I have read the 56 short stories of the Sherlock Holmes cannon many times but this is the first time that I have read through them since I have started smoking a pipe. I decided that rather than just watching out for pipe references, I would make some notes of where pipes appear in the stories. I thought that this would be interesting.
The first 12 stories were published individually in the Strand magazine in 1891 and 1892 and then collected together in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" in the fall of 1892. Here are my notes:
A Scandal in Bohemia
-“a glass of half and half, two fills of shag tobacco”
The Red-Headed league
-“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes…his black clay pipe…and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.”
A Case of Identity
-“Then he took down from the rack the old and oily clay pipe…and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him”
-“still puffing at his black clay pipe”
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
X
The Five Orange Pips
-“Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings”
The Man with the Twisted Lip
-“and lit up his pipe”
-“with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips….blue smoke curling up”
-“The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night.”
-“and consuming an ounce of shag”
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
-“a pipe rack within his reach”
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
-“for goodness’ sake let us have a quiet pipe”
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
-“and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece.”
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
X
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
X
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
-“taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood.
-“during which he sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire”
I see that in these first 12 he smokes clay, briar and cherrywood and of course "shag tobacco". No mention yet of the Persian slipper (or Moriarty for that matter). Here is a picture from the original publication of The Man with the Twisted Lip from Strand in 1891:
The first 12 stories were published individually in the Strand magazine in 1891 and 1892 and then collected together in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" in the fall of 1892. Here are my notes:
A Scandal in Bohemia
-“a glass of half and half, two fills of shag tobacco”
The Red-Headed league
-“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes…his black clay pipe…and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.”
A Case of Identity
-“Then he took down from the rack the old and oily clay pipe…and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him”
-“still puffing at his black clay pipe”
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
X
The Five Orange Pips
-“Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings”
The Man with the Twisted Lip
-“and lit up his pipe”
-“with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips….blue smoke curling up”
-“The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night.”
-“and consuming an ounce of shag”
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
-“a pipe rack within his reach”
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
-“for goodness’ sake let us have a quiet pipe”
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
-“and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece.”
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
X
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
X
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
-“taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood.
-“during which he sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire”
I see that in these first 12 he smokes clay, briar and cherrywood and of course "shag tobacco". No mention yet of the Persian slipper (or Moriarty for that matter). Here is a picture from the original publication of The Man with the Twisted Lip from Strand in 1891:
