Baker Street Elementary – I'll Drink to That

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Is alcohol permitted?” [MAZA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQQ93JuHay6whUELJrWd1dwJygw-_aKyx-6vikTro0kI-vi8X2ENq18onHP-BQKJPu5VEtPXhynbwFNYulwHq4D2GqfY12Ykydc7z__EvmPyzOgr-xJh2Wku3Uvkj3z0of4ZWwV7ZcL4sM9HuKO3kJUPW_De73WidcqVhcs3IQPAiPV8tCV2cr_NBoeYK/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQQ93JuHay6whUELJrWd1dwJygw-_aKyx-6vikTro0kI-vi8X2ENq18onHP-BQKJPu5VEtPXhynbwFNYulwHq4D2GqfY12Ykydc7z__EvmPyzOgr-xJh2Wku3Uvkj3z0of4ZWwV7ZcL4sM9HuKO3kJUPW_De73WidcqVhcs3IQPAiPV8tCV2cr_NBoeYK/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div> In the Sherlockian world, the saying made famous by John Bennett Shaw, BSI ("The Hans Sloane of My Age") is "All you need for a Sherlockian meeting is two Sherlockians and a bottle. In a pinch, dispense with the other Sherlockian."</div><div><br /></div><div>But alcohol can be bit of a touchy subject. It's not everyone's thing, and for some, there may be negative connotations. Arthur Conan Doyle's father Charles Doyle was an alcoholic, and there's no doubt that the effects (some of which resulted in the elder Doyle being institutionalized) had a lasting effect.</div><div><br /></div><div>We see it crop up in certain stories, such as in "The Cardboard Box," in which Jim Browner, an reformed alcoholic, went on a bender and killed his wife and her lover:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I broke my blue ribbon and began to drink again”</div></blockquote></div><div>We also saw tinges of the evil spirits in Henry Baker's hat, as evidenced by Holmes's characterization:</div><div><blockquote><div>“He had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that his wife has ceased to love him.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Watson's brother was an alcoholic, as we learned in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, which led to Watson's erroneous diagnosis of the Dundas separation case in "A Case of Identity":</div><div><blockquote><div>“There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Holmes was quick to disprove Watson's theory: </div><div><div>“The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife,”</div></div><div><br /></div><div>So much for the evil influence of drink.</div><div><br /></div><div>For a deeper dive on this, see <i>Trifles</i> <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles335" target="_blank">Episode 335 -Alcoholism</a>) and <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles21" target="_blank">Episode 21</a> and <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles22" target="_blank">Episode 22</a> - Pubs  & Taverns.  </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, let's see what the boys at Baker Street Elementary are learning about it...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxUFX7xvWfjk6NWZaPc8tIkBDGo6-J4M_TOOHo33HDbOr9jBFB5IXWS-HJpQ2RaBJVGLDnCrG7txP-QKWvOWOoFceUypeujnPMGSLJFSla4nLrttwXuPL8A1yoF9vn588OyCxWcepV7qwieEtJeyVmsq6cc__JMYOwLiAU_sFla4II9ujvUs0ceCMqwY/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxUFX7xvWfjk6NWZaPc8tIkBDGo6-J4M_TOOHo33HDbOr9jBFB5IXWS-HJpQ2RaBJVGLDnCrG7txP-QKWvOWOoFceUypeujnPMGSLJFSla4nLrttwXuPL8A1yoF9vn588OyCxWcepV7qwieEtJeyVmsq6cc__JMYOwLiAU_sFla4II9ujvUs0ceCMqwY/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkUN9bqPSgQIQhCvC_yjFsUQNcvTgZvczEjjb_SJe0DKQQ9LNbIeUWAy1ZqbDk4IX_Hd4rmXuiDXtg6k8w9etT4zv_-oIzWwTqaoJEU-OllPUyCuqF3O-vIPaO4SzqaTnE0eyw_FTDRIIZdUodjcJ1ruli4_5BEzxGyDAULFEgs_6MZXJu89Y64EqqKk/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkUN9bqPSgQIQhCvC_yjFsUQNcvTgZvczEjjb_SJe0DKQQ9LNbIeUWAy1ZqbDk4IX_Hd4rmXuiDXtg6k8w9etT4zv_-oIzWwTqaoJEU-OllPUyCuqF3O-vIPaO4SzqaTnE0eyw_FTDRIIZdUodjcJ1ruli4_5BEzxGyDAULFEgs_6MZXJu89Y64EqqKk/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20201.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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 the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><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></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><br /><br />

Baker Street Elementary – I'll Drink to That

“Is alcohol permitted?” [MAZA]   In the Sherlockian world, the saying made famous by John Bennett Shaw, BSI ("The Hans Sloane of My Age...

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Granada Sherlock Holmes Starring Jeremy Brett Remastered in 4K

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “even more highly” [SCAN] </h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrkv18lSBTrZ1-6z8vfHiPi7LCtAo1CO92pPLunLnfIlZfMY3HibqACaEYiZIk57qLek6ycWhQVXkTd7BlInEhNDS9dytWWhGxnTU-YYiD-2E4KQrsgiMpt3UMnqqutXxemzX30QSTFQgKhM9BxN3S39yiAkaRcl73mmvbjn_QLGOkYggdueIqAT5zG7g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrkv18lSBTrZ1-6z8vfHiPi7LCtAo1CO92pPLunLnfIlZfMY3HibqACaEYiZIk57qLek6ycWhQVXkTd7BlInEhNDS9dytWWhGxnTU-YYiD-2E4KQrsgiMpt3UMnqqutXxemzX30QSTFQgKhM9BxN3S39yiAkaRcl73mmvbjn_QLGOkYggdueIqAT5zG7g=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div>The early days of watching the Granada/ITV production of <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, starring Jeremy Brett and David Burke, happened in the mid-1980s, when television sets were cathode-ray tube affairs and the primary recording devices were VHS machines.</div><div><br /></div><div>As a result, viewing and re-viewing of these classic episodes meant a low-resolution experience that lacked the color and crispness that we have come to enjoy in modern television viewing.</div><div><br /></div><div>The advent of DVDs and Blu-ray have resulted in high-definition (HD) viewings that have led to amazing details (such as subtle patterns in clothing or more visible props) to pop for modern viewers. And 4K technology is the latest in that evolution.</div><div><br /></div><div>4K resolution refers to a display with a horizontal resolution of roughly 4,000 pixels, or 3840 x 2160 pixels. This means that 4K displays have a significantly higher pixel density than Full HD (1080p) displays, resulting in sharper images, more detailed textures, and improved color accuracy. </div><div><br /></div><div>And that's precisely what we've got with the latest iteration of the Jeremy Brett / Granada series.</div><div><br /></div><div>YouTube channel Owen Davies has created <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMD9ghErEvtwRx0Cspiim_GWPL5Mu18s8&si=CWMiTqQT9gAUX6Rr" target="_blank">a playlist of the Granada Sherlock Holmes series remastered in 4K</a>, thanks to the advances in artificial intelligence.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>He writes:</div><blockquote><div>“Ultimately, this playlist will contain every episode of every season (The Adventures of, Return of, Casebook of and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), plus the feature-length TV movies, AI remastered to 4K.”</div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>You can find the videos on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ODavies" target="_blank">his YouTube channel</a> and embedded below: </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=I39pD3I3rYJC80cg&list=PLMD9ghErEvtwRx0Cspiim_GWPL5Mu18s8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The game's afoot!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

Granada Sherlock Holmes Starring Jeremy Brett Remastered in 4K

 “even more highly” [SCAN]  The early days of watching the Granada/ITV production of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , starring Jeremy Bre...

