I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

(Mis)remembered Words

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Sherlockians have been writing a torrent of words for a century or more — "<a href="http://www.worlds-best-detective-crime-and-murder-mystery-books.com/1887.html">Never has so much been written by so many for so few</a>," said Christopher Morley — and many of their ideas, phrases and coinages are burned into my brain. Sometimes, however, they're burned just a little wrong. Here are two examples.<br />
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There's an unsurprising tendency for Sherlockians to write about the things they themselves are interested in, no matter how unrelated to Sherlock Holmes. For years I've been telling people that there was an article somewhere, decades past, making fun of that tendency and citing the likelihood that somebody who loves deep-sea diving will ransack the Canon for proof that Mr. Holmes, too, would don diving gear and descend into the depths of the ocean.<br />
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But I could never get back to that reference. Even the editor of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/"><i>Baker Street Journal</i></a>, where I was pretty sure I had seen the passage, couldn't find it, and he is more adept than I am at searching the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/ebooks/ebsj.html">electronic edition of the BSJ</a>. (I begin to think that everybody is more adept than I am at searching the eBSJ, actually.)<br />
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Well, I stumbled onto the original recently, and it turns out that nobody could find it because I was misremembering it. The key word isn't "diving," it's "fishing". The source is a letter to the editor of the BSJ from <b>Howard Brody</b>, published in 1981, who describes what he calls "the Egotistical methodology" of Sherlockian scholarship:<br />
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"I (the author of this hypothetical piece) am very interested in deep-sea fishing. I am very fond of myself and think of myself as a very sagacious and perceptive individual. I am very fond of Sherlock Holmes and think of him as a very sagacious and perceptive individual. Therefore, Sherlock Holmes must have been very interested in deep-sea fishing. Furthermore, by various mental gymnastics, I can locate a passage in the Canon to support this idea." </blockquote>
He cites "A Scandal in Bohemia," where we learn that Holmes had in his index the biography of "a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep sea fishes." Conclusion: "it is established as clear truth that Holmes spent every spare minute in deep-sea fishing."<br />
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My other memorable, but mis-remembered, passage was a letter to the editor complaining about references to sex. I couldn't find it in the <i>Baker Street Journal</i>, and the editor of the BSJ couldn't find it even with his electronic aids, for what turned out to be a simple reason: it didn't appear in the BSJ, but rather in the <i><a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/category/journal/">Sherlock Holmes Journal</a></i>, in 1979.<br />
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Again, the source was a letter to the editor, this one complaining about an article on the subject of "Thor Bridge" that had appeared in the previous issue. J.B. Tatum wrote in part:<br />
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"Should I wish to read about sexual perversion and penises there are many other readily available magazines to which I might subscribe. One reason that I enjoy Sherlock Holmes so much is that… the Canon is so utterly free of such modern filth."</blockquote>
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It was 1979, remember, before explicit fanfic, before "consulting husbands," before <i>In Bed with Sherlock Holmes</i> — though not before Sam Rosenberg's <i>Naked Is the Best Disguise</i> or Larry Townsend's <i>The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, so Tatum was being a trifle selective.<br />
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Still, his (her?) indignant protest is highly quotable, and next time I have occasion to refer to it, I'll try to get it right.<br />
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Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro: Inspired by Sherlock Holmes

