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CARD
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, His Law Bow
Words: 8646
Where was Watson living? Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Pre
Characters:
Sherlock Holmes
John Watson
Susan Cushing
Miss Cushing’s servant girl
Sarah Cushing
Mary Cushing
James Browner – Married to Mary, steward
young gentleman in black, Sarah’s medical adviser
Algar - Liverpool force, friend of Holmes
G. Lestrade
Inspector Montgomery - Shadwell Police Station
Alec Fairbairn
Locations/locations mentioned:
Baker Street
Cross Street, Croydon
Penge
Belfast
New Street, Wallington
S.S. May Day
New Brighton
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
'A Study in Scarlet'
'The Sign of Four'
The bogus laundry affair
Other studies mentioned:
Two short monographs on unique ear anatomies in Anthropological Journal
Questions/thoughts about the story
“shingle of Southsea” – In my experience, a shingle is roofing material.
General Gordon
Henry Ward Beecher – American clergyman, union, Civil War
“one of these students came from the north of Ireland, and, to the best of Miss Cushing's belief, from Belfast.” Frightening people with ears is normal for people from Belfast?
Lestrade – has a house
“A worked antimacassar”?
“carbolic or rectified spirits” – formaldehyde wasn’t invented yet?
“visiting cards” – Custom? how many would people have printed up? What would typically be on these cards?
“no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear” – yes, true statement.
“I was blue ribbon at that time” did they have something like AA back then?
Other things about Holmes
“neither the country nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him. He loved to lie in the very center of five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every little rumour or suspicion of unsolved crime. Appreciation of nature found no place among his many gifts”
Read Poe
Follows the unspoken thoughts of Watson, remembered that Watson didn’t believe him and waited to show him his method
Has cigar case
“purchased his own Stradivarius, which was worth at least five hundred guineas, at a Jew broker's in Tottenham Court Road for fifty-five shillings.”
Anecdotes about Paganini
“I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.”
Other things about Watson
“For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer at ninety was no hardship.”
“depleted bank account”- not practicing yet?
“The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants.”
Picture of a general and clergyman
“I was well aware that you could not do this without thinking of the mission which he undertook on behalf of the North at the time of the Civil War, for I remember your expressing your passionate indignation at the way in which he was received by the more turbulent of our people. You felt so strongly about it that I knew you could not think of Beecher without thinking of that also.”
CARD
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, His Law Bow
Words: 8646
Where was Watson living? Baker Street
Pre/Post Reichenbach (May 1891)? Pre
Characters:
Sherlock Holmes
John Watson
Susan Cushing
Miss Cushing’s servant girl
Sarah Cushing
Mary Cushing
James Browner – Married to Mary, steward
young gentleman in black, Sarah’s medical adviser
Algar - Liverpool force, friend of Holmes
G. Lestrade
Inspector Montgomery - Shadwell Police Station
Alec Fairbairn
Locations/locations mentioned:
Baker Street
Cross Street, Croydon
Penge
Belfast
New Street, Wallington
S.S. May Day
New Brighton
Other crimes/criminals/cases mentioned:
'A Study in Scarlet'
'The Sign of Four'
The bogus laundry affair
Other studies mentioned:
Two short monographs on unique ear anatomies in Anthropological Journal
Questions/thoughts about the story
“shingle of Southsea” – In my experience, a shingle is roofing material.
General Gordon
Henry Ward Beecher – American clergyman, union, Civil War
“one of these students came from the north of Ireland, and, to the best of Miss Cushing's belief, from Belfast.” Frightening people with ears is normal for people from Belfast?
Lestrade – has a house
“A worked antimacassar”?
“carbolic or rectified spirits” – formaldehyde wasn’t invented yet?
“visiting cards” – Custom? how many would people have printed up? What would typically be on these cards?
“no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear” – yes, true statement.
“I was blue ribbon at that time” did they have something like AA back then?
Other things about Holmes
“neither the country nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him. He loved to lie in the very center of five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every little rumour or suspicion of unsolved crime. Appreciation of nature found no place among his many gifts”
Read Poe
Follows the unspoken thoughts of Watson, remembered that Watson didn’t believe him and waited to show him his method
Has cigar case
“purchased his own Stradivarius, which was worth at least five hundred guineas, at a Jew broker's in Tottenham Court Road for fifty-five shillings.”
Anecdotes about Paganini
“I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.”
Other things about Watson
“For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer at ninety was no hardship.”
“depleted bank account”- not practicing yet?
“The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants.”
Picture of a general and clergyman
“I was well aware that you could not do this without thinking of the mission which he undertook on behalf of the North at the time of the Civil War, for I remember your expressing your passionate indignation at the way in which he was received by the more turbulent of our people. You felt so strongly about it that I knew you could not think of Beecher without thinking of that also.”
