Sherlock Holmes Again
"HE Sherlock Holmes Exhibition which was held this year as part of the Festival of Britain produced a lively correspondence in the columns of The Times, and letters of protest or approval were received from Dr. Watson, Mycroft Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes’s landlady, Mrs. Hudson, among others. No comment came from the Great Detective himself, who was presumed to be absorbed among his beehives "on the Sussex Downs, to which he had retired in 1914. Sherlock Holmes did, however, appear in Wellington last December, when he was interviewed by . The Listener with all the respect due to such a celebrated personality. One result of this joke, which seems to have gone farther than was originally planned, ap-
pears in the letter printed below. It is the reply received by a Listener reader, George Fraser, of Ohura, after he had sent a copy of the interview to Joan
Conan Doyle at Brampton, Huntingdon, England. Dear Mr. Fraser,-Thank you very much for your kindness in sending me the cutting from the New Zealand paper. How extraordinary it is that some people really do think that Holmes lived. I’m not sure if The Listener people were taken in, but there’s no doubt that a lot of people here think he was ‘flesh and blood. I will send the cutting on to the St. Marylebone. people who are organising the exhibition. I’m sure they will be interested in it. With many thanks, -yours sincerely, JOAN CONAN DOYLE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 15
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246Sherlock Holmes Again New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 15
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