The Baker Street Irregulars Trust

Fall 2020 Newsletter

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The Fall 2020 newsletter includes these articles:<br />
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<li>From the Chair by Thomas A. Horrocks.</li>
<li>'What Can I Do?' by Leslie S. Klinger.</li>
<li>From the Editor by Michael Pollak.</li>
<li>Update on Lilly Library Renovation by Erika Dowell. </li>
<li>Added to the Archives.</li>
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/news/trust-newsletter-2020-fall.pdf">Fall 2020 BSI Trust newsletter</a> (PDF - 2 MB)<br />
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The newsletter is now available ONLY in electronic format as a PDF.<br />
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Prior Newsletters</h4>
You can view or download <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/search/label/Newsletter">all prior issues of the BSI Trust Newsletter</a>.<br />
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You can also see <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/search/label/News">other BSI Trust news</a> on the Trust website.<br />
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Contact the Editor of the Newsletter</h4>
See the Contact Us page to <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/contact.html">send email to the editor</a> of the newsletter.<br />
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Fall 2020 Newsletter

The Fall 2020 newsletter includes these articles: From the Chair by Thomas A. Horrocks. 'What Can I Do?' by Leslie S. Klinger. ...

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Spring 2020 Newsletter

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Read all about it! The BSI Trust newsletter is back with a new editor and a new format with recent news on the BSI Archives at the Lilly Library, and on the successful conference sponsored by the BSI and the Lilly Library.<br />
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Our new editor, Michael Pollak, was a staff editor, writer and columnist at <i>The New  York Times</i> from 1989 to his retirement in 2016.<br />
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The Spring 2020 newsletter includes these articles:<br />
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<li>From the Chair by Thomas A. Horrocks.</li>
<li>An Appeal for Money NOT! Rather an Appeal for History by Joseph Coppola.</li>
<li>Reflections on Building an Archive Exhibition and Symposium by Ashley D. Polasek.</li>
<li>From the Editor by Michael Pollak.</li>
<li>Collecting and the Canon by Barbara Rusch.</li>
<li>BSI Archives During The Lilly Library Renovation by Erika Dowell.</li>
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View or Download the Newsletter:</h4>
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/news/trust-newsletter-2020-spring.pdf">Spring 2020 BSI Trust newsletter</a> (PDF - 2 MB)<br />
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The newsletter is now available ONLY in electronic format as a PDF.<br />
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Prior Newsletters</h4>
You can view or download <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/search/label/Newsletter">all prior issues of the BSI Trust Newsletter</a>.<br />
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You can also see <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/search/label/News">other BSI Trust news</a> on the Trust website.<br />
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Contact the Editor of the Newsletter</h4>
See the Contact Us page to <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/contact.html">send email to the editor</a> of the newsletter.<br />
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Spring 2020 Newsletter

Read all about it! The BSI Trust newsletter is back with a new editor and a new format with recent news on the BSI Archives at the Lilly ...

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BSI 2019 Conference Registration

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Our "Building an Archive" conference is open to all Sherlockians, and <b>registration is now open</b>.<br />
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It will be held Friday November 8, 2019 through Sunday November 10, 2019 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.<br />
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"Building an Archive: A Celebration of the Arrival of the BSI Archive at the Lilly Library" will feature more than 20 leading Sherlockian collectors, librarians, book sellers, authors and publishers.  It will also include the opening of a unique and special exhibition, "The History of the BSI Through 221 Objects" at the Lilly Library.<br />
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This conference is open to all Sherlockians, but space is limited so <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/08/28/building-archive-2019-conference/">register now</a>.<br />
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The deadline for our receiving registrations is September 27, 2019.<br />
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For more details, see our <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/08/28/building-archive-2019-conference/">BSI 2019 Conference Registration</a> page.<br />
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And don't forget to Save the Dates for our <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/08/03/bsi-2020-conference-dates/">2020 BSI Conference</a>.<br />
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BSI 2019 Conference Registration

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Save the Date: a Public Symposium

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Everyone is invited to attend our "Building an Archive" symposium, which will be held from November 8–10, 2019 at the Lilly Library in Indiana.<br />
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It celebrates the new home of The BSI Archive, and will feature the opening of "The History of the BSI Through 221 Objects," a new exhibition at the Lilly Library.<br />
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You don't need to be a member of the BSI to attend the Symposium.<br />
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For more information and a list of confirmed speakers, see our "Save the Date" flyer at the <a href="http://bsiarchivelilly.org/">Symposium web page</a>.  Additional details and a registration form will be coming soon.<br />
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The 2017 BSI Dinner

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The fact that the 163rd Birthday Dinner actually took place on January 6, the Master’s birthday, could not but enhance the atmosphere throughout the gala weekend.<br />
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The pre-dinner cocktails in the Roof Dining Room of the Yale Club showcased the announcement of Nicole Boote’s honor as <i>The Woman</i>.<br />
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After Michael Whelan (BSI’s Wiggins) opened the dinner, Steven Rothman's discussed "Why January 6th?" The toasts opened in fitting style with Robert Stek “o-punning” on the charms of Mrs. Hudson--in his own inimitable way, abetted, if not debated, by Robert Katz.  Clifford Goldfarb had us raise our glasses to Mycroft. Sherry Rose-Bond led the toast to Watson’s Second Wife.  Andrew Fusco toasted Sherlock Holmes.  John Linsenmeyer paid homage “To an Old Irregular,” Edward F. Clark, Jr.  Michael Kean and John Bergquist presented the Editors’ Medals for BSI Publications, the “Eddies,” to the editors of the three BSI volumes that had been completed during 2016 and which would be on sale the next morning in the vendors’ room.<br />
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Bill Dorn presented a montage comparing the same Sherlockian scenes in various films.  Andrew Joffe, Sarah Montague, and Paul Singleton staged a comparison of Canonical text and the first drafts of a female Watson.  Tim Greer applied Holmes’ own investigative methods to the Canon to discern that the true author was…William Shakespeare. Mark Alberstat read the Musgrave Ritual. Thomas Horrocks read the Constitution and Buy Laws.  Henry Boote sang about Sherlock’s Birthday to the tune of “What a Wonderful World,” offering an uncanny Louis Armstrong impression.<br />
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Francine Kitts delivered another customarily wonderful and touching tribute to departed Irregulars in the “Standing upon the Terrace” ceremony; for the first time ever, these memorials were accompanied by photographs. This truly underscored the enduring links among generations of Sherlockians, all present in different senses of that word.<br />
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Seven Irregulars received a Shilling. Ben Vizoskie received The Two-Shilling Award—55 years after it was first awarded to Rex Stout. Steven Rothman was honored with an engraved crystal Milestone Award as the longest-serving <i>Baker Street Journal </i>editor who, at the time of the Dinner, had just presided over his 300th (!) BSJ issue. Wiggins presented Andrew Fusco, Michael Dirda, Susan Vizoskie, and Philip Bergem each with a “Tip of the Deerstalker” award in recognition for their contributions to the BSI.  In keeping with the evening’s theme of recognizing extensive service, Wiggins himself was surprised with a gift of a Golden Sovereign from the BSI, in recognition of his two decades of leadership. (Similarly, a Golden Sovereign was presented to Julian Wolff, then head of the BSI, at the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/11/the-1973-bsi-dinner.html">1973 BSI Dinner</a>.)<br />
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The evening concluded with a recording of Vincent Starrett reciting his poem “221B.”<br />
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At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the Yale Club, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their masterful and anticipated-year-round poetic rhymed synopsis of the previous year and of the Birthday Weekend.<br />
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Dinner Details: January 6, 2017<br />
The Yale Club, New York<br />
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 2017 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2017-attendees.pdf">2017 Table Seat Assignments</a>.<br />
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BSI Honours List</h4>
<b>Investitures:</b><br />
Charles Blanksteen as Cavendish Square<br />
Ross Davies as The Temple<br />
Bonnie MacBird as Art in the Blood<br />
Charles Prepolec as The Man with the Twisted Lip<br />
Michael J. Quigley as A Large Brass Bound Safe<br />
Tamar Zeffren as The London Library<br />
Christopher Zordan as Bunsen Burner<br />
* received Investiture at another event during the year<br />
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a><br />
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<b>Two-Shilling Award:</b><br />
Ben Vizoskie.<br />
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a><br />
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<b><i>The </i>Woman:</b><br />
Nicole (Mrs. Henry) Boote.<br />
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is <i>The</i> Woman honour?</a><br />
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<b>"Stand with me here upon the terrace..."</b><br />
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing)<div><div>William Beeson (The Barque "Lone Star,” 1983)</div><div>John Constable (The Crooked Man, 1986)</div><div>Everett Hoffman (Merridew of Abominable Memory, 1958)</div><div>Glenn Laxton (Mr. James M. Dodd, 1975)</div><div>James Lione (My Old Friend Charlie Peace, 1976)</div><div>Donald McDonough (Bodymaster McGinty, 1976)</div><div>Jeffrey Montgomery (Inspector Montgomery, 1979)</div><div>Bjarne Nielsen (The Veiled Lodger, 1984) </div><div>Gordon Speck (Colonel James Barclay, 1986)</div><div>Douglas Wilmer (The Lyceum Theatre, 2000)</div><div><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a></div>
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<b>Morley-Montgomery Award:</b><br />
Bill Mason, "Looking to Latin America: Canonical Notions from South of the Border”<br />
<i>The Baker Street Journal</i>, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 6-14.<br />
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a><br />
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<b>The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture:</b><br />
Sara Paretsky, “Sherlock Holmes and the Woman Question”<br />
<i>The Baker Street Journal</i> 67.1 (Spring 2017): 18-23.<br />
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a><br />
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
<i>The Baker Street Journal</i> 67.1 (Spring 2017): 46-58.<br />
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Blau, Peter, <i><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a></i>, (January 2017): 1-2.<br />
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2017-attendees.pdf">List of 2017 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF)<br />
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2017 BSI Dinner will be available in the <a href="/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>.<br />
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Related Material</h4>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2017,” <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> 67.1 (Spring 2017): 59-61. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 7, 2017 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception.<br />
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Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/06/the-2016-bsi-dinner.html">2016 BSI Dinner</a><br />
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Next dinner: the 2018 BSI Dinner<br />
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For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list.<br />
<br /><div>Material in the BSI Archive may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a> page.</div></div><div>
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The 2017 BSI Dinner

