[Ads-l] Original Strand Magazine issues

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

The Fiction Magazines Index has the answer:

http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s/s2097.htm#A48374.17

(With one small caveat -- there were British and US editions of "The Strand", and they were not always identical.  I don't think that is an issue in this case, though.)



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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Joel Berson
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 3:35 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Original Strand Magazine issues
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> I apologize to Hollis, Peter, and Garson for a blunder that has led 
> them down a false path.  What I am looking for is the tale "The 
> Adventure of the Cardboard Box".  "His Last Bow" is one of the 
> collections it was ... um, collected in, presumably in 1917.  So I am 
> looking for the first publication in the Strand Magazine of  "The 
> Adventure of the Cardboard Box", I believe in 1892.  (See Wikipedia's 
> article, which however does not identify the specific 1892 issue and 
> later only discusses the complex history of when and in what 
> collection it was placed in the U.K. and the U.S.A.)
> 
> 
> Joel
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>       From: ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>  Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 3:54 PM
>  Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Original Strand Magazine issues
> 
> Joel Berson wrote:
> > Can someone tell me how and where I can find online Arthur Conan
> < Doyle's "His Last Bow" as originally published in the Strand Magazine?
> >  This was perhaps published in the Strand under the generic title 
> >"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," which is making my effort to 
> >locate it (in ProQuest British Periodicals) tedious.  I believe it 
> >was published in  1892; I'm confused as to whether that is vol. 2 or vols. 3--4.
> 
> Here is one strategy. First search in Wikipedia and find the article 
> about the short story. Notice that it was published in September 1917 
> issue of "The Strand" according to the Wikipedians.(Independent 
> evidence is needed.)
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Last_Bow_(short_story)
> 
> Go to the bottom of the article and click on the link that leads to the full text.
> 
> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/His_Last_Bow.-_The_War_Service_of_Sherl
> ock_Holmes
> 
> Select a distinctive phrase from the full text to construct a search 
> query. Search in Google Books and determine that the pertinent issue seems to be available only via snippets. Conclude that Google lawyers are concerned about copyrights for UK publications.
> 
> Switch to HathiTrust and find the story in "The Strand". Here are two pertinent links:
> 
> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924066351556
> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924066351556?urlappend=%3Bseq=231
> 
> Garson
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