Arthur and Sherlock

by Michael Sims

  The Scotsman said that it was a fine book: Ibid., 30.

  “Very interesting and very readable”: Ibid., 32.

  “There is an Irish lilt in this shamrock”: Baker, 28.

  “I am certain if my many Vols”: Baker, 56, and transcription 87; undated but from Charles Doyle diary entry surrounded by drawings dated June and July 1889.

  At about the same time as these private complaints: Beveridge, 267.

  CHAPTER 27: DREAD OF MADHOUSES

  “I was now once more at a crossroads”: ACD, Memories and Adventures, chap. 10.

  “Is there anything being done with this?”: Kernahan.

  Arthur’s contract with Lippincott’s gave the magazine three months of exclusivity: Donald A. Redmond 14.

  the Bristol Observer . . . deerstalker hat: Ibid., 1993, 87. You can see the illustrations reprinted at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Sign_of_Four#Illustrations.

  Deer stalking: See MacRae; Scrope.

  Charles was transferred to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum: Beveridge, 267.

  “He has an intense dread of madhouses”: ACD, “Surgeon of Gaster Fell.”

  “Dr. Conan Doyle appears to be equally at home”: Boström and Laffey, 65–66.

  A single recurring character of proven popularity: ACD, Memories and Adventures, chap. 10.

  CHAPTER 28: ADVENTURES IN THE STRAND

  “I should at last be my own master”: ACD, Memories and Adventures, chap. 10.

  George Newnes: Background information on Newnes derives from Jackson and Welch.

  considered naming it The Burleigh Street Magazine: Newnes, 363.

  “I stood in the Strand and beheld it and blessed God!”: Quoted in Tames, xxiii.

  “because,” wrote Newnes later, “they were smarter”: Newnes, 364.

  Herbert Greenhough Smith, a Cambridge man: McDonald, 152.

  To Newnes’s dream of an eye-catching innovation: Ibid.

  The first issues sold two hundred thousand copies: Ibid., 156.

  When, in early 1891, an envelope containing: Herbert Greenhough Smith, 171–173.

  Watt seems to have been the first to establish himself as a respected professional: In making this point I rely upon the extensive discussion of it in Gillies, “Watt.” For background on Watt, see Gillies, Professional Literary Agent.

  “I really do not know how a busy man like myself”: Quoted within the Watt interview in Bookman, October 1892.

  Watt claimed that he did not advertise: Gillies, “Watt,” nn. 35, 36.

  they could farm out to Watt the task of selling serial rights: Interview with A. P. Watt, Bookman, October 1892, 21.

  “Mr. A. Conan Doyle, a popular American writer”: Boström and Laffey, 102.

  The author’s handwriting across these neat pages: Herbert Greenhough Smith, 171–173. All details about Smith’s early response to ACD’s writing derive from this source.

  CHAPTER 29: DEERSTALKER

  All the drawings are very unlike”: ACD, Memories and Adventures, chap. 11.

  But it was the middle brother, Sidney: Anonymous, “Artists,” 786.

  he often wore a deerstalker himself: See Paget.

  Arthur found time to write six Sherlock Holmes stories in quick succession: Composition and mailing details in this paragraph derive from Baring-Gould, 1;14.

  “And do you suppose he wouldn’t discover this surveillance?”: Gaboriau, anonymous translation of Monsieur Lecoq, chap. 19.

  “I have been a detective fifteen years”: Gaboriau, The Mystery of Orcival, chap. 11.

  “The many friends in Portsmouth”: Boström and Laffey, 112.

  McClure read them and judged them: McClure, 203–205.

  CHAPTER 30: TO MY OLD TEACHER

  Still resenting the exploitative contract: ACD, A Life in Letters, 312.

  “Facile and childish”: Details of Charles Doyle’s death derive from extensive quotations from Crichton medical records, reproduced in Norman, 159–161.

  evolved out of his “own inner consciousness”: Blathwayt. I have slightly changed some of the punctuation within dialogue.

  “It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes”: Baring-Gould, 1:8.

  Arthur was astonished when he saw a listing for it: ACD, A Life in Letters, 315 (letter to Mary Doyle dated November 1892).

  “I should just like to say this about my friend Doyle’s stories”: Anonymous, “Original of ‘Sherlock Holmes.’”

  illustrated with more than one hundred of Sidney Paget’s pictures: Baring-Gould, 1:14 n. 26.

  “Dear Sir, — You have taken many occasions”: Stevenson, Letters, 4:186–187 (letter to ACD, dated April 5, 1893).

  “To my old Teacher”: ACD, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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