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Episode 232: A Curious Collector of Baker Street

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a connoisseur and collector” [ILLU] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSp3x4zeIeVDTUcAHQguQN2g84YogrnP68ntvuiuoUew9cL5o-wOep6pVGvWNGuY-jfTJLuCwy5cF48U85Iu4tMN8fJEFINfjNsnFxfas_wF8jP2OJL8sRxDl2ccICBNMNe-YwSxZDZ2g9kywLDmDPg13ntI2RfCAe0m9px8vstiDinBJJ-dy4FBrgrw=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSp3x4zeIeVDTUcAHQguQN2g84YogrnP68ntvuiuoUew9cL5o-wOep6pVGvWNGuY-jfTJLuCwy5cF48U85Iu4tMN8fJEFINfjNsnFxfas_wF8jP2OJL8sRxDl2ccICBNMNe-YwSxZDZ2g9kywLDmDPg13ntI2RfCAe0m9px8vstiDinBJJ-dy4FBrgrw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>Chuck Kovacic is an artist of many dimensions. His paintings are but one of these dimensions — universally visible to those who can see his work in art galleries, or places like McSorley's Old Ale House in New York City.</p><p>But Chuck's flair for Sherlockian scholarship and collecting has taken him in a rare direction: he has a recreation of Sherlock Holmes's 221B Baker Street sitting room built in his house in California. And it contains more than reproductions or Canonical items; Chuck has taken his level of collecting to a far deeper and studious level.</p><p>Tune in as he shares his "collection mania in its most acute form" [ILLU] with us.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEje_uz58gs8d9sAZvEuh0DIhDt750K2GHMGtx5umKwXf00k3YartH6SF9J3RapwjAbom73v78ttwXWaYTKXlhOIpEPE0sZPw6M17CeJgve3q3mPLrchkAbWVg9IFjia7yUu7I3g_q5t0hf_5FomedgQRDAdSWINeqrl08lfAPOK6YAdUdYkfpmBImrH8Q=s1801" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1273" data-original-width="1801" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEje_uz58gs8d9sAZvEuh0DIhDt750K2GHMGtx5umKwXf00k3YartH6SF9J3RapwjAbom73v78ttwXWaYTKXlhOIpEPE0sZPw6M17CeJgve3q3mPLrchkAbWVg9IFjia7yUu7I3g_q5t0hf_5FomedgQRDAdSWINeqrl08lfAPOK6YAdUdYkfpmBImrH8Q=w640-h452" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>We're pleased to announce the return of the <b>Canonical Couplet</b>! We'll be accepting responses through January 29, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The winner will receive an item from the IHOSE vaults.</p><p><b>NOTE</b>: we have bonus content for our Patreon supporters: an outtake clip and more of Chuck's Sherlockian artwork, including his portrait of Christopher Morley. You can access it <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/61186002/" target="_blank">on Patreon</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 232: A Curious Collector of Baker Street

“a connoisseur and collector” [ILLU] Chuck Kovacic is an artist of many dimensions. His paintings are but one of these dimensions — univers...

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by Scott Monty

The Opening of the Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects Exhibit