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Baker Street Elementary – Flowery Language

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“What a lovely thing a rose is” [NAVA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVKNVge84-PjzyYZ_74O_Twx0xb2ZgHiFBhL-dEMZx7VMKdAshSlJvyoqCWCTIfmOZ6xHgxsh_VnxwjY53X-QDfLDncfKxs42LBcDU43dixdqwgiLWEbhN1NYfgk45dVFwkXZlzl0R8guW9Nekgphb6qP03MlQ4p5wqA2ZjmYXYhr2Lec9xys3R2CloBM/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVKNVge84-PjzyYZ_74O_Twx0xb2ZgHiFBhL-dEMZx7VMKdAshSlJvyoqCWCTIfmOZ6xHgxsh_VnxwjY53X-QDfLDncfKxs42LBcDU43dixdqwgiLWEbhN1NYfgk45dVFwkXZlzl0R8guW9Nekgphb6qP03MlQ4p5wqA2ZjmYXYhr2Lec9xys3R2CloBM/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Sherlock Holmes was not a fan of emotions, particularly when it came to his work. In <i>The Sign of Four</i>, he reacted to Watson's write-up of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>:<blockquote><div>“Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.” </div></blockquote><div>In "The Greek Interpreter," Watson tells us:</div><div><blockquote><div>“His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character...” </div></blockquote></div><div>And in "A Scandal in Bohemia, he related just how foreign it would be for Holmes to feel deeply:</div><div><blockquote><div>“Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>So the famous "rose" speech in "The Naval Treaty" seems particularly striking in contrast, where we find Holmes getting sentimental, perhaps driven by intense contemplation and a philosophical mood.</div><div><blockquote><div>“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. “It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Of course, Providence created all kinds of flowers — even those that don't smell quite a sweet as a rose. Does that qualify as "goodness"?</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Baker Street Elementary team might just be saying OMG...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_Lp4f-c7BaPKi7BcVX1gazp32-3ezA0swRjBa7jneak3a1134x5XXUAdTHkRMPoR0tQF6HJP13fvl5m32Z-bZ77N3ZHfSteDQZMHbIViXvY8hoED8RS4cMLyM-nbY2VO6ALS1nREy_tgqjsMwBYqWLpSXzttt3ooeGu_WzHsz1uLF1-i4WVG8AwfDtc/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_Lp4f-c7BaPKi7BcVX1gazp32-3ezA0swRjBa7jneak3a1134x5XXUAdTHkRMPoR0tQF6HJP13fvl5m32Z-bZ77N3ZHfSteDQZMHbIViXvY8hoED8RS4cMLyM-nbY2VO6ALS1nREy_tgqjsMwBYqWLpSXzttt3ooeGu_WzHsz1uLF1-i4WVG8AwfDtc/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdN3_PSF3fXxePZcE8DBsGIEO0bKWVpRfuL2FjgJMr6sSdQFdbSrFbvxDiChYdZTGFdaga07K9EPnEKagi7BC7-U1AXRu-txuwNaL5fq63TxpAWupuNjFtYpZaYBCumDbWogkE6HnXvGm2YHXaBou1vVZJjCQdQN56kLnNu6XOZNhq_wuJ2w8cnSu-bVE/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdN3_PSF3fXxePZcE8DBsGIEO0bKWVpRfuL2FjgJMr6sSdQFdbSrFbvxDiChYdZTGFdaga07K9EPnEKagi7BC7-U1AXRu-txuwNaL5fq63TxpAWupuNjFtYpZaYBCumDbWogkE6HnXvGm2YHXaBou1vVZJjCQdQN56kLnNu6XOZNhq_wuJ2w8cnSu-bVE/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbZzFvt2wX173vkiS0vCtHqek_YvqifAu2uiHx6wK_vhBE5c3H_RyQKxoOR3XJhpMwj59it5w49A8qlkBEmaqWmTcphCLX4_2SmsetwgQFr2mVNBMwhEH0XFh893S6w2LJLgq_Aj_N_D8KnRVP-BqvoSN9VvPMy2NShSNRxNfXBCH4ix-5ZR843nM4S8/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbZzFvt2wX173vkiS0vCtHqek_YvqifAu2uiHx6wK_vhBE5c3H_RyQKxoOR3XJhpMwj59it5w49A8qlkBEmaqWmTcphCLX4_2SmsetwgQFr2mVNBMwhEH0XFh893S6w2LJLgq_Aj_N_D8KnRVP-BqvoSN9VvPMy2NShSNRxNfXBCH4ix-5ZR843nM4S8/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20200.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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 the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><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></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Flowery Language

“What a lovely thing a rose is” [NAVA]  Sherlock Holmes was not a fan of emotions, particularly when it came to his work. In The Sign of Fou...

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Baker Street Elementary - A Quarter for Your Thoughts

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand” [WIST] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ya_QDAG4LYaoJLUr8eoTIwL_EIJFM3spceHb6sdOhqemdJeyD4woab4llrrfKp4J6xv1KggQYgaxbIMaOdz1pV06UlO7JaIqBpvlv1faIbgpR5ANbdXhkAWKXJvEjyFvIpIZDvdyUXvZ5JIRmGtRYJ7Be1K1D4As0ASH4mx7ds-wI-NN_MiFmn6SwFU/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ya_QDAG4LYaoJLUr8eoTIwL_EIJFM3spceHb6sdOhqemdJeyD4woab4llrrfKp4J6xv1KggQYgaxbIMaOdz1pV06UlO7JaIqBpvlv1faIbgpR5ANbdXhkAWKXJvEjyFvIpIZDvdyUXvZ5JIRmGtRYJ7Be1K1D4As0ASH4mx7ds-wI-NN_MiFmn6SwFU/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>In "Wisteria Lodge," John Scott Eccles tells Sherlock Holmes about his strange experience of waking up in a host's house completely alone. In his desire to discover more, he visits the office of a real estate agent. <br /><div><blockquote><div>“I called at Allan Brothers’, the chief land agents in the village, and found that it was from this firm that the villa had been rented. It struck me that the whole proceeding could hardly be for the purpose of making a fool of me, and that the main object must be to get out of the rent. It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand.”</div></blockquote></div><div>What is quarter day and what does it have to do with real estate?</div><div><br /></div><div>The short answer is there are four quarter days in a year: one each in March, June, September, and December. And rent was always due at the end of the quarter.</div><div><br /></div><div>The longer answer is each of these quarter days has a special significance tied to a religious holiday or celebration:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>March:</b> Lady Day (the Annunciation)</li><li><b>June:</b> Midsummer Day (the Nativity of John the Baptist)</li><li><b>September:</b> Michaelmas (St. Michael and the Angels)</li><li><b>December:</b> Christmas (the Nativity of Jesus)</li></ol></div><div><br /></div><div>It is only Lady Day that gets mentioned in the Canon, though. We've already mentioned "Wisteria Lodge." The other is "The Resident Patient," when Percy Trevelyan recounted Mr. Blessington's offer:</div><div><blockquote>“This was the strange proposal, Mr. Holmes, with which the man Blessington approached me. I won’t weary you with the account of how we bargained and negotiated. It ended in my moving into the house next Lady Day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested.”</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>In the very first season of <i>Trifles</i>, we discussed <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2017/03/13-quarter-day-is-at-hand.html" target="_blank">the significance of quarter days</a>: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="7506" data-dashlane-rid="38094c7cd0071a92" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/35555380/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/1a1f21/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, at Baker Street Elementary, the dates seem to be the biggest mystification of all...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQsYJ8Y2ZE-Z08Td94n0uuQjO_2TYd69nnitzYE1IWJjnJ8jzO0UZHlW1OqREPMKl0v5EqV4mgkFy-M9M4F5rQiXmlvRQHBnBblmwBmwmk__AxnbjZk8vO4bOKbbTBEA_-IOixvIxh0GwIgYe0Q0WQB4KXjB_l8TKfjJnNwH1R4jmKjnklEsu78B5DFM/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQsYJ8Y2ZE-Z08Td94n0uuQjO_2TYd69nnitzYE1IWJjnJ8jzO0UZHlW1OqREPMKl0v5EqV4mgkFy-M9M4F5rQiXmlvRQHBnBblmwBmwmk__AxnbjZk8vO4bOKbbTBEA_-IOixvIxh0GwIgYe0Q0WQB4KXjB_l8TKfjJnNwH1R4jmKjnklEsu78B5DFM/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXJuO4u-AQQP_aMYDPYXlIMkQwPAhNUbS-pHICOFXEl10VSZXkG_VCd0mx7z-K27qtd0wZlZi4RhXgvlClKuliUaA_NUzHVqaRshlzw1U_Ao-rGd7D0Q_-YVarxw08czO7b6ZTrbgKoVlH6BnOcj1WaSXxSiN8ZiiQKIVwpPPS3NMH4h-tV7QYz5ome4/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXJuO4u-AQQP_aMYDPYXlIMkQwPAhNUbS-pHICOFXEl10VSZXkG_VCd0mx7z-K27qtd0wZlZi4RhXgvlClKuliUaA_NUzHVqaRshlzw1U_Ao-rGd7D0Q_-YVarxw08czO7b6ZTrbgKoVlH6BnOcj1WaSXxSiN8ZiiQKIVwpPPS3NMH4h-tV7QYz5ome4/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNTLAfAfMKDZYhwak_E9pxjPkhUCwxmAQdeGC_t9JOHdILMoe9_0LlR3jpnqUU6Ejjr5rfupHEefRAVrdvuYTu1zzfzj7Q7XxQjoWec1icUmGy9CM6dbAlew7Ke111OpHFdWVZvInJMzIMfFEmrw39sNRr0F_KwUkCGSK30MwSHnPO_roG8_Suh9nE14/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNTLAfAfMKDZYhwak_E9pxjPkhUCwxmAQdeGC_t9JOHdILMoe9_0LlR3jpnqUU6Ejjr5rfupHEefRAVrdvuYTu1zzfzj7Q7XxQjoWec1icUmGy9CM6dbAlew7Ke111OpHFdWVZvInJMzIMfFEmrw39sNRr0F_KwUkCGSK30MwSHnPO_roG8_Suh9nE14/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20199.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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. 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Baker Street Elementary - A Quarter for Your Thoughts

“It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand” [WIST]  In "Wisteria Lodge," John Scott Eccles tells Sherlock Holmes about his st...

