C8384. -- A2862. Ball, John. "Early Days in Baker Street," BSJ, 5, No. 4 (October 1955), 211-219.

By examination of Canonical evidence in many of Watson's narratives, the author proposes the theory that Holmes was not the private individual he claimed to be, but was in actuality a Queen's Messenger with the extraordinary authority that this status included. Many instances are cited where the Master was granted privileges that no ordinary citizen, no matter how distinguished, could possibly have received. Dr. Watson's role is re-examined in this light.

C8385. -- A2863. Baring-Gould, William S. "`The Best and Wisest Man Whom I Have Ever Known,'" The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 1, chap. 8, p. 47-66. illus.

A discussion of the literature on the Master's birth date, birthplace, ancestry, and education.

C8386. -- A2864. Barzun, Jacques. "Sherlock Holmes's Will--A Forgery," BSJ, 6, No. 2 (April 1956), 75-81.

A textual analysis of the document (reproduced in facsimile) discovered by Mr. Bengis reveals it to be fraudulent!

C8387. -- A2865. [Bengis, Nathan L.] Baker Street Legacy: The Will of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Musgrave Ritualists, 1951. [4] p.

Limited to 221 copies.

----------. ----------, London Mystery Magazine, No. 25 (June 1955), 14-17.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 6, No. 2 (April 1956), 80-81.

----------. ----------, SOS, 1, No. 5 (June 1967), 5-7; Addendum, 3, No. 2 (July 1969), 15-16.

A facsimile of the Master's will and testament, dated April 16, 1891. The document was found among the effects of the late Mycroft Holmes by Mr. Bengis.

C8388. -- A2866. Bengis, Nathan L. "Where There's a Will, There's a Pay," BSJ, 6, No. 4 (October 1956), 226-232.

The author defends the authenticity of the Will of Sherlock Holmes against Professor Barzun's allegations that it is a forgery.

C8389. -- A2867. Berg, Curt. Fallet Baker Street 111. [The Case of 111 Baker Street.] Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1951]. 56 p. illus.

Limited to 50 copies.

Contents: [Sherlock Holmes in Private and Public Life. -- Sherlock Holmes and Music. --Sherlock Holmes and the Game of Chance.]

C8390. -- A2868. Bigelow, S. Tupper. "A Counterfeit of the Sage of Baker Street," The Globe Magazine [Toronto] (January 16, 1965), 10-12.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 1, No. 3 (Winter 1965), 52-54.

"In an article illustrated with scenes from Baker Street, the author takes off from the musical to discuss Sherlock Holmes in general and correct some misconceptions." (Julian Wolff)

C8391. -- A2869. Christ, Jay Finley. "`What Sherlock Didn't Know,'" The Atlantic Monthly, 177, No. 1 (January 1946), 30-31. (Letters to and from the Editor)

A commentary on Stuart C. Rand's article by the same title (DA2902).

C8392. -- A2870. Clark, Benjamin S. "Sherlock Holmes" (A Guest Editorial), BSJ, 12, No. 2 (June 1962), 67-69. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

An attempt to explain the unexplainable--the Master's universal popularity.

C8393. -- A2871. Davies, Bernard. "Was Holmes a Londoner?" SHJ, 4, No. 2 (Spring 1959), 42-47.

"Wherever he was born and wherever he may have travelled, Mr. Sherlock Holmes became a Londoner at a very early age."

C8394. -- A2872. De Groat, Ray. "Sherlock Holmes: Humanitarian," VH, 3, No. 3 (September 1969), 6-7.

"Sherlock shows himself to be more than master of those human qualities which all gentle men (in the most Victorian meaning) possess. Furthermore, he extends them to all."

C8395. -- A2873. Dorian, N. Currier. "The Berkeley Letters," BSJ, 3, No. 3 (July 1953), 164-168.

Excerpts of letters to Lady Ester Berkeley from Mrs. Holmes concerning her young sons Sherlock and Mycroft.

C8396. -- A2875. [Felts Jack L.] ["The Occult Holmes"], Individualist Society Bulletin [Tahlequah, Okla.] (February 1965), 3.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 15, No. 1 (March 1965), 32-33.

"Doyle's study of the occult was based on what he perceived functioning through Sherlock Holmes."

C8397. -- A2876. Goodman, Charles. "The Dental Holmes," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 4 (October 1947), 381-393.

Further intimate details of the Master's life as revealed by his dentist, Dr. Charles S. Wilson, in a second letter to Dr. Goodman. See also DA2976.

C8398. -- A2877. Goodman, Charles. "Dr. Wilson Writes Again," BSJ, 10, No. 4 (October 1960), 197-206.

After a lapse of thirteen years, Holmes's dental surgeon has written another letter--this one from his Retreat near the Sussex Bee Farm!

C8399. -- A2878. Gordon, Irwin L., ed. Who Was Who, 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. Cover by A. J. Frueh. Illustrated by C. H. Sykes. Philadelphia: David McKay, [1914]. 121 p.

Contains a humorous biography, with an illustration, of Holmes on pages 54-57.

C8400. -- A2879. "The Greatest Detective of Them All--He's 100," The Irish Times (January 9, 1954).

----------, CPBook, 2, No. 5-6 (Summer-Fall 1965), 94.

An Irish tribute to the Master on this momentous occasion.

C8401. -- A2880. Hall, Trevor H. "A College Friendship?" Sherlock Holmes: Ten Literary Studies. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., [1969]. Chap. 7, p. 93-108.

"The case for a Trinity College friendship between Edmund Gurney, later Hon. Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research, and Holmes. And much interesting information." (Lord Donegall)

C8402. -- A2881. Hall, Trevor H. "The Late Mr. Sherlock Holmes," The Late Mr. Sherlock Holmes & Other Literary Studies. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., [1971]. Chap. 7, p. 108-129.

A progressive and permanent impairment of his eyesight resulting from a disease known as tobacco-amblyopia may have led him to commit suicide in 1914.

C8403. -- A2882. Hardenbrook, Don. "Another Bird in a Gilded Cage," by Gaston Huret III. Tr. by Don Hardenbrook. West by One and by One. San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1965. p. 102-106.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes' ven: Toulouse-Lautrec," [Oversat af A. D. Henriksen]. Sherlock Holmes Årbog II (1966), 26-30.

"Sherlock Holmes, if not Dr. Watson, must have known and been a good friend of the great painter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec."

C8404. -- A2883. Harrison, Michael "Face to Face: Sherlock Holmes Interviewed," Courier, 41, No. 4 (October 1963), 41-43.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 16, No. 2 (June 1966), 88-93.

During a televised interview the great detective discusses the scandals of Victorian times, the great train robbery, the Anglo-American alliance, the police, and his brain.

C8405. -- A2884. Hartman, Harry. "Holmes and Automation," BSJ, 17, No. 4 (December 1967), 233-238.

----------. ----------, The Holy Quire. [Culver City, Calif.: Luther Norris, December 1970.] p. 39-45.

Verbal speculation on the effects of automation, had it been known in 1895, with pessimistic prognostication on its probable future.

C8406. -- A2885. Hartman, Harry. "The Valley of Cheer," The Holy Quire. [Culver City, Calif.: Luther Norris, December 1970.] p. 46-48.

A fantasy centering on Holmes's entry into Heaven, and his meeting with Christopher Morley, Marlowe, Sam Johnson, and others. Also includes a brief discussion of religion between Holmes and St. Peter.

C8407. -- A2886. Holmes, David M. "Sherlock Holmes Was a Creature of Decadence," BSJ, 15, No. 2 (June 1965), 103-113.

A scholarly examination of the manifestations of Holbrook Jackson's four chief characteristics (Perversity, Artificiality, Egoism, and Curiosity) of the Victorian Decadence in Holmes.

C8408. -- A2887. Jackson, J. P. "Mr. Holmes: A New Judgment," The Manchester Guardian (April 10, 1944), 4.

----------. ----------, A Baker Street Four-Wheeler. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. [Maplewood, N.J., and New York: The Pamphlet House, 1944.] p. 18-19.

An estimate of his psychological makeup and impulses.

C8409. -- A2888. Jones, Gratia. "Interview with Mrs. Hudson," BSJ, 8, No. 1 (January 1958), 11-15.

A loving tribute to Mr. Sherlock Holmes by the lady who knew him best.

C8410. -- A2889. Kallis, Stephen A. "Morte de Sherlock," BSJ, 14, No. 3 (September 1964), 166-171.

An alternate and pleasanter speculation on his death to the one offered by Baring-Gould in the epilogue to his biography of the World's First Consulting Detective.... The Master waits with King Arthur and other great Englishmen on the Isle of Avalon to come forth again--waits "with his friends in that isle of eternal youth until the day that England will need them all."

C8411. -- A2891. Kjellberg, Lennart. "Letter to Gösta Rybrant," from Sherlock Holmes; transmitted by Lennart Kjellberg. BSCL, No. 4 (1965), 22-24.

In a letter dated November 8, 1954, the Master defends himself against the accusations levelled at him by Gösta Rybrant (DA2906).

C8412. -- A2892. Knox, E. V. "The Passing of Sherlock Holmes," Illustrated by Wyndham Robinson. The Strand, 116 (December 1948), 76-82.

----------. ----------, Seventeen Steps to 221b. [Edited by] James Edward Holroyd. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1967] p. 82-89.

"Almost everything has been written about Sherlock Holmes--except his obituary notice. Here is an attempt to record what the London `Times' might have said about Holmes (if he had really lived) when he died." (The Strand)

C8413. -- A2893. [Levine, Arthur L.] "Sherlock Holmes in Space," by Alicia Cutter [pseud.] BSJ, 13, No. 3 (September 1963), 166-168.

He would have been interested not only in the great adventure of space exploration, but would also have been selected as an astronaut because of his unique qualifications.

C8414. -- A2894. [MacCarthy, Desmond.] "The Advantages of Sherlock Holmes," Life and Letters, 5, No. 27 (August 1930), 123-127.

----------. ----------, [first part] A Baker Street Christmas Stocking, [by] Bliss Austin. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Hydraulic Press, 1969. [unpaged]

In spite of imperfections in the Saga, the Master remains unaffected by them and without rival or successor.

C8415. -- A2895. Macgowan, Kenneth. "Sherlock Holmes," Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories. Edited by Kenneth Macgowan. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1931. p. 36.

----------. ----------, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Ellery Queen. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1944. p. [xxiii].

A biography in the style of "Who's Who."

C8416. -- A2897. McDiarmid, E. W. "Epithets in the Canon," BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September 1969), 144-148.

"An attempt to enumerate and characterize the names by which Holmes was called and the circumstances, where relevant, relating to the occasion."

C8417. -- A2898. McLuhan, Marshall. "Sherlock Holmes vs. the Bureaucrat," Explorations, No. 8 (October 1957), 10-11.

"Every facet, every item of a situation, for Holmes, has total relevance. There are no irrelevant details for him." The bureaucrat, on the other hand, is "devoid of simultaneous modes of awareness or observation."

C8418. -- A2900. Pearson, Hesketh. "Sherlock Holmes," G.K.'s Weekly, 10, No. 238 (October 5, 1929), 59.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 1, No. 4 (Spring 1965), 74-75.

"Sherlock Holmes is a very great creation, and will outlive every character in every `serious' novel of his period."

C8419. -- A2901. Rand, Stuart C. "Holmes the Absolute," BSJ, 3, No. 4 (October 1953), 211-214.

"Holmes is fundamentally an Absolute, with a capital `A.' He is always right ... right with the rightness of a sledge-hammer when it drives a spike or a tack. When and where his Truth struck, there was no escape."

C8420. -- A2902. Rand, Stuart C. "What Sherlock Didn't Know," The Atlantic Monthly, 176, No. 5 (November 1945), 122, 125, 127.

----------. ----------, The Second Cab. Edited by James Keddie. [Boston: The Speckled Band, 1947.1 p. 46-50.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 1, No. 3 (July 1951), 83-88.

Holmes is cross-examined by Sir Henry Hawkins, a prominent member of the British bar, on the conduct of some of his cases.

C8421. -- A2903. Redmond, Chris. "From Yorkshire to Montague Street," VH, 1, No. 3 (September 1967), 3-5.

A biographical sketch of the Master's early years.

C8422. -- A2904. Rendall, Vernon. "The Limitations of Sherlock Holmes," Baker-Street Studies. Edited by H. W. Bell. London: Constable & Co., [1934]. p. 63-84.

"If he sacrificed everything, Watson included, to his work, he may have been justified by the results he obtained. He should be compared not with Socrates, but with a masterly egotist like Gibbon the historian, who concentrated his life and energy on work he could do better than anyone else."

C8423. -- A2905. Roberts, S. C. "The Personality of Sherlock Holmes," SHJ, 1, No. 1 (May 1952), 2-7.

----------. ----------, SHJ, 11, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 121-124. (Yours Incunabularly, No. 1)

A study of his background and characteristics.

C8424. -- A2906. Rybrant, Gösta. "Öppet brev till Sherlock Holmes" ["Open Letter to Sherlock Holmes"], Aftonbladet (October 31, 1954).

----------. ----------, BSCL, No. 4 (1965), 17-20.

Accuses him of some incorrectness and snobbishness.

C8425. -- A2907. S [Schrandt], J [Jack]. "A Friend of John Watson," DCC, 4, No. 3 (May 1968), 2.

A tribute to "the greatest man who ever lived."

C8426. -- A2908. Siegel, Jack M. "The First Citizen of Baker Street," The Chicago Review, 2, No. 2 (Spring 1947), 49-55.

"In all the annals of detection, fact and fiction alike, the name of Sherlock Holmes stands unchallenged; a paragon of logic, a literary masterpiece that has stood and will stand the ravages of time. For Holmes is immortal; his contemporaries, knowing only the fleeting mantle of flesh and blood, have long since passed from the scene, yet he remains, a deathless legend."

C8427. -- A2909. Simmons, George. "Sherlock Holmes--The Inner Man," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 2 (April 1947), 129-135.

"It is the mind, the character, and the philosophy of Sherlock Holmes that have made him one of the landmarks in English literature, and in his own day made him a world figure."

