "<a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/04/the-curious-incident-of-guinea-coin.html#.YVIAt5pKjb0" target="_blank">The Curious Incident of the Guinea Coin</a>").<br /><br /><br /> The prices of precious metals are volatile these days, to say the least. Over the past two years (which include the COVID-19 era and its severe threats to the world economy), silver has sold for as little as 37 cents per gram, as much as 94 cents. In 2020-21, the wildness has moderated a little, and the average price has been about 80 cents a gram. Multiply the weight by the price, and you'll find that a pound of silver should cost about $298 US.  <br /><br /> Similar calculations work with gold, though Neil Gibson, the Gold King, would be glad to know that the swings are not as extreme. </div><div><br /></div><div>The price per gram has been about $56 a gram over the past two years, in a range from about $47 to $67. Multiply that $56 by the sovereign's weight of just under 8 grams, and you get $447 US as the value of the gold that Irene Adler gave Sherlock Holmes at her wedding.  <br /><br /> Why aren't these numbers the same? Well, that's the effect of "the bimetallic question", that international economic conundrum on which Mycroft Holmes was available to be consulted. </div><div><br /></div><div>But either of the figures, $298 or $447, is a plausible candidate for the "real" value of an 1895 pound in today's American money. Which shines a whole new light on the "seven pounds thirteen" found on the body of Enoch Drebber, Mrs. Maberley's £5,000 trip around the world, and even the 55 shillings (just short of three pounds) that Holmes paid for his Stradivarius. </div><div><br /></div><div>More than you'd think, more than you'd think.    </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Editor's note</i></b>: Also see "<a href="https://fourthgarrideb.com/2019/04/09/the-bimetallic-question-in-the-valley-of-fear/" target="_blank">The Bimetallic Question in The Valley of Fear,</a>" via The Fourth Garrideb</div><div><br /></div><div>Further listening:</div><div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/610626000&color=%23ce1a21&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/old-money" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Old Money">Old Money</a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /></div>

Thinking About Money in the Sherlock Holmes Stories

"certain arguments, metallic or otherwise" [COPP] Image credit: YouTube Money figures in most of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and...