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Baker Street Elementary – I Swear to God...

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath” [STUD] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuAPk9UbTTAyDPB6ffMdK0HE_ykQ1G4opIu8v5HFu2RRAPiFGqvpjym0lEOLX-y7YQlfnr4qBNCkBN6jIpT-rLLftNp0LU2l_pOZPLLCJ23jJKPBcVcs71_l2N2cenpSSrm2uhquAvW9TRnURsECYRzvNH6BXq178Ha2nSEFuu2e8AfjvVpOr-AYYP3Qx/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuAPk9UbTTAyDPB6ffMdK0HE_ykQ1G4opIu8v5HFu2RRAPiFGqvpjym0lEOLX-y7YQlfnr4qBNCkBN6jIpT-rLLftNp0LU2l_pOZPLLCJ23jJKPBcVcs71_l2N2cenpSSrm2uhquAvW9TRnURsECYRzvNH6BXq178Ha2nSEFuu2e8AfjvVpOr-AYYP3Qx/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.1.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Was Sherlock Holmes religious? That was something we contemplated together with Henry T. Folsom, BSI ("The Golden Pince-Nez") in <i>Trifles</i> Episode 427 on his Morley-Montgomery Award-winning article "<a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2025/03/episode-427-my-biblical-knowledge-is.html" target="_blank">My Biblical Knowledge is a Trifle Rusty</a>." [Listen below]</div><div><br /></div><div>In considering whether Holmes subscribed to any Eastern or Western religion, Folsom made it clear that Holmes was familiar with a number of religions, but was more of an agnostic than an atheist. And of course, his famous "rose soliloquy" was indicative of his believe in some Higher Power:</div><div><blockquote><div>“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. “It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Religious aspects pop up throughout the Canon, from the heavy hand of the Mormons (STUD) to Holmes serving as a witness to a wedding in the first short story (SCAN) to his claim that “my Biblical knowledge is a trifle rusty” (CROO), it is a constant drum-beat.</div><div><br /></div><div>But isn't it interesting that of his many disguises, <i>two</i> of them were religious in nature: “an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist clergyman” (SCAN) and “a venerable Italian priest” (FINA).</div><div><br /></div><div>Was he overly familiar with these professions? Or were was he able to get cassocks in bulk from his costume supplier? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="7506" data-dashlane-rid="38094c7cd0071a92" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/35555380/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/1a1f21/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here's some Sunday humor from the boys at Baker Street Elementary...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuhGeurXn3qC9Ni9NlTGm7MVbh3tMK0maiEuJUKXKFEv5nLS4Vy_qOemNhk5OTtoRoKJONba54VVABASGJ5WyHVGSChc1j-LZwPibqV24qbRTcz1xVv_mUdntW_VqZFXuOOsoj2CQVH-sdy1r5YM9szPSrKKnjVGHW9VqLGfQThk0kqSMTuq266Bp4ikj/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuhGeurXn3qC9Ni9NlTGm7MVbh3tMK0maiEuJUKXKFEv5nLS4Vy_qOemNhk5OTtoRoKJONba54VVABASGJ5WyHVGSChc1j-LZwPibqV24qbRTcz1xVv_mUdntW_VqZFXuOOsoj2CQVH-sdy1r5YM9szPSrKKnjVGHW9VqLGfQThk0kqSMTuq266Bp4ikj/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.2.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3aVTN0ZcS8z7VOXHGi1ousUxpq6h11xIkbJqCsTNIM9_9XFQNAPun-AU0N6trUQICFne2WZ1STMAEAzdh1WA8F0rUoeijW1PhA-5cnZ92NVzzFf9GLJM1mAc0szbf90DqCeBY2OdpJOytnfv4xWobyUrkaHsOUgPKlupVAxze2-QY-mP7ojjgX8nfTtu/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.3.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3aVTN0ZcS8z7VOXHGi1ousUxpq6h11xIkbJqCsTNIM9_9XFQNAPun-AU0N6trUQICFne2WZ1STMAEAzdh1WA8F0rUoeijW1PhA-5cnZ92NVzzFf9GLJM1mAc0szbf90DqCeBY2OdpJOytnfv4xWobyUrkaHsOUgPKlupVAxze2-QY-mP7ojjgX8nfTtu/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.3.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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. 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Baker Street Elementary – I Swear to God...

“dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath” [STUD]  Was Sherlock Holmes religious? That was something we contemplated to...

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Baker Street Elementary – What's in a Name?

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“should you rather that I sent James off to bed?” [TWIS] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqMhAGGSTRT96NuIPoXsauOGGJd-awcU7yxU6FjZdZGNEaPx2zFaB2_jKwAuhsTwFjEoovlT9vXJG7U1iBKm4hLx6JmCELdgbjZ7hTyEDJewGtHfzjvt7H2ONBZkZFXt59_5ik8uspHQqxWyXfM67rh6g5gcUMNLIdvX88yuvMAAiAgPO89jIECGW09Mh/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqMhAGGSTRT96NuIPoXsauOGGJd-awcU7yxU6FjZdZGNEaPx2zFaB2_jKwAuhsTwFjEoovlT9vXJG7U1iBKm4hLx6JmCELdgbjZ7hTyEDJewGtHfzjvt7H2ONBZkZFXt59_5ik8uspHQqxWyXfM67rh6g5gcUMNLIdvX88yuvMAAiAgPO89jIECGW09Mh/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>One of the most vexing and early discrepancies in the Sherlock Holmes canon occurs in "The Man With the Twisted Lip," when Mrs. Watson refers to her husband as "James."</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or should you rather that I sent James off to bed?”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Oh, no, no! I want the doctor’s advice and help, too. It’s about Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about him!”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Having clearly introduced us to himself as "John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department" in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, it strains credulity that the good doctor would have misprinted his own name. So what does that leave us? </div><div><br /></div><div>Dorothy Sayers famously came up with what is probably the most clever and elegant solution when she suggested that Mrs. Watson was referring to her husband by his middle name, as something of a term of endearment.</div><div><br /></div><div>"But wait," we hear you say. "His middle name started with 'H'!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, and that's where Sayers' solution is perfect. She suggested that Watson's middle name was <i>Hamish</i>, which is a Scottish version of James.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We have a companion Trifles episode on this topic: <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2022/08/episode-294-james-watson-md.html" target="_blank">Episode 294 - James Watson, M.D.</a>, in which we discuss Tom Cynkin's look at the matter:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="2602" data-dashlane-rid="300b77ddde01c66e" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24086268/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/3a4e59/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's literally another Case of Identity. Speaking of identifying oneself, let's see what the boys at BSE are up to today...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGGJ53qEQ6pI-JWU5RYN4_4o6X8yVU88mOnQ3RnrijESfRTrNIe-5Yu4RNX68ZikKnZW31UQ1uEEzJW8gg6n94fwKYO38Rg27r8oDaF5dO45JEHu2QQV_FglBFXcdcWdj9gXKOuKnB1mxLC-DiE1z1KMk5WnUBK2G2Nzx3rnN10qmUIHBsXHTXPvB4uiC/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGGJ53qEQ6pI-JWU5RYN4_4o6X8yVU88mOnQ3RnrijESfRTrNIe-5Yu4RNX68ZikKnZW31UQ1uEEzJW8gg6n94fwKYO38Rg27r8oDaF5dO45JEHu2QQV_FglBFXcdcWdj9gXKOuKnB1mxLC-DiE1z1KMk5WnUBK2G2Nzx3rnN10qmUIHBsXHTXPvB4uiC/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cQ9A8ch-aiUGVvQzZpiPbqZc_ygW9dpIG3UXlYcx74hw3Oi05EI1Td6xsP63ZVSWJ_29qO9HGuyQVc9TW89ta65EkHvG2IR7QsksCeMEOty7huvAJpZcDF32GV5wC_SLinl8NJ4wQZl1c9GwvmXZHceRnbr7PCmh1V2_22-GEvn8o4kFyp-KJl2wcLa/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cQ9A8ch-aiUGVvQzZpiPbqZc_ygW9dpIG3UXlYcx74hw3Oi05EI1Td6xsP63ZVSWJ_29qO9HGuyQVc9TW89ta65EkHvG2IR7QsksCeMEOty7huvAJpZcDF32GV5wC_SLinl8NJ4wQZl1c9GwvmXZHceRnbr7PCmh1V2_22-GEvn8o4kFyp-KJl2wcLa/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZ_sujUZhBlyJ3KxNj7ny-B4ZW29JtDp1ZaK39Z96YkgI_zHxDkXZ8LwrjMbkzSeEWAYkghclmVvNlbCjFgT6l-L-6LRXuhD0s5991FaOJu8TxBjiBGqi9ySQGQLHJPg6OYxIV0foKRwvS-B-hCmmHKcemyrbV15hgGXa85Q9VFYVKYfwvYabucunHPi6/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZ_sujUZhBlyJ3KxNj7ny-B4ZW29JtDp1ZaK39Z96YkgI_zHxDkXZ8LwrjMbkzSeEWAYkghclmVvNlbCjFgT6l-L-6LRXuhD0s5991FaOJu8TxBjiBGqi9ySQGQLHJPg6OYxIV0foKRwvS-B-hCmmHKcemyrbV15hgGXa85Q9VFYVKYfwvYabucunHPi6/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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 the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><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></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><br />

