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1961 Looking Glass Library edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles, illustrations by Gil Walker
Here, after a brief glimpse of Watson's life before Baker Street, we are witness to a momentous occasion: the initial meeting between Sherlock Holmes and his 'Boswell,' Dr. John H. Watson, in a hospital laboratory. ('I've found it! I've found it,' are Holmes's first words, appropriately enough.)
Leslie Klinger, preface to A Study in Scarlet, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol. 3
i know that vincent starrett chose 1895 out of all the years of holmes and watson because watson says it was holmes' best year, but i also find it interesting that that year is chosen because it's a very interesting time - it's post-reichenbach, before watson married again (if he did) it is like, the quintessence of holmes and watson and cases and nothing else in the way of that
Holmes and Watson at the Turkish baths, illustration for The Adventure of the Illustrious Client by Howard Elcock, published in the Strand Magazine in 1925

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okay so i’ve made this checklist - it’s a chronological order list of most of the sherlock holmes adaptations where either it attempts in some way to be a true adaptation or either holmes is actually holmes or watson is actually watson (meaning i’ve included things where sometimes watson is a descendant of watson or holmes is just a man who thinks he’s holmes but only if the other is themselves or a version thereof)
i’ve included all of the episodes so you can sort of see which ones you’ve watched and how much of the holmes stuff out there you’ve truly covered, i’ve left off episodes and films i know to be lost - if you think there’s anthing missing let me know!!
you can find it here
And it is at home, in Baker Street, that one likes best to think of them, alone and puttering with their secret satisfactions. Little vignettes of perfect happiness, wreathed in tobacco smoke and London fog.
Vincent Starrett on Holmes and Watson, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
It's always been my interpretation, and I think the correct one, that John Watson isn't a man that craves danger in canon, he's a man that craves adventure - common among a lot of readers. I think this is one of my favorite things that many Holmes readers miss if they don't quite pay attention, is how much Watson loves to read, but also that he is as equally invested in the characters he admires as we are in he and Holmes.
There's evidence scattered throughout the stories - Watson reading a yellow back novel in Boscombe Valley Mystery (although he gets frustrated and tosses it away because his life is now much more exciting than the books he used to like so much), Watson trying to read again at the beginning of the Crooked Man - but none so much as there is in A Study in Scarlet, when Watson finally finds out what Holmes does for a living and excitedly compares him to Dupin and Lecoq.
Happily, Watson says to Holmes, "I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories" (Doyle 18).
Holmes then, of course, goes on to thoroughly insult