Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson.- Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, writer, 1859-1930) Autograph Postcard signed to R. Pascoe, 1 side, 89 x 115mm., Windlesham [House], Crowborough, Sussex, [c. 1920], on the influence of his mentor Joseph Bell at Edinburgh University medical school and his fictional creation of Sherlock Holmes, "It is a fact that Holmes has some traits of Dr Bell of Edinburgh. To say that he is entirely based upon him would be an exaggeration. My first book (I have written stories since 1878) was 'A Study in Scarlet', a Sherlock Holmes booklet published as Beetons Annual in 1888". ⁂ Joseph Bell (1837-1911), surgeon. "Bell was a master of deduction from minutiae of evidence, such as gravel on a shoe conveying a patient's route to work, the better to impress the patient and his own attendant students. Otherwise, Bell was austere and scientific with students and patients, in contrast to Sir Patrick Heron Watson, of whom it was said that 'nobody in Scotland was ready to die until they had first seen Watson'. The contrast between Bell's and P. H. Watson's manners survives in Holmes's cold-bloodedness contrasted with John Watson's humanity." - Oxford DNB.
Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson.- Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, writer, 1859-1930) Autograph Postcard signed to R. Pascoe, 1 side, 89 x 115mm., Windlesham [House], Crowborough, Sussex, [c. 1920], on the influence of his mentor Joseph Bell at Edinburgh University medical school and his fictional creation of Sherlock Holmes, "It is a fact that Holmes has some traits of Dr Bell of Edinburgh. To say that he is entirely based upon him would be an exaggeration. My first book (I have written stories since 1878) was 'A Study in Scarlet', a Sherlock Holmes booklet published as Beetons Annual in 1888". ⁂ Joseph Bell (1837-1911), surgeon. "Bell was a master of deduction from minutiae of evidence, such as gravel on a shoe conveying a patient's route to work, the better to impress the patient and his own attendant students. Otherwise, Bell was austere and scientific with students and patients, in contrast to Sir Patrick Heron Watson, of whom it was said that 'nobody in Scotland was ready to die until they had first seen Watson'. The contrast between Bell's and P. H. Watson's manners survives in Holmes's cold-bloodedness contrasted with John Watson's humanity." - Oxford DNB.
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