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The English author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a> (<i>The Remains of the Day</i>, etc.) has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature. And there is, of course, a Sherlockian connection.<br />
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Ishiguro was born 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan. Six years later, his family moved to Guildford in Surrey, England, when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography.<br />
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It was in Surrey young Ishiguro first discovered Sherlock Holmes. Before he found the Holmes books in the local library he had, like so many other young boys, hardly been reading books at all.<br />
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In a 2015 interview, Kazuo Ishiguro told a reporter from the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/books/review/kazuo-ishiguro-by-the-book.html"><i>New York Times</i></a>:<br />
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"I was around 9 or 10, and I not only read obsessively about Holmes and Watson, I started to behave like them. I’d go to school and say things like: 'Pray, be seated' or 'That is most singular.' People at the time just put this down to my being Japanese."</blockquote>
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Soon after, he began writing his own stories. He had previously created a James Bond type of spy called Mr. Senior, but when he got into Sherlock Holmes in a big way, he started writing a pastiche of a Victorian detective story, beginning with a client arriving and telling a long story. He went to a primary school where they were experimenting with modern teaching methods and there were no defined lessons.<br />
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In "<a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5829/kazuo-ishiguro-the-art-of-fiction-no-196-kazuo-ishiguro">The Art of Fiction No. 196</a>" in the <i>Paris Review</i>, Ishiguro said:<br />
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"You wrote a bit, then you read each other's things, and you read out loud. […] But a lot of the energy went into decorating our books to look exactly like the paperbacks we saw in the shops, drawing bullet holes on the front and putting quotations from newspapers on the back."</blockquote>
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This Sherlock Holmes-inspired primary school writing affected him as a writer later in life as well:<br />
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"It was good fun, and it made me think of stories as effortless things. I think that stayed with me. I've never been intimidated by the idea of having to make up a story. It's always been a relatively easy thing that people did in a relaxed environment."</blockquote>
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Kazuo Ishiguro's favorite Sherlock Holmes story was – and still is – <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>. "It was scary and gave me sleepless nights, but I suspect I was drawn to Conan Doyle’s world because, paradoxically, it was so very cozy", he said in the <i>New York Times</i> interview.<br />
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After his childhood Sherlock Holmes obsession, Kazuo Ishiguro stopped reading – he got interested in pop music instead – until his early twenties. His Holmes interest still exists, however, which he showed in a 2015 conversation with Neil Gaiman, published in the <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2015/05/neil-gaiman-kazuo-ishiguro-interview-literature-genre-machines-can-toil-they-can-t-imagine"><i>The New Statesman</i></a>. After some comments made by Gaiman regarding Sherlock Holmes and copyright, Ishiguro said:<br />
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"Since Sherlock Holmes went out of copyright, certainly, he has started to mutate and evolve in a very energetic way. I don’t know if it would have been possible, for instance, to have the Cumberbatch modernised series, had it been under copyright. And Holmes is a very interesting example, I think, of a figure who’s mutated over the years and evolved."</blockquote>
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Kazuo Ishiguro's interest in literary detectives can also be seen in his novel <i>When We Were Orphans </i>(2000), which introduces a famous detective called Christopher Banks, solving a mystery in Shanghai in the 1930s.<br />
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Episode 129: Pop Sherlock

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Peggy Perdue, BSI ("Violet Westbury") has held the enviable position of librarian in charge of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Reference Library for over a decade. In that role, she's seen remarkable developments and has made some intriguing acquisitions.<br />
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She has ascended to a new role, but before doing so, she oversaw the development and launch of the new Pop Sherlock exhibit. As IHOSE is dedicated to the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and popular culture, we're very interested in this topic.<br />
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We discuss exactly what got Peggy to her role, what her favorite item is, and what she has learned about Arthur Conan Doyle over the last 12 years.<br />
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1:33 Pa-POW!<br />
3:16 While we have your attention<br />
5:30 Thank yous<br />
7:54 Wessex Press<br />
9:50 Welcome Peggy Perdue<br />
12:27 Setting her sights on the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection<br />
16:28 First meeting with Sherlock Holmes<br />
19:53 Enter the Toronto Bootmakers<br />
23:33 A question about 12 years in the same job<br />
27:41 The Pop Sherlock exhibit at the Toronto Public Library<br />
31:07 Sherlock Holmes and Advertising<br />
34:16 Potty humor<br />
39:19 Sherlock Holmes in comic books<br />
41:57 Film artifacts—including a script for "Sherlock Holmes in Canada"<br />
43:21 Interactive components of the exhibit<br />
48:00 Reflecting on the Reichenbach Irregulars' trip to Meirengen and Florence<br />
53:24 Who will be hired for the ACD Collection job?<br />
58:33 The Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection<br />
59:53 <i>The Baker Street Journal</i><br />
1:01:24 <i>Canada and Sherlock Holmes</i><br />
1:02:28 Editor's Gas-Lamp<br />
1:06:46 Final thoughts</div>
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<li><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/christmasannual2009.html">The 2009 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual</a> - Sherlock Holmes and advertising</li>
<li><a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/specialized-collections/literature-genre-doyle.jsp">The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="http://acdfriends.org/">The Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a></li>
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Episode 129: Pop Sherlock

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Remembering Hugh Hefner, Sherlockian