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by Chris Redmond

Baker Street Elementary – Secret Ingredient

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“he could see a great deal that was hidden from me</span>” [STUD]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbaWlBf0uIsfP4n4yIefDhQNczzXiiXRw3pXYboWTeyLPN-yDgIJR3x4343QUuwVB0nLf9cXXV_9LW54vUOZDKsXxh8wL7SbkJEYAGo5aYyRmBR5n-K0Ti0D2biPNKzg3hBhw4806SuRW/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbaWlBf0uIsfP4n4yIefDhQNczzXiiXRw3pXYboWTeyLPN-yDgIJR3x4343QUuwVB0nLf9cXXV_9LW54vUOZDKsXxh8wL7SbkJEYAGo5aYyRmBR5n-K0Ti0D2biPNKzg3hBhw4806SuRW/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>When he created Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle knew immediately that he needed to show how the sausage was made. Or perhaps, given his background, how the haggis was made.</div><div><br /></div><div>He didn't create the genre of detective fiction, but he did popularize it. Greats such as Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins preceded him, but Doyle wasn't particularly fond of their heroes' abilities, as told by the authors.</div><div><br /></div><div>In <a href="https://youtu.be/tUjUZ-ASJeI" target="_blank">a 1929 movie reel</a>, he expressed his initial dissatisfaction:</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><div>Well, first of all, about the Sherlock Holmes stories. They came about in this way: I was quite a young doctor at the time and I had a course of scientific training, and I used to occasionally to read detective stories, it often annoyed me how in the old-fashioned detective story the detective always seemed to get at his results either by some sort of lucky chance or fluke, or else it was quite unexplained how he got there. He got there but he never gave an explanation to how. Now that didn't seem to me quite playing the game. It seemed to me that he's bound to give his reasons why he came to his conclusions.</div></blockquote><div><br /></div></div><div>So, he set out on a different path. A path that was not only possible but plausible, thanks to Dr. Joseph Bell, a professor at Edinburgh University, who taught Conan Doyle:</div><div><br /></div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>But when I began thinking about this, I began to think of turning scientific methods, as it were, onto the work of detection. And I used, as a student to have an old professor his name was Bell, who was extraordinarily quick at deductive work. He would look at the patient, he would hardly allow the patient to open his mouth but he would make his diagnosis of the disease, and also very often of the patient's nationality and occupation and other points, entirely by his power of observation. So naturally I thought to myself, "well if a scientific man like Bell was to come into the detective business, he wouldn't do these things by chance, he'd get the thing by building it up, scientifically."</div><div><br /></div><div>So, having once conceived that line of thought, you can well imagine that I had as it were, a new idea of the detective and one which it interested me to work out. I thought of a hundred little dodges, as you may say, a hundred little touches by which he could build up his conclusions and then I began to write stories on those lines.</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tUjUZ-ASJeI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In "The Red-Headed League," Sherlock Holmes said "‘<i>Omne ignotum pro magnifico</i>,’ you know," which means everything unknown is perceived as grand. Holmes was protective of his reputation and his wizard-like powers that constantly astounded clients, the official police, and even Watson himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, in his storytelling, Doyle managed to demystify the mysteries and place Holmes on the same level as we mere mortals at the same time elevating him to a hero worthy of our admiration.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe haggis isn't so bad after all.<br /><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, at Baker Street Elementary, it's time for some mystery meat...</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSyktFDd5CC7xVh8ZwVR38BEihQLR35BpjQu1Hjn__9E8YoqmzcRF6cBQWgP8qlU8mP9ta7JDYJp0OZt3vqkc0JzqhYopU_oUDWXLTUQG0UI6Afc1l6LR6ryc7RZec8zlyiabpdYve-ut/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSyktFDd5CC7xVh8ZwVR38BEihQLR35BpjQu1Hjn__9E8YoqmzcRF6cBQWgP8qlU8mP9ta7JDYJp0OZt3vqkc0JzqhYopU_oUDWXLTUQG0UI6Afc1l6LR6ryc7RZec8zlyiabpdYve-ut/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsE33dgRNUZFibIt8hNDzfWrdrCl01PrLyMSXIXe0uCxSnkB0DwLIP65a7KVwpopGsnq6FUpvmRqJAe6m6wh4LWHZwG9OXKiQK5tSZDPVqfvX8QCDy7W6ZeyBTGkZ4_qGcMJQAWNOlv9F-/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsE33dgRNUZFibIt8hNDzfWrdrCl01PrLyMSXIXe0uCxSnkB0DwLIP65a7KVwpopGsnq6FUpvmRqJAe6m6wh4LWHZwG9OXKiQK5tSZDPVqfvX8QCDy7W6ZeyBTGkZ4_qGcMJQAWNOlv9F-/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9y9doj1B-Ck3DxE9TiYMqDS1xHhq5sYalS-heFEKIqkRo6wINM_SgX_zIwvl79BTfdH_uvwg-RWS3pA4tA-lWYcWM68NFQGfG9maLfKDqrFVp06GH20r-xnMFUW65_MxFS7zVQ1PQIvhn/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9y9doj1B-Ck3DxE9TiYMqDS1xHhq5sYalS-heFEKIqkRo6wINM_SgX_zIwvl79BTfdH_uvwg-RWS3pA4tA-lWYcWM68NFQGfG9maLfKDqrFVp06GH20r-xnMFUW65_MxFS7zVQ1PQIvhn/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+115.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div><div><br /><br /></div></div></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Secret Ingredient

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New Enola Holmes Book Out Now

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"the young woman came to the door" [SECO] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsrD6imllDCgZIxj2T7FymxktmbP85ssY2OGmIE_iTWWZNPGTOjCHN2BD-ktbQOIEazHQ5fVDIYrCiE-25HoHsrdpGyoAErg13c4ePwtHGW7_wCw8vexGsHCW3PRtc2Vt8kpFEzV0leKlA/s1681/Enola+Holmes+Black+Barouche+-+landscape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1681" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsrD6imllDCgZIxj2T7FymxktmbP85ssY2OGmIE_iTWWZNPGTOjCHN2BD-ktbQOIEazHQ5fVDIYrCiE-25HoHsrdpGyoAErg13c4ePwtHGW7_wCw8vexGsHCW3PRtc2Vt8kpFEzV0leKlA/w640-h408/Enola+Holmes+Black+Barouche+-+landscape.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Out now is <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3AgEVY2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche</a></i>, a new installment in the young adult novel series by <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose200" target="_blank">Nancy Springer</a>. </p><p>The previous six books were published between 2006 and 2010. Inspired by the recent successful Netflix film, this latest volume provides Sherlock and Mycroft's younger sister, now fifteen years old, with a new adventure. As the publisher describes it, </p><p></p><blockquote><p>When a young professional woman, Miss Letitia Glover, shows up on Sherlock's doorstep, desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister, it is Enola who steps up. It seems her sister, the former Felicity Glover, married the Earl of Dunhench and per a curt note from the Earl, has died. But Letitia Glover is convinced this isn't the truth, that she'd know--she'd feel--if her twin had died.</p><p>The Earl's note is suspiciously vague and the death certificate is even more dubious, signed it seems by a John H. Watson, M.D. (who denies any knowledge of such). The only way forward is for Enola to go undercover--or so Enola decides at the vehement objection of her brother. And she soon finds out that this is not the first of the Earl's wives to die suddenly and vaguely--and that the secret to the fate of the missing Felicity is tied to a mysterious black barouche that arrived at the Earl's home in the middle of the night. To uncover the secrets held tightly within the Earl's hall, Enola is going to require help--from Sherlock, from the twin sister of the missing woman, and from an old friend, the young Viscount Tewkesbury, Marquess of Basilwether!</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">To find out more, you can <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9781250822956">read the first chapter</a> online or check the <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250822956">publisher's website</a>. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">And of course, you don't want to miss the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose200" target="_blank">interview with Nancy Springer</a>:</p><p style="text-align: left;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/893856502&color=ef1625" width="100%"></iframe></p><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="ihearofsherlock">ihearofsherlock</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/enola-holmes" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Enola Holmes">Enola Holmes</a></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div>--<div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><p></p><script type="text/javascript">
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by Johanna Draper Carlson