C8428. -- A3260. Simpson, A. Carson. I'm Off for Philadelphia in the Morning. Philadelphia: Privately Printed by International Printing Co., 1960. 38 p. (Simpson's Sherlockian Studies, Vol. 8)

Limited to 221b copies.

Contents: Pt. 1. Preliminary. -- Pt. 2. Progenitorial Pondering. -- (A) Before Montague Street. -- (B) Before Irene. -- (C) Another Hypothesis. -- (D) What Happened in France. -- (E) Further Light from the Past. -- (F) College Years. -- (G) Further Considerations of Age. -- (H) The Verdict. -- (I) Like Father, Like Son? -- (J) Holmes and Philadelphia.

C8429. -- A2911. Smith, Edgar W. "On Fictional Characters," BSJ, 6, No. 1 (January 1956), 3-4. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

"A brief commentary on "the best-known character in all fiction" -- Robinson Crusoe (or Sherlock Holmes!).

C8430. -- A2912. Smith, Edgar W. "Sherlock Holmes and the Literati," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 3 (July 1948), 267-268. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

"There are few figures in the world of letters who have not been touched, since the Master came to greatness, by the magic of his being."

C8431. -- A2913. Smith, Edgar W. ["Sherlock Holmes Was a Real Person"], BSJ [OS] 1, No. 2 (April 1946), 187-188. (From the Editor's Commonplace Book)

Proof exists in the Index volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (14th ed.) that he was a real person. His name appears in Roman type which is used to distinguish real persons from fictional characters, whose names are in italics.

C8432. -- A2914. Spears, Fred W. "Swifter Than the Years," BSJ, 18, No. 4 (December 1968), 232-239.

The author presents a "four-fold array of facts from which it may be inferred that the rate of diminution of Holmes's powers was swifter than the passage of his years as a man. If this be true, it follows that his post-retirement activities must have been relatively limited."

C8433. -- A2915. Starrett, Vincent. "Sherlock Holmes: Notes for a Biography," The Bookman, 76, No. 2 (February 1933), 166-171.

----------. "Ave Sherlock Morituri et Cetera," The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933. p. 103-117.

----------. ----------, ----------. Rev. and enl. The University of Chicago Press, [1960]. p. 93-101.

A biographical sketch, with an annotated bibliography of his writings.

C8434. -- A2916. Walsh, Michael. "Why Sherlock Holmes?" BSP, No. 27 (September 1967), 5.

He remains the greatest detective in literature because he alone possesses a personality as well as a great mind.

C8435. -- A2917. Wigglesworth, Belden. "The French Background of Sherlock Holmes: Aspects and Possibilities," The Second Cab. Edited by James Keddie. [Boston: The Speckled Band, 1947.] p. 39-45.

"The reality of the French background of Sherlock Holmes becomes more evident when we consider his comings and goings on the Continent, both official and unofficial, his dealings with persons both in and out of authority, and various activities of one sort and another."

C8436. -- A2918. Wilson, Willard. "An East Wind Coming," Sherlock Holmes: Master Detective. Edited by Theodore C. Blegen & E. W. McDiarmid. La Crosse: Printed for the Norwegian Explorers, St. Paul & Minneapolis, 1952. p. 62-86.

The author advances the thesis that Holmes had a subconscious concern, an obsession even, with the East, and then relates a story in which he witnessed Holmes's performance as a Chinese magician at the Hotel de Pekin during the summer of 1931.

C8437. -- A2919. Wolff, Julian. "`Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sherlock Holmes,'" BSJ, 11, No. 4 (December 1961), 195-196. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

----------. ----------, The Book Club of Detroit Newsletter. Fifth Meeting, 1961-62 Season.

----------. "`Ja, Virginia, der er en Sherlock Holmes,'" [Oversat af A. D. Henriksen]. Sherlock Holmes Årbog II (1966), 81-84.

His existence is just as real and just as important as the existence of Abraham Lincoln, King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Santa Claus.

C8438. -- B1287. Clark, Benjamin S. "The Silences of Dr. Watson," BSJ, 24, No. 1 (March 1974). 35-40.

Watson's silence when unfairly criticized by Holmes and his failure to comment on the detective's mistakes were intentional. "As the Boswell who had given the world a new hero, [he] could not start criticizing Holmes's handling of cases or pick holes in his modus operandi." He also realized that the only criticism acceptable to Holmes was self-criticism.

C8439. -- B1288. Coleman, Arthur. "Intellectual Blind Spots," SHJ, 11, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 128-129.

Holmes is a partisan to thoughtless and questionable biases regarding women, foreigners, and people of alien races and cultures.

C8440. -- B1289. Crist, Janet L. "A Severely Practical Man," BSJ, 24, No. 3 (September 1974), 161-163.

This article deals with objections to the theory that Holmes possessed clairvoyant powers which he passed off as deduction. It points out his scornful disbelief in the supernatural, explains why Holmes would not have kept such psychic powers secret if he had them, and ends by touching on his frequent bouts of moodiness and the reasons for them.

C8441. -- B1290. Cummings, J. C. "Inside Views of Fiction: II. Detective Stories," by J. C. Cummings (Chief of the New York Special Agents of the United States Secret Service). The Bookman, 30, No. 5 (January 1910), 499-500.

"Sherlock Holmes stands forth in prominence firstly, because his creator has not muddled him up in any silly romances with women; secondly, because he works his way up faithfully from early clues; and thirdly, because he keeps his mouth closed most of the time."

C8442. -- B1292. Elwood, Ann. "Sherlock Holmes (b. 1853?-d. )," The People's Almanac, by David Wallenchinsky and Irving Wallace. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & C.,, 1975. p. 1235-1237.

A biographical sketch in a section entitled "The People Who Never Were -- Yet Live Today." The other people are Superman, Wonder Woman, "Uncle" Scrooge McDuck, Tarzan of the Apes, and the Lone Ranger -- strange company for Holmes!

Reviews: BSJ, 26, No. 2 (June 1976), 121 (Barbara A. Lapinskas; Donald A. Redmond).

C8443. -- B1293. Feinberg, Samuel. "The Dented Idol -- Undented," BSJ, 24, No. 3 (September 1974), 174-180.

A rebuttal to Galerstein's article. It attempts to answer a kind of negative Sherlockian criticism that has appeared with increasing frequency. Feinberg maintains, and rightly so, that if we limit ourselves to the facts developed at any given point in the stories, we can come to no other conclusion than Holmes did at the same given point. Numerous examples from the Canon are used to prove Feinberg's argument.

C8444. -- B1294. Galerstein, David H. "The Dented Idol," BSJ, 21, No. 4 (December 1971), 226-231.

In this article we learn that 10 percent of the clients who came to Holmes for help lost their lives as a result of his incompetence. We also discover many serious errors in thinking and analysis committed by the Master and realize how many healthy fees he must have lost because of his mental lapses. An explanation is submitted to account for these failures of a great mind.

C8445. -- B1295. Galerstein, David H. Sherlock Holmes: The Real Truth About His Identity,. Albertson, N.Y.: Shelter Rock Public Library, [January 6, 1978]. [4] p. illus.

Evidence that the best and wisest man Watson ever knew is a real person. The pamphlet was prepared for the Library's celebration of the Master's 124th birthday.

C8446. -- B1296. Graves, B. J. "A Sherlock Holmes Biographical Acrostic," FFTN, 7, No. 1 (April 1977), 4-6.

Each paragraph begins with a letter in Sherlock Holmes.

C8447. -- B1297. Hammond, Tom. "The New Holmes," HO Annual, No. 2 (1975), 31-33.

Looks at two facets of Holmes not readily seen in the Canon or in past scholarship: Holmes the human being and Holmes the amoral force.

C8448. -- B1298. Hardwick, Mollie. "Our Ideal Holmes," Woman's Realm, 26 (November 14, 1970), 14-15. illus.

"Possibly Holmes would have described himself as a dried-up celibate. To us [women] he is the eternal, unattainable bachelor: attractive, super-intelligent, humorous and kind -- all that the rackety, girl-chasing Private Eyes of today's fiction are not... Oh. happy, privileged Mrs. Hudson!"

C8449. -- B1299. Harrison, Michael. "Yes, the Greeks Had a Word for Him ... Master, the Seeker Out," Bakka Magazine-Catalogue, No. 7, Black Box (Fall 1977), 12-15.

"The `deification' of Holmes, begun in a jesting fashion, but now no longer a jest, must now progress to that point at which Sherlock Holmes will join that semi-divine and exalted company which includes Hercules, Arthur, Charlemagne and the Cid: all originally no more than human, but now heroes of myth and symbols of Mankind-The-Grown-Divine."

C8450. -- B1300. Jaffee, Irving L. "Sherlock Holmes' Last Case," Famous Detective Stories, 16, No. 1 (June 1956), 66-67.

----------. ----------, Elementary My Dear Watson. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Theo. Gaus' Sons, [19651. p. 16-18.

Primarily about the detective's use of cocaine and the "softer side of his nature."

C8451. -- B1301. Kripke, Saul A. "Addenda to Saul A. Kripke's Paper `Naming and Necessity,'" Semantics of Natural Language. Edited by Donald Davidson and Gilbert Harman. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Readel Pub. Co., [1972]. p. 763-769.

"Sherlock Holmes" is used in Kripke's discussion of "fictional proper names."

C8452. Kripke, Saul A. Naming and Necessity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [1980]. 172 p.

Contains a brief comment on Holmes (p. 157-158).

C8453. -- B1302. Lowndes, Robert A. W. "The Numerological Holmes," SS, 2, No. 1 (June 1974), 4-6; 2, No. 2 (April 1975), 3-6; 2, No. 3 (November 1975), 6-8.

Contents: Pt. 1. January 6, 1854? -- Pt. 2. The Cycles, Pinnacles, and Challenges. -- Pt. 3. The Name: "Sherlock Holmes."

In part 1 Holmes's birth date is examined from the standpoint of numerology; it is shown that data derived from the date describe the Master rather well. In part 2 there is subsidiary numerological material relating to the birth date.

C8454. -- B1304. Page, Andrew. "Beyond the Infinite Universe," HO, 2, No. 1 (January 1972), 3.

An elaboration of Chris Redmond's editorial on the relevance of "the infinite universe" theory to Sherlockian scholarship (BSP, No. 38 [August 1968], 1). Since all possible worlds exist in infinity, then Holmes is alive today somewhere.

C8455. -- B1305. Page, Andrew. "`I Don't Wish to Be Theatrical,'" BSJ, 22, No. 3 (June 1972), 122-123.

Additional commentary (see DB1294) on how Holmes endangered the lives of his clients and companions, especially Watson's.

C8456. -- B1306. Pearson, Hesketh, and Hugh Kingsmill. "Sherlock Holmes," Introduction by Peter G. Ashman. BSM, No. 13 (March 1978), 12-13.

Excerpt from G. K.'s Weekly, October 5, 1929 (DA2900).

C8457. -- B1307. Peddle, Courtenay, and William Morris. [Untitled], BSJ, 24, No. 1 (March 1974), 51.

A "letter to Baker Street" concerning the entry for Sherlock Holmes in The American Heritage Dictionary.

C8458. -- B1308. Picker, Leonard. "Sherlock Holmes, Pioneer in Criminology," Renaissance [Jamaica High School] (1978), 12-13.

A brief biography of the man who "revolutionized the science of criminology."

C8459. -- B1311. Redmond, Chris. "Class Consciousness in the Canon," SMuse, 4, No. 1 (Spring 1978), 7-12.

"Holmes stands revealed as a bourgeois captive of the society in which he lived.... For all his eccentricity, his wide knowledge, his brilliant reasoning power and his sensitivity to some of the arts, Holmes thought like the people among whom he moved and whose agent he generally was."

C8460. -- B1312. Reed, John Shelton. "The Other Side," BSJ, 22, No. 2 (June 1972), 74-77.

The author protests what he sees as an overemphasis in Sherlockian studies on the Master's cerebral and "Apollonian" qualities, at the expense of the nonrational and intuitive features of the detective. As "compensation," he facetiously suggests that Holmes was psychic, an hypothesis that explains some otherwise puzzling hiatuses in Holmes's reasoning processes.

C8461. -- B1314. "Sherlock Holmes -- A Short Biography," The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 10.

An entry for Who's Who, similar to DA2895.

C8462. -- B1315. Shreffler, Philip A. "Beyond Infinity?" HO, 2, No. 3 (June 1972), 1.

"Re: Andrew Page's editorial" (DB1304).

C8463. -- B1316. Wigglesworth, Belden. "The Gallic Holmes," Summit County Democrat [Akron, Ohio] (April 24, 1946).

First appearance of DA2917.

C8464. Acaster, Ray. "Some Comments on `Sherlock Holmes and the Heroic Myth,'" WF, 4, No. 2 (Spring 1986), 3-4.

Confirms Alexander Douglas's hypothesis that Holmes is truly a hero, since all the requirements are fulfilled.

C8465. Anderson, Poul. "Happy Birthday, Dear Sherlock!" VDH, 2, No. 1 (January 1980), 1, 5.

A tribute to the "late" detective, including a list of guests whom he might enjoy inviting to his party.

C8466. Armstrong, Walter P., Jr. "The Rhetoric of Sherlock Holmes," The Sherlockian, 1, No. 2 (1987), 25-33.

Holmes's characteristic manner of speaking is that of a born leader, as illustrated by his summoning Watson to the chase with the words of Shakespeare's Henry V: "The game is afoot!" As such we accept as appropriate his use of epigram, aphorism and apostrophe. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, he is the most quoted non-Shakespearean fictional character in English literature. Our role, like that of Watson, is to verify, not to question, Holmes's hypotheses. As Rex Stout put it, he represents not humanity but human aspiration. However, by a willing suspension of disbelief we are convinced of his existence, and while we are under his spell, he becomes real for us.

C8467. Armstrong, Walter P., Jr. "Sherlock Holmes' Autobiography," BSGazette, No. 2 (Summer 1988), 33-38.

"Mr. Armstrong put together several excerpts from the Holmes stories to create this short autobiography."

C8468. Barolsky, Paul. "The Case of the Domesticated Aesthete," Walter Pater's Renaissance. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, [1987]. p. 63-76.