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Media and cultural pioneer Hugh Hefner <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/obituaries/hugh-hefner-dead.html?_r=0">has passed away</a> at the age of 91.<br />
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Now, one might logically ask why I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere is covering the passing of the founder of the <i>Playboy</i> media empire. As all things here, it leads back to Sherlock Holmes.<br />
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In the very first issue of Playboy magazine (December 1953), Hefner included "Introducing Mr. Sherlock Holmes," from <i>The Sign of Four, </i>with original illustrations from William J. Marsh. It was followed by "A Scandal in Bohemia" in Vol. 1 No. 2 (January 1954) and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" in Vol. 1 No. 3 (February 1954). In those early days Hefner could afford to publish only public-domain fiction.<br />
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Over the years, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose06">Peter Blau</a>, BSI ("Black Peter") has chronicled the various appearances of and connections to Sherlock Holmes in <i>Playboy</i>, making note of it in his monthly newsletter <a href="http://www.sherlocktron.com/scuttle.htm">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>.<br />
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In the March 1999 Scuttlebutt, Peter tells us about another early staffer at the magazine who recently passed away:<br />
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Horror and fantasy writer <b>Ray Russell</b> joined <i>Playboy </i>magazine as an associate editor in 1954, served as executive editor from 1955 to 1960, and continued as a contributing editor into the 1970s. His satirical pastiche "The Murder of Conan Doyle" (with Foames, Squatson, and Goryarty) appeared in <i>Playboy </i>in Apr. 1955.</blockquote>
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And from the November 1995 Scuttlebutt, we learn of Kingsley Amis' contribution:<br />
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In an essay on "My Favorite Sleuths" (<i>Playboy</i>, Dec. 1966) Kingsley Amis wrote that "Holmes is the memorable figure he is because Conan Doyle grasped the essential truth that the deductive solving of crimes cannot in itself throw much light on the character doing the solving, and therefore that character must be loaded up with quirks, hobbies, eccentricities. It is always these irrelevant qualities that define the figure of the great detective, not his mere powers of reasoning." </blockquote>
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As we crept up to the 1970s, the Sherlock Holmes craze that had captured the public's attention with <i>The Seven Per-cent Solution</i> by <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose85">Nicholas Meyer</a>, BSI ("A Fine Morocco Case") was also evident. <i>Playboy </i>published an excerpt from Meyer's next novel <i>The West End Horro</i>r in the April 1976 issue.<br />
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But one of the most noted Sherlockian connections in the magazine occurred just two months prior: the Canonically named <b>Laura Lyons</b> was <i>Playboy</i>'s "Miss February 1976." Laura Lyons was of course the typist who was acquainted with Sir Charles Baskerville in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>. But Hugh Hefner didn't have to do any sleight of hand with a pseudonymn; that was the model's real name.<br />
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In Vol. 55 No. 2 of the <i><b>Baker Street Journal</b></i>, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose31">Leslie Klinger</a>, BSI ("The Abbey Grange") wrote the article "<b>What Kind of Person Reads Playboy? Sherlock Holmes?</b>" in which he provided some background on the Holmes/<i>Playboy </i>connection before interviewing Hugh Hefner. His research unearthed an earlier <i>BSJ</i> article:<br />
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"A closer tie between the Holmes brothers and <i>Playboy </i>was the subject of <b>John C. Hogan</b>’s June 1966 <i>Baker Street Journal</i> article “Sherlock Holmes—Was He a  Playboy’?” (Vol. 16, No. 2). The article was subsequently reprinted in <i>VIP: The Playboy Club Magazine </i>(Winter 1966, No. 12)."</blockquote>
And Klinger summed up other nods to Sherlock Holmes in <i>Playboy</i>:<br />
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"Pastiches and parodies have debuted in <i>Playboy</i>. In 1975 the magazine revealed the hitherto-unknown <b>Sherlock Jones</b> and his companion <b>Dr. Datson</b>, in “The Adventures of Sherlock Jones” by Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht. In 1976, <b>Nicholas Meyer</b>’s <i>West End Horror</i> appeared (in slightly abridged form) in the April and May issues. <b>Kingsley Amis</b>’s affinity for Holmes was further demonstrated in May 1978, with publication of  “The Darkwater Hall Mystery,” a fine pastiche.</blockquote>
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But the real treat in the article is the conversation that Les had with Hugh Hefner. We learn about his earliest contact with Sherlock Holmes (at his public library) and the indelible mark that Basil Rathbone left on him. So much so that Hefner <a href="https://falconmovies.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/hugh-hefner-restores-sherlock-holmes-film-to-glory/">provided funding for the the restoration</a> of the <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose122">Rathbone and Bruce series</a> by the <b><a href="https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/">UCLA Film and Television Archive</a></b>.<br />
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Yes, Hugh Hefner was a genuine Sherlock Holmes fan, with a soft spot for mystery overall. He told Les, "Holmes has been so very important to me," and added, "After all, I’m another guy who spent much of his time in his bathrobe smoking a pipe at home!"<br />
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“The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips” gives some of those tantalizing untold tales with which Watson loved to tease his readers:<br />
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“the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.” </blockquote>
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The latitude and longitude of the island of Uffa has long puzzled Sherlockian scholars because it exists in no atlas. Robert A. Moss, in his article "In the Island of Uffa" (<i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/">The Baker Street Journal</a></i>, Vol 63, No 4, Winter 2013), lists some of the candidates to its possible location. Jay Finley Christ suggested—and Moss concurs—it was a portmanteau disguise by Watson of the islands of Ulva and Staffa in the Hebrides archipelago off the Scottish west coast. Julian Wolff, in his <i>The Sherlockian Atlas</i>, located it as Ufa in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands">Solomon Islands</a>.  <br />
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August Derleth had Solar Pons and Dr. Parker solving the curse of the Grice Patersons east of the Isles of Scilly, off Cornwall. John Linsenmeyer in the Spring 2017 <a href="http://www.torontobootmakers.com/canadian-holmes/"><i>Canadian Holmes</i></a> (Vol 40, No 2) posits that Uffa is really the city of Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. </div>
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<i>Temple Bar</i> was one of the leading literary magazines of the day and in the February 1891 issue appeared “Our Midnight Visitor,” the third and final story of Arthur Conan Doyle's that the magazine published. It is a very long short story, about 9,300 words, set on the fictional island of Uffa, two and a half miles off the western coast of Arran, although from the geography mentioned in the story, Doyle clearly meant the southern coast, about where the red x is on the map.<br />
