Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes, The, the (2012)
“Watson, LDS, FDS, D.Orth.
Although some of you may already know how the collections of hitherto unpublished Sherlock Holmes stories came into the possession of myself and my late uncle, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the details, I will recount them as briefly as possible.
My late uncle, Dr John F. Watson, was a Doctor of Philosophy at All Saints’ College, Oxford. Because of the similarity of his name to that of Dr John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’ friend and chronicler, my lat...e uncle made a study of his near-namesake’s life and background and consequently became an authority on the subject. It was through this that a certain Miss Adeline McWhirter, an elderly spinster, approached my late uncle with a proposal which she thought might be of interest to him.
It seemed she was related to Mr Holmes’ Dr Watson on the maternal side of the family and, on Dr Watson’s death, had inherited his tin despatch box containing manuscript accounts of cases that he and Mr Holmes had investigated but which for various reasons had never been published.MoreLess
Although some of you may already know how the collections of hitherto unpublished Sherlock Holmes stories came into the possession of myself and my late uncle, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the details, I will recount them as briefly as possible.
My late uncle, Dr John F. Watson, was a Doctor of Philosophy at All Saints’ College, Oxford. Because of the similarity of his name to that of Dr John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’ friend and chronicler, my lat...e uncle made a study of his near-namesake’s life and background and consequently became an authority on the subject. It was through this that a certain Miss Adeline McWhirter, an elderly spinster, approached my late uncle with a proposal which she thought might be of interest to him.
It seemed she was related to Mr Holmes’ Dr Watson on the maternal side of the family and, on Dr Watson’s death, had inherited his tin despatch box containing manuscript accounts of cases that he and Mr Holmes had investigated but which for various reasons had never been published.MoreLess
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