'It is always a joy to meet an American,
Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the
blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some
day citizens of the same
world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the
Stars and Stripes.'
- Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
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Welcome to the Quartering Press, a joint imprint between the Baker Street Irregulars and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. While our respective societies have been producing scholarly journals for more than a half-century, the organizations have never before embarked upon a dual publishing effort.
The leadership of the respective organizations realized that we have a unique opportunity to share resources and to combine our considerable scholarly talents to a new entity that will publish books for those interested in Sherlockian (or Holmesian) pursuits on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Nicholas Utechin, long-time editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, made a significant contribution to Sherlockian scholarship when he wrote the 2006 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual. In Quartering in the Fifties, he chronicled the transatlantic correspondence that blossomed in the 1950s between major figures in the Baker Street Irregulars and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. They included such notables as Colin Prestige, Edgar Smith, James Montgomery and Nathan Bengis.
This effort laid bare a wonderful sense of comaraderie, collaboration and mutual admiration not only between these men of 50 years past, but between Utechin and BSJ editor Steven Rothman themselves. Such feelings naturally led to the confirmation that, indeed, these two societies ought to be working together on much, much more.
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