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Dr. Richard Sveum tries to answer Warren Randall’s question about a fundamental mistake in Ronald Knox’s “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes.”
THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS:
Founded in New York in 1934 by the writer and critic Christopher Morley and others devoted to A. Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, for more than seventy-five years the BSI has (to quote its founder) “perpetuated the myth that Sherlock Holmes is not a myth.” Since 1989, the Archival Histories have re-corded the speakeasy origins, eccentric creation, and well-watered activities of the sodality (“even whisky and sodality”) taking its name from the London street urchins who were Holmes’s secret eyes and ears in late-Victorian England. This website examines the seven volumes and shorter works of the series, and more.
The drawing above by Frederic Dorr Steele,
America’s foremost illustrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories working in the first part of the twentieth century, and showing here Holmes extracting documents from his own personal archives at 221b Baker Street, has served as the BSI Archival Histories’ colophon since the inception of the series in 1989. The proud owner of the original is Jerry Margolin (“Hilton Cubitt,” BSI), to whom all thanks.
For more about the BSI Archival Histories, read “History Detective!”
Other Archival History Departments:
“Disputation, Confrontation, and Dialectical Hullabaloo!” here
Currently featured: the Ronald Knox, Fact or Fiction? debate
plus: Who was Frank Sidgwick, and what did he write in 1902?
And what about that Double Crown Club in the 1920s and ‘30s?
Reviews here
George Fletcher reviews Sherlockian Heresies
The Editor’s Gas-Bag here
The late Allen Mackler broadcasts about “Sherlock Holmes and Music.”
Internet radio interview about the BSI and my novel coming up.
Something new about Julian Wolff .
Another highlight: R. B. Bernstein’s explication of the BSI’s Constitution.
My BSI weekend highlight: Roger Donway’s toast to The Second Mrs. Watson.
Randy Cox, BSI, reviews my novel.
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Got a question about this website? or BSI history in general?
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What else is new?
UNDERWAY NOW, at the Novel page,
a weekly rolling visit to its times, settings, and personalities.
Ch. 11’s installment now up!
(Earlier installments at the bottom link)
Also at the Novel page, a link to the new “I Hear of Sherlock
Everywhere” podcast interview about the novel, linked here
as well.
BSI Weekend links of the week as of February 11th remain: I must be on the road the next week or two, and will get back to this department when I return!
Jon Lellenberg
“Rodger Prescott of evil memory,” BSI