Ted Baldwin
Thomas Hurley
Vermissa Herald
Shenandoah Evening Herald
James Stanger, Editor, The Herald
Thomas Foster, Editor, The Herald
Mike Scanlan
Frank McAndrew
Merton County
Carbon County
J. W. Windle
Thomas Fisher and Alexander Campbell
Treasurer Higgins
Jimmy Kerrigan
“the patrolman”
Patrolman Benjamin Yost
Evans Pott
Barney Dolan
Andrews
Thomas Munley
Lawlor
Michael Doyle
Tiger Cormac
Michael J. Doyle (from Mt. Laffee, PA)
Young Wilson
Edward Kelly (from Mt. Laffee, PA)
Andrew Rae
John P. Jones
Rae and Sturmash Coal Company
Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company
Josiah Dunn
Thomas Sanger
Menzies the mine engineer
William Uren
Crow Hill Mine
Heaton’s Colliery in Raven’s Run
State and Merton County Railroad
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Ettie Shafter
Emma Schoeple
APPENDIX 3
The Dating of The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is a chronologist’s nightmare—largely because Dr. Watson, in “The Final Problem,” which plainly occurs in 1891, claims ignorance of Professor Moriarty,175 whereas here he states that the case occurred at the “end of the 80’s.”176
Chronology
Date Assigned to Beginning of Case
Canon
Jan. 7, late 1880s
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Jan. 7, 1890, Tues.
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Jan. 7, 1889, Mon.
Brend, Gavin. My Dear Holmes
Jan. 1900
Baring-Gould, William S., “New Chronology of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson”
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
Baring-Gould, William. The Chronological Holmes. Mr. Baring-Gould uses the same dates in Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting Detective and Annotated Sherlock Holmes
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
Zeisler, Ernest Bloomfield. Baker Street Chronology: Commentaries on the Sacred Writings of Dr. John H. Watson
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
Folsom, Henry T. Through the Years at Baker Street: A Chronology of Sherlock Holmes
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
Folsom, Henry T. Through the Years at Baker Street: A Chronology of Sherlock Holmes. Revised Edition.
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
Dakin, D. Martin. A Sherlock Holmes Commentary
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
Butters, Roger. First Person Singular: A Review of the Life and Work of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the World’s First Consulting Detective, and His Friend and Colleague, Dr. John H. Watson
Jan. 7, 1887, Fri.
Bradley, C. Alan, and William A. S. Sarjeant, Ms. Holmes of Baker Street: The Truth about Sherlock
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
Hall, John. “I Remember the Date Very Well”: A Chronology of the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle
Jan. 7, 1889, Mon.
Thomson, June. Holmes and Watson
Jan. 7, 1888, Sat.
175 See note 6, above.
176 For additional chronological material, arguing for dates including Jan. 1891, 1897, and around 1900, see “The Date Being—?”: A Compendium of Chronological Data, by Andrew Jay Peck and Leslie S. Klinger.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE1
The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes
1 The table includes speculations about the lives of Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, M.D., drawn from William S. Baring-Gould’s Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting Detective, which are not supported by the text of the Canon. The dates given for the Canonical cases represent a “consensus” of the major chronologists compiled in “The Date Being—?”: A Compendium of Chronological Data, by Andrew Jay Peck and Leslie S. Klinger. (A “consensus” is the choice of a majority of the fifteen chronologists for some cases; for others, the choice of a plurality of the major chronologists.) Those cases for which there is no consensus date are marked “*,” and the date given is this editor’s choice.
2 Baring-Gould proposed that Watson married one Constance Adams, based on the then-scant information about Arthur Conan Doyle’s unpublished play Angels of Darkness, which had been suppressed by Sir Arthur’s family. The play has subsequently been published, and the woman whom Watson is depicted as wooing is actually Lucy Ferrier, the former wife of Jefferson Hope (of A Study in Scarlet). Baring-Gould’s thesis has therefore been corrected to refer to the woman actually named in the play. Few scholars today credit the play as a reliable source of historical data about Dr. Watson.
3 Some chronologists place this case before 1892.
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