Arts & Culture
(2009-12-25)
MINNEAPOLIS
(Associated Press) -
With Sherlock Holmes back on the movie screen, it's elementary that it will mean more items for the world's largest collection of Holmes memorabilia at the University of Minnesota.
The university has been collecting Holmes material since 1974 when it bought one collector's library. Then the widow of a Mayo Clinic doctor donated his collection of rarities, and a Holmes fan donated pop culture items from restaurant menus to board games.
Curator Tim Johnson says the university has more than 15,000 volumes and about 60,000 total pieces in the Sherlock Holmes Collections.
The "Sherlock Holmes" movie, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the famed detective and Jude Law as his sidekick Dr. Watson, opens on Christmas Day.
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On the Net:
The Sherlock Holmes Collections: http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/holmes.phtml
"Sherlock Holmes" movie: http://sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com
"Elementary, my dear Watson" - Sherlock Holmes
This phrase was never uttered by the character in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's written works. Though "Elementary," and "...my dear Watson." both do appear near the beginning of The Crooked Man (1893), it is the "...my dear Watson" that appears first, and "Elementary" is the succinct reply to Watson's exclamation a few lines of dialogue later. This is the closest these four immortal words ever appear together in the canon.
The association of this quote with the Sherlock Holmes character likely comes from the closing lines of the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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