Baker Street Elementary – What's in a Name?

“should you rather that I sent James off to bed?” [TWIS]  One of the most vexing and early discrepancies in the Sherlock Holmes canon occurs...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Coloring Our Perceptions

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s” [EMPT] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVSiS49Z7QTrRzh8eaX4FBUdEauqlc4WuzjrysXmJLkBrXP8e5fTWhxQlEIiutje9rYdQbCmIXmR3p027rrezMqB5K2mFzAgNRJn8JWCu4rqVwwY0ywwAzMdLHxgiLYFodmLgOxfnONFN8GdGVy5ff4Z2OKEqIx6e3BNmpeT_J3-p37RAAmLtTQfLAhcFR/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20196.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVSiS49Z7QTrRzh8eaX4FBUdEauqlc4WuzjrysXmJLkBrXP8e5fTWhxQlEIiutje9rYdQbCmIXmR3p027rrezMqB5K2mFzAgNRJn8JWCu4rqVwwY0ywwAzMdLHxgiLYFodmLgOxfnONFN8GdGVy5ff4Z2OKEqIx6e3BNmpeT_J3-p37RAAmLtTQfLAhcFR/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20196.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>If you see a silhouette with a pipe, magnifying glass, and deerstalker cap, you know it's Sherlock Holmes. That famous headgear can't be worn without an association with the detective.</div><div><br /></div><div>The same could be said for the Inverness cape, although that attire is slightly more common than the fore-and-aft cap. But there is one other garment that we associate with Sherlock Holmes that bear some consideration: the dressing gown.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In three different stories, we're told that Sherlock Holmes's dressing gown was purple (in "The Blue Carbuncle"), blue (in "The Man with the Twisted Lip"), and mouse-colored (in "The Empty House" and "The Bruce-Partington Plans"). What are we to make of this dressing gown of many colors?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As usual, Christopher Morley, founder of the Baker Street Irregulars, provided a perfect explanation for this palette, in his essay "A Christmas Story Without Slush" for the 1948 BSI edition of "The Blue Carbuncle": </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"The gradual solstitial fading of Holmes's dressing gowns is one of the statutory documentations of life as it happens. It is one of the accidentals that prove Doyle was a great unconscious artist, as all artists are."</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Morley reasoned that the dressing gown had faded over time, from purple to blue to mouse. And thus was born the official color scheme for the Baker Street Irregulars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For more on this topic, read "<a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/12/sherlock-holmess-dressing-gown.html#.WL-b1_krLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes's Dressing Gown</a>" on IHOSE and listen to <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2017/03/10-dressing-gown-of-many-colors.html" target="_blank">Episode 10</a> of <b><i>Trifles</i></b>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="4802" data-dashlane-rid="cb1aaca485b6b936" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5150169/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/3a4e59/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, bundle up. The puns around Baker Street Elementary are cold...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheMPTr7FXT2yDXE5mvF7JdVeKbxeW2BWNVR0pKR0LR2VXTpeM4fjtFeRFXCtHoqiDC42iSFMuasXI9niCZa6cpfQz_CxNM13rFuDpQ3lx7R8WXoe-b12fFX7hMXyP5tSYY5nO1jpw0QRptggejxtvzXWIR2GeJAxmPkF9jkQJ19VsQoMMcHIXzSKsR0k6L/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20196.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheMPTr7FXT2yDXE5mvF7JdVeKbxeW2BWNVR0pKR0LR2VXTpeM4fjtFeRFXCtHoqiDC42iSFMuasXI9niCZa6cpfQz_CxNM13rFuDpQ3lx7R8WXoe-b12fFX7hMXyP5tSYY5nO1jpw0QRptggejxtvzXWIR2GeJAxmPkF9jkQJ19VsQoMMcHIXzSKsR0k6L/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20196.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFfGGEUsaOn1H6PH2XjLjXT74TAiaxyS6UwDS7yL38b5npw8v8GQWigSChC_Zcit5tv5oav2v6K8Kklpe1KdOAMEqM8MUBRz9Q3-0IW5z_KqfOdS8cZ7xeI1wNTDBQJXS40aSYVPZS9x6MexkXwnlRCYDu44Oplyof075hyphenhyphendR9bRxZnqBZCIZ2Wvzpcsp/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20196.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFfGGEUsaOn1H6PH2XjLjXT74TAiaxyS6UwDS7yL38b5npw8v8GQWigSChC_Zcit5tv5oav2v6K8Kklpe1KdOAMEqM8MUBRz9Q3-0IW5z_KqfOdS8cZ7xeI1wNTDBQJXS40aSYVPZS9x6MexkXwnlRCYDu44Oplyof075hyphenhyphendR9bRxZnqBZCIZ2Wvzpcsp/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20196.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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 the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><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></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Coloring Our Perceptions

“an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s” [EMPT]  If you see a silhouette with a pipe, magnifying glass, and deerstalker cap, you know it's She...

