Dear Pinaki,

Interesting observations, as usual. But what surprised me was your mention of
Roger Moore as Holmes. Did this actually happen? I've known him as the Saint and
Bond, but as Holmes?


Sridhar

pinaki roy <monkaroy@...> wrote:
Dear Sherlockians,

This has reference to Tim’s very interesting and relevant question regarding
Watson’s accent. Considering the considerable length of time Watson has served
outside England and the harsh conditions he has had endured as an army-man, it
is most likely that his speech would not be like any general London-based
Englishman. It would be somewhat harsh and rough-sounding. May be there are, now
and then, a couple of oaths thrown in, and some occasional profanities, all
spoken out in a rather loud and commanding tone. It would also turn perplexed as
Holmes made his own points. It is a pity that we are not told from which region
of England has Watson hailed – I am not going into the question of whether
Watson is an Englishman at all, just like Leslie Klinger or William S.
Baring-Gould has suggested that Sherlock Holmes is an Irishman! It would then
have been easier to guess something about the surgeon’s accent.

As for Sumal’s question regarding the absence of Stamford, was it not because
Doyle did not want any other narrator for Holmes’s adventures than the bedazzled
and simple-minded Watson? Stamford, it appears in the very first Holmes story,
is a very worldly man, and he would have been more aware of Holmes’s and
Watson’s faults, unlike the always-self-depreciating surgeon. May be also…Doyle
did not want any narrator for another narrator – a Boswell for another Boswell!

Sumal, as for my posting on Jeremy Brett, it was entirely my own observation.
Brett is really a talented and versatile actor, and his 1984-6 portrayals have
been widely appreciated. However, Sherlock Holmes enactments by Basil Rathbone,
Ronald Howard, Peter Cushing, Roger Moore, Douglas Wilmer, and Geoffrey
Whitehead have had been – as far as the reviews go and the television series and
films reveal – more ‘livelier’, if I am allowed to use the term! What do the
other Sherlockians say regarding this?

And, finally, is it not high time that we published small details about our
Society or its web-address in leading dailies or wrote to editors about it?

(Pinaki Roy)

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