Podcaster and YouTube user Simon Whistler has cracked the event of Sherlock Holmes ’s fan mail service . In a recent episode of the web seriesToday I notice Out , Whistler explains how a coin bank finish up receiving , and respond to , fan mail deal to Arthur Conan Doyle ’s famous fictional detective for nearly six decades .
According to Whistler , the Abbey National Bank began experience fan mail for Holmes in the thirties . The investigator ’s residence at 221B Baker Street did n’t subsist when Doyle was writing his mysteries in the late nineteenth and other 20th centuries . However , by the 1930s , London ’s street numbers had alter , and Abbey National ’s headquarters were now located at the tec ’s address .
Rather than simply bewilder away post addressed to a fictional reference , the bank determine to engage someone to suffice Holmes ’s mail — as his secretaire . Until Abbey National move its headquarters in the 2000s , the camber continuously employed a series of secretary to reply to fans , letting them know that Holmes had draw back to the countryside to raise bee , or even replying occasionally as Holmes himself , using quotes from Doyle ’s books .
'' Mr. Holmes has been asked to facilitate with Watergate and Irangate , to solve the murder of Olaf Palme , the Swedish Prime Minister , and find lost homework to prove to the teacher that the scholar really did it , ” Holmes ’s secretary Nikki Caparn toldThe New York Timesin 1989 . “ Many people have a go at it he ’s not existent and write natural language in cheek . But some people have n’t worked it out . The stories were written in the previous 1800 ’s and early 1900 ’s and Mr. Holmes would be 136 years one-time now , so it ’s improbable that he ’d still be living here . ''
today , the Sherlock Holmes Museum , site on Baker Street a few door down from 221 , reply to Holmes ’s mail . In the video above , Whistler explains how Abbey National Bank espouse sharing their speech with Sherlock Holmes , and how letter writing duties finally shift from the bank to the museum .
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