At Brief History of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota

Abstract

Provides a brief history on the origins of the Sherlock Holmes Collections, a unit within the Department of Archives and Special Collections for the University of Minnesota Libraries. The article traces the history of the Collections from the initial purchase in 1974 of the James Iraldi collection--the beginning of the Collections--through the 1990s. The acquisition of additional collections over those three decades resulted in the world's largest gathering of material related to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and his author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.