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by Scott Monty

Celebrate World Radio Day with IHOSE

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> <b>“that strange wireless” [LAST]</b></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nR0VB6TrwNmTN3e35vnSL3-Z-TUejVHJIXbjVLg9eUQ85aSU22oqQKjWiV6zCe5I7IHa4sbRBfBEE8sOxtZ0qA-dZRMwplcDgxkfIor4XT2wzArAM2Aa7eO4gp_Bzh1EcUY3_dqSdsBHixkZc6G7Pp2ijvWm33W8HxJANTAPyxlTYI32TTBKhlZ64AKV/s2796/IHOSE%20100%20header.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="2796" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nR0VB6TrwNmTN3e35vnSL3-Z-TUejVHJIXbjVLg9eUQ85aSU22oqQKjWiV6zCe5I7IHa4sbRBfBEE8sOxtZ0qA-dZRMwplcDgxkfIor4XT2wzArAM2Aa7eO4gp_Bzh1EcUY3_dqSdsBHixkZc6G7Pp2ijvWm33W8HxJANTAPyxlTYI32TTBKhlZ64AKV/w640-h328/IHOSE%20100%20header.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />Radio came into the world concurrently with Sherlock Holmes, so it's natural to connect the two topics, particularly on World Radio Day.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>,</div><blockquote><div>"The existence of radio waves was first proven by German physicist Heinrich Hertz on 11 November 1886. In the mid-1890s, building on techniques physicists were using to study electromagnetic waves, Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi developed the first apparatus for long-distance radio communication, sending a wireless Morse Code message to a recipient over a kilometer away in 1895, and the first transatlantic signal on 12 December 1901."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>In 2011, UNESCO Member States declared World Radio Day to be celebrated on February 13 and the United Nations General Assembly accepted it in 2012. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We first developed the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast as Sherlockian talk radio in 2007, recognizing that Sherlockians have enjoyed audio content related to the great detective since at least the 1930s. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Meiser#Writing_career" target="_blank">Edith Meiser</a>, who was featured in the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2023/02/07/bsj-2022-christmas-annual/" target="_blank">2022 BSJ Christmas Annual</a>, wrote many scripts for <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> on radio in the 1930s, including the very first episode that starred William Gillette.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meiser would later go on to write <i>The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> for Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce from 1939 until 1943.</div><div><br /></div><div>In <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/OGYwYmEyMjExZWFiMzQ5ZjdiNjM4ZDNmZjU5ODQ4OGM" target="_blank">Episode 122</a>, we discussed the collaboration between Rathbone and Bruce, which included spending time on their radio series:</div><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="956" data-dashlane-rid="68136fa628a54003" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5450502/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/NWY5ODQxMjdkZmJlNDcwZWE1ZWViYzBmMWM0ODBhZjA" target="_blank">Episode 136</a>, Ian Dickerson told us about the work that Leslie Charteris did on the radio plays, which he featured in his book:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="985" data-dashlane-rid="a329577c1bd4c390" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6149989/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/513b3c/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The glorious two-parter with writer Bert Coules in <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/ODRmNzU1ZjhlZGM5MDNmYzY2ODYyNWVmZDI0YmIyYzg" target="_blank">Episode 68</a> and <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/NTQ0N2IwMzY0ZjJjYjJhNGE2MDAxZjkyMGJiN2RhNzI" target="_blank">Episode 69</a> provides a glimpse into the history of British radio plays, ending of course with Bert's own contributions:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1015" data-dashlane-rid="3d2030e0b7c5b374" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3090004/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1049" data-dashlane-rid="a501ad807815c52e" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3127050/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We even spoke with his Sherlock Holmes, Clive Merrison on <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/ZDExZTEzNDItZjJjMS00MDQyLWE0YTUtZGFhYmUyYWM4MDFl" target="_blank">Episode 202</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1052" data-dashlane-rid="8474572686b7a1b0" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/16412861/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/6c442c/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Actor Nicholas Briggs and writer Jonathan Barnes from Big Finish Productions joined us to go behind the scenes of their series in <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/ZGNkOTM2N2MtODRkYy00YTdlLWI1YzktMDRmN2UzYzNlODRm" target="_blank">Episode 247</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1106" data-dashlane-rid="3d0af5969f23bec2" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24222471/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Charles Kindinger, writer of the Audible series <i>Moriarty: The Devil's Game</i> told us his story in <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/MWE1MTAzODAtMGI0MC00MTlkLWFlMTItMmFiNjNlM2Y2NWU0" target="_blank">Episode 245</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1087" data-dashlane-rid="f26e9362e0f13a9f" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/23909778/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And the latest audio production taking audiences by storm, Sherlock & Co., features prominently in two episodes: <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/YTE3MjcyNzEtNjNhNS00N2Y5LTlmYTEtYzdmYWE5MTk1NmYx" target="_blank">Episode 275</a> with writer Joel Emery and <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625/episode/ZmZjNzFjYzMtMTMwMi00OTg5LTkxYWUtNzU2OTQzMDRhYjJi" target="_blank">Episode 300</a> with Harry Attwell, who plays Sherlock Holmes himself:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1113" data-dashlane-rid="25d9f5d665512721" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/28467722/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="1115" data-dashlane-rid="15db257ed2c4051e" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/34210895/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There are probably more episodes (we're going from memory), but it's enough to put a playlist together for this weekend at the very least...</div><div><br /></div><div>The game's afoot!</div><div> </div>

Celebrate World Radio Day with IHOSE

  “that strange wireless” [LAST] Radio came into the world concurrently with Sherlock Holmes, so it's natural to connect the two topics,...

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Unique Letters to Douglas Wilmer Offered for Sale

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> <b>“there are points which make it quite unique” [MUSG]</b></h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vlksqloXLGqo7mkJ3EZDHGKhzJSfOqWadd-qS4ZQKsmXc_sVKW_73moBbterXTGwZosUFMvgae8UUsb541B_6mwK2ZZ0d4-eSpQgdQYWeQ-rPQSwxn3SpEX9oWPehhJfc5l-OeTSkQ8kmxNs3oKzZW0cw6v_2utI8PYVSNITA_yOPSxUDbLJn1b85eAD/s680/Douglas%20Wilmer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="680" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vlksqloXLGqo7mkJ3EZDHGKhzJSfOqWadd-qS4ZQKsmXc_sVKW_73moBbterXTGwZosUFMvgae8UUsb541B_6mwK2ZZ0d4-eSpQgdQYWeQ-rPQSwxn3SpEX9oWPehhJfc5l-OeTSkQ8kmxNs3oKzZW0cw6v_2utI8PYVSNITA_yOPSxUDbLJn1b85eAD/w640-h480/Douglas%20Wilmer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Longtime readers of <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> and true fans of Sherlock Holmes on the screen will recall that in the 1960s, Douglas Wilmer was Sherlock Holmes on <a href="https://amzn.to/3WJZnOi" target="_blank">the BBC television series</a>.</p><p>A decade ago, we celebrated <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/02/celebrating-50-years-of-douglas-wilmer.html#.Vv0wK6QrLb1" target="_blank">his golden anniversary of taking that role</a>, including stories about him riding in your editor's car, <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> Christmas Annual dedicated to him, the grand exhibition in London, and Wilmer's investiture into the Baker Street Irregulars (in 2000, as "The Lyceum Theatre").</p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned in the latest edition of "<b>A Most Valuable Institution</b>," the Sherlockian news segment for IHOSE supporters (<a href="https://ihearofsherlock.substack.com" target="_blank">Substack</a> | <a href="https://patreon.com/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank">Patreon</a>), serious collectors now have an opportunity to acquire a unique set of Wilmer items. These are not rare—they are one of a kind.</p><p>Al Gregory is offering four letters written by King Charles III, between 2013 and 2016, when he was still the Prince of Wales. They were sent from Highgrove House, Llwynywermod Carmarthenshire, and Birkhall.</p><p>Three of them were to Douglas Wilmer, of whose portrayal of Holmes the King speaks very highly. </p><p>The fourth one was a very warm letter of condolence to Wilmer's widow. </p><p>All are personally signed and marked up by Charles, who penned each greeting, underlined certain words, and signed each "Yours most sincerely".</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDHI029tOM_l-t1TK6xb6vHpqHv_cl3baM8OF-nJTiSycsuyfI_4nxgiHMYoziWxUHQgqjkGCR6In7GK9DHxmBYcs6fDxZzv6tUxS66MySmlbHN2PCYBwrq_9cErnH0xGpWnxO0k0PHxGwgpSA8Mg0tw-RG1mUg3jTIx2Yy8rJIW5A1IKI5uNI5hhbXba/s2560/1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDHI029tOM_l-t1TK6xb6vHpqHv_cl3baM8OF-nJTiSycsuyfI_4nxgiHMYoziWxUHQgqjkGCR6In7GK9DHxmBYcs6fDxZzv6tUxS66MySmlbHN2PCYBwrq_9cErnH0xGpWnxO0k0PHxGwgpSA8Mg0tw-RG1mUg3jTIx2Yy8rJIW5A1IKI5uNI5hhbXba/w640-h480/1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">27th July, 2013</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dear Mr. Wilmer,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was so kind of you to go to all the trouble of tracking down the Sherlock Holmes D.V.D.'s—in France! I never understood why the B.B.C. is so cavalier about its remarkable archive of such treasures... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I shall watch these films with the greatest pleasure, and I suspect I shall remember seeing them on the television years ago, when I was much younger, as the moment I saw your face (and Dr. Watson's) on the cover it brought the whole series back to me! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank you so much for your great generosity and I send my kindest possible wishes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yours most sincerely,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Charles</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uzne2WWsDrqiNZQ8hENgmDPbx_1j0F8xNkF1YkPgEtZbSpnqqd9wtIW0Qy5ijmzmRtqUYJ25-LKWoigG2Ga59M6SLNvfQAotapVwnozz1rmKSA4bhT0ooEiQMf-usTaewLOerjjaC_u-6J7Yt_Bu3-QpBOwVf-EmNQYITKhxW_eL5BzNHkcmZYPbBNjH/s2027/P1140827TWO.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2027" data-original-width="1521" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uzne2WWsDrqiNZQ8hENgmDPbx_1j0F8xNkF1YkPgEtZbSpnqqd9wtIW0Qy5ijmzmRtqUYJ25-LKWoigG2Ga59M6SLNvfQAotapVwnozz1rmKSA4bhT0ooEiQMf-usTaewLOerjjaC_u-6J7Yt_Bu3-QpBOwVf-EmNQYITKhxW_eL5BzNHkcmZYPbBNjH/w480-h640/P1140827TWO.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;">14th December, 2014</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">Dear Mr. Wilmer,</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">A "little bird" has told me that you will reach a milestone birthday on 8th January, and I did not want to let this pass without sending you my warmest possible congratulations on such a special occasion. </div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">I need hardly say how enormously touched I was that you should have thought of sending me your marvellous memoirs. What splendid characters you encountered during your career, and how well you have managed to recall everything! I do hope you can take great satisfaction in knowing what immense pleasure you have given to so many people — myself included — in your work over so many years.</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">This comes with my warmest birthday wishes.</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">Yours most sincerely,</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">Charles</div></blockquote><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLx-j7OXpZqfl3GrMFl_zimlIhngXk4FXaujNxKoL6UEwVFLxi5kWpsEjAYsZuF7vI-bUwK0VWjSmR6JdVKhEYOnGAWwYF5aUutKNGad_XJQpJ1CFevHXwbRd5qCHGcbhmSdhgE63gSdJ5A1MOkbXbN1a35QqYPxuTPdADWTCowpCnKSIiedRD1ESXo-Bp/s2560/4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLx-j7OXpZqfl3GrMFl_zimlIhngXk4FXaujNxKoL6UEwVFLxi5kWpsEjAYsZuF7vI-bUwK0VWjSmR6JdVKhEYOnGAWwYF5aUutKNGad_XJQpJ1CFevHXwbRd5qCHGcbhmSdhgE63gSdJ5A1MOkbXbN1a35QqYPxuTPdADWTCowpCnKSIiedRD1ESXo-Bp/w640-h480/4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">12th April 2016</div><div>Dear Mrs. Wilmer,<br />I just wanted to write and say how [terribly] sorry I was to hear the very sad news about your husband's passing. You have my <u>deepest</u> sympathy. I can only begin to imagine what an immense emptiness there must now be in your life and my heart goes out to you all.</div><div>I was so very touched when your husband sent me his marvellous memoirs only a couple of years ago and I much enjoyed our subsequent correspondence! His memoirs were such a splendid account of the personalities he had come across during his career, and I was astonished at the way he was able to recall so much detail...</div><div>I am glad to say that I can just recall his brilliant portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on television during the 1960s and I shall now make absolutely certain I get a hold of that series to watch it again. I need hardly tell you that I can't help thinking that they did these things so much better in those days!</div><div>I cannot bear it that yet another wonderful figure from that remarkable generation has now left us. We are all so much the poorer for his absence and while I am only too aware that this letter is hopelessly inadequate under the circumstances, and will probably be of very little comfort in making your sense of loss any easer to bear, I did so want you to know just how much you are in my special thoughts and prayers at such a heartbreaking time.</div><div>Yours most sincerely,</div><div>Charles</div></blockquote><div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEzJ5Slhb01nZQhN1Dig9qYIjcnYRcEXOK0EzF_O3v2lZ1JRTBUp7bOCGnvETaTnV9I4CvKaaWsFeTHGlNXQHuHvLubaIWIvDaktQ9NBE_Y_O8AvHyApPjcXqDV3zdSiDghyOUgbg79LvCFAPW_oNYP7H1LGil6tT5FLJ4Q9TtyXKKFE-Ep8-DSC2tAX2/s1507/P1140835TWO.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="1507" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEzJ5Slhb01nZQhN1Dig9qYIjcnYRcEXOK0EzF_O3v2lZ1JRTBUp7bOCGnvETaTnV9I4CvKaaWsFeTHGlNXQHuHvLubaIWIvDaktQ9NBE_Y_O8AvHyApPjcXqDV3zdSiDghyOUgbg79LvCFAPW_oNYP7H1LGil6tT5FLJ4Q9TtyXKKFE-Ep8-DSC2tAX2/w640-h622/P1140835TWO.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The four are matted and framed together as pictured above.<p><br /></p><p>Please direct questions and serious offers to Al Gregory at <a href="mailto:gaslightandfog@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gaslightandfog@verizon.net</a>.</p><br /><br /></div>