Considers the evidence for the theory linking Holmes to the notorious aestheticism of his day, and investigates his relations not only to Pater but more broadly to the whole tradition of aestheticism, extending into the 20th century.

C8469. Brennan, Clare. "Monograph on Sherlock Holmes' Leisure Activities," WF, 3, No. 4 (Autumn 1986), 10-11.

Holmes's leisure hours, such as they were, and free from the distraction of the fair sex, were filled by all manner of strange and absorbing interests like taking cocaine, playing the violin, writing monographs, studying chemistry, partaking of good food and wine, and attending concerts.

C8470. Brogdon, Philip R. "1986 BSI Toast to Sherlock Holmes." Washington, D.C.: Privately Produced, 1985. 1 sheet.

"Gentlemen, I give you Watson's best friend, and also our best friend -- Mr. Sherlock Holmes!"

C8471. Brotz, Howard. "Sherlock Holmes: The Bohemian Moralist," Denver Quarterly, 15, No. 1 (Spring 1980), 35-47.

Holmes's charm lies in his paradoxical character. He is a Bohemian who is bored -- to the point of taking cocaine -- by the humdrum quality of law-abiding society, but which he defends against crime. Its solution and prevention is his greatest intellectual pleasure. It is also the source of his pride. For it is easier to outwit society, including its police force, than Sherlock Holmes.

C8472. Bruhns, Oliver. "Holmes menschlich -- allzu menschlich" ["Holmes Human -- Too Human"], SNOB, Nr. 2 (July 1989), 33-36.

C8473. Caterson, Alan G. "A New `Case of Identity,'" DB, 6 (December 25, 1983), 5-7.

Holmes owed his knowledge of German to a tutor, "a young Viennese Jewish poetess," who "pre-conditioned [him] for Irene Adler."

C8474. Clark, Edward F., Jr. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes," Illustration by Henry Lauritzen. BSM, No. 50 (Summer 1987), 6-7.

Sherlock Holmes in Stud is essentially the Holmes of the next forty years. "He was born with his boots on, and he was the best and most entertaining detective whom we shall ever know."

C8475. Coghill, Bob. "Not Just a Dog Fancier, the Master Was Actually a Bit of a Dog Himself," CH, 4, No. 4 (Summer 1981), 8-10.

Holmes has all the characteristics of a hound: intelligence, a good sense of smell, loyalty, good with children, quiet (not unnecessarily yappy), and gentle, when necessary. As well as being one in character, though, he was a hound in action.

C8476. Connors, Joseph B. "Aye, There's the Rub," Explorations, No. 17 (March 1992), 10-11.

Cites instances of Holmes's hand-rubbing response in several cases, including Wist in which he rubbed his hands twice. (Better that he rubbed them than wrung them!)

C8477. Curtis, Sharon. "New Year's Resolution," ICN, 14, No. 7 (January 1992), 4.

A list of nine resolutions for the Great Detective.

C8478. Danielson, Kristin. "The Need for Authority, Sherlock Holmes in Victorian England," ELS, No. 1 (Summer 1989), 8-10.

Discusses the topic: "The need for an authority figure in Victorian London and the creation of Sherlock Holmes in answer to that need."

C8479. Davies, David Stuart. "The Great Heart," MPapers, No. 2 (1989), 31-34.

"A look at Sherlock Holmes as a metaphysical detective."

C8480. Davis, L. J. "Lost in the Fog on Baker Street," Chicago Tribune Book World (August 6, 1978), 3.

----------. "Seeing Sherlock Plain," BSM, No. 23 (Fall 1980), 8.

"He has everybody, including his creator, absolutely buffaloed, and they can't do a thing about it. We are all Watsons in a world run by Lestrade, and Sherlock Holmes is our revenge."

C8481. De Camara, Mary Philip. "A Halo for Holmes?" BSJ, 30, No. 4 (December 1980), 216-219.

Sister Mary Philip presents some convincing reasons why the foremost champion of justice would be eligible for canonization.

C8482. DeGroat, Ray A. "Sherlock Holmes: Humanitarian," VDH, 3, No. 1 (July 1981), 6-7.

"In all the adventures Sherlock shows himself to be more than master of those human qualities which all gentle men (in the most Victorian meaning) possess. Furthermore, he extends them to all."

C8483. Douglas, Alexander. "Sherlock Holmes and the Heroic Myth," WF, 4, No. 1 (Winter 1986), 17-26.

"The purpose of this essay is to postulate that Sherlock Holmes fits directly into the literary convention known as the `myth of the hero' in direct succession to the more firmly established heroes such as Hercules, Gilgamesh, King Arthur and others ... Sherlock Holmes, no less than other heroes of song and pen, deserves to join the heroic pantheon."

C8484. Dowd, Geoffrey. "Toast to a Giant," CH, 14, No. 1 (Autumn 1990), 18.

"His spirit continues to linger within us, despite his premature retirement to Sussex. At any time we can remove ourselves from temporal cares by re-opening our worn copies of the Sacred Writings to a favourite place in time. There we rejoin the faithful Watson in marvelling at the powers of the Master, who like the Friendly Giant of my childhood has the knack of making it all right again, no matter what."

C8485. Doyle, Steven T. "Last Bow," SHR, 4, No. 2 (1993), 128.

In a final commentary, the editor of The Sherlock Holmes Review points out that "while Sherlock Holmes might not be `real,' the impact and influence he has nevertheless had on the lives of many are very real, indeed."

C8486. Fleissner, Robert F. "Holmes as a Gipsy," BSD, 2, No. 4 (July 1992), 6-7.

In a conference paper, Stetak, in dealing with Canonical references to gipsies, alluded to Holmes as gipsy-like himself (a point questioned by the editor of BSD), but the term need not refer to a Romany and can have positive connotative meaning (as in Matthew Arnold's poem "The Scholar-Gipsy").

C8487. Galerstein, David H. "Were Holmes in Practice Today: Sheer Luck?" PP (NS), No. 1 (March 1989), 29.

Holmes would still be able to find the scarcest item in London or any great city based on his track record of "sheer luck" helping him solve a mystery or carry out a vital step in its solution.

C8488. Gordon, Irwin L. "Holmes, Sherlock, Detective," BSM, No. 38 (Summer 1984), 20.

A biographical entry in Who Was Who, 5000 B.C. to Date, 1914 (DA2878).

C8489. Harrington, Hugh T. "Sherlock Holmes and the Kohlberg Theory of Moral Development," Tails of the Giant Rats: Sherlockian Musings by The Giant Rats of Massillon. Edited by Hugh T. Harrington and Roy K. Preece, Jr. Massillon, Ohio: The Village Bookshelf, 1990. p. 13-16.

The author uses Lawrence Kohlberg's system of six stages of moral growth to show that Holmes falls into the highest category of moral development.

C8490. "An Interview with Mr. Sherlock Holmes," Q£$, 8, No. 3 (August 1987), 36-39.

"In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the initial appearance of Mr. Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, Mr. Holmes has been lured out of retirement to make the rounds of talk shows to publicize his return to TV, film, and print. Our interviewer caught him in the Green Room just before his appearance on `Late Night with David Letterman.'"

C8491. Iseminger, Gordon L. "Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Archetype," BSJ, 29, No. 3 (September 1979), 156-159, 162-166.

It is perhaps natural and inevitable that from Victorian society, with which so many stereotypes are associated, would emerge one man who typifies the character traits associated with the society. Sherlock Holmes is that man. His adventures provide an insight into Victorian society, and he wears his Victorianism as comfortably and as unaffectedly as he wears his familiar mouse-colored dressing gown.

C8492. Kennedy, Bruce. "Upon the Distinction of Criminal Characteristics and Sherlock Holmes," Calabash, No. 1 (March 1982), 8-9.

Holmes has some of the physical characteristics of the criminal type as outlined by Cesare Lombroso in Criminal Man. The Master Detective was also a master criminal in his own right; e.g., Bruc, Chas.

C8493. Lellenberg, Jon L. "The Early Holmes: Alone in Bloomsbury," A Touch of Class. Edited by Michael H. Kean. Wilmette, Ill.: The Pondicherry Press, 1981. p. 55-66.

Speculates on how Holmes may have spent his time during those early years in London, from 1877 to 1881 when he met Watson. In addition to his solitary studies in his rooms at No. 24 Montague Street, in the British Museum, or at Bart's, he may have eked out a living by working part-time for London's detective agencies, where he learned the practical side of investigation. At least two landmarks in the Bloomsbury region of central London where Holmes lived and worked still stand: the Alpha Inn, tentatively identified as the Museum Tavern, and No. 24 Montague Street, which is now part of the Ruskin Hotel.

C8494. Martin, C. J. "The Greatest Detective," SHJ, 15, No. 3 (Winter 1981), 67.

A free-form tribute to Holmes.

"Your Life, within these pages, / Takes an unbelievable hold / On my existence. / I read, transfixed, / As if I have suddenly felt / A reincarnation. / I can live it all, / I see through your eyes ... "

C8495. Meyer, Charles A. "How the Master Gained His Mastery," Q£$, 10, No. 1 (February 1989), 15-19.

Using recent models of the psychology of developing mastery, a series of examples from the Canon illustrate Holmes's growth from neophyte to Master.

C8496. Meyer, Charles A. "Sherlock Holmes Versus the Spies: Counterespionage in the Canon," Q£$, 9, No. 3 (August 1988), 41-49.

An analysis of Holmes's growth and maturation as a counterspy as illustrated by Nava, Seco, Bruc, and Last. It was demonstrated that over a period of years Sherlock gained the confidence of Mycroft, the head of Britain's counterespionage apparatus.

C8497. Payne, Malcolm. "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," BC, 8, No. 7 (October 1991), 16-17.

The founder of The Conan Doyle Establishment takes a peek into the detective's private life.

C8498. Pearce, Sharon. "An Emotional Profile of Sherlock Holmes," SM, 9, No. 2 (June 1981), 28.

"Sherlock Holmes is not a man who is all brain. He was -- and is -- a man with a `great heart' as well."

C8499. [Pollock, Donald K., Jr.] "`Can't You Hear Me, Holmes?'" by E. Butler Richards [pseud.] BSM, No. 26 (Summer 1981), 11-13.

Comments on the misguided debate concerning Holmes's eyesight. Although his vision may have been defective, there is ample evidence that he had a superb auditory memory. The author concludes by suggesting that there should be an end to such fruitless speculations and, instead, we should examine the whole man in his varied contexts.

C8500. Randall, Warren. "The Cleverest Murder Reported in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes," Q£$, 10, No. 2 (May 1989), 36-38.

The cleverest murder was the "murder" of Sherlock Holmes by the Literary Agent as stated in the Preface.

C8501. Ranild, Svend. "The Thomas Hogram Letters," SHJ, 20, No. 2 (Summer 1991), 54-57.

Holmes, at the beginning of his career, may have supplemented his meager income by working as a journalist and a cabdriver. He assumed the alias of Thomas Hogram (Tommy the Toff), a cabby who wrote five letters to Punch defending the London cabby. A sixth letter, published in the "From the Ranks" series on April 23, 1881, was written by Watson, who used the name "William Piddifoot (Billy Gooseberry). Holmes gave Watson permission to end the series with this letter. To add proof to Ranild's claim, a drawing by Alfred Chantrey Corbould showing the first convincing portrait of Holmes, which was published ten years before Paget's illustrations, is reproduced therein. A brilliant article by the editor of Sherlockiana.

C8502. Rice, Susan. "A Toast to the Master," DCC, 15, No. 3 (April 1979), 7.

"Raise your glasses, toast with me, / Not one man, but variety: a drunken groom in St. John's Wood, / A bent old crone with brolly stood, / Master Escott, rakish plumber / Is this our moody violin strummer?.."

C8503. Rose, Lloyd. "100 Years of Sherlock Holmes," BSM, No. 60 (Winter 1989), 32-47.

An analysis of Holmes and the interpretations by actors who have played him.

C8504. Shepherd, Michael. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Dr. Freud. London: Tavistock Publications, [1985]. 30 p. illus.

Cover design by Carlos Sapochnik.

[ ----------. "Sherlock Holmes to Freud," Tr. by Takao Tomiyama. Hermes, Special Issue No. 3 (February 1987), 77-95.]

"This essay is based on the 1984 Squibb History of Psychiatry lecture, which was delivered at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, in June 1984."

Contents: Freud and Holmes. -- Cocaine. -- Zadig's Method. -- Morelli. -- The Phenomenon of Sherlock Holmes. -- Myth and Method. -- Psychoanalysis and Myth. -- Imaginative Understanding. -- Literature and Mythology. -- Detective Fiction -- References.

Reviews: BSM, No. 43 (Autumn 1985), 43-45 (Chris Redmond); Nature, 316 (August 15, 1985), 584 (Anthony W. Clare); Q£$, 6, No. 2 (May 1985), 22; SHJ, 17, No. 3 (Winter 1985), 92-93 (B. Mahendra).

C8505. Shepherd, Walter. "The Case of the Cases," On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes: Some Old Problems Resolved. London: Arthur Barker Ltd., [1978]. p. 109-128. illus.

An analysis of Holmes's rate of work, his relations with Watson as reporter and assistant, and his general philosophical attitude toward crime and human problems.

C8506. Shreffler, Philip A. "On Tempestuousness in `The Missing Three-Quarter,' `Golden Pince-Nez,' et Passim," CNFB, No. 8 (May 1986), 1-2.

Despite Watson's assertion in Miss, Holmes's career was not "tempestuous." Indeed, "the hallmark ... of Sherlock Holmes is that serenity of character made possible by the solid anchor of human reason."

C8507. Sinclair, David. The Shocking Case of the Unknown Sherlock Holmes. [Bellmore, N.Y.: The Antique Press, 1980.] 1 broadside (22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

"This extensive dissertation is the result of the 1980 Antique Press Drinking, Dining and Designing Festival at Château Loudenne when Sherlockian Prop. Mo Lebowitz discovered this profile in the London Times of April 1. Not being a fool, he brought it back to reproduce here for all Sherlockians to savor."