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"She Was Certainly Much Moved."

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The BSI Trust is happy to announce that the BSI archives have successfully moved from Houghton Library at Harvard to the Lilly Library of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. <br />
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As announced by Michael Whelan, Wiggins of the BSI, in July 2017, our society and the Houghton Library at Harvard University had reached a mutual conclusion that, due to several factors, a change of venue would be appropriate.  The Trust established a committee to handle the relocation, developed a Request for Proposals, reviewed those that it received, and chose the Lilly as our new home. <br />
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The Trust wants to thank the Houghton Library for its years of support and collaboration.  It has been a great repository for the Irregular Memories.<br />
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The archives have been physically transferred to the Lilly.  It will take some time for the Lilly to integrate the archives into its system.  The Lilly estimates that the integration should be complete some time between November 2018 and January 2019, including providing a Finding Aid and making the already digitized material available on its website. <br />
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While Houghton has removed its Finding Aid from its website (which is appropriate, as it no longer has the physical material), it is graciously maintaining the digitized material online so that the links to individual items on the Trust website still work (excepting the Finding Aid, of course). <br />
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Until the archives are integrated into the Lilly system, the Trust will maintain all references to the digitized material at Harvard.  Once integration has been completed, we will begin the arduous task of changing all of the links and references on the Trust website.<br />
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The Trust would like to thank the other entities which showed an interest in being our new home, the individual Board members who helped organize and implement the change, and the Staff of both the Houghton Library and the Lilly Library who collaborated in moving the material.<br />
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We look forward to many years of working with the Lilly Library to make the BSI's archives available to researchers, BSI Members, other Sherlockians, and the rest of the world.<br />
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The BSI Archive is located at the Lilly Library of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library.<br />
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