Essays

published originally in The Baker Street Journal, December 1992.

a talk to Chicago’s Hounds of the Baskerville (sic) at our October 1993 annual dinner.

published originally as the 1998 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual. Morley-

Montgomery Award dinner for that year. Reprinted in “A Remarkable Mixture”

(ed. by Steven Rothman, New York: Baker Street Irregulars, 2007).

published originally in the 1999 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual.

a talk at the 50th anniversary meeting of The Red Circle of Washington D.C. in 2000.

published originally in the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s Sherlock Holmes Journal,

Winter 2003, and brought up to date in “Certain Rites, and Also Certain Duties.”

published originally in The Baker Street Journal, Spring 2004.

delivered at the 2008 annual dinner of The Five Orange Pips.

published originally in the Newseletter of the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections,

University of Minnesota Libraries, December 2010.

published in the Summer 2011 issue of The Sherlock Holmes Journal.

by Peter Blau and me, from the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections newsletter, September 2011.

a recent Five Orange Pips paper of historical interest, October 19, 2011, at the Grolier Club.