C8508. Solberg, Andrew L. "Sherlock Holmes's Existence: The Ontological Proof," BSJ, 43, No. 1 (March 1993), 50-56.

The existence of Holmes is proven by using René Descartes's Cartesian Discourse on Method (1637). "Sherlock Holmes' being is his level and process of thought ... `Cogitat, ergo est,' `He thinks, therefore he is.'"

C8509. Tolins, Steve. "Off to `That Little Farm,'" PP (NS), No. 17 (March 1993), 11-13.

There are any number of instances where the words and actions of the Great Detective lead one to conclude that he should be held to his word; i.e., "It's surely time that I disappeared into that little farm of my dream."

C8510. Tolins, Steve. "Sonnet to Sherlock on His Birthday," PP (NS), No. 5 (March 1990), 4.

"For Sherlock let our birthday cheers resound."

C8511. Weinberg, Sandy. "The Robotic Holmes," Holmeswork, 11 (January 1985), 1-4.

"A servant of justice as skillful, dedicated, knowledgeable, capable, and intuitive as Sherlock Holmes is simply too good to be true. Sherlock is, and always has been, an electronic robotic combination of the idealized characteristics of a detective. Mycroft Holmes created his own robotic alterego, hired Watson to maintain and operate the machine, and sat back in his overstuffed chair to watch it stick its electronic nose into the great criminal cases of the generation."

C8512. Wiggins, Elizabeth. "Holmes, His Career and His Character," SHG, No. 1 (May 4, 1991), 6-7, 20.

Illustrated with a portrait of Holmes by Jack McCarthy and a photograph of Jeremy Brett.

C8513. Wortman, Bret D. "Was Holmes Real? Let the Master Himself Tell Us...," WW, 9, No. 2 (September 1986), 24-25.

This article entertains the notion that Moriarty had plotted against Holmes to bring about his demise in more than corporeal fashion. By using Sherlockian deduction, the plot is shown to be a diabolical one, but one actually devised by Holmes himself and subtly presented to Moriarty. Holmes allowed for the success of the Professor's machinations by burying a short passage in Stud, which prompted the author to write this manuscript. Purely an entertaining piece, this expands on an article by Pagan Kendall.

C8514. "You Scoundrels Are Picking on My Hero -- Sherlock Holmes," Weekly World News (May 24, 1988), 4. illus. (News Readers Sound Off!)

----------, MO, Premiere Issue (Winter 1992), 4.

A letter to the editors in response to a column in the April 26 newspaper.

See also Mycroft Holmes and Heraldry

C8515. -- A2921. Anderson, Poul. "Art in the Blood," BSJ, 6, No. 3 (July 1956), 133-137.

The close resemblance between Leonardo da Vinci and Holmes would seem to indicate a common ancestry.

C8516. -- A2922. Arenfalk, Poul, and Erik Hall. "Who Were the Parents of Sherlock Holmes?" IR, 3, No. 8 (November 1963), 1-5.

They were Edward Holmes, an English musician and author, and Louisa Sarah Webbe.

C8517. -- A2923. Bengis, Nathan L. "The Graft I Refused to Take," BSG, 1, No. 1 (1961), 5-9.

Holmes invented his Vernet pedigree to hide the fact that he was a foundling and did not know his parents.

C8518. -- A2924. Boswell, Rolfe. "A Connecticut Yankee in Support of Sir Arthur," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 2 (April 1947), 119-127.

The statement by the literary agent that Sherlock was distantly related to Oliver Wendell Holmes has prompted this study of the Holmes genealogy, including the correct Holmes coat of arms.

C8519. -- A2925. Brockway, Wallace. "France's Share in Sherlock Holmes," Tricolor, 1, No. 2 (May 1944), 111-115.

The Vernet influence on the Master.

C8520. -- A2926. Galerstein, David. "The Abkhasians," HO, 2, No. 2 (April 1972), 12-13, 11.

To account for the Master's longevity (118 years), the theory is advanced that he may have descended from a group famous for long life spans that lived in the Soviet Republic of Abkhasia.

C8521. -- A2927. Gilleo, Constance. "The Adventure of the French Sideshow," VH, 2, No. 3 (September 1968), 2-6.

A paper questioning the widely-held view that Holmes's artistic ancestors were members of the French Vernet family.

C8522. -- A2928. Hall, Trevor H. "The Early Years of Sherlock Holmes," Sherlock Holmes: Ten Literary Studies. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., [1969]. Chap. 2, p. 18-35.

New evidence suggesting a Sussex origin and a parental tragedy.

C8523. -- A2929. Harrison, Michael. "The Blue Blood of the Holmeses: A Genealogical Note, as an Appendix to the Saga," BSJ, 14, No. 2 (June 1964), 81-83.

"Holmes ... was connected with the Peerage of Great Britain and the Peerage of Ireland, not only as of the past, but of the present. This consciousness of noble blood it was which made Holmes so very `difficult'--not diffident--in the presence of those who, too often, treated him as of a lower social grade."

C8524. -- A2930. Harrison, Michael. "Why Didn't I Check Montague Street? (Especially No. 24)," BSJ, 20, No. 4 (December 1970), 196-199.

The Post Office London Directory for 1881 lists a Mrs. Holmes as residing at 24 Montague Street. Because Holmes took rooms on that street in 1887, it is assumed he was living at this address with his mother or a relative.

C8525. -- A2931. Redmond, Chris. "Art in the Blood: Two Canonical Relatives. I. `I Shall Be the Hans Sloane of My Age,'" BSJ, 15, No. 2 (June 1965), 86-89.

Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum, was an ancestor of and an influence on Holmes.

C8526. -- A2932. Redmond, Donald A. "On the Name of Sherlock," SHJ, 8, No. 3 (Winter 1967), 86-88.

C8527. -- A2933. Rosenberger, Edgar S. "`My Ancestors Were Country Squires,'" BSJ, 9, No. 4 (October 1959), 197-204.

"Birth of middle aged parents, an upper class, conventional childhood in the Yorkshire countryside, and their heredity explain the Holmes sons' traits: their celibacy and professional success, Sherlock's amazing integration of personality, and Mycroft's lethargy and/or serenity. The artistic genius of the Vernet family of Paris was transplanted to Yorkshire by marriage to Sherlock's father, a hypothetical member of the British civil service." (Mark Purcell)

C8528. -- A2934. Ruber, P. A. "Sherlock Holmes' Christian Name," BSG, 1, No. 3 (1961), 36-38.

The Master was of English rather than French descent and his full name is Sherrinford Sherlock Holmes.

C8529. -- A2935. Sauvage, Leo. "Sherlock Holmes and the French," BSJ, 8, No. 4 (October 1958), 215-217.

On his ties and contacts with France; i.e., the Vernets, the Legion of Honor, cities, and wines.

C8530. -- A2936. Tucker, Ruflus S. "Genealogical Notes on Holmes," Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 125-134.

His father's name was Sigurd or Siger; his grandfather's, Sherrinford. He was distantly related to Oliver Wendell Holmes and to Doyle by marriage. Other contributors to his ancestral strain were Micah Clarke, Orlande de Lassus, Sir Nigel Loring, Étienne Gerard, Charles de Baatz, Daniel, and Zadig.

C8531. -- A2937. Wigglesworth, Belden. "The Coat of Arms of Sherlock Holmes," Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 104-113.

A studied conception of an appropriate heraldry for the Master.

C8532. -- A2938. Willis, Reg. "Your Family Origin: Holmes," The Boston Traveler (February 19, 1958).

----------. ----------, Oakland Tribune (April 14, 1960), 34.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 17, No. 4 (December 1967), 224.

The family lineage of Holmes (of York), with an illustration of its coat of arms.

C8533. -- B1317. Barrett, William. "The Initial Study," HO Annual, No. 2 (1975), 12-13.

The "VR" Holmes shot into the wall was actually "VS," the initials of his mother's maiden name -- Violet Sherrinford.

C8534. -- B2166. Berry , John Stevens. "The Holmes Boys: A Transatlantic Perspective," SHJ, 13, No. 1 (Winter 1976), 11-13.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., was Mycroft, who took over for the detective after Reichenbach (1894). In 1935 the mantle passed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- the real beekeeper in Sussex!

C8535. -- B5954. Berry, John Stevens. "The Holmes Boys: A Transatlantic Perspective," BSJ, 29, No. 1 (March 1979), 28-30.

An extensive study of the life and writings of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., proves conclusively that they were, respectively, the brother and nephew of Sherlock Holmes, and, in fact, conducted many of the investigations attributed to the Master, thereby showing the American influence on British justice.

A revision of DB2166.

C8536. -- B1318. Blau, Peter E. "`Art in the Blood,'" PD (NS), 2, No. 2 (1974), 68-69. (The Master's Corner)

Comments on Holmes's French ancestry, with reproductions of six Napoleon stamps, as painted by the Master's great-grandfather, Carle Vernet, and his great-uncle, Horace Vernet.

C8537. -- B1319. Cohen, Saul. "Notes for an Essay on Holmes and Holmes," BSJ, 25, No. 3 (September 1973), 180-184.

Outlines the various relationships and links between the great detective and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., one of the greatest of American jurists, including their names, interests, abilities, and attitudes; raises a number of provocative questions.

C8538. -- B1320. Dunkling, Leslie. "Holmes -- It's Elementary," Scarborough Evening News (May 21, 1974). (The Names Game)

On the origin of the names "Holmes" and "Sherlock."

C8539. -- B5955. Gallivan, Kevin J. J. "No Ghosts Need Apply," CN (NS), 2, No. 1 (March 1979), 7-9.

The reason for Holmes's bouts of depression, which resulted in his taking cocaine, was the death of his younger brother Sherrinford, who was critically wounded during the fighting in South Africa in 1879. Sherrinford was a subaltern with the "Surreys" in Natal. For most of his life Holmes was haunted by his brother for whom he felt a close attachment.

C8540. -- B1321. Happel, Richard V. "Notes and Footnotes," The Berkshire Eagle (March 11, 1975).

The detective was named after Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician-father of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

C8541. -- B1322. Haycraft, Howard, and Vincent Starrett. "Oliver Wendell Holmes and Conan Doyle," American Notes & Queries (May 1941), 22-23; (June 1941), 42-43.

Considers the possibility that Doyle named his detective after the American author and physician.

C8542. -- B1323. Holmes, John Leonard. "Was Sherlock Holmes's Brother a Remittance Man?" BSJ, 22, No. 2 (June 1972), 87-89.

The author discusses the possibility that the Master was the grandson of Sir Henry Worsley Holmes and the brother of Joseph Leonard Holmes, the author's grandfather. Joseph came to Australia from England in the 1870's as one of the "remittance men," who were sons of middle- and upper-class English families, banished from England by their families for what was regarded as intolerable behavior.

C8543. -- B1324. Jenkins, William D. "From a Drop of Water, an Atlantic, a Niagara ... From a Pebble, the Universe," BSJ, 25, No. 3 (September 1975), 166-167.

"If an archangel could infer the universe from a pebble, and a logician could infer the Atlantic from a drop of water, we readers may be permitted a third inference: When he created Sherlock Holmes for A Study in Scarlet, A. Conan Doyle had Oliver Wendell Holmes firmly in mind."

C8544. -- B1325. Jewell, James G. "The Remarkable Origin of Sherlock Holmes' Powers, or The First Son of the Copper Bitch," More Leaves from the Copper Beeches. Lititz, Pa.: Sutter House, 1976. p. 89-96.

Existing one crucial generation beyond Vernet, the French artist, Holmes deduced the ultimate source and true significance of the art in his own blood. He also learned what was in the blood that he later spilled over the Reichenbach.

C8545. -- B1326. Jewett, John Figgis. "Some Light on the Subject," The Fourth Cab. Boston: Stoke Moran Publishers, 1976. p. 3-8.

Documented evidence identifies Sherlock as the grandson of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The physician-poet sojourned in Hanover annually from 1838 to 1841, and fathered an illegitimate son who was discreetly reared in England, and who later became the father of Mycroft and Sherlock. Watson, seeking this lineage, journeyed to New England in 1894 and brought souvenirs for a visit with Rudyard Kipling. One has been found: a dark-lamp inscribed "Constabulary Office -- Stoke Moran Parish," now in custody of The Speckled Band of Boston.

C8546. -- B1327. Kaegebehn, C. F. "Who Was the Grandmother of Sherlock Holmes? A Biographical Note," BSJ, 28, No. 1 (March 1978), 25.

The question has been answered by Michael Harrison in The World of Sherlock Holmes (facing p. 24). Holmes's mother, Lady Sherrinford, was the sister of Horace Vernet and the daughter of Carle Vernet (1758-1835).

C8547. -- B1328. Linsenmeyer, John. "The Spurious Squires," BSJ, 23, No. 1 (March 1973), 11-17.

Holmes claimed that his "ancestors were country squires, who appeared to have led much the same life as is natural to their class" (Gree). He was, however, clearly lying. His attitude toward money and titles, and particularly his speech patterns, reveal him to have been of no more than lower middle-class antecedents.

C8548. -- B1329. Lowndes, Robert A. W. "Non-U -- But Who?" SS, 1, No. 4 (April 1973), 5-6.

Takes issue with the proposition that Holmes claimed to be upper class. Agrees that the stories show numerous solecisms which would deny "U" standing to either Holmes or Watson; but suggests that Watson was responsible for most of the errors.

C8549. -- B1330. Moore, David. "The Drafting Table," HP, 1, No. 2 (April 1977), 9-10.

On the origin of the name "Sherlock Holmes."

C8550. -- B1331. Redmond, Chris. "Let There Be Light," Illustrated by Rick Harrison. PD (NS), 3, No. 2 (1977), 32-33.

On the origin of the names "Sherlock Holmes" and "Solar Pons."

C8551. -- B1332. Staedler, Bernhard. "The Case of the Missing Mother," BSCL, Nr. 11 (1973), 16-32.