Unique Letters to Douglas Wilmer Offered for Sale

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Baker Street Elementary – Knighty Knight

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Holmes refused a knighthood” [3GAR] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1yNykcsFBZOVxIuAx69zlEPdznciG4Jk8G9S3LOwRFJcbvK7Gkqzl-OzleR6vR1VXOEkKm9RF00g_qUYyKCm5WrN1GpESIfQs7mX9nJRD9IyVNa-rHEjS2wYQtRG_V3uxp0MTrNh9tXSyqN2sjYiq9_z_kIs-IyArw7OGjzo_KspA34ieM32GtQY8TrB/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1yNykcsFBZOVxIuAx69zlEPdznciG4Jk8G9S3LOwRFJcbvK7Gkqzl-OzleR6vR1VXOEkKm9RF00g_qUYyKCm5WrN1GpESIfQs7mX9nJRD9IyVNa-rHEjS2wYQtRG_V3uxp0MTrNh9tXSyqN2sjYiq9_z_kIs-IyArw7OGjzo_KspA34ieM32GtQY8TrB/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One would think that ending up on the monarch's Honours List for the New Year would an honor, indeed. After all, becoming a member of the orders of chivalry is not something that just any individual can expect to happen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So it seems surprising that Sherlock Holmes would have "refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described," as Watson related in "The Three Garridebs."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">However, there may be a very simple explanation for this, aside from Holmes's natural recalcitrance, and it is associated with the date of the story.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"The Three Garridebs" is considered by chronologists to have taken place in 1902 or 1903. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year_Honours" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>,</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Honours have been awarded at New Year since at least 1890, in which year a list of Queen Victoria's awards was published by the London Gazette on 2 January. There was no honours list at New Year 1902, as a list had been published on the new King's birthday the previous November, but in January 1903 a list was again published."</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If we accept 1902 as the date of 3GAR, could it be that Holmes felt slighted for not receiving the accolade in the traditional manner? Or perhaps he would have preferred to receive the knighthood from Queen Victoria herself, rather than King Edward VII.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After all, we know that at the conclusion of "The Bruce-Partington Plans" in 1895, he </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"spent a day at Windsor, whence be returned with a remarkably fine emerald tie-pin. When I asked him if he had bought it, he answered that it was a present from a certain gracious lady..."</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Given the "patriotic V.R." Holmes shot into the wall of Baker Street (MUSG), he did seem to have spot in his heart for the queen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The boys at Baker Street Elementary haven't quite figured out the honor associated with an honorific yet...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbxLSfaFxpiUaJV-hXD0bFH3dDb7nIWUoGW5Q-DH2JcjUYc4r9sgJO0ZdqLo7Q_WMAWPlUNTcpx4qJrlnup_HzAeHVK_UmQ8_Pi6CaN_V8FDA4FeNzhDpoNtl4Hvkc18T6yzmv2kVibp7nGshcLCD8d6E22H8mqB8zZpi6Gms7GGQdJQXq4N9VqIvRAhJ/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbxLSfaFxpiUaJV-hXD0bFH3dDb7nIWUoGW5Q-DH2JcjUYc4r9sgJO0ZdqLo7Q_WMAWPlUNTcpx4qJrlnup_HzAeHVK_UmQ8_Pi6CaN_V8FDA4FeNzhDpoNtl4Hvkc18T6yzmv2kVibp7nGshcLCD8d6E22H8mqB8zZpi6Gms7GGQdJQXq4N9VqIvRAhJ/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdED7g3OUlV-_z_dM-5aVla9eRsLnRbsQrHBjnKdd8QCLTI00_XgRnP__qW9c1BVTBedr0No6NPA-DRLcrkJZL8j0xtKqsQ3fj4L103AFcJmySfYfQaTLykHz0iK0MzXV0CZvinF1p8NmwPPF2sJozdBypGCNEn-2M4gwPYh6H-86ZJKdhiNHDasvr87o/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdED7g3OUlV-_z_dM-5aVla9eRsLnRbsQrHBjnKdd8QCLTI00_XgRnP__qW9c1BVTBedr0No6NPA-DRLcrkJZL8j0xtKqsQ3fj4L103AFcJmySfYfQaTLykHz0iK0MzXV0CZvinF1p8NmwPPF2sJozdBypGCNEn-2M4gwPYh6H-86ZJKdhiNHDasvr87o/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOgYSmikVZtsVVjvib-6KYh5xC1RpbsBKYSiP5nZS6JdrSF4iCcyaOOJRgDF7yj_TI-wMfuZdsnY-6q6WJqNh6osZ_-HQKc8C6I6untIvGUzhFEX1SDB0sUsHO_bHequHKmlqRltTtw1Tdk9xvg-c_MVDNU458uOj4jwgToeQlyRuWbqTCU-8ZULmJbt7/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOgYSmikVZtsVVjvib-6KYh5xC1RpbsBKYSiP5nZS6JdrSF4iCcyaOOJRgDF7yj_TI-wMfuZdsnY-6q6WJqNh6osZ_-HQKc8C6I6untIvGUzhFEX1SDB0sUsHO_bHequHKmlqRltTtw1Tdk9xvg-c_MVDNU458uOj4jwgToeQlyRuWbqTCU-8ZULmJbt7/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20195.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><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></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Knighty Knight

“Holmes refused a knighthood” [3GAR]  One would think that ending up on the monarch's Honours List for the New Year would an honor, inde...