Episode 224: The Shaw 100

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a ramble through the Ragged Shaw” [PRIO] </h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIZgNHjX8a6w_dd0wBvdzXmPZuSAOAvWSfGfWnLhGOE7vz6fFj0_MOE_FI1EqFeBrSRwrDAUBczOKhWUXF2TOHwnAjf3CmqXYlUT1Kj8pR9lYz-sK64cuQJCIVcOuOMM5gCYRRNA2TSKIY/s2048/JBS_Hudson+Valley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1546" data-original-width="2048" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIZgNHjX8a6w_dd0wBvdzXmPZuSAOAvWSfGfWnLhGOE7vz6fFj0_MOE_FI1EqFeBrSRwrDAUBczOKhWUXF2TOHwnAjf3CmqXYlUT1Kj8pR9lYz-sK64cuQJCIVcOuOMM5gCYRRNA2TSKIY/w640-h484/JBS_Hudson+Valley.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">John Bennett Shaw addressing the Hudson Valley Sciontists' picnic, Poughkeepsie, New York, 18 September 1976 (courtesy of the Sherlock Holmes Collections)</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>As the curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries, Tim Johnson has seen just about everything. Almost as much as John Bennett Shaw saw.</p><p>When he was putting on his conferences and chatting with the various attendees, Shaw noticed something: there wasn't a definitive list of what every Sherlockian Library should have. </p><p>Based on his observations, wide network, and endless library, Shaw developed a list of some 100 books, periodicals, and other material with which every Sherlock Holmes enthusiast should be familiar. This became known as <b><i>The Shaw 100</i></b>. Over time, items were added and others deleted.</p><p>We talk with Tim about how the collection and the list came to be, what significant changes occurred, and what a Shaw 100 list of 2021 might look like. Can you guess what might be on it?</p><p>And of course, we have another <b>Canonical Couplet</b> to challenge your acuity. If you are chosen as a winner, you'll get <i>The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook</i> by Peter Haining. Answers are due by September 29, 2021 at 11:59 a.m. EDT.</p><br /><p>Information on sponsors, links, and notes are available below.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 224: The Shaw 100

“a ramble through the Ragged Shaw” [PRIO] John Bennett Shaw addressing the Hudson Valley Sciontists' picnic, Poughkeepsie, New York, 18...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – A Minor Concession