In this essay the author enters upon a search for the detective's mother. It leads him to the discovery of the reasons for Sherlock's choice of career, for his aversion to women, for his abuse of narcotics, for the fact that Mycroft did not inherit the family estate, and for Mycroft's modest position as a hidden grey eminence. Quoting passages from the Canon and reasoning backwards, he finds that Sherlock's mother was the illegitimate child of a daughter of Carle Vernet and that she must have been the woman whom Sherlock describes as "the most winning woman I ever knew," which implies that she also was the woman who "was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money." This tragedy accounts for Sherlock's compulsive-obsessive neurosis, symptoms of which were, among others, his habit of biting his nails, the duplicity of his character, the ambivalence of his feelings, and his drug addiction. When Sherlock returned several years after his fight with Moriarty, he was "weaned" from cocaine, and this presupposes that he was cured of his neurosis. Who could have achieved this at that time, the author asks, but the creator of psychoanalysis? He thinks that Sherlock's absence after the Reichenbach incident was, at least in part, used for a successful psychoanalytical cure performed by Sigmund Freud in Vienna. The essay ends with an attempt to deduce the Christian name of Mrs. Holmes née Vernet, which, according to the author, should have been Rachel.

C8552. -- B1333. Wigglesworth, Belden. "The Crest of Holmes Family of Yorkshire, England," Canon Fodder. Charles O. Gray, editor. Little Rock: The Arkansas Valley Investors, Ltd., 1976. inside front cover.

C8553. Barzun, Jacques. "Which Art in Whose Blood?" BSJ, 37, No. 4 (December 1987), 221-224.

"Our Holmes, the Sherlock whose emergence from impatient obscurity we celebrate after a hundred years, may or may not have been secret kin to all the great bearers of his name. What is certain is that he held no relation whatever to the paint bespattered tribe of Vernet. And if art dominated as it did his mind and personality, it came rather from the spirit of the age than from heredity. It may be that `Blood will tell,' but it never really tells us what."

C8554. Bayer, Pole. "On the Irish Trail of the Holmes Family," CH, 9, No. 4 (Summer 1986), 16-18.

A brief genealogy of some Sherlocks and some Holmeses.

C8555. Clark, Pamela. "Some Reflections on Trevor Hall and the Early Life of Sherlock Holmes," BSJ, 35, No. 3 (September 1985), 153-156.

This paper presents additional Canonical evidence in support of Hall's contention that Holmes's mother was murdered by his father.

Winner of the 1st annual Dean Dickensheet Memorial Award of the Scowrers and Molly Maguires.

C8556. Fleissner, Robert F. "On Spelling Out Sherlock Holmes's Secretive Initial," BSM, No. 53 (Spring 1988), 8-13.

Owing to Roger Johnson's letter in SHJ (Summer 1987) suggesting that the original MS notes for Stud referred to the detective's name originally as "I. Sherrinford Holmes," a point summarily dismissed by the editor, this leading paper urges that the lack of an end-stop after the initial in the MS is no drawback because, in fact, Britishers often omitted it. In spite of the use of the pronoun "I" later on this MS page, the preposition "with" preceding the controversial "I" allows for an initial rather than pronoun in this context (though perhaps on the unconscious level). Johnson's suggestion that "I." here would stand for Doyle's own one-time name of Ignatius is considered, more favourably than Johnson himself admitted. In his follow-up letter in BSM (Summer 1989), Johnson introduced a few qualifications, including a revised preference for "Innes" rather than "Ignatius," owing to the former being the name of Doyle's younger brother.

C8557. Fleissner, Robert F. "The Onomastics of Sherlock," The Mystery Fancier, 8, No. 3 (May-June 1984) 21-24.

Doyle's confession that he may have gotten the name Sherlock from the game of cricket has not ended the name game. Numerous origins have been proposed (biographical, literary, and psychological). Inasmuch as Sherlock's name has been related to that of Shylock (by Leslie Fiedler, Richard Gerber, and others), it is curious that even the cricket player behind Sherlock's name may have been another Shacklock. Watery connotations are also present. Even a Freudian view may suggest itself: that Sherlock is a metathetic (cryptogrammatic) shifting of "her locks," suggesting that he was named after his mother's adoration of his curly hair, thus indicating that his having so little to do with women meant that the real woman in his life was the one who gave birth to him. Instead of "Is it Hoyle?" let us from now on ask instead "Is it Doyle?"

C8558. Fleissner, Robert F. "Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes's Initial Again," BSJ, 41, No. 4 (December 1991), 226-229.

The reference to "I Sherrinford Holmes" in the MS notes for Stud is ambiguous, for the "I" can be taken as a personal pronoun or as an initial; if the latter, then Doyle could easily have been inspired by Holmes's prototype, C. Auguste Dupin. The creative mind is capable of inchoate formulations at this stage. If the "I" represents an initial, it could stand for Ignatius on a certain level (suggestive of St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits, under whom Doyle once studied, especially because Dupin, too, has certain priest-like qualities) but other possibilities are present; (e.g., Innes, the name of Doyle's younger brother. (The article is a follow-up to the one in BSM, Spring 1988.)

C8559. Foster, Michael Alan. "A Whimsical Look at the Early Life of Sherlock Holmes," WW, 5, No. 2 (September 1982), 5-8, 31-32; 5, No. 3 (January 1983), 22-26.

"Siger Holmes was not the father of Sherlock Holmes" states this author in strong disagreement with the theory postulated by Baring-Gould in Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. According to Foster, this is the only explanation for the Holmes family's numerous travels throughout Europe during Sherlock's boyhood years. These trips were financed by soliciting bribes from members of the aristocracy to avoid the scandal that Holmes was descended from royalty; specifically that he was the "illegitimate and first-born son of George Bredon, the fourteenth Duke of Denver and the grandfather of Lord Peter Wimsey."

C8560. Frick, Willis G. "On the Question of Sherlock's Oldest Brother," BSJ, 38, No. 1 (March 1988), 41-43.

Based on the limited evidence presented in the Canon about the family of Sherlock Holmes and considering the probable rather than the improbable, the existence of a brother older than Mycroft is established with a substantial degree of certainty; and speculations are made about Sherlock Holmes's oldest brother.

C8561. Gibson, J. M. "Shacklock to Sherlock," SHJ, 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 86-87.

The name "Sherlock" might well have evolved from a combination of "Shacklock" and "Sherwin," two cricketers whom Doyle knew in March 1886. He competed against Shacklock in a match between the United Services and the M.C.C. in Portsmouth during August 1890. Also on the Marylebone Club team for 1884 were two players named T. Mycroft and W. Mycroft.

C8562. Green, Richard Lancelyn. "What's in a Name?" MPapers, No. 4 (1991), 56-59.

There are several contenders for the name "Sherlock" (all mentioned), but the one the author finds to be the best candidate is Lieutenant-General Shurlock Henning, who was born in 1829.

C8563. Haynes, George Cleve. "My Decrepit Italian Friend: II Maestro di Color che Sanno," BSJ, 37, No 2 (June 1987), 88-96.

Sherlock Holmes's country-squire ancestors may not all have been English. Internal evidence suggests an Italian branch. When he fled the Reichenbach Falls, Holmes went to Florence because, as the author demonstrates, he had family in Tuscany to assist him. Distinguishing "impressions" of characters such as lascars, sailors, grooms, etc., Haynes points out that Holmes's only total character immersions involving the use of foreign language were as French or Italian characters; from this, together with other data, including the known fact that Holmes had French ancestry, Haynes deduces Italian ancestry as well.

C8564. Holly, Raymond L. "The New Beginning," BCA (1990), 1-8.

"The date of January 6 has associations with the history of The Baker Street Irregulars and with Christopher Morley, and probably will always be the time of the annual BSI dinner; but that it is the birthday of Sherlock Holmes has nowhere as much going for it as the evidence for April 5."

C8565. Holt, Thaddeus. "The Sixth Napoleon," BSJ, 37, No. 1 (March 1987), 28-36. illus.

The article investigates Holmes's Vernet ancestry and demonstrates that Holmes was in fact the great-grandson of Napoleon I. It accounts for the disappearance and the Great Hiatus as part of an operation to save the Third French Republic from the threat posed by General Boulanger. The mystery of Mayerling is also solved.

C8566. Hyder, William. "...there is nothing so important as TRIFLES." Baltimore: January 1994. 1 p.

Was the goose in Blue town bred or country bred? Holmes and Breckinridge, the poultry dealer, had a bet on the question. But the fact that Holmes contrived to lose the bet suggests an answer to a similar question: Was Holmes himself raised in London or in the country?

C8567. Kellogg, Richard L. "The Pinkerton Clue," Calabash, No. 2 (September 1982), 2-5.

Allan Pinkerton's summary of the Kensington Bank of Philadelphia robbery in January 1871 (Professional Thieves and the Detective) leads to the possibility that Holmes, the gullible watchman, was Sherlock's father. The disgrace may have forced the Holmes family to flee Philadelphia for a new life in England. This theory would explain Sherlock's reticence in discussing his childhood and family.

C8568. McClure, Michael W. "Re: `Which Art in Whose Blood?'" BSJ, 38, No. 3 (September 1988), 148-150.

A rebuttal of Barzun's article in BSJ (December 1987). McClure proves that Holmes's claim of the Vernet ancestry is accurate, that he could have a cousin named Verner, and that his childhood may not have been as dreary as most believe.

C8569. McClure, Michael W. "Sherlockula," WW, 11, No. 2 (September 1988), 24-28.

A comparison between the physical attributes of Holmes and those of the medically defined vampire. Holmes's vast knowledge, superhuman strength and habits all match our perceptions of the "other" Master, Count Dracula. The incontrovertible proof lies in Sherlock's longevity -- having attained at least 134 years of age. Only a living vampire could match these characteristics so well.

C8570. McCord, James N., Jr. "The Irish Connection: The Origin of Sherlock?" BSJ, 42, No. 1 (March 1992), 19-24.

Reviews various theories on the origins of Holmes's Christian name, stressing Conan Doyle's close Irish relations and the coincidence with the family name of Doyle's favorite Irish aunt, Jane Ball Doyle, wife of Henry Edward Doyle (1827-1892), daughter of Jane Sherlock Ball (1791-1867), and granddaughter of Thomas Sherlock (d. 1801) of Butlerstown Castle, County Waterford, Ireland.

C8571. Meyer, Charles A. "The Adventure of the Missing Grandfather," SHJ, 21, No. 2 (Summer 1993), 47-49.

The identity of Holmes's maternal grandfather is revealed as Sir Horatio Lord Hornblower. Similarities between the two heroes are discussed in some detail, with attention to the influences of both nature and nurture.

C8572. Meyer, Charles A. "The Case of the Unmentioned Grandfather," NS, No. 18 (March 20, 1984), 8-13.

It is likely that between 1815 and 1821 Sir Horatio Lord Hornblower (identified as the Holmes brothers' grandfather) had an affair with Miss Vernet. The fruit of this brief union was Violette Vernet, the wife of Siger Holmes and mother of Mycroft and Sherlock. Both grandsons (Mycroft and Sherlock) were influenced in their adult careers by reaction to their connection to Admiral Hornblower.

C8573. Morris, Jane. "A Treatise on Arts and the Master," VA, 1, No. 2 (January 1992), 41-47.

An assessment of the painting styles of Holmes's great uncle, Emile Jean Horace Vernet, and his great-great grandfather, Claude Joseph Vernet, reveals elements of his character. "That he was an excitable romantic ascetic with anorexia, a pronounced death wish and a healthy and reasonable high regard for women is certain."

C8574. Roden, Christopher. "What's in a Name? The Genesis of Sherlock," ACD, 3 (1992), 35-37.

----------. ----------, CH, 16, No. 3 (Spring 1993), 26-28.

The co-editor of ACD advances his own theory as to the origin of "Sherlock" by hypothesizing that the name came from the title of Emile Gaboriau's book Monsieur Lecoq. The first syllable was dropped and the remainder was anglicized: "Sher-le-cock" (Sherlock).

C8575. Schugt, John. "Scientific and Artistic Inheritance," SM, 10, No. 3 (1985), 15-16.

Dr. Schugt reports on his genealogical research into the family of Charles Horace Vernet (1758-1836), Holmes's great-grandfather.

C8576. Skene Melvin, David. "Sherlock Holmes Was a Bastard! Some Speculation into the Possible Maternity of the Master," BSJ, 29, No. 3 (September 1979), 147-149, 154,

Clues in The Eagles Die: Franz Joseph, Elizabeth, and Their Austria, by George R. Marek, reveal the well-kept secret that Sherlock Holmes was the illegitimate son of Henry Holmes, riding master, and Elizabeth, Empress of Austria. Sherlock was brought up by his father's family. Mycroft was his cousin, with whom Sherlock had been raised as a foster brother.

C8577. Bond, Scott. "Sherlock Holmes Revisited," Holmeswork, 10 (January 1983), 6-13. illus.

The Sherlock Holmes of today is a synthesis to which four or five individuals have made important contributions: first, Doyle or Watson who recorded the cases; second, Sidney Paget, the premier Sherlockian artist who gave us our first real notion of what Holmes looked like and how he dressed; third, William Gillette, the first great Sherlockian actor who contributed the curved pipe and Inverness; and finally, Basil Rathbone, the popularizer of this particular version of Sherlock sartorial, Sherlock Holmes tonsorial.

C8578. Lane, Andrew. "Was Sherlock Holmes Ugly?" 221b, No. 2 (October 1989), 5-7.

According to Doyle and Watson, Holmes was not the handsome man that we have become accustomed to in illustrations and screen appearances. He hid his lack of appeal to woman by pretending not to be interested.

C8579. -- B1303. Miller, Ron. "Will the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Stand Up?" BSJ, 22, No. 4 (December 1972), 232-236. illus.

There has not been to date a portrait of Holmes that portrays him as he is described in the Canon. All have been idealizations which have culminated in a traditional picture of Holmes that is greatly removed from his actual appearance. Tabulating every mention of Holmes's physiognomy, a picture appears of a strong-featured, heavy-browed, beady-eyed individual who bears a strong facial kinship to the American Indian, with whom Holmes may actually bear some blood relationship.

C8580. -- B1310. Price, Melina.,"The Name Is Familiar, But I Can't Place the Face," SM, 6, No. 3 (August 15, 1978), 9-12.

With the aid of phrenology and astrology, the author attempts to eliminate some of the blank spots left by Watson in his description of Holmes. "No matter what any analysis may conclude, Basil Rathbone was still the mirror image of the Daemon of Baker Street."

