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The Adventure of Blanched Soldier
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 7788
Where was Watson living? With his wife (second wife?)
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Post. January 1903
Characters:
Sherlock Holmes
John Watson (mentioned, not in it)
Mr. James M. Dodd (Jimmie)
Colonel Emsworth (Emsworth the Crimean V. C.)
Lance-Corporal Godfrey Emsworth
Godfrey Emsworth’s mother
Ralph, the butler
the butler’s wife and Godfrey’s nurse
station-master (mentioned)
innkeeper (mentioned)
Mr. Kent (surgeon)
Baldy Simpson
Anderson
Sir James Saunders
Locations:
221B Baker Street
Throgmorton Street (near Threadneedle street! A location in BERY)
Tuxbury Old Park, near Bedford (30-60 min north of London)
Diamond Hill outside-Pretoria (mentioned)
Buffelsspruit, outside Pretoria, on the Eastern railway line (mentioned)
Eustonn station
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
Finishing up Abbey School, in which the Duke of Greyminster (Priory School and the Duke of Holderness?)
commission from the Sultan of Turkey
“I was able once to do him a professional service, and he is ready to advise as a friend rather than as a specialist. His name is Sir James Saunders."
Other studies mentioned:
Questions about the story
“Mr. James M. Dodd seemed somewhat at a loss how to begin the interview”
- That doesn’t make sense. Why would he begin the interview when Holmes is interviewing him?
Boer War – Second Boer War (11 October 1899 and ended on 31 May 1902)
- What is a Boer?
- “January, 1903, just after the conclusion of the Boer War” – It ended in May 31, 1902…
Middlesex Corps?
Imperial Yeomanry?
“his handkerchief in his sleeve instead of in his pocket” This was a habit for someone in the military?
“As to Middlesex, your card has already shown me that you are a stockbroker from Throgmorton Street.” What does Middlesex have to do with Throgmorton St? Throgmorton is in City of London (London proper? Maybe?)
Throgmorton St and Threadneedle St – is this in the financial district? Does London have a financial district?
Trap = carriage?
“half-timbered Elizabethan foundation and ending in a Victorian portico”?
“Godfrey’s nurse” – From what I understand, it was not fashionable for women of means to nurse their children. This really makes no sense to me as the safest source of food for the infants would be the mom’s breastmilk.
smoky skin?
Veldt?
Took a week after the initial interview to go to Tuxbury Old Park
“We were clearing brother Boer”
Hansen’s disease (Leprosy) links:
- https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/transmission/index.html
- http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs101/en/
- https://www.omicsonline.org/belgium/hansens-disease-hd-leprosy-peer-reviewed-pdf-ppt-articles/
"I have the ordinary knowledge of the educated medical man,"
- So, he should be called Dr. Kent, not Mr. Kent. Right?
Other things about Holmes
Backhanded compliments (See first paragraph)
Grudgingly admits Watson is right about how to tell a story.
“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.”
“sit with my back to the window and to place my visitors in the opposite chair, where the light falls full upon them”
Kept a diary, record, of when cases took place
abnormally acute set of senses
“And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.” Ah ha! Appreciation for Watson’s writing.
Other things about Watson
“worried [Holmes] to write an experience of [his] own”
Modest
“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife…”
- Third marriage according to Baring-Gould
- I’m generally of the opinion that there was only one wife (Mary) but exploring why Watson would leave him after Reichenbach would be interesting/sad
The Adventure of Blanched Soldier
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Words: 7788
Where was Watson living? With his wife (second wife?)
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Post. January 1903
Characters:
Sherlock Holmes
John Watson (mentioned, not in it)
Mr. James M. Dodd (Jimmie)
Colonel Emsworth (Emsworth the Crimean V. C.)
Lance-Corporal Godfrey Emsworth
Godfrey Emsworth’s mother
Ralph, the butler
the butler’s wife and Godfrey’s nurse
station-master (mentioned)
innkeeper (mentioned)
Mr. Kent (surgeon)
Baldy Simpson
Anderson
Sir James Saunders
Locations:
221B Baker Street
Throgmorton Street (near Threadneedle street! A location in BERY)
Tuxbury Old Park, near Bedford (30-60 min north of London)
Diamond Hill outside-Pretoria (mentioned)
Buffelsspruit, outside Pretoria, on the Eastern railway line (mentioned)
Eustonn station
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
Finishing up Abbey School, in which the Duke of Greyminster (Priory School and the Duke of Holderness?)
commission from the Sultan of Turkey
“I was able once to do him a professional service, and he is ready to advise as a friend rather than as a specialist. His name is Sir James Saunders."
Other studies mentioned:
Questions about the story
“Mr. James M. Dodd seemed somewhat at a loss how to begin the interview”
- That doesn’t make sense. Why would he begin the interview when Holmes is interviewing him?
Boer War – Second Boer War (11 October 1899 and ended on 31 May 1902)
- What is a Boer?
- “January, 1903, just after the conclusion of the Boer War” – It ended in May 31, 1902…
Middlesex Corps?
Imperial Yeomanry?
“his handkerchief in his sleeve instead of in his pocket” This was a habit for someone in the military?
“As to Middlesex, your card has already shown me that you are a stockbroker from Throgmorton Street.” What does Middlesex have to do with Throgmorton St? Throgmorton is in City of London (London proper? Maybe?)
Throgmorton St and Threadneedle St – is this in the financial district? Does London have a financial district?
Trap = carriage?
“half-timbered Elizabethan foundation and ending in a Victorian portico”?
“Godfrey’s nurse” – From what I understand, it was not fashionable for women of means to nurse their children. This really makes no sense to me as the safest source of food for the infants would be the mom’s breastmilk.
smoky skin?
Veldt?
Took a week after the initial interview to go to Tuxbury Old Park
“We were clearing brother Boer”
Hansen’s disease (Leprosy) links:
- https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/transmission/index.html
- http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs101/en/
- https://www.omicsonline.org/belgium/hansens-disease-hd-leprosy-peer-reviewed-pdf-ppt-articles/
"I have the ordinary knowledge of the educated medical man,"
- So, he should be called Dr. Kent, not Mr. Kent. Right?
Other things about Holmes
Backhanded compliments (See first paragraph)
Grudgingly admits Watson is right about how to tell a story.
“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.”
“sit with my back to the window and to place my visitors in the opposite chair, where the light falls full upon them”
Kept a diary, record, of when cases took place
abnormally acute set of senses
“And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.” Ah ha! Appreciation for Watson’s writing.
Other things about Watson
“worried [Holmes] to write an experience of [his] own”
Modest
“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife…”
- Third marriage according to Baring-Gould
- I’m generally of the opinion that there was only one wife (Mary) but exploring why Watson would leave him after Reichenbach would be interesting/sad
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Date: 2017-10-08 05:27 pm (UTC)Spent some time googling City of London. Lots of neat stuff!
The Middlesex comment and the rest of it makes more sense now. :)
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Date: 2017-10-08 07:16 pm (UTC)