Essays, Toasts, Presentations and Published Papers

Editors’ Extras - News/Updates/Articles from Hawkins and Richardson

Published Papers

Marino Alvarez, Ed.D, BSI
Undershaw’s Conversion to Stepping Stones School
(Saturday Review of Literature, 2019)

A Found Letter, A Missing Manuscript
(Canadian Holmes, Winter 2018-2019)

Conan Doyle’s Divided Self: Medical and Scientific Knowledge
(Baker Street Journal, Spring 2022)

Jim Hawkins, BSI
Coming Full Circle to Honor and Remember John Bennett Shaw
(Saturday Review of Literature, 2020)

Toasts

Bill Mason, BSI, ASH

Toasting various characters in the canon is a long-held tradition in our Sherlockian world.
Bill is known for his wickedly funny toasts, and is often asked to raise a toast at Sherlockian events.
Here are two from Mr. Mason:
To Irene Adler / Minneapolis, MN / August 2010
To Mrs. Hudson /Dayton, OH / May 2011
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Jim Hawkins, BSI

Nashville Scholars meeting - January 2020.
The toasts vary at meetings, but nearly always they include Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler (The Woman), Mrs. Hudson, John Watson, …. and on occasion, Lestrade.

For the Three Garridebs meeting - March 2022.
Writing as “The Hans Sloane of My Age” and toasting the 3GAR story.
A spin on Holmes’ words from the story:
"There is a chance for you to make some money, friend Watson”

Coming Full Circle to Honor and Remember John Bennett Shaw
(Saturday Review of Literature, 2020)

Story Presentations

Tom Feller
Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius by Arthur Conan Doyle (February 2018)

Tom Vickstrom

Horse and Carriage Days in Sherlock Holmes Time (September 2017)

Land, Sea, and Air - A Study in Transportation in Sherlockian Times
Excerpts from "Mobile Holmes”, a 2017 BSI publication (August 2018)

David Hayes
The Victorian Traveler—Many Rooms with Many Views (October 2018)

Musgrave Ritual Notes from David Hayes (August 2021)

Jim Hawkins, BSI
Discussion on The Veiled Lodger (June 2021)

Essays

Bill Mason, BSI
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES CONSULTING DETECTIVE AGENCY: HOW MORIARTY WAS BROUGHT TO RUIN
An article published in Canadian Holmes, Spring 2022, by Bill Mason.

A Farewell Tribute to Gael Stahl
delivered on January 18, 2025 by Bill Mason

Marino Alvarez, BSI
Sherlock Holmes’s Five Stories: Readability Factors Measured/Not Measured
Prepared for the BSI Dinner held at the Yale Club, New York City, on January 12, 2018

Jim Hawkins, BSI
My Most Valued Book: Not the Price, but the Connections (March 8, 2022)

My Farewell to Gael Stahl
delivered on January 18, 2025 by Jim Hawkins

Gael Stahl (3PP “Final Problem”)
Published in our newsletter Plugs and Dottles, March 1998

Our first website was a .net site, a bit different from this .com site. On it we had a feature we called Significant Sherlockians.
Several of us boldly reached out to Sherlockians in the news, interviewing them at length. Gael’s first interview was with
Donald Izban of Chicago. Izban was famous for two things: 1. Establishing new scion societies in the Chicago area, and,
2. Never reading all the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Stahl was an editor in Nashville for the Tennessee Municipal League, so he was interviewing mayors, politicians, and community leaders across our state on a regular basis. He loved the history of Sherlockians and often pored over the histories by Jon Lellenberg, the unofficial historian of the Baker Street Irregulars. So when I asked him to choose a couple of “significant Sherlockians” to interview, he jumped at the chance. Two of those interviews are preserved from the old website.

Here is Gael’s article on Donald Izban.

When I interviewed Don Izban two or three years ago, he suggested Bob Hahn and Paul Smedegaard would be good sequels. Unfortunately Bob Hahn died before I got to him. My first serious long chat with Paul Smedegaard was at the 1999 STUD Saturday evening pizza party at Alan Devitt's and Susan Diamond's house in West Chicago.. I threw out a sentence about BSI leaders. He flung back a retort, spanned the BSI decades with insight, and I knew we'd have a sporting hour or two sometime. This is the result.

Gael’s interview with Paul Smedegaard.

Currently, the BONUS link will take you to the Treasures of Dave Price, a charter member of our scion society whose collection of
Sherlockian ephemera and circus-related Items are amazing.