C8581. Tyburn, John. "The Face and Figure of Sherlock Holmes," CH, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1989), 8-11.

An explanation of the artist's portrait of Holmes, with a reproduction of the drawing.

C8582. Harrison, Michael. Decorated Mr. Holmes: The Orders, Decorations, Medals and Other Marks of Distinction Acknowledging His Unique Successes. Listed, dated and described by Michael Harrison. [New York]: Magico Magazine, [1984]. 41 p. illus.

Published in a trade edition and a limited edition of 121 numbered and signed copies.

Review: BSM, No. 41 (Spring 1985), 47-49 (John M. Linsenmeyer).

C8583. Woods, Carol Paul. "The Distressing Matter of a Possible Posthumous Award," BSJ, 35, No. 1 (March 1985), 32-33.

Considering the lengths to which the media frequently go in analyzing the records of those mentioned for honors, the possibility of a posthumous award for Holmes fills one with trepidation. Holmes is, indeed, distressingly vulnerable on numerous legal and ethical considerations.

C8584. -- A2939. Bengis, Nathan L. "What Was the Month?" BSJ, 7, No. 4 (October 1957), 204-214. illus.

A substantiation of January 6 as the birthday of Sherlock Holmes.

C8585. -- A2940. Boswell, Rolfe. "A Rare Day in June," BSJ, 7, No. 1 (January 1957), 13-17.

A chronological inquiry into the date of the Master's nativity suggests he was born on Saturday, June 17, 1854.

C8586. -- A2941. Henriksen, A. D. "On the Year of Sherlock Holmes's Birth," SHJ, 1, No. 1 (May 1952), 39-40.

A summary of the views of Sherlockians on this profound question.

C8587. -- A2942. Hoffecker, Douglas M. "Forgive Us, Oh Lord!" BSJ, 5, No. 1 (January 1955), 40-42.

The Baker Street Irregulars and their British cousins are accused of having erred in dubbing Holmes a centenarian in 1954. He was born in 1867!

C8588. -- A2943. McLauchlin, Russell. "On the Dating of the Master's Birth," BSJ, 6, No. 3 (July 1956), 138-142.

"No, there is no doubt about it: the birth month of Sherlock Holmes is either May or June. The field has been narrowed by five-sixths. And the January date is exposed as pure, superstitious folly."

C8589. -- A2944. Meili, Philip C. "A Light to Enlighten: A Theological Reflection," BSJ, 19, No. 2 (June 1969), 109-111.

A theological basis for the January 6 date.

C8590. -- A2945. Vander Rhin, William. "Upon the Dating of the Master's Birth," Bulletin [The Unknowns of Buffalo, New York], 2, No. 2 (January-February 1964), 10-13.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 15, No. 2 (June 1965), 114-117.

"We can no longer assume Mr. McLauchlin's theory to be anything but an incredible fantasy, a ridiculous conjecture.... Vive, vive January 6--long may it endure."

C8591. Brusic, Robert. "Rosy Thoughts on the Anniversary of a Birth -- January 6, 1992," Explorations, No. 17 (March 1992), 7-8.

Explores various mnemonic devices for remembering Holmes's birthday (after a student reminded Brusic of the detective's birthday!), and suggests that remembering Epiphany Day on January 6 and Holmes's remarks about the rose (Nava) will help.

C8592. Burr, Robert C. "An Occasional Paper from the Second Dimension," WW, 13, No. 1 (May 1990), 31-33.

Because there is no evidence to support the belief (tradition) that Holmes was born either in January or April, it is recommended that we celebrate his birth twelve months a year.

C8593. Canton, Rolf. "Re-dating Sherlock Holmes's Birthday by Astrological Deduction," ELS, No. 1 (Summer 1989), 11-12.

Examines the dating of Holmes's birthday based on astrological evidence and concludes that "there is good cause to feel that Sherlock Holmes was born under the sign of Capricorn and that January 6th is the correct date."

C8594. Holly, Raymond L. "April 5, 1894," CHJ, 5, No. 3 (March 1983), 2-4.

----------. ----------, BSM, No. 34 (Summer 1983), 19-22.

"Sherlock Holmes was born on April 5, 1854, and baptized a week and a day later, on Maundy Thursday, April 13, 1854, and returned from the Hiatus on his 40th birthday, April 5, 1894."

C8595. Holly, Raymond L. "A Confirmation of Baring-Gould," CHJ, 6, No. 1 (January 1984), 2-3.

Accepting April 5, 1854, as the birth date of Sherlock Holmes provides additional confirmation for Baring-Gould's dating of Copp and 3Stu.

C8596. Holly, Raymond L. "Date of Birth?" DT, No. 2 (Autumn 1987), 1-7.

Consolidates the material in Holly's previous articles and adds some further confirmation.

C8597. Johnson, C. Arnold. "The Belshazzar Theory," GMG, 2, No. 4 (Independence Day 1983), 19-22. illus.

A highly plausible theory that the "V.R." Watson saw on the wall (Musg) was not really "V.R." but "V.17." Holmes was simply outlining the month and day of his birth (May 17). Because of his poor aim, however, he placed the "7" a shade too close to the "l," the latter in the continental manner, with a cross-bar.

C8598. Lauria, Steven. "On the Birthday of Sherlock Holmes," BSM, No. 28 (Winter 1981), 1-5, 24.

The author reviews the various arguments surrounding the birth date of Holmes and asserts that neither the Morley theory of the January 6 birth date nor the McLaughlin theory of the June birth date have any reference whatsoever to the Canon. Lauria then suggests that the true birth date can be determined through an investigative study of Holmes's name: it has a religious tie to Maundy Thursday (Shire Day) which in 1854 was April 13, the actual birthday of Holmes.

C8599. Nielsen, Bjarne. "Datoer, giv mig datoer!" Sherlockiana, 33, Nr. 4 (1988), 45-46.

Text in Danish.

C8600. Clark, Edward F., Jr. "Brag and Bounce," BSJ, 33, No. 2 (June 1983), 75-78.

Discusses cases in which Holmes injects unnecessary dramatics at a material point in the story for his own satisfaction. The author identifies eleven cases in which this takes place and puts them in seven categories, from "innocent merriment" to "reckless damnfoolery."

Letter: BSJ, 34, No. 1 (March 1984), 3536 (Edward F. Clark, Jr.).

C8601. Hubbs, Jamie. "Sherlock Holmes: The Dramatic Professor," Explorations, No. 20 (December 1992), 5-6.

Examples are used from Norw, Nava, and Maza to illustrate Holmes's flair for theatrical endings.

C8602. Long, Debra. "A Touch of the Dramatic," MPapers, No. 4 (1991), 7-16.

Illustration of Holmes on the stage by Kathryn White.

"Throughout the entire Canon, Holmes uses his theatrical flair to solve problems, dramatize his solutions and amaze his audience. ... Holmes was at the same time satisfying his own need for applause and acclamation."

C8603. -- A2946. Berman, Ruth. "On an Irregular Needle," BSJ, 11, No. 3 (September 1961), 158.

"Irregulars explode in wrath, / They do not stop to wheedle, / When folks who think they're quoting Holmes / Cry, `Quick, Watson! the needle.'"

C8604. -- A2947. Carey, Eugene F. "Holmes, Watson and Cocaine," BSJ, 13, No. 3 (September 1963), 176-181, 195.

The author agrees with Dr. McCleary that "Holmes had none of the attributes of the injudicious drug user or of the addict" but insists that "he was, for a time at least, a judicious user of cocaine."

C8605. -- A2948. Kaplan, Robyn. "Holmes as an Addict," BSP, No. 30 (December 1967), 3.

Proof that he could not have been addicted to either cocaine or morphine.

C8606. -- A2949. [McCleary, George F.] "Was Sherlock Holmes a Drug Addict?" by An Occasional Correspondent. The Lancet, 2 (December 26, 1936), 1555-1556.

----------. ----------, Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 40-45.

----------. ----------, Encore, 7, No. 35 (January 1945), 90-93.

"All we know of Holmes's alleged addiction can be explained if we assume that he did not actually take the drug, but mystified Watson into believing that he did. The facts can be explained on no other hypothesis."

C8607. -- A2950. Miller, William H. "Some Observations on the Alleged Use of Cocaine by Mr. Sherlock Holmes," BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September 1969), 161-165.

"There can be no doubt that Sherlock Holmes was not addicted to narcotic drugs. There is very little evidence to support such a belief, and the facts are all against it. A knowledge of the man himself and his abilities, as well as the few drugs available for hypodermic injection during the time of Holmes's experimentation, has made possible the elementary deductions that lead us to the true contents of his syringe."

Winner of the 12th annual Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award for the best contribution to BSJ in 1969.

C8608. -- A2951. Morrow, Lorents A. "The Hoax That Raised (Co)caine," BSJ, 17, No. 3 (September 1967), 164-167.

Watson was goaded by Holmes into fabricating incidents about the detective's use of narcotics.

C8609. -- A2952. Musto, David F. "A Study in Cocaine: Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud," The Journal of the American Medical Association, 204, No. 1 (April 1, 1968), 27-32.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 4, No. 15 (August 1968), 297-302.

"Cocaine stimulated the early careers of two brilliant investigators, Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes. In fact, their common attraction to the euphoric properties of the leaf may be more than a coincidence."

C8610. -- A2953. [Naganuma, Kohki. "Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine," The World of Sherlock Holmes. Tokyo: Bungei-Shunju Shin-sha, 1962.] Chap. 2, p. 31-51.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 13, No. 3 (September 1963), 170-175.

"Historical discrepancies concerning the use of cocaine injections between the facts and Watson's records."

C8611. -- A2954. "Sherlock Holmes var ej kokainist" ["Sherlock Holmes Was No Cocaine Addict"], Svenska Dagbladet (August 22, 1937).

----------, BSCL, No. 1 (January 1963), 10-14.

C8612. -- A2955. [Solovay, Jacob C.] "Holmes and Watson Converse on the Drug Habit," BSJ, 13, No. 3 (September 1963), 169.

"I crave the mental lift that makes me soar; / Morphine, cocaine, even your words of praise, / Or, better still, some dark and lovely crime." (Holmes)

"Forget your foolish drugs. Don't fret, don't fear, / There's ample wickedness to serve your ends." (Watson)

C8613. -- A2956. [Wolff, Julian.] "A Narcotic Monograph," BSJ, 13, No. 3 (September 1963), 182-184. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

A review of the literature, with a bibliography on Holmes and cocaine.

C8614. -- B1334. Ashley, Richard. Cocaine: Its History, Uses and Effects. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1975]. xii, 232 p.

Contains a discussion of Doyle, Holmes, and cocaine on pages 37-40.

C8615. -- B1335. Clements, Jonathan. "A Short History of Cocaine," Game [Challenge Publications, Canoga Park, Calif.], 5, No. 1 (January 1978), 46-49.

A Sherlockian illustration and a brief mention of Doyle and Holmes as "regular cocaine users."

C8616. -- B1336. Cox, J. Randolph. "Did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Use Cocaine? A Study in Research," BSM, No. 14 (June 1978), 11-17.

An examination and refutation of the allegations in popular and scholarly publications that Doyle used cocaine. Also touches upon Holmes's use of the drug.

C8617. -- B1337. Crittenden, Ann, and Michael Ruby. "Cocaine: The Champagne of Drugs," The New York Times Magazine (September 1, 1974), 14, 16-17.

Non-Sherlockian except for the photograph of "three users of the drug: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [sic], Pope Leo XIII, and Sigmund Freud."

C8618. -- B1338. DuPont, Robert. "In His Own Words: 6.3 Million Americans Have Tried Cocaine, a Doctor Warns, and the Cult Is Growing," People, 6, No. 22 (November 29, 1976), 48, 52, 54.

Contains a photograph of Doyle, preceded by a note that both he and Holmes took cocaine. (In response to a letter from J. Randolph Cox, Dr. DuPont denied the existence of any documentation indicating that Doyle was a user.)

C8619. -- B1339. Grinspoon, Lester, and James B. Bakalar. Cocaine: A Drug and Its Social Evolution. New York: Basic Books, [1976]. x, 308 p.

Includes brief comments on Holmes and possibly Doyle's use of cocaine, and mention of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (p. 36-37, 98).

C8620. -- B1340. Jameson, Keith. "Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine: An Analysis," SHJ, 11, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 129-131.

"Clearly, Holmes' experiences with cocaine, like Freud's, were on the whole harmless. There is no evidence whatever to indicate even a trace of addiction or cocaine psychosis. Thus, there is no cause to believe that Holmes' use of cocaine between the years 1882 and 1890 casts any aspersions whatever upon his character. He employed it for a specific purpose, and only used it so long as he thought its effects to be beneficial."

C8621. -- B1341. Kelly, Ken. "In Showbiz, the Celebs with a Nose for What's New Say the New High Is Cocaine," People, 9, No. 2 (January 16, 1978), 16-21.

Includes a photograph of Doyle and mentions Holmes's predilection for taking cocaine intravenously and Gillette's injections of coke into his wrist while playing the detective.

C8622. -- B1342. Labianca, Dominick A., and William J. Reeves. "Sherlock Holmes and His Compulsive Use of Cocaine: A Topic for Coordinated Study," Science Education, 60, No. 1 (January-March 1976), 47-52.

----------. ----------, [Extract] BCAA Bulletin [Brooklyn College Alumni Association] (Spring 1977), 14-16.

"The characteristics exhibited by Sherlock Holmes are in accord with the documented results of the behavioral effects of cocaine usage. Obviously, Holmes does not exhibit all the effects that have been ascribed to use of the drug, perhaps because his compulsive habit is not a constant one but one which occurs intermittently. Nevertheless, the coordinated analysis indicated to the class the authentic nature of the Holmes cocaine habit."

C8623. -- B1343. Lauterbach, Edward. "The Solution," BSM, No. 7 (September 1976), 13-15.

"Now Watson, you can stop your pleas, / No more you'll have to wheedle, / With nightmares like this one I've had / I'll throw away my needle!

"Despite my seven per cent intake, / My decadent devolution, / I've solved my drug addiction case / With a very impure solution!"