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“Bounding over the craggy landscape that had inspired Walter Scott’s epic poem <i>The Lord of the Isles</i>, his [Doyle’s] imagination was fired by the Gothic potential of the misty west coast which he would later summon up in stories such as ‘The Mystery of Cloomber.’ His taste for travel and adventure was also sparked by the sight of colossal ocean liners making their stately progress through the waves between Arran and the Scottish mainland, en route to and from Glasgow. The young medical student was beginning to store up meaningful memories of his own.”</blockquote>
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"My father had been enabled to send me to begin the study of medicine at the University of Glasgow, and I had attended lectures there for two Winter sessions, but, whether from caprice or from some lessening in his funds, he had recalled me, and in the year 1865 I found myself cribbed up in this little island with just education enough to wish for more, and with no associate at home but the grim, stern old man, for my mother had been dead some years, and I had neither brother nor sister."</blockquote>
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Thus, "just before the equinoctial gales in the Spring," the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger sets events into motion. Doyle gave an appreciable amount of space in the story to the history and geography of Uffa; the three families of the island, the McDonalds of Carracuil, the Gibbs of Arden and the Fullartons of Corriemains; the Roost of Uffa, the channel between Uffa and Arran with at-times dangerous currents; Carravoe where the McDonalds anchor their fishing boat; the Combera cliffs, the trysting place of Archie and Minnie Fullarton; Beg-na-sacher and Beg-na-phail, two rugged knolls in the center of the island. </div>
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It is not surprising when in May 1891 as Doyle came to write “The Five Orange Pips”, the island of Uffa was still fresh in his mind as a perfect setting for a “singular adventure” of Holmes and Watson he never intended to write.<br />
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As there is a Doylean echo in “The Five Orange Pips” to a recently written Doyle story, there is a Canonical echo in “Our Midnight Visitor.” The visitor, Charles Digby, is a world traveler with scars on his body as souvenirs:<br />
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"This was a bullet," he said, pointing to a deep bluish pucker underneath his collar bone. "I got it behind the barricades in Berlin in eighteen hundred and forty-eight. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_von_Langenbeck">Langenback</a> said it just missed the <b>subclavian artery</b>. And this," he went on, indicating a pair of curious elliptical scars upon his throat, "was a bite from a Sioux chief, when I was under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer">Custer</a> on the plains —I've got an arrow wound on <b>my leg</b> from the same party. This is from a mutinous Lascar aboard ship, and the others are mere scratches—Californian vaccination marks. You can excuse my being a little ready with my own irons, though, when I've been dropped so often." [<i>Ed. note: emphasis ours</i>]</blockquote>
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Subclavian artery wounds maybe more common than thought, although Digby could not have been “under Custer on the plains” as Custer went straight to the Civil War from West Point and he didn’t fight in the Indian Wars until 1866. As with "The <i>Gloria Scott</i>", Doyle seems to forget the story's internal chronology. It is a reminiscence of  Holmes's <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles37">college days</a> told to Watson at an unspecified later date, but presumably during 1881 to 1888, when Watson was a bachelor living with Holmes. Holmes' college days would have been in the 1870s. Yet when Judge Trevor's written confession to his son turns up, the events leading to the disappearance of the <i>Gloria Scott</i> are dated both as October 1855 and "thirty years ago". While the mid-1880s would be a fine date for Holmes to be relating the story to the doctor, it would not be for Holmes' university years. In the white heat of writing, such niceties as internal consistency were of less import to Doyle's popular works than dramatic impact.<br />
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I also don't think Doyle was doing something meta by connecting the world of "Our Midnight Visitor" to the world of Sherlock Holmes any more than I think he was connecting Professor Challenger in 1912's <i>The Lost World</i> ("The only other evidence which I can adduce is from the log of the <i><b>SS Friesland</b></i>, a Dutch-American liner, which asserts that at nine next morning, <i>Start Poin</i>t being at the time ten miles upon their starboard quarter, they were passed by something between a flying goat and a monstrous bat, which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west.")  to 1903's "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" ("Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship <i><b>Friesland</b></i>, which so nearly cost us both our lives."). Doyle reused names often in his fiction and aside from the equinoctial gales with which "The Five Orange Pips" and "Our Midnight Visitor," stories Doyle wrote just months apart, open, the Uffa connection seems like an inside joke that he and only a few family members would get.<br />
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I was not the first to uncover this link and I didn't think I would be. In my research for this post, I came across this from <i>The Sherlock Holmes Journal</i>, Vol 14 No 2 (Issue 53) Winter 1979, Editorial Notes:<br />
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<b>Uffa Riddle Answered ?</b><br />
HERE is a truly scholarly discovery, one not previously made to our knowledge, for which congratulations are due to J. M. Gibson of Chi-Chester. Mr Gibson it was who came up with the Doyle-Ripper link in the last issue’s Notes: now it’s Uffa’s turn. I need hardly remind readers of the reference made by Watson in The Five Orange Pips -. . . the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa.” Where is that elusive island, though? The name has always sounded vaguely Gaelic to me, and many years ago Jay Finley Christ decided that a combination of the names Ulva and Staffa, off the west coast of Scotland, provided the key. I think we can now be certain, for there is corroboration in an almost unknown short story by Conan Doyle. Mr. Gibson has sent in a copy of a journal called <i>Temple Bar</i>: in its February 1891 issue there is a story by Doyle entitled “Our Midnight Visitor”, and the first sentence runs as follows: “On the western side of the island of Arran, seldom visited, and almost unknown to tourists, the little island named Uffa”. . . . There it is, settled! The story that follows is not especially distinguished, but when it appeared, Conan Doyle was only months away from seeing in print the first of his short stories where characterisation, atmosphere and creativity combined together to assure him immortality. A real find, Mr. Gibson, and we salute you!</blockquote>
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Since that citation, the "Midnight Visitor" connection still seems to be as "almost unknown" as the story itself.<br />
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The island of Uffa is sitting in <i>The Unknown Conan Doyle: Uncollected Stories</i> waiting to be explored. Pasticheurs will find a topography ready for them to use, others find a well-crafted and evocative story ("not especially distinguished" notwithstanding) by Doyle.<br />
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Canonical Connections in Conan Doyle's "Our Midnight Visitor"

