Hitting the Books
Jul. 20th, 2017 09:17 pmTitle: Hitting the Books
Author:
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Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Dr Watson, others mentioned
Summary: Research has just gone meta
Warning: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 20th 2017 prompt: Time For a Little Research
.oOOo.
‘Watson, could you look into…’ was a familiar request. Sherlock Holmes often needed an extra set of eyes to examine old records. I was grateful for these opportunities and spent many hours in the British Museum Reading Room and the General Registry Office at Somerset House.
As a mere physician, the Public Records Office was closed to me and therefore I enlisted the aid of Maurice Faber who possessed the necessary law degree that afforded him entry, and at the London Library, I had an ally in the sub-librarian Lomax. All of us enjoyed our minor roles in Holmes’ adventures.
.oOOo.
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Author:
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Dr Watson, others mentioned
Summary: Research has just gone meta
Warning: (none)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 20th 2017 prompt: Time For a Little Research
.oOOo.
‘Watson, could you look into…’ was a familiar request. Sherlock Holmes often needed an extra set of eyes to examine old records. I was grateful for these opportunities and spent many hours in the British Museum Reading Room and the General Registry Office at Somerset House.
As a mere physician, the Public Records Office was closed to me and therefore I enlisted the aid of Maurice Faber who possessed the necessary law degree that afforded him entry, and at the London Library, I had an ally in the sub-librarian Lomax. All of us enjoyed our minor roles in Holmes’ adventures.
.oOOo.
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Author's Note: A little research into some of the places where Watson would have done his research. Maybe. There were more but the word count is cruel.
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Date: 2017-07-21 04:25 am (UTC)Yes, the truncated word-count of a drabble is a harsh taskmaster when you've got an ocean of info and can only share a shot-glass of it.
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Date: 2017-07-21 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-21 07:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-21 09:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-21 09:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-21 09:26 am (UTC)Probably a few years later, on a research mission for Holmes, "Why if it isn't John Watson! I barely recognise you with that moustache."
"SHUSHHH!" says the rest of the library patrons. (This being a time when shushhing was still a thing in libraries.)
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Date: 2017-07-25 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-10 12:40 pm (UTC)Researching libraries was a bit meta!
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Date: 2017-08-10 08:52 pm (UTC)