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by Scott Monty

The 2025 BSI Weekend – Awards and Honors

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a brief review of what had passed” [THOR]  </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/AVvXsEg55TSJVpx2Nm22Qsqy_AtuEGvbYKCnBGd_z61RD7Ka3z374ozwQ-A8jkR_zrhrs9hT9FwLuBQsM3Odj1F_vDcxlV9TBFWxH-z-dtbCkUjceQBo3wuIhBj6oeAkiR9-xRc8CMlK5dw4sfx69RZd8w67vhSlLc5PCI3V4bG42FugSG443a0JKTNmOwic82JL/s2048/BSI25%20Class%20of%202025.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55TSJVpx2Nm22Qsqy_AtuEGvbYKCnBGd_z61RD7Ka3z374ozwQ-A8jkR_zrhrs9hT9FwLuBQsM3Odj1F_vDcxlV9TBFWxH-z-dtbCkUjceQBo3wuIhBj6oeAkiR9-xRc8CMlK5dw4sfx69RZd8w67vhSlLc5PCI3V4bG42FugSG443a0JKTNmOwic82JL/w640-h384/BSI25%20Class%20of%202025.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: Will Walsh  </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>In the <a href="https://episodes.fm/258126625" target="_blank">next episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>, we'll be covering our own personal experiences at the 2025 BSI Weekend that ran from January 15 – January 19, 2025, during which some 300+ Sherlockians descended on Midtown Manhattan to celebrate the 171st birthday of Sherlock Holmes.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>For the purposes of this update, we're focused on the accolades from the weekend, which happened over a series of events.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Thursday, January 16, the <a href="http://acdsociety.com/">ACD Society</a> held its annual meeting at the Mysterious Bookshop, which once again included the running of the Wessex Cup, with 16 entered horses, all designed by Peggy McFarlane, BSI ("Violet Westbury").</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div></div><div><h3>Doylean Honors</h3></div><div>The ACD Society also had a more august role, which was the conferring of its annual <a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank">Doylean Honors</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVaY99UFtbUg5oqgBeqpnMSkNMHDGFDhKh9HsAXQDaui3lWckPjceIACjChc4My3jMx-soyHqlHBDUNVknElDz6Q4iVUwswtmXp-ygz7LujNevjUUwYTRVWaiHmSA2llMtg0uCuPzFRJoTW5UY4mp8lbHFCkUPjki3WrJaZnp5vs-HhBe-o3jk1IRLw/s616/ACD%20Society%20Doylean%20Honors%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVaY99UFtbUg5oqgBeqpnMSkNMHDGFDhKh9HsAXQDaui3lWckPjceIACjChc4My3jMx-soyHqlHBDUNVknElDz6Q4iVUwswtmXp-ygz7LujNevjUUwYTRVWaiHmSA2llMtg0uCuPzFRJoTW5UY4mp8lbHFCkUPjki3WrJaZnp5vs-HhBe-o3jk1IRLw/s320/ACD%20Society%20Doylean%20Honors%202022.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><b>For Lifetime Service:</b><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/alumni-news/catherine-cooke-bem/&source=gmail&ust=1738029046288000&usg=AOvVaw1-SIKHVnTp17u3T3CqUgb-" href="https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/alumni-news/catherine-cooke-bem/" style="background-color: white; color: blue;" target="_blank"><b>Catherine Cooke</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, a leading figure in the world of Arthur Conan Doyle scholarship and cultural activity, including management of the Sherlock Holmes Collection at the Westminster Libraries.</span></li></ul><b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>For excellence in the "Fiction and Poetry" category:</b><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://margiedeck.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Margie Deck</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for the story collection</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Place-Gothic-Inspired-Magazine-ebook/dp/B0CQGKDCLQ&source=gmail&ust=1738029046288000&usg=AOvVaw0OJ7I_kDymlWlLkflQ_B_6" href="https://amzn.to/3CeIUe7" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><i>The Genius of the Place</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (Belanger Books 2023).</span></li><li><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Daniel Friedman and Eugene Friedman</b></span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">for the poem,</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Steel-Blade-Straight-2024-25-Annual-ebook/dp/B0DQDTMWH2&source=gmail&ust=1738029046288000&usg=AOvVaw2kV4sWHWvmgWqf3QPfoefu" href="https://amzn.to/4aQvPVf" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><i>At the Crossroads of Fate</i></a><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">(Belanger Books 2024).</span></li><li><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.nicholas-meyer.com/" target="_blank">Nicholas Meyer</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for the novel,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/nicholas-meyer-sherlock-holmes-and-the-telegram-from-hell-preorder&source=gmail&ust=1738029046288000&usg=AOvVaw1FBAdcIsoQE_aizVls1Z6G" href="https://bookshop.org/a/110285/9781613165331" style="background-color: white; color: blue;" target="_blank"><i>Sherlock Holmes and the Telegraph from Hell</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(Mysterious Press 2024)</span></li></ul><div><br /></div><b>For excellence in the "Performing Arts" category:</b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Mark Gatiss</b> for the film, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2023/52/a-ghost-story-for-christmas-lot-no-249"><i>Lot 249</i></a> (Adorable Media/BBC Arts 2023).</li><li><b>Hal Glatze</b>r for the radio play, <a href="https://halglatzer.com/flatfinders/index.html"><i>Flatfinders 1881</i></a> (2024).</li></ul><p></p><b><div><b><br /></b></div><br /></b><div><b>For excellence in the "Visual Arts" category:</b><br /><ul><li><b>Megan Oldhues</b> for the painting, <i><a href="http://www.acdfriends.org/SHWalk12-Oldhues.html" target="_blank">The End of Devil Hawker</a></i> (Sherlock Holmes Walk Mural Art 2024).</li><li><b>Molly Knox Ostertag</b> for the drawing, <i><a href="https://mkobooks.bigcartel.com/product/watson-s-sketchbook-vol-1" target="_blank">Watson’s Sketchbook: Volume 1</a></i> (MKO Books 2024).</li></ul><br /><b><br /></b><div><b>For excellence in the "Scholarly Writing" category:</b><ul><li><b>Anne Chapman</b> for the article, "<a href="https://mh.bmj.com/content/49/4/565" target="_blank">Authority and medical expertise: Arthur Conan Doyle in The Idler</a>," in <i>Medical Humanities</i> (a journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics, 2023).</li><li><b>Ollie Randall</b> for the article, "<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transactions-of-the-royal-historical-society/article/cricket-literary-culture-and-ingroups-in-early-twentiethcentury-britain/810A677925CDE2639548A938CF0106C7" target="_blank">Cricket, Literary Culture and In-Groups in Early Twentieth-Century Britain</a>," in <i>Transactions of the Royal Historical Society</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2024).</li></ul><div><div><br /></div><div>To watch the entire ceremony (about 30 minutes long), see the video on the <a href="https://youtu.be/n2I5q2r3eEw?si=WdkppjKQNEj8Y7rO" target="_blank">Doings of Doyle</a> YouTube channel.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3>Susan Rice Mentorship Award</h3><div>On Friday at the Gillette Luncheon, the assembled diners bore witness to the latest recipient of the Susan Rice Mentorship Award.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="http://www.vincentstarrett.com/blog/susan-rice-mentorship-award" target="_blank">Susan Rice Mentorship Award</a> was established in 2022 to recognize the activities of a member of the Sherlock Holmes community who has been a mentor to others, in the spirit of Susan Rice.