C8624. -- B5956. Miller, William H. "The Habit of Sherlock Holmes," Transactions & Studies of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia (4th Series), 45, No. 5 (July 1978), 252-257.

Reprinted from BSJ, September 1969 (DA2950).

C8625. -- B1344. Meyer, Nicholas. "Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine," BSJ, 24, No. 3 (September 1974), 136-140, 145.

Examines the problem of Holmes's alleged addiction in the light of psychological prejudice rather than textual argument. Meyer attempts to show that the Master's admirers, through a misguided zeal to ensure the perfection of Holmes, refuse to acknowledge his addiction and thereby also deny his human frailties, part of the very facets that make his character both real and heroic.

C8626. -- B1345. Musto, David F. "A Study in Cocaine: Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud," History of Medicine, 5, No. 3 (1973), 16-20. illus.

----------. ----------, Cocaine Papers, by Sigmund Freud. Notes for this edition by Anna Freud. Edited and with an introduction by Robert Buck, M.D. [New York]: Stonehill, [1974]. Chap. 23, p. 355-370.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York and Scarborough, Ontario: New American Library, [October 1975]. Chap. 23, p. 355-370.

"A Meridian Book."

First published in JAMA, April 1, 1968 (DA2952). See also DB2663.

C8627. -- B1346. Perry, Charles. "The Star-Spangled Powder, or Through History with Coke Spoon and Nasal Spray," Rolling Stone (August 17, 1972), 25-26.

----------. ----------, [Excerpt] JAMS, 1, No. 3 (Fall 1972), 12.

One section of this article concerns Holmes and Jekyll's use of cocaine.

C8628. -- B1347. Tracy, Jack, and Jim Berkey. Subcutaneously, My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes and the Cocaine Habit. Illustrated by Paul M. McCall, with Sidney Paget's original representations of Sherlock Holmes and other turn-of-the century illustrations. [Bloomington, Ind.]: James A. Rock & Co., 1978. 91 p.

Published in hardcover and paperback editions.

A detailed study of the use of cocaine in the Canonical tales that provides an insight into the attitudes prevalent in the late 19th century toward the use of and addiction to cocaine. The authors trace the effects of Holmes's cocaine habit on his career as a detective and on his relationship with Dr. Watson.

Reviews: Afghanistanzas, 3, No. 6 (February 28, 1979), 9-10 (Julie Maynard); BSM, No. 17 (March 1979), 28-29 (J. Randolph Cox); DCC, 15, No. 1 (December 1978), 9-10 (Glenn J. Shea).

C8629. "Cocaine: America's 100 Years of Euphoria and Despair," Life, 7, No. 5 (May 1984), 57-68. illus.

This cover story includes a photograph of Gillette as Holmes injecting himself with cocaine, and two stills of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., as Detective Coke Ennyday in The Mystery of the Leaping Fish.

C8630. Davies, David Stuart. "The Great Breakdown: Sherlock Holmes and His Drug Mania," BSPB, No. 14 (April 1993), 20-22.

Extensive quotations are used to show that Holmes was not only addicted to drugs but was forced to retire at the early age of fifty. By the year of Lion (1907) he was "a shadow of his former self -- the victim of the ravages of drug mania." (The author does not explain how Holmes has managed to survive all these years when his mind and body were "ravaged" by drugs. Perhaps the honey rejuvenated him!)

C8631. "Did Holmes Have a Habit?" The Canadian (January 8, 1977), 22. illus. (You Asked Us)

Answer to a question from Mario Alessandro: "I enjoyed Nicholas Meyer's Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution but was disappointed that the title was never explained. What's it all about?"

C8632. Drake, Barbara. "The Importance of Trifles," 221b, No. 3 (April 1990), 11.

Several sentences in which the word "trifle" appears are quoted to show that Holmes was only a "trifle addict."

C8633. Golden, Sarah Marie. "There Was an Old Woman," MM, No. 26 (August 1981), 4-5.

Remember the old woman who swallowed things: first a fly; then a horse? She died, of course. Holmes retired because his standards were suffering; e.g., Reti, SixN, Lady, 3Gab. Compare his descriptions of his mind in Stud, in Lion. He retired to recover. From cocaine? That was comparatively harmless. The nicest people approved of it. Having used opiates to get people off alcohol, cocaine to get them off morphine, what did doctors use for cocaine? Heroin. Horse. There was a detective who swallowed a horse.

C8634. Grilly, David M. "A Reply to Miller's `The Habit of Sherlock Holmes,'" Transactions & Studies of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia (5th Series), 46 (1980), 324-327.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine: Fact and Fiction," SHJ, 15, No. 1 (Winter 1980), 11-13.

The evidence suggests that Watson's depiction of the Master's use of cocaine and the effects of it upon him was accurate and consistent with what is presently known about cocaine and what was known about the drug in Holmes's day. To suggest otherwise is to theorize in advance of the facts.

See also DB5956.

C8635. Hill, Rosemary. "Cocaine: Not a Seven-Per-Cent Solution," 221b, No. 2 (October 1989), 14-16.

A commentary on the drug and Holmes's use of it.

C8636. Jones, Kelvin I. "A Note on Cocaine," BSC, 3, No. 6 (November-December 1983). 8-9.

Contents: The Dosage. -- The Method. -- The Discovery of Cocaine. -- Holmes' Use of Cocaine. -- Long-Term Effects.

C8637. Jones, Kelvin I. "A Note on Nicotine," WW, 4, No. 1 (May 1981), 5-7, 32.

An examination of Holmes's drug dependency and its possible origins, points to a possible disorder of the abdomen. Coal-tar derivative researches provided some relief via nicotine acid.

C8638. Katz, Robert S. "Holmes and Watson: Studies in Addiction," BSM, No. 42 (Summer 1985), 25-27.

The author suggests that Watson weaned Holmes from cocaine by agreeing to curb his own gambling at the horse races. Holmes took charge of Watson's checkbook at about the same time he abandoned cocaine.

C8639. Klawans, Harold L. "Getting a Kick from Cocaine," Newton's Madness: Further Tales of Clinical Neurology. New York: Harper & Row, [1990]. Chap. 19, p. 174-185.

An earlier version appeared in The Medicine of History, 1982.

A detailed examination of Holmes's addiction, with an identification of the man who was instrumental in introducing Holmes to Freud.

C8640. Klawans, Harold L. "The Norwegian Explorer," The Medicine of History: From Paracelsus to Freud. New York: Raven Books, [1982]. p. 19-35. illus.

"... several generations of Sherlock Holmes scholars have puzzled over the name Sigerson and uniformly misinterpreted its significance. Holmes's choice of the name has been taken as evidence that Holmes's father was Siger Holmes; hence Sigerson was a tribute to the man who was instrumental in his biological birth. In reality, Holmes had used this name as a tribute to someone who helped in his spiritual rebirth [the renowned neurologist George Sigerson, M.D.]. Why did he not mention Freud at all? Most likely at Freud's request, if not demand, that anything tying Freud to cocaine should be suppressed."

C8641. Labianca, Dominick A., and William J. Reeves. "Cocaine and the Sherlock Holmes Syndrome," USA Today (September 1986), 64-66. (Medicine & Health)

----------. ----------, SHIEN, No. 6 (November 1991), 20.

C8642. Matsumoto, Kakuko. "Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine Injection," SNSHC, 1, No. 1 (May 4, 1990), 73-76.

Text in Japanese.

"From the description in the Canonical tales, we can assume that Holmes had been addicted to cocaine for a relatively long time. But he does not seem to be a serious addict. He was merely a special user. The author considered Holmes's attitude toward cocaine from his method of injection."

C8643. [McCleary, George F.] "Was Sherlock Holmes a Drug Addict?" Mould's Medical Anecdotes. [Compiled by Richard F. Mould.] Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd., [1984]. p. 112-114.

First published in The Lancet, December 26, 1936 (DA2949).

C8644. Musto, David F. "America's First Cocaine Epidemic," The Wilson Quarterly, 13 (1989), 59-64.

----------. "America's Forgotten Drug War," (condensed) Reader's Digest, 136 (April 1990), 147-150.

The introduction of cocaine to America in the 1880's and the eventual decline of demand for the drug is described. There is a reference to Sherlock Holmes.

C8645. Musto, David F. "Why Did Sherlock Holmes Use Cocaine?" BSJ, 38, No. 4 (December 1988), 215-216.

----------. ----------, Pharmacy in History, 31 (1989), 78-80.

Holmes's use of cocaine coincided with its introduction in the mid-1880's. Initially, cocaine was widely touted by experts to be a harmless mental stimulant. When the dangers of cocaine became apparent, Holmes had the wisdom and fortitude to stop taking cocaine. This switch in popular and expert attitudes has many parallels in our own time.

C8646. Redmond, Chris. "Just Say Yes and No," CH, 13, No. 4 (Summer 1990), 1-2. (Traces of Bootprints)

An editorial on Holmes's use of cocaine, which was acceptable and not illegal in his day, with mention of his heavy use of tobacco -- another killer. When asked if Holmes took drugs, say, "`Yes, but' -- the old-fashioned legal plea of `guilty with an explanation.'"

C8647. Wright, L. Alan. "Sherlock Holmes -- An Understanding of His Drug Use," TW, 4, No. 2 (1982), 1-6.

"Holmes's drug use is often quoted and almost common knowledge, even among the uneducated in these matters, but is mostly misunderstood and misrepresented. The purpose of this monograph is to carefully identify Holmes's drug use and to outline its extent, duration, and origins, especially in terms of the social milieu of the times."

C8648. -- A2957. Adams, Stephen. "Holmes: A Student of London?" SHJ, 2, No. 4 (Winter 1955), 17-18.

The difficulties surrounding the Cambridge/Oxford problem can be easily solved by assigning him to London University.

C8649. -- A2958. Blakeney, T. S. "The Location of `The Three Students,'" SHJ, 4, No. 1 (Winter 1958), 14.

"Being a footnote to N. P. Metcalfe's `Oxford or Cambridge or Both?'"

C8650. -- A2959. Brend, Gavin. "Oxford or Cambridge," My Dear Holmes. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1951]. Chap. 2, p. 18-28.

An examination of the five cases (Glor, Musg, Miss, 3Stu, and Cree) which refer to university affairs suggests that Holmes attended Oxford.

C8651. -- A2960. Brend, Gavin. "Was Sherlock Holmes at Westminster?" The Trifler [London] (July 1953), 6.

----------. ----------, SHJ, 2, No. 1 (July 1954), 39-41.

New signposts point to Westminster.

C8652. -- A2961. Bristowe, W. S. "Oxford or Cambridge?" SHJ, 4, No. 2 (Spring 1959), 75-76.

The author agrees with both R. L. Green and F. J. M. Stratton that Holmes was an Oxford man.

C8653. -- A2962. Cochran, Leonard. "Sherlock Holmes and Logic: The Education of a Genius," BSJ, 17, No. 1 (March 1967), 15-19.

"Siger Holmes, at the request of his younger son, sought out Professor Moriarty to serve as logic tutor to Sherlock Holmes during the summer which immediately followed upon Holmes's year at Oxford with Charles Lutwidge Dodgson."

C8654. -- B2145. Dudley, W. E. "Dr. Holmes, I Presume," BSJ, 24, No. 4 (December 1974), 218-220.

Sherlockians have long been concerned about the Master's activities during the period April 1883 (Spec) and October 1886 (Resi). "Lot No. 249," by Doyle, indicates that Holmes was at Oxford for at least part of the time under the name "Abercrombie Smith," and also was there with John H. Watson, who used the name "Jephro Hastie."

C8655. -- A2963. Grazebrook, O. F. Oxford or Cambridge. [London: Privately Printed, 1949.] 58 p.(Studies in Sherlock Holmes, No. 1)

"We can be absolutely certain, after a detailed analysis of the evidence, that it was not Cambridge; and as Mr. Hilaire Belloc has written quite often, `of two things one,'--to Oxford the glory."

C8656. -- A2965. Hall, Trevor H. "A Note on Sherlock Holmes's Schooling," Sherlock Holmes: Ten Literary Studies. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., [1969]. Chap. 3, p. 36-43.

"A subject about which the extreme significance of the lack of positive information failed to be appreciated by Brend, Roberts, Blakeney and other Higher Critics." (Lord Donegall)

C8657. -- A2966. Hall, Trevor H. "Sherlock Holmes's University and College," Sherlock Holmes: Ten Literary Studies. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., [1969]. Chap. 5, p. 56-85.

After an extensive review of the literature on the Oxford/Cambridge dispute, the author presents his own "conclusive" evidence that Holmes's undergraduate years were spent at Trinity College, Cambridge.

C8658. -- A2967. Kennedy, Bruce. "Alma Mater, or Two Unexplained Years," BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September 1969), 158-160.

"Holmes found the formal educational system at Sidney Sussex [College at Cambridge] not to his liking and left to pursue his education independently and take more subjects of his own choosing."

C8659. -- A2968. McDiarmid, E. W. "Professor Sherlock Holmes, Ph.D.," Exploring Sherlock Holmes. Edited by E. W. McDiarmid & Theodore C. Blegen. La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1957. p. 27-41.

Contents: Sherlock Holmes's educational career. -- Sherlock Holmes and research. -- The publications of Holmes. -- Holmes as teacher. -- Holmes and the accoutrements of higher education. -- Holmes and higher education.

C8660. -- A2969. Metcalfe, N. P. "Oxford or Cambridge or Both?" BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 1 (1956), 7-14.

----------. Revised with title: "Holmes's University Career--A Reassessment," SHJ, 9, No. 4 (Summer 1970), 125-130. illus.

Glor points to Cambridge, Musg and 3Stu to Oxford, Miss to Cambridge, and Cree to Oxford.

C8661. -- A2970. Morley, Christopher. "Sherlock Holmes Revisits Cambridge," The Courier, 9, No. 6 (December 1947), 87-89.

----------. ----------, BSJ [OS], 3, No. 3 (July 1948), 295-299.(Clinical Notes by a Resident Patient)

"Perhaps now more accessible to the softer emotions, Holmes always goes to Cambridge in autumn, to stroll those paths of golden litter under the beech avenues."