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Episode 128: Sherlockian Coin Collecting

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Dr. Watson was once on the receiving end of a rebuke by Baron Adelbert Gruner in "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client," Gruner upbraided Watson (who was incognito as Dr. Hill Barton, avid collector of Chinese pottery). When he admitted that he had not read Gruner's definitive book on the subject, he hid behind his profession:</div>
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Well, Greg Ruby has certainly found time for his passion. Greg founded the group <a href="http://fourthgarrideb.com/">The Fourth Garrideb</a>, a Sherlockian society made up of those interested in coin collecting. He also developed a website to accompany it, with plenty of information for those so inclined.<br />
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We cover Greg's early interested in Holmes and coins, and then take the time to explore some of the mentions of coinage in the Sherlock Holmes stories. There's much to cover, so gather up your loose change and sit close to the electronic Victrola...<br />
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1:32 Cha-CHING! Welcome<br />
2:34 Burt's grandmother was very generous<br />
4:23 What to do with your spare change<br />
6:52 Wessex Press<br />
8:07 The Breakfast of Ex-Champions<br />
9:04 Welcome Greg Ruby<br />
11:45 Don't take any Buffalo nickels<br />
13:15 The joy of meeting coin collectors<br />
18:23 Greg's first meeting with Sherlock Holmes was kismet<br />
21:07 Significant coins in the Sherlock Holmes stories<br />
27:00 Inconsistencies in coinage in the Canon<br />
29:02 The Gibraltar set from Pobjoy Mint<br />
33:25 The story behind the Three Hours for Lunch Club medal<br />
38:10 The origin of The Fourth Garrideb<br />
45:15 Chocolate Sherlock Holmes coins<br />
49:25 A future for Sherlockian challenge coins?<br />
53:15 Our own coin collecting pasts<br />
55:42 <i>The Baker Street Journal</i><br />
57:32 Gas-Lamp<br />
1:00:23 Your import/export assignment<br />
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<li><a href="http://fourthgarrideb.com/2015/03/gibraltar-marks-the-return-of-sherlock-holmes-1995/">The Gibraltar set of Sherlock Holmes coins</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://fourthgarrideb.com/2015/07/who-is-r-tait-mckenzie/">Who Is R. Tait McKenzie?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theconsultingdetective.com/shessay3.html">Coins in circulation during the era of the Sherlock Holmes stories</a></li>
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Episode 128: Sherlockian Coin Collecting