</div><div><br /></div><div>This year's honoree, announced at the William Gillette Luncheon, was <b>Julie McKuras, BSI</b> ("The Dutchess of Devonshire").</div><div><br /></div><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/AVvXsEhMmY4RCDVu7ouAyGJ0EWetXlk5vHMUukpDnP98UZ1uHLGreUDmMJ4B61tyLdPK-qz4YHyxcAq0Q-1hmbrlOVBo5iMIwcGKEKwzF6f5t-TIJffIfik7PGRs-J7Is2lQYhjtqHg99QOTaFQnS1r0y45Q09PfJWAwu0TGQRIUMSlHLyKmT8bQEoNksEOy9Pxa/s2048/Julie%20McKuras%20Ashley%20Polasek.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMmY4RCDVu7ouAyGJ0EWetXlk5vHMUukpDnP98UZ1uHLGreUDmMJ4B61tyLdPK-qz4YHyxcAq0Q-1hmbrlOVBo5iMIwcGKEKwzF6f5t-TIJffIfik7PGRs-J7Is2lQYhjtqHg99QOTaFQnS1r0y45Q09PfJWAwu0TGQRIUMSlHLyKmT8bQEoNksEOy9Pxa/w640-h410/Julie%20McKuras%20Ashley%20Polasek.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: Will Walsh</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Previous honorees of the Susan Rice Mentorship Award:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Peter Blau, BSI</b> ("Black Peter") </li><li><b>Evy Herzog, BSI </b>("The Daintiest Thing Under a Bonnet")</li><li><b>Francine Kitts, BSI</b> ("Lady Trelawney Hope")</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3>Plaudits From the BSI Dinner</h3><div>As ever, the swirling curiosity and interest are centered on the Baker Street Irregulars annual investitures of new members. But before that, we were greeted with other substantial news.</div><div><br /></div><h4><i>The </i>Woman</h4><div><i>The </i>Woman, an honorific given to the spouse of a Baker Street Irregular was announced at the pre-dinner reception. This year's honoree was <b>Ellen Pfeifer</b>, wife of <b>Dan Polvere, BSI</b> ("Holloway and Steele"). She was toasted and introduced by <b>Richard Olken, BSI</b> ("Bob Carruthers"), after which Elen gave her own remarks.</div><div><br /></div><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/AVvXsEgMVCwT4B26dA8WMvmEvWjEZzNR8VdnOdm3AJbrVD6ssN7Ij7IRo-kR8yV1MzrjbTM31due4Ml_mYzynPw3Cq1phbyK4VlQMlnaBZdEAwAaJQWjgPQQJ9xJ1cLMP0acBRTxDSOR6_VO1bSEdH0tzWNdXjSzkhKCp6CK9ML9qdt6XPfrI2xsWKwEJar6R8aF/s2048/The%20Woman%20-%20Ellen%20Pfeifer%20and%20Dan%20Polvere%20and%20Richard%20Olken.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2048" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMVCwT4B26dA8WMvmEvWjEZzNR8VdnOdm3AJbrVD6ssN7Ij7IRo-kR8yV1MzrjbTM31due4Ml_mYzynPw3Cq1phbyK4VlQMlnaBZdEAwAaJQWjgPQQJ9xJ1cLMP0acBRTxDSOR6_VO1bSEdH0tzWNdXjSzkhKCp6CK9ML9qdt6XPfrI2xsWKwEJar6R8aF/w640-h386/The%20Woman%20-%20Ellen%20Pfeifer%20and%20Dan%20Polvere%20and%20Richard%20Olken.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: Will Walsh</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /><h4>The Morley-Montgomery Award</h4></div><div>Each year, one article in the <i><a href="https://ihose.co/BSJ" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i> (as determined by a panel of judges) is chosen for the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2001/05/01/morley-montgomery-award/" target="_blank">Morley-Montgomery Award</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>This year, the award was given to <b>Michael Meer, BSI</b> ("The Englischer Hof") for his article “The Methods of Sherlock Holmes: The "Examination Paper" of 1893's Author Revealed,” appearing in the Winter 2024 issue of the <i>BSJ</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3>The Honours List (Investitures)</h3><div>And then we arrived at the announcement of the latest investitures into the Baker Street Irregulars. Membership is granted by <b>Michael Kean, BSI</b> ("General Gordon"), who serves at the BSI's "Wiggins." Each member receives an investiture — a phrase from the Sherlock Holmes canon that is significant or in other ways meaningful to that person.</div><div><br /></div><div>The BSI's Class of 2025 is:</div><div><div><ul><li><b>Shana Carter</b> — "Carter"</li><li><b>Jim Cox</b> — "Coxon"</li><li><b>Judi Ellis</b> — "The Carlton Club"</li><li><b>Ron Fish</b> — "The Hon. Ronald Adair"</li><li><b>Beth Gallego</b> — "Lighthouses"</li><li><b>Bruce Harris</b> — "Harris"</li><li><b>Louise Haskett</b> — "Aurora"</li><li><b>Rosemary Herbert</b> — "A Slim Youth in an Ulster"</li><li><b>Christian Monggaard</b> — "Neville St. Clair"</li><li><b>Gary Thaden</b> —  "Augusto Barelli"</li></ul></div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>Andrew Solberg, BSI</b> ("Professor Coram") received the Two Shilling Award, for service above and beyond.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We're pleased to note that one of the newest Irregulars, Rosemary Herbert, previously made an appearance on<i> I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> (<a href="https://ihose.co/ihose173" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 173</a>), discussing her adventure in donning male costume to crash a 1970s-era dinner of the then all-male Speckled Band of Boston:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-rid="53a9e9936f6e5699" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/10669733/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Emerald Tie Pin Society</h3><div>In a bit of an ad hoc assembly, the Emerald Tie Pin Society was formed. This group consists of Sherlockians who were fortunate enough to receive an emerald tie pin from the late Maggie Schpak, BSI ("The Soup Plate Medal"). Maggie was a designer and metallurgist, providing countless props to Hollywood productions over the years. She passed away in 2024.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OgHYfLtmxiTiurMKptqEC1q3OuLlgfAKtT8bQxrcrdJqEbwODdqiT5cva-1GEY80vz7Tl-TY6NVlZgsTyoyIawVa_vpKs0VmHm3DMDEWrxTupLr1lwGq-pmp1MdYuMSPhkaVAoEHeDyzEu-o5Jzjs5VPs0gSKs0CBcZsG9iXIjZ0fHbcqIB8vm0dXys4/s2048/Emerald%20tie%20pin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2005" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OgHYfLtmxiTiurMKptqEC1q3OuLlgfAKtT8bQxrcrdJqEbwODdqiT5cva-1GEY80vz7Tl-TY6NVlZgsTyoyIawVa_vpKs0VmHm3DMDEWrxTupLr1lwGq-pmp1MdYuMSPhkaVAoEHeDyzEu-o5Jzjs5VPs0gSKs0CBcZsG9iXIjZ0fHbcqIB8vm0dXys4/s320/Emerald%20tie%20pin.jpg" width="313" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><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/AVvXsEjvk2NnWmQgriui7ZfOE8JXQswCsXSZbubkrcRypIgwdtb-UoI_-r18TjuJeAWzUmVN-YzytnSK_TSh_tWJb1gPXzxxBw8XucaJoUCULHV8enleCvZMCf7ZFWK2dougSCf2_pB8vpRTuNQDmn4mvc-by2CSo1Id3ZnuBumQaET4TqtUzr8GkHXsJQnxXlA0/s6796/BSI25%20Emerald%20Tie%20Pin%20society.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3884" data-original-width="6796" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvk2NnWmQgriui7ZfOE8JXQswCsXSZbubkrcRypIgwdtb-UoI_-r18TjuJeAWzUmVN-YzytnSK_TSh_tWJb1gPXzxxBw8XucaJoUCULHV8enleCvZMCf7ZFWK2dougSCf2_pB8vpRTuNQDmn4mvc-by2CSo1Id3ZnuBumQaET4TqtUzr8GkHXsJQnxXlA0/w640-h366/BSI25%20Emerald%20Tie%20Pin%20society.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: Will Walsh</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It is difficult to capture all of the activities of the BSI Weekend, due to so many small groups branching out to honor their own traditions, including named events such as ASH Wednesday, Lost in New York with a Bunch of Sherlockians, and the ASH Brunch. Not to mention other events like the Vendors Room, the BSI Reception.</div><div><br /></div><div>A comprehensive report of the events will be in the Spring issue of the <i><a href="https://ihose.co/BSJ" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i>. Check your subscription to make sure you're on the list!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As ever, the game's afoot!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div><br /><br /></div>

The 2025 BSI Weekend – Awards and Honors

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