C8662. -- A2971. Sayers, Dorothy L. "Holmes' College Career," Baker-Street Studies. Edited by H. W. Bell. London: Constable & Co., 1934. p. 1-34.

----------. ----------, Unpopular Opinions. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1946. p. 134-147.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1947]. p. 167-183.

----------. ----------, MacKill's Mystery Magazine, 3, No. 2 (December 1953), 57-69.

"An exhaustive analysis of the evidence establishing a case for Sidney Sussex, Cambridge; with a chronology from, Holmes's birth to the date of `The Musgrave Ritual.'"(Edgar W. Smith)

C8663. -- A2972. Schutz, Robert H. A Bibliography of the Identification of Holmes's College and University. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, June 1961. 1 p.

C8664. -- B1348. Connors, Joseph B. "Holmes and the Oxford Manner," Cultivating Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Bryce L. Crawford, Jr., and Joseph B. Connors. La Crosse, Wis.: Published by the Sumac Press for the Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, 1978. p. 39-47.

New light is shed on an old problem as Connors argues that Holmes's manner proves he was an Oxfordian.

C8665. -- B1349. Hoskison, Peter. "The Delicate Case of Mr. S. Holmes and His University Home," Cambridge Evening News (January 5, 1974).

Disputes that he attended Cambridge.

C8666. -- B1350. MacNaughten, Sir H. "The Education of Holmes," The Sunday Times (August 26, 1934).

----------. ----------, The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 42.

A letter to the editor proposing that Holmes attended Magdalene College, Cambridge.

C8667. -- B5957. Morley, Christopher. "Sherlock Holmes Returns," The Courier, 39, No. 5 (November 1962), 66-67.

"A deer-stalker and an Inverness cape have been seen about the streets of Cambridge. The identity of the wearer? Elementary, my dear reader."

Reprinted from the December 1947 issue (DA2970).

C8668. -- B5958. Moss, Robert A. "Sherlock Holmes's College at Oxford," BSJ, 29, No. 1 (March 1979), 25-27.

Proves by internal Canonical evidence that Holmes attended Christ Church College, Oxford (1872-1874), where he studied chemistry under the tutelage of Dr. Augustus Vernon Harcourt. Unfortunately, the Wagnflete Chair of Chemistry changed incumbents during the year of Holmes's matriculation. Professor Sir Benjamin Brodie was succeeded by William Olding. The latter's discouragement of practical work forced Holmes to shift experimentation to his London rooms during the long vacation of 1874 (Glor), and soon after to transfer his studies to Caius College, Cambridge (see DB1405).

C8669. -- B1351. Stavert, Geoffrey S. "The Case of the Straw Basher's Hatband," SHJ, 13, No. 4 (Autumn 1978), 122-123.

An examination of Sidney Paget's drawing of Holmes wearing a straw basher, or boater, (Glor) reveals that the hatband was not light blue (the color for Cambridge), as suggested by Christopher Morley and endorsed by Trevor Hall. Therefore, the drawing points neither to Cambridge nor Oxford, and Holmes's university remains to be confirmed.

C8670. -- B1352. Thurbon, William T. "The Education of Sherlock Holmes -- A Footnote," BSM, No. 7 (September 1976), 11-12.

If Holmes is an imaginary character, then he must have attended an imaginary college; namely, Fisher College, founded by Dilwyn Rees, pseudonym of Dr. Glyn Daniel, in his novel The Cambridge Murders, 1945.

C8671. -- B1353. Utechin, Nicholas. Sherlock Holmes at Oxford. Oxford: Robert Dugdale, 1977. 24 p. illus.

Cover illustration by William Beaver.

A survey of the evidence and arguments, establishing Oxford's claim beyond doubt, and identifying St. John's College as the college he attended.

Reviews: MB, 4, No. 2 (June 1978), 6 (Jill Stone); Oxford Times (July 8, 1977); SHJ, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 90 (W. R. Michell).

C8672. -- B1354. Utechin, Nicholas. "`This Charming Town': Sherlock Holmes at Oxford," BSJ, 26, No. 3 (September 1976), 135-140.

The Master is identified as Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes, who attended Merchant Taylor's School, then went up to St. John's College, Oxford, in 1869. He remained there until 1876, by which time he had taken his M.A. as well as B.A. While at St. John's, Holmes really would have met both a Musgrave and an Escott (the pseudonym used by Holmes in Chas).

C8673. Dobson, Roger. "Sherlock Holmes: The Last Mystery," Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, 15, No. 2 (February 1988), 48-52. illus.

With a Sherlockian cover illustration.

----------. ----------, LCH (January-February 1988), 4-7.

"Holmes was neither an Oxford nor a Cambridge man. His Alma Mater was almost unquestionably Manchester University, or, as it was known in his student days, Owens College."

C8674. Eedle, James. "Thomas Arnold, Tom Brown and Sherlock Holmes," NFTD, 12, No. 3 (September 1991), 2-7.

Evidence that Holmes, like his father and Conan Doyle's grandfather John Doyle, was a pupil at Rugby School where the Reverend Doctor Thomas Arnold was the Headmaster from 1828 to 1842. John Doyle and Holmes senior are mentioned in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's School Days (1853).

C8675. Elwin, Verrier. "The College Life of Sherlock Holmes," Motley. Bombay: Orient Longmans Ltd., [November 1954]. p. 157-163.

Holmes did not attend either Oxford or Cambridge. He went for at least three years to some provincial university; he was then elected to a Research Fellowship at Cambridge. He held this for two years, but there was some trouble, and he resigned. This theory explains Holmes's reticence about his university life.

C8676. Green, Roger Lancelyn. "`At the University': Some Thoughts on the Academic Experiences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes," SHJ, 9, No. 4 (Summer 1970), 123-125.

----------. ----------, SHJ, 18, No. 4 (Summer 1988), 108-110.

Refutes Hall's claim for Cambridge, with a counter claim supporting Oxford.

C8677. Keefauver, Brad. "Oxford, Cambridge or ... ? The Final Answer," Afghanistanzas, 6, No. 5 (November 1982), 8-10.

----------. ----------, Afghanistanzas, 6, No. 6 (December 1982), 11-13.

Holmes attended neither Oxford nor Cambridge but the Illinois Industrial University (University of Illinois) where he was sent by his father, the Squire, to learn how to manage farmlands. Holmes's first case, Glor, took place in southeast Champaign County, Illinois.

C8678. Linsenmeyer, John. "Sherlock Holmes's University -- Oxford or Cambridge?" BSJ, 39, No. 2 (June 1989), 71-74.

Various objectively-demonstrable internal inconsistencies and absurdities in the purported "examination" which was supposed to have been purloined, as recorded in 3Stu, were so egregious that no Victorian "Oxbridge" graduate would have believed them. That Holmes did fall for this evident hoax is persuasive evidence that he had never attended either of England's ancient universities, despite his claims au contraire.

C8679. Mortimore, Roger. "That Is to Say, Mr. Holmes," BSPB, No. 13 (January 1993), 13-16.

Oxford's records reveal that a certain A.C.[S.] Holmes of St. Mary Hall was awarded a B.A. degree in 1875. His name was removed from some of the University's records, but not others -- perhaps by a Magdalen undergraduate named L.L. Moriarty, who may have been the Professor's son. The detective's real name is Alfred Campbell Sherlock Holmes.

C8680. Sayers, Dorothy L. "Holmes' College Career," MacKill's Mystery Magazine, 3, No. 2 (October 1953), 57-69.

Also published in MacKill's Mystery Magazine, 3, No. 2 (December 1953), with a different cover illustration and date (DA2971).

C8681. Shanks, John. "You Have Been to University I Perceive," TPP, 2 (August 11, 1979), 10-16.

An excellent and well-documented article in which the author infers from Holmes's statements that the detective had two completely different university experiences. He attended Oxford during 1872-1873 and Cambridge during 1874-1875, but left without a degree.

C8682. Utechin, Nicholas. Sherlock Holmes at Oxford. 2nd ed. Oxford: Robert Dugdale, 1981. iv, 27 p. illus.

"For this new edition a postscript and bibliography have been added, a few minor corrections have been made, and the cover has been redesigned [by Paul Clark]."

First published in 1977 (DB1353).

C8683. -- A2973. Dorwart, Thomas H. "Thoughts Concerning Certain Infamous Conclusions: Being a Reply to Mr. Jason Rouby," BSJ, 16, No. 4 (December 1966), 216-218.

References to colors by Holmes prove that he could distinguish red from blue and therefore was not a "congenital dichromatic deuteranope" as suggested by Jason Rouby.

C8684. -- A2974. Rouby, Jason. "The Adventure of the Bluish Carbuncle," BSJ, 16, No. 2 (June 1966), 70-73.

An analysis of the Blue Carbuncle from clues in the Canon and other writings, plus a clinical dissertation on Holmes's physical condition, advancing the theory that he was color-blind and that the Blue Carbuncle was actually a pigeon-blood ruby.

C8685. -- A2975. Williamson, Jerry N. "`And Especially Your Eyes,'" SHJ, 3, No. 3 (Autumn 1957), 17-19.

The author discusses the question: "Why did Sherlock Holmes time and again request Watson to read newspapers, commonplace books, etc., aloud when the normal inclination should be to read them himself?" and then concludes that he must have been hypermetropic, or farsighted.

C8686. -- B1355. Malloy, Michael P. "Tobacco Amblyopia and Holmes," BSJ, 26, No. 2 (June 1976), 94-95, 98, 117.

The author seeks to disprove the theory of some commentators that Holmes's heavy intake of tobacco gradually led to near blindness by nicotine poisoning. He does so by showing the excellence of Holmes's eyesight throughout his career, and, indirectly, by demonstrating the inaccuracies in observations made by his opponents.

C8687. -- B1356. Rouby, Jason. "The Adventure of the Bluish Carbuncle," Canon Fodder. Charles O. Gray, editor. Little Rock: The Arkansas Valley Investors, Ltd., 1976. p. 54-59.

Reprinted from BSJ, June 1966 (DA2974).

C8688. -- B1357. Vaught, Richard L. "Now See Here, Holmes!" BSJ, 25, No. 1 (March 1975), 47-54.

Attempts to explain the conflicting statements concerning Holmes's vision as found in the Canon. It is shown that he had antimetropia, with a near-sighted right eye and a far-sighted left eye, with the ability to use either eye to advantage singly, or both together. What is impossible is ruled out, and whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The effects of drugs and tobacco on Holmes's vision are also explored.

C8689. Bradley, C. Alan, and William A. S. Sarjeant. Ms. Holmes of Baker Street: The Truth About Sherlock Holmes. Dubuque: Gasogene Press, [1989]. xiv, 260 p. illus.

A painstaking and absurd examination of the Canonical "evidence" that Holmes was a woman, pregnant twice (once by Col. Moran), and perhaps a mother.

Reviews: BC, 7, No. 3 (March 1990), 10-11 (Julie Maynard); BSJ, 40, No. 1 (March 1990), 58-59 (Philip A. Shreffler); BSM, No. 61 (Spring 1990), 44-45 (Susan Rice); CH, 11, No. 4 (Summer 1988), 33; SHJ, 19, No. 4 (Summer 1990), 126-127 (Jane Sayle); SHR, 2, No. 4 (1990), 191-192 (Steven T. Doyle).

C8690. Bradley, C. Alan, and William A. S. Sarjeant. "The Woman," FTM, No. 4 (December 1979).

An absurd effort to prove that the Master was a woman. The young Mr. Sherlock Holmes (Charlotte Holmes) and Mrs. Holmes of Montague Street (mentioned in The London of Sherlock Holmes) were the same person.

C8691. -- B1291. Davies, Colin "A Scandal in Baker Street," The Guardian (March 30, 1974). illus.

----------. "The Case of the Sherlock Holmes Masquerade," The Plain Dealer [Cleveland] (April 7, 1974), 10-E.

----------. "The Holmes Case: Sherlock or Shirley's Disguises?" Illustration by Egerton. The Arizona Republic [Phoenix] (April 14, 1974), N-7.

----------. "It's Elementary: Holmes Is a Woman," Poughkeepsie Journal (April 14, 1974), 14A-15A. illus.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes' Little Secret," San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle/Sunday Punch (April 14, 1974), 7.

----------. "Was Sherlock a Woman? Was It Sherlock ... Or Irene?" The Miami Herald (April 21, 1974), 1-G, 6-G. illus.

----------. "Dastardly Theory Hints That Sherlock Might Really Have Been a Woman," Milwaukee Inquirer/Green Sheet (May 11, 1974), 1, 3.

----------. "A Scandal in Baker Street," Sherlockiana, 19, Nr. 2-3 (1974), 10-11.

----------. ----------, SHJ, 11, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 124-127. illus.

An outrageous theory, undoubtedly perpetrated by one of Moriarty's henchman, that the Master Detective was a transvestite, and Irene Adler at that!

Reviews: Guardian (April 4, 1974) (Lord Donegall; J. R. Batts; B. E. F. Docherty), and reprinted in SHJ, 11, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 127-128; Miami Herald (April 28, 1974), 2-L (C. C. Salisbury); Poughkeepsie Journal (April 14, 1974), 14A (Albert M. Rosenblatt); San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle/Sunday Punch (April 21, 1974), 8 (Dean W. Dickensheet); San Francisco Chronicle (April 23, 1974) (Edward A. Merrill; Carl H. Bonner); (April 29, 1974) (Daniel Foster); (May 2, 1974) (John E. Mitchell; Sandy Warfield); (May 6, 1974) (Dean W. Dickensheet; Edward A. Merrill).

C8692. Geis, Becky Schlilaty. "A Case of Identity, or Naked Is Not a Good Disguise," Beaten's, No. 4 (1986), 2-3.

"What if Sherlock Holmes were a woman? It is an interesting possibility, and several things in the Canon point to the fact that he was indeed a she."

C8693. -- A2890. Kennedy, Bruce D. "Cherchez la Femme," A Curious Collection. Edited by William J. Walsh. [Suffern, N.Y.]: The Musgrave Ritualists Beta, 1971. p. 12-18.

A takeoff on Rex Stout's "Watson