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“</span>some concession might be made for your personal effects.” [3GAB]</h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF63Vr4ZxwIaXki_oHrBXHRPsDFWGFviQ4-xgspWuYas3t_Z9qpa-OoMNRHgmvqK3pwcXLcVsrmCQRCHVQ2cUZkakIllEdXgQ1fFh_EJEJNJKnV2lmEksyUWXDOZ3OrzISvQ6ANDx_32sJ/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF63Vr4ZxwIaXki_oHrBXHRPsDFWGFviQ4-xgspWuYas3t_Z9qpa-OoMNRHgmvqK3pwcXLcVsrmCQRCHVQ2cUZkakIllEdXgQ1fFh_EJEJNJKnV2lmEksyUWXDOZ3OrzISvQ6ANDx_32sJ/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Did Sherlock Holmes ever appear on the stage?<div><br /></div><div>We know that plenty of actors have played the great detective on the boards, beginning with Charles Brookfield in the musical parody "Under the Clock." Of course, William Gillette immortalized both himself and Holmes in his legendary appearances.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But what about Holmes himself? We know that he had the ability. In <i>The Sign of Four</i>, Inspector Athelney Jones remarked: </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"You would have made an actor, and a rare one."</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Perhaps Holmes <i>had </i>been an actor. In "A Scandal in Bohemia," Watson wrote:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime."</div></blockquote></div><div><div><br /></div><div>We could take this to mean that Holmes had indeed been employed on the stage at some point.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We know for certain that Neville St. Clair, "The Man with the Twisted Lip," had been an actor, which made his disguise as Hugh Boone so convincing. This barely noticeable line gives us the origin of his facility with makeup:</div><div><blockquote><div>"I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London."</div></blockquote></div><div>Sherlock Holmes, a fellow actor, would have seen through this disguise had he met Hugh Boone in person. It was only by eliminating all other possibilities that he came to his conclusion; when he arrives at the Bow Street station, Gladstone bag in hand, that was his first meeting with Boone. </div><div><br /></div><div>Once he is exposed, Holmes lightly scolds St. Claire, saying he should have trusted his wife. When St. Claire breaks down over his children potentially being ashamed of him, we see a very understanding and compassionate response:</div><div><blockquote><div>"Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him kindly on the shoulder."</div></blockquote></div><div>We put it to you: does this not seem like the reaction of a fellow thespian? One who could understand the rigors, sacrifices, and feelings associated with risking a reputation by playing make-believe?</div><div><br /></div><div>It seems only logical to concede that Sherlock Holmes did spend some time on the stage.</div><div><br /></div><div>[<b>BONUS</b>: for additional material regarding Holmes and the stage, <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/stage#.YTT0uo5Kjb0">follow this link</a>.]</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, at Baker Street Elementary, the play's the thing...</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDVuyXZDVdSw3EVPI4W7keSriloUaDgHdMqM3HF_C8YEUV7NUrmt2V21Sko-VAWUsN53wc6UwFCm4v3fHz4icRGcAkafZX93T9slnOFMBzf9v-9jST9kwm6F5A74_zekcESbDMGWSPPZxv/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDVuyXZDVdSw3EVPI4W7keSriloUaDgHdMqM3HF_C8YEUV7NUrmt2V21Sko-VAWUsN53wc6UwFCm4v3fHz4icRGcAkafZX93T9slnOFMBzf9v-9jST9kwm6F5A74_zekcESbDMGWSPPZxv/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEittZJ9ei-37-TeIIYSRstyi-4HXi3Nuvkw7VQvawxyzpJ6UHEgIqmMXWbcLV53QYXqcKfRGHywrngeK7FQDnbe-u5YdJv0PDJieVAW83wBzJc4yB-GT6JG6gszZOHXUAImFkd5wVtZLX8d/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEittZJ9ei-37-TeIIYSRstyi-4HXi3Nuvkw7VQvawxyzpJ6UHEgIqmMXWbcLV53QYXqcKfRGHywrngeK7FQDnbe-u5YdJv0PDJieVAW83wBzJc4yB-GT6JG6gszZOHXUAImFkd5wVtZLX8d/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp30Eels1w6_4I55NuRokWBjDnYT6DHvXF1JOTzusv7QOAMgueyj6DTZ48PIRzhOr3oly_0EtVyJhf_JzLxSmPlaemc-gGWJ7R_Vv3708q460gfC_ZaqToQujpgyjn6RCXmqvIAgWFAOPf/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp30Eels1w6_4I55NuRokWBjDnYT6DHvXF1JOTzusv7QOAMgueyj6DTZ48PIRzhOr3oly_0EtVyJhf_JzLxSmPlaemc-gGWJ7R_Vv3708q460gfC_ZaqToQujpgyjn6RCXmqvIAgWFAOPf/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK3dVwYF5K7x_7DhnL9JIWXTnS68cMpB8tWCUefIKuGMvIvi-eJEYtvVze-r3bOwVQo4MoRbL-AlsLE0qgUvK7CCFdwcG0NCTaiIGkKRZtQoyPsjOZER37C0-EYiRn113IPZoTkACy3lN/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK3dVwYF5K7x_7DhnL9JIWXTnS68cMpB8tWCUefIKuGMvIvi-eJEYtvVze-r3bOwVQo4MoRbL-AlsLE0qgUvK7CCFdwcG0NCTaiIGkKRZtQoyPsjOZER37C0-EYiRn113IPZoTkACy3lN/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWu5I1gDGTp1K1dj3EqOrADZjOa1G6sUQcJ1AuFkr_yAyJ3WbT11x8iuc6k6v496VvtsBDSdYN_V8V9w-tRVsShaZhESR9XV5AQ712lQnoP8Gy3AbYsM5nbd00QOAyJmx0bEpJZ01kGH3/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWu5I1gDGTp1K1dj3EqOrADZjOa1G6sUQcJ1AuFkr_yAyJ3WbT11x8iuc6k6v496VvtsBDSdYN_V8V9w-tRVsShaZhESR9XV5AQ712lQnoP8Gy3AbYsM5nbd00QOAyJmx0bEpJZ01kGH3/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+114.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>