Solving Sherlock: Clues to a Minnesota Connection Tim Johnson Curator of Special Collections & Rare Books

WHAT IS OUR FASCINATION WITH HOLMES?

221B Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet how remote That age before the world went all awry. But still the game’s afoot for those with ears Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo: England is England yet, for all our fears– Only those things the heart believes are true. A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon this fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here, though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five. – Vincent Starrett (1942)

Sidney Paget (1860-1908)

Frederic Dorr Steele (1874-1944)

William Gillette (1853-1937)

EARLY RADIO SHOWS

Basil Rathbone (1892-1967)

Jeremy Brett (1933-1995)

Arthur Conan Doyle Christopher Morley FIRST CLUE

SECOND CLUE

THE LUNCH: 1947 THE FOUNDING: 1948

26 YEARS LATER . . . 1974 THIRD CLUE

1978 PHILIP S. HENCH

FOURTH CLUE JOHN BENNETT SHAW EDITH MEISER

THE HOLMES PERSONA CONTINUES . . .

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