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Baker Street Elementary — Knowledge of Chemistry

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At some point, we've all experienced the humorless, information-rich decorations of a classroom. From the instructive white and green cursive alphabet to the classic "<a href="https://yalealumnimagazine.com/uploads/images/2800028/1337795174/dinos_fullpeabody.jpg" target="_blank">Age of Reptiles</a>" mural from the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History.<br />
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But the grand-daddy of them all has to be the <a href="https://www.ptable.com/" target="_blank">Periodic Table of Elements</a>. That multi-column, multi-row chart with all of the known elements, grouped by metals / non-metals, then further by subcategories such as alkalais, noble gases, etc. For those of us who are not predisposed to appreciate the logical arrangement of the elements on the chart (or even the logic of their abbreviations), there's always Tom Lehrer's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIvXVMbII0" target="_blank">The Element Song</a>" which sets the periodic table to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General."<br />
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Trifling Issues in August

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If you frequent this site, you're certainly familiar with our <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseshows">10 year-long show</a>, in which we interview notable Sherlockians who are doing their part to keep the memory of Sherlock Holmes green. I Hear of Sherlock has evolved over that decade, but we're on a steady cadence of long-form interviews on the 15th and 30th of every month.<br />
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Meanwhile, over on <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/">Trifles</a>, we're engaged in something different: we have short discussions of about 15 minutes in length every week in which we talk about one or two trifling issues that we've noticed within the Sherlock Holmes stories. It's an approach that we hope brings more people into our fold who are new to Sherlock Holmes and are fascinated with the details within the story.<br />
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Before we get to a recap of what we've been talking about, we wanted to take a moment to thank you. In July, we asked for your assistance in nominating our two shows for the <a href="http://podcastawards.com/">Podcast Awards</a>. Well, your generous support has paid off: of the hundreds of shows that were nominated, <i><b>Trifles was selected as a finalist for a Podcast Award in the Arts category!</b></i><br />
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Thank you for making this possible. And most of all, thank you for listening.<br />
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And now, on with the recap of <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/search/label/August">our August shows</a>.<br />
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Our first show of the month was <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles32">Episode 32: A Return to Normalcy via Norwood</a> in which we discussed Watson's return to Baker Street following Holmes's return from the Great Hiatus. Holmes was behind the financing that made such a move possible. What was going on here?<br />
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Then we moved on to <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles33">Episode 33: Thumb Up for Engineers</a>. We took a few salient points from Bliss Austin's early work on some engineering irregularities in "The Engineer's Thumb." And a few of you pointed out the hilarity of the title of the episode.<br />
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Next up was an investigation of the "The Cardboard Box" - its introduction that was later recycled and its disappearance from the collected stories in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Hear what we discussed in <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles34">Episode 34: The Mysterious Box</a>.<br />
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And finally, in <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles35">Episode 35: The Real Greek Hero</a>, we picked apart the players in "The Greek Interpreter" and gave our opinion as to who was the true hero of the story.<br />
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And if you'd like to learn more about Tom Richmond, the talented artist behind the show's logo, check out <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose65">Episode 65: Art in the Blood</a>.<br />
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