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“and his wife, to give exhibitions” [VEIL]</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/a/AVvXsEg5XCDd64hW0lNBcYlCHOr_vcObKUkX_Sak3xbO6sb3MkhBHJ_Fos5f0MIKS8pNjPHrT28SBhdnI9apFPBE68t0lyPQMiRbZmJPisM9QaOikb8vhkEn4I5tRjuNDfOCFBd2YbJXzNXKD0AI1UJ97o7yBPndmwtetBMjs95QHhsSPWtnNbRtwi4koqyd6A=s854" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="854" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5XCDd64hW0lNBcYlCHOr_vcObKUkX_Sak3xbO6sb3MkhBHJ_Fos5f0MIKS8pNjPHrT28SBhdnI9apFPBE68t0lyPQMiRbZmJPisM9QaOikb8vhkEn4I5tRjuNDfOCFBd2YbJXzNXKD0AI1UJ97o7yBPndmwtetBMjs95QHhsSPWtnNbRtwi4koqyd6A=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: <a href="https://youtu.be/P6jF0d9Pty0?t=1606" target="_blank">YouTube</a></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>Last night, <a href="https://www.grolierclub.org/" target="_blank">The Grolier Club</a> hosted a reception for the opening of the "<a href="https://sherlockin221objects.org/" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects</a>" exhibition by Cathy Miranker and Glen Miranker, BSI ("The Origin of Tree Worship").</p><p>Glen has been a collector of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle items for decades. First <strike>enabled</strike> introduced to the hobby by his unsuspecting wife Cathy, his collection of some 8,000 objects is one of the finest of its kind in the world.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizzAvBXopkREa39Pd3NmjCFAg4AESi4KAywvxQkQ9hbJwOhwTCaLmjJfBBNQ5e9ZOy31gfNW64l_EeNGU8nWKDflXFCnltEksLypNqb4Uv-EV5RpfjOefScjwncr1fJX0wpndPqLF213xOSdpj2ZBOeD3TNCUVbAsT-kmpfxJyKKmI-dIxdOVcuL2jow=s854" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="854" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizzAvBXopkREa39Pd3NmjCFAg4AESi4KAywvxQkQ9hbJwOhwTCaLmjJfBBNQ5e9ZOy31gfNW64l_EeNGU8nWKDflXFCnltEksLypNqb4Uv-EV5RpfjOefScjwncr1fJX0wpndPqLF213xOSdpj2ZBOeD3TNCUVbAsT-kmpfxJyKKmI-dIxdOVcuL2jow=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Over the weekend <i>The New York Times</i> featured the exhibition in its pages. We've arranged for a free version of the article, "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/arts/design/sherlock-holmes-exhibition-grolier.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhkSVUbBCbcR8Q86RGLnvnAxvsnhnLkKC-eSnNCyOAQDpPF9lfNZKBie9o02XGUXthFMbI1Avxuy-sVd2pcdz6VmLrW0pIUP3dy7oupQmI925-KAu0z-2HjNjL8IrsllPjiskyLdTG8XqPA2HNycFtm9Zdjc1H-ymVIkvmeapN93NV93f0lAJ1oF3xXNGTR4a6eW1gpM86Gbxrc9gA1R-lZPDjUltWY4L4AGx5AXROEFDgspDZht64PfY8fL639LBU_ecLhgrp3C2BgL4ihA5dZVJF7VyUe5Aa3n1Bk_nU1EIwn&smid=url-share" target="_blank">A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club</a>" to be made available to our readers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Original paintings by Sidney Paget and Frederic Dorr Steele, letters from Conan Doyle, hundreds of pirated editions of the early novels, original material related to the William Gillette play, and a number of original manuscripts of the Sherlock Holmes stories — all of these are part of Glen's fabulous collection.</p><p>You can see some of the items on display at the Grolier in <a href="https://youtu.be/P6jF0d9Pty0?t=1606" target="_blank">this video, live streamed from the exhibition</a> last night (remarks begin at 26:46), and below in some images. Glen says a few words, particularly about Cathy, who did most of the writing for the displays. You can also see some of the items up close.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P6jF0d9Pty0?start=1606" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For a more in-depth understanding of Glen's collection, the exhibition, and how it came to life, don't miss Episode 227 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, "<a href="http://ihose.co/ihose227" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects</a>".</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1151104270&color=ce1a21" width="100%"></iframe></p><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sherlock-holmes-in-221-objects" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects">Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p>Sherlockians who are in New York City this week for the BSI Weekend festivities will have an opportunity to stop by. For those not in attendance, the exhibition continues through April 16, 2022. Arrangements to visit can be made at <a href="https://www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=384827&ssid=322448&vnf=1" target="_blank">the Grolier Club website</a>.</p><p>And The Grolier has launched <a href="https://grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/show/sherlock-holmes" target="_blank">a site to explore the exhibition virtually</a> as well.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Images from last night's reception</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><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/a/AVvXsEgxNJULGhNRLI8hyreC9I359FSO5taCpusGxmlqUarH0f5m67i-9mQRCv8bvCBrx0BER4MvsuLmv6pLKneO0T7gJIFkZkIIEjfdEHIJw_nyq4c_djoyFQ_ZnnmZTGJsdhtauoIm8MhxFEABpB7HXLBkxBjrbPsY5AkSQ8av0S860bAcwQW7EsfzKkj0YA=s854" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="854" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxNJULGhNRLI8hyreC9I359FSO5taCpusGxmlqUarH0f5m67i-9mQRCv8bvCBrx0BER4MvsuLmv6pLKneO0T7gJIFkZkIIEjfdEHIJw_nyq4c_djoyFQ_ZnnmZTGJsdhtauoIm8MhxFEABpB7HXLBkxBjrbPsY5AkSQ8av0S860bAcwQW7EsfzKkj0YA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Adventures and Memoirs</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arthur Conan Doyle in His Own Hand</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><br /></span></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/a/AVvXsEgxYIjyKc8OhWn25WV8ri_VXXV6RwxW5yRfsZmGRcmROb_x6v945aP2GlvgUvr6P79xWH3-ODAIYw7pcVpRm6oCCd68sBndhoAlOQ6sAyqqtoEaJNXyg8cqj5z8MMwWW-zHbTulhYDFA5LMAljgoXk2vQB8r6oUFRS8uq_2hPxHLWDv1PeVLStjtHS8gQ=s854" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="854" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxYIjyKc8OhWn25WV8ri_VXXV6RwxW5yRfsZmGRcmROb_x6v945aP2GlvgUvr6P79xWH3-ODAIYw7pcVpRm6oCCd68sBndhoAlOQ6sAyqqtoEaJNXyg8cqj5z8MMwWW-zHbTulhYDFA5LMAljgoXk2vQB8r6oUFRS8uq_2hPxHLWDv1PeVLStjtHS8gQ=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Death of Sherlock Holmes and rebirth of Conan Doyle</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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The Opening of the Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects Exhibit

