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presented bystanford continuing studieswith the support ofStanford Alumni AssociationStanford University Libraries12 issues ofSherlockHolmesadventuresbrought to youby StanfordUniversityin 2007.SherlockHolmes,ConsultingDetectiveMarch1029of 122007A Sherlock Holmes Adventure: “The Devil’s Foot”

Dear Readers and Friends,Discovering Sherlock Holmes, and its predecessor, Discovering Dickens, were conceived by StanfordContinuing Studies; from its beginning, this Community Reading Project has enjoyed the generoussupport of many at Stanford and in Palo Alto. Thosewho supported this idea have given cheerfully of theirenthusiasm, their creativity, their time, and their financial support. Many, many thanks to all of them.Linda Paulson, Associate Dean and Director,Master of Liberal Arts ProgramDirector, Discovering Sherlock HolmesSherlock holmes ReadingApril 17, 2007Marco Barricelliof the Oregon Shakespeare Festival& the American Conservatory Theatrewill offer a free dramatic reading of“The Adventure of theBruce-Partington Plans”tuesday, april 17, 20077:30-9:00 p.m.kresge auditoriumstanford university campusWe are mailing copies first-class to insure that they arrive at your home by Friday every week.If your copy does not arrive within a reasonable time,please contact us at sherlockholmes@stanford.edu or at 650 724-9588.Sherlock amongthe spiritsIn 1887, the year that the first Holmes story waspublished, Conan Doyle was already interestedin spiritualism. As he attended more séances,he grew more credulous, and was not afraid tostate his opinions. This frankness did his reputationno good; people had trouble understanding how thecreator of the “reasoning machine” who was SherlockHolmes could fail to see that spiritualism was a fraud.Punch, a satirical magazine published from 1841 to2002, took a shot at Conan Doyle with one of its famous cartoons, and a rhyme to match.http://sherlockholmes.stanford.eduV I SI T OU R W E B SI T Ecynical character from the traditional Punch andJudy shows.)See Punch.co.uk. at http://www.punch.co.uk/historyofpunch.html for a history of the magazine.Your own creation, that great sleuthWho spent his life in chasing Truth—How does he view your late defiance(O ARTHUR!) of the laws of science?He disapproves your strange vagaries,Your spooks and photographs of fairies;And holds you foot-cuffed when you’re fainTo navigate the vast inane.We sympathize with Holmes; and yetIn Punch’s heart your name is set;Of every DOYLE he’s still a loverFor DICKY’s sake, who did his cover.(“Dicky,” or Richard Doyle, was Conan Doyle’spaternal uncle, a famous cartoonist who designed thecover of Punch, with its namesake—the hook-nosed,Cartoon by Bernard Partridge, Punch, or the LondonCharivari, May 12, 1926

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Notes and ILLUstrationsIt was, then, with considerable surprise that I received a telegram from Holmes last Tuesday . (1)Holmes has retired to his cottage on the SussexDowns, and Watson, presumably, is still in London. a small cottage near Poldhu Bay, at the farther extremity of the Cornish peninsula. (3)The rugged, storied land of Cornwall juts out fromthe southwest corner of England. Stone ruins left byearly Celtic inhabitants, and later Roman occupiers,are still visible today. Cornwall is associated withmany legends, and is sometimes linked with magicand witchcraft. King Arthur and the Knights ofthe Round Table are supposed to have inhabited thenortheastern part of Cornwall.The “farthest extremity of the Cornish peninsula” is Lizard Point, the southernmost tip of England (the westernmost point of Cornwall is Land’sEnd). Just northwest of Lizard Point lies PoldhuCove (not Bay), where Guglielmo Marconi conducted his radio transmission experiments in 1901. we looked down upon the whole sinister semicircleof Mounts Bay, that old death trap of sailing vessels,with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs onwhich innumerable seamen have met their end. (3)five thousand years of human habitation. Neolithicburial chambers still exist in Cornwall, but standingstones and burial mounds date from the Bronze Age.Iron Age sites seem to include fortifications, whichhave been thought to suggest conflicts during thatera. The Romans left traces of their passing as well.The ancient Cornish language had also arrested hisattention, and he had, I remember, conceived the ideathat it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largelyderived from the Phoenician traders in tin. (3)Holmes is making some wild leaps here. While a tintrade was apparently carried on in ancient times,the involvement of Phoenician traders is purelyconjectural. The Cornish language, revived duringthe 19th century and still spoken today, is relatedto other Celtic languages such as Welsh. Chaldeanis another name for Aramaic, an ancient MiddleEastern language that has no apparent connectionto Cornish. a consignment of books upon philology . (3)“Philology” is the study of the history of languages—their origins, relations, and evolution over time. like an old hound who hears the view-halloa. (4)Mounts Bay is the semicircular bay between Land’sEnd at the west and Lizard Point. As Watson says,it is notorious for shipwrecks.The “view-halloa” was the cry raised by the foxhunterwho first spotted the fox. there were traces of some vanished race whichhad passed utterly away, and left as its sole recordstrange monuments of stone, irregular mounds whichcontained the burned ashes of the dead, and curiousearthworks which hinted at prehistoric strife. (3)Redruth, an inland town in Cornwall, was an Englishmining center for many years. Traditionally, tin wasthe primary metal mined, but copper mining tookprecedence during the Industrial Revolution. Mostminers were terribly poor; the Tregennis family musthave been mine owners, not mine workers, to haveearned a comfortable living.Watson is conf lating different remains from over“We were a family of tin-miners at Redruth .” (5) to rejoin her family at St. Ives. (7)St. Ives is a coastal town on the north-facing side ofthe Cornish peninsula, about 23 miles from LizardPoint.One realized the red-hot energy which underlay Holmes's phlegmatic exterior . (10)The ancient physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC)conjectured that human behavior was influenced bybodily fluids, the four “humors”: blood, bile, blackbile, and phlegm. The “phlegmatic” personality ischaracterized by calm and a lack of emotion. Todaythe terms are usually used metaphorically.“ in the Ubanghi country.” (15)Cornwall is famed for its rough, tempestuous seas. TheLion Rocks are found at Kynance Cove, just south of Poldhu Cove, where Holmes and Watson are staying. FromDinah Craik, An Unsentimental Journey throughCornwallThe “Ubanghi,” or “Ubangi,” River divides the Central African Republic from the Democratic Republicof the Congo. Conan Doyle is using the word as aloose reference to central Africa, formerly colonizedby France and Belgium.

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