“and his wife, to give exhibitions” [VEIL] Credit: YouTube Last night, The Grolier Club hosted a reception for the opening of the " Sh...

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Happy 168th Birthday, Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"you could not celebrate him without being known yourself" [HOUN]</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/a/AVvXsEgQr7fZDmXjhAyQuxnF-LJEGvNVkKOygERw8nhlnQdyaUX14I7lR9bldSNhAVXrbPIaVQ-XR3MIXvUqNsKYBmgp6sM6j647bbqZoue6hJOqJalJ2QRik2iCBf81TKCqB7L3tyMa4lYZmjE08_5t-k6BwridsxCVQbsprojdzTNvnVTtd0Oy3Uh6P2tXQg=s839" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQr7fZDmXjhAyQuxnF-LJEGvNVkKOygERw8nhlnQdyaUX14I7lR9bldSNhAVXrbPIaVQ-XR3MIXvUqNsKYBmgp6sM6j647bbqZoue6hJOqJalJ2QRik2iCBf81TKCqB7L3tyMa4lYZmjE08_5t-k6BwridsxCVQbsprojdzTNvnVTtd0Oy3Uh6P2tXQg=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Cake-Notes of Sherlock Holmes, from the Amateur Mendicant Society, Jan. 2018</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Today is January 6th — and that marks the date on which we traditionally celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday.<br /><br />We say "traditionally," because there is no definitive statement of his actual date of birth in the Canon, but beginning with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morley">Christopher Morley</a>, the date of January 6th has become the de facto accepted date for Holmes' birthday. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons.<br /><br />Of all of the quotes in the Canon, William Shakespeare was the most oft-quoted author. There is but one Shakespearean play that Holmes quotes twice: <i><a href="https://amzn.to/37GCVtA">Twelfth Night</a></i>. In <i>The Sign of the Four</i>, Holmes concludes, "All is well that ends well." This is from from Act IV, Scene 4. And in "The Empty House," Holmes states "'Journeys end in lovers meetings,' as the old play says," from Act II, Scene 3.<br /><br />The reason the date was chosen is that in Christianity, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6">January 6th</a> is the Feast of the Epiphany, or officially the twelfth day of Christmas. I suppose if we were being truly technical about it, the twelfth night of Christmas would fall on January 5th...<br /><br />In addition, William S. Baring-Gould in his <a href="https://amzn.to/2QrZ4G3"><i>The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, posited that because Holmes was a little cranky on the morning of January 7th — the date on which <i>The Valley of Fear</i> began — he had a hangover, induced by birthday celebrations the evening prior.<br /><div><br /></div><div>And why 168? Scholars have fixed the year of Sherlock Holmes's birth to 1854 by virtue of a line in "His Last Bow" when he was described as "a tall gaunt man of sixty."<span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 21px;"><br /></span><br /><h3><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 21px;">Additional Thoughts</span></h3>In an episode of <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com" target="_blank">Trifles</a>, our weekly show where we discuss some of the minutiae in the Sherlock Holmes stories, we cover this in greater detail, and with some additional research material. Do check it out on the podcast streaming service of your choice, the embedded file below, or at <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles210">ihose.co/trifles210</a>.</div><div> <br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/960247957&color=%23947454&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sherlock-holmess-birthday" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes's Birthday">Sherlock Holmes's Birthday</a></div><br /><br />And by all means, share the news that today is Sherlock Holmes's birthday. But whatever you do, don't try to throw him a surprise party. It's an exercise in futility.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="315" id="BLOGGER-video-1d96bcd053384a14-1878" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzwEsL401b5Gp1tGQzLKJoVN_w9SsnNl7sZR6aZja_GuJgbIvipMCUv6xMm8rj6NfJRYIOFlWDAGzre7fYCwEk3a1_h36KMAacOTrOLMNKWzqIqWINAR-zvrokqCwL_sNJG2EA" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="560"></iframe></div><br /></div><br />We hope you'll take a moment and wish Sherlock Holmes a happy birthday in your own way. If you'd like to join in here, please feel free to leave a birthday comment below.<br /><br /></div><div><i>Image credit: Self</i><br /><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /></div>

Happy 168th Birthday, Sherlock Holmes

"you could not celebrate him without being known yourself" [HOUN] The Cake-Notes of Sherlock Holmes, from the Amateur Mendicant So...

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Baker Street Elementary – Out with the Old

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Her idea of cuisine is a little limited” [NAVA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-VJjxvF1HEaeZPxnmH34YkbkPFjob54MvMbw5wGY-koAiMZa77NnGsAUaRZyJJEw4xAWPi3LNKNnFY3GMybul6vnkv-rDYqJ0LP0hOMM6P6CRhjKySUdteMdA9uLhz6WYz-QmJlMLL4l7vI40kM3AC998FLs4EtGXuIw9Iths1ats3GVXLsx_IR0UVQ=s768" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-VJjxvF1HEaeZPxnmH34YkbkPFjob54MvMbw5wGY-koAiMZa77NnGsAUaRZyJJEw4xAWPi3LNKNnFY3GMybul6vnkv-rDYqJ0LP0hOMM6P6CRhjKySUdteMdA9uLhz6WYz-QmJlMLL4l7vI40kM3AC998FLs4EtGXuIw9Iths1ats3GVXLsx_IR0UVQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>One of the most remembered quotes about Mrs. Hudson and her culinary abilities comes from "The Naval Treaty, " in which Holmes, Watson, and Percy Phelps sit down for breakfast a la Hudson.</div><div><br /></div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Mrs. Hudson has risen to the occasion,” said Holmes, uncovering a dish of curried chicken. “Her cuisine is a little limited, but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotch-woman. What have you here, Watson?”</div><div>“Ham and eggs,” I answered.</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>We know that what Mr. Phelps uncovers is entirely inedible, but we'll leave the spoilers out of it for now.</div><div><br /></div><div>Could it be that Mrs. Hudson tired of cooking for the Baker Street boys after so many years? After all, she must have taken possession of 221B Baker Street after her husband's death, and being a landlady to one of the worst tenants in London likely took a toll on her.</div><div><br /></div><div>In "The Problem of Thor Bridge," we're told that there is a new cook: </div><div><blockquote><div>“There is little to share, but we may discuss it when you have consumed the two hard-boiled eggs with which our new cook has favoured us. Their condition may not be unconnected with the copy of the Family Herald which I observed yesterday upon the hall-table. Even so trivial a matter as cooking an egg demands an attention which is conscious of the passage of time and incompatible with the love romance in that excellent periodical.”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Thus, the "old" cook was likely to have been Mrs. Hudson. Either she required a holiday from cooking or Holmes (in his uniquely straightforward way) intimated that he had had enough of her cooking.</div><div><br /></div><div>She had a little more variety when it came to her duties in the dining hall at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8liohE_oKffPUk7y3W6sY31FptZkpz7yDCPXYCkuOeMJuTQr_5aoyTKRr2oTofhSWn87K0fPWTsuclGmWRBVEq_Y7x6Rn2RVvX4DgnXsDsCWzlb_qe48uNsKjrG7EWLUFTokmVSSH69V_lpvP2w6F_uS9SzvmGqZZSDrAVJBodctpX0e8TJ1uVJftbw=s768" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8liohE_oKffPUk7y3W6sY31FptZkpz7yDCPXYCkuOeMJuTQr_5aoyTKRr2oTofhSWn87K0fPWTsuclGmWRBVEq_Y7x6Rn2RVvX4DgnXsDsCWzlb_qe48uNsKjrG7EWLUFTokmVSSH69V_lpvP2w6F_uS9SzvmGqZZSDrAVJBodctpX0e8TJ1uVJftbw=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Episode 231: A Quiet Air of Mastery

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“put forward with such a quiet air of mastery” [STOC] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB6yQ5WVJMLUyt9NiYln3UQbU71iffzViGGJEFODQTfB9PXSnuNcSXEKvFMAHSA9OuK-oBC6_kQRdsL_fD2hxW6f9MK2yYkDbgu8j5tM-CZDw4vhd7gRBk_O8kM783C9pfoBlqszGMEnJFHqQ9i0tT2EyS3yxuZO6xEG4CkQu6fqalBzzOsb2l00LUgA=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB6yQ5WVJMLUyt9NiYln3UQbU71iffzViGGJEFODQTfB9PXSnuNcSXEKvFMAHSA9OuK-oBC6_kQRdsL_fD2hxW6f9MK2yYkDbgu8j5tM-CZDw4vhd7gRBk_O8kM783C9pfoBlqszGMEnJFHqQ9i0tT2EyS3yxuZO6xEG4CkQu6fqalBzzOsb2l00LUgA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>As regular readers and listeners know, Michael F. Whelan, BSI ("Wiggins") passed away in October of 2021. His contribution to the Sherlockian game was more than any one person could adequately describe.</p><p>To honor his memory, we gathered a number of Baker Street Irregulars to remember Mike beyond his Sherlockian self — people who knew him well and could comment on his interests, his personality, and his character. 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Episode 231: A Quiet Air of Mastery

“put forward with such a quiet air of mastery” [STOC] As regular readers and listeners know, Michael F. Whelan, BSI ("Wiggins") p...

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The Second Morning After Christmas

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"the second morning after Christmas" [BLUE] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMFtzw_vauLqGI8i0SrRwFREYxyE65Xzmhy3UpfMc83q9GBaYo3Uu9riMCNGwfqH4g6RsS5Q73kB-7FoGXwXd7Fn9DcSm8i1-XMrvQH8DWBj-PdmKcMLi5ID3u5ZJ-aJ90QMZSc1HSIoy0/s1600/blue-03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMFtzw_vauLqGI8i0SrRwFREYxyE65Xzmhy3UpfMc83q9GBaYo3Uu9riMCNGwfqH4g6RsS5Q73kB-7FoGXwXd7Fn9DcSm8i1-XMrvQH8DWBj-PdmKcMLi5ID3u5ZJ-aJ90QMZSc1HSIoy0/s400/blue-03.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Today traditionally marks the date on which "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" took place. The seventh in the series of stories that make up <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, "The Blue Carbucnle" is the sole Christmas story in the Sherlock Holmes canon.<br /><br />Watson sets the stage for us by opening the tale with this paragraph:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the purpose of examination."</blockquote>It has become an annual tradition at I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere to acknowledge December 27th with a favorite reading. Just as the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> annually reproduces a 1949 editorial written by Vermont Royster called "<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj-3My0j_zJAhUIPCYKHePhBrMQFgghMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2FSB10001424052970204464404577112431986005786&usg=AFQjCNFBOMTBdMiqlxf9tGYz0Jb-tieRKw&sig2=qjutMkGmsi34eHf1n39PhQ" target="_blank"><i>In Hoc Anno Domini</i></a>," we saw no reason to avoid replication here.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6321981775136876837" name="more"></a>If this is new to you, please feel free to share and use this at your own Sherlockian society holiday meetings. The only thing we ask is that you attribute the poem to its rightful author. If you'd like to listen to it, we also produced a special episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere in December 2007 in which we read the verse:<br /><br /><center><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1185689230&color=%23ce1a21&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></center><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/compliments-of-the-season" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Compliments of the Season">Compliments of the Season</a></div><div><br /></div>So, we bring you "Two Days After Christmas," a tribute to "The Blue Carbuncle" in the style of Clement Moore's "<a href="http://iment.com/maida//familytree/henry/xmas/poemvariants/troysentinel1823.htm">A Visit from St. Nick</a>."<br /><br /><div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/24531783/Two-Days-After-Christmas#from_embed" title="View Two Days After Christmas on Scribd"><b>Two Days After Christmas</b></a> </div><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="null" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/24531783/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true&access_key=key-8qfi6uwtitozfa777tp" title="Two Days After Christmas" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><br />Looking back over both of our Sherlockian podcasts (I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere and Trifles), we pulled together four more holiday-themed episodes for a full playlist: a discussion of "The Blue Carbuncle" and Christopher Morley's lovely essay "A Christmas Story Without Slush"; an interview with Peter Blau concerning his Sherlockian Christmas tree, bedecked with Sherlockian ornaments; a discussion of peace in the Sherlock Holmes stories (when we can find it); and an investigation of what went wrong in the botched jewel heist.<div><br /></div><div>The playlist is <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/compliments-of-the-season?si=85662034fb8747848decdce97ba4bd93&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_blank">available on SoundCloud</a> and is embedded below for your convenience:<br /><div><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1370063371&color=%23ce1a21&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/compliments-of-the-season" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Compliments of the Season">Compliments of the Season</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Enjoy. And this holiday season, may all of your carbuncles be blue.<br /><br /><div></div><br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0px;">--</div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div>

The Second Morning After Christmas

"the second morning after Christmas" [BLUE] Today traditionally marks the date on which "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle...

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Baker Street Elementary – Past Imperfect

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“in my past life” [ILLU] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdYSu0KiHj9y7bKlvGheUvB9q48d56HZNGtiJxzWi_LjHMJ7v1TganW62_4vxz__Bz_2l2w8qLjNEO7yZ62YnnB1IC5qp-3x0nYmWOcr0wZfBNd7ADo19B1pAA5XqWD4Wj-IAylmJy6Y8xrHPUEhFX30nu0-3dlrRoQerZfm5X98Pdg2bEXJ3W7pgf8A=s768" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdYSu0KiHj9y7bKlvGheUvB9q48d56HZNGtiJxzWi_LjHMJ7v1TganW62_4vxz__Bz_2l2w8qLjNEO7yZ62YnnB1IC5qp-3x0nYmWOcr0wZfBNd7ADo19B1pAA5XqWD4Wj-IAylmJy6Y8xrHPUEhFX30nu0-3dlrRoQerZfm5X98Pdg2bEXJ3W7pgf8A=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div>Reincarnation is not a subject we typically associate with Sherlock Holmes. </div><div><br /></div><div>Although there is passing mention of "Hindoos" and Sikhs in <i>The Sign of Four</i> (reincarnation is a belief of the Hindu and Sikh religions), there is no time spent on the topic of having lived another life.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, there are individuals in the Canon who are eager to escape from their previous lives. People like Jephro Rucastle, whose ruse became apparent after Sherlock Holmes's involvement in "The Copper Beeches":<br /><blockquote>“Mr. Rucastle survived, but was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who probably know so much of Rucastle’s past life that he finds it difficult to part from them.”</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>And Baron Adelbert Gruner wanted to avoid the naked truth of his past romantic liaisons in "The Illustrious Client": </div><div><blockquote><div>“The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Hilton Cubitt had an inkling that there was something to Elsie Patrick's past in "The Dancing Men," but he was as good as his word and never inquired. She married him with an intention to leave her old life behind:</div><div><blockquote><div>“‘I have had some very disagreeable associations in my life,’ said she; ‘I wish to forget all about them. I would rather never allude to the past, for it is very painful to me. If you take me, Hilton, you will take a woman who has nothing that she need be personally ashamed of; but you will have to be content with my word for it, and to allow me to be silent as to all that passed up to the time when I became yours.’”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>And <i>The Valley of Fear</i> was based on the double (triple?) life of John Douglas / Birdy Edwards / John McMurdo. Indeed, Watson acknowledged that Mrs. Douglas didn't know the full story.</div><div><blockquote><div>“It was remarked sometimes, however, by those who knew them best, that the confidence between the two did not appear to be complete, since the wife was either very reticent about her husband’s past life, or else, as seemed more likely, was imperfectly informed about it.”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>These past lives merely scratch the surface of individuals who take on alternative identities as they go about their duplicitous and sometimes nefarious activities in the Sherlock Holmes stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>Is life for those associated with criminal enterprises, either as pursuers or the pursued, destined to be one of many lives? Perhaps that's something that a philosophy class at Baker Street Elemetnary might examine...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYxUCsWCAZ8yFdbeg91GrgUputdjEBwBOBQw8XuR3K_67HDDDRc9u_MFgMplogVdsB2TJi83wTVJU24eildd9dJwUlyb0lTwaWQOTtABdyqI_Ed1sOU3McrsPaf2i_EkLAZSsmVlEqQIBTMcCENazRtvWuW1JxEzkEmdrKyl8fRSD_3ZAFXIbzrXj3Lw=s768" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYxUCsWCAZ8yFdbeg91GrgUputdjEBwBOBQw8XuR3K_67HDDDRc9u_MFgMplogVdsB2TJi83wTVJU24eildd9dJwUlyb0lTwaWQOTtABdyqI_Ed1sOU3McrsPaf2i_EkLAZSsmVlEqQIBTMcCENazRtvWuW1JxEzkEmdrKyl8fRSD_3ZAFXIbzrXj3Lw=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu7JChf7qZEfz-GRyB7_rXWt0KEVOvHjBBrx6t9nZ5h3pX8n248MZSSM2YzSkAaivSK96N7QqxJDKowAHqk2vsqQknfabi_wB6a22GUEy_mV0CGW3aWc3OJmWoJB9DRgPZsUPIUA3KHLfzTYGL_YupDGAdKGp_V2II52mbYrrDX4voKZXQY4hSmdkEmA=s768" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Past Imperfect

“in my past life” [ILLU] Reincarnation is not a subject we typically associate with Sherlock Holmes. Although there is passing mention of ...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 230: Sherlock Holmes' Little Book of Wisdom

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all” [TWIS] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4bpZ2OvXaRAHkKXJWLIVKXbFrmxuTIl0j_Y5GmtnC-drtYfLSgcwq2wQaedQKBG5LqbPJhF8R2jcoRfOD6WPFWXxCkRurHx27emZpn4klJfXpzfF9h0Uw2hu3Vc_LmeI11bW4XN0KX7mnn8CXscZ3SnV6_VVocW8jSIzdGerbuQGEKsIWwZVtAamnkg=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4bpZ2OvXaRAHkKXJWLIVKXbFrmxuTIl0j_Y5GmtnC-drtYfLSgcwq2wQaedQKBG5LqbPJhF8R2jcoRfOD6WPFWXxCkRurHx27emZpn4klJfXpzfF9h0Uw2hu3Vc_LmeI11bW4XN0KX7mnn8CXscZ3SnV6_VVocW8jSIzdGerbuQGEKsIWwZVtAamnkg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>The game—of life—is afoot! In our endless pursuit of happiness, is it possible that we have overlooked some crucial clue? <span class="xn-person">Sherlock Holmes</span> says "Yes."</p><p>As Glenn Dakin kept reading the Sherlock Holmes stories, he discovered more wisdom buried in those pages than many modern-day philosophers. He extracted some examples to serve as the basis for his book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3dXNQUE"><em>Sherlock Holmes' Little Book of Wisdom: How to Deduce What On Earth Is Going On</em></a>.</p><p>Glenn's book has ten chapters with lessons from the stories, paired with his wonderfully witty and whimsical illustrations to make this journey of wisdom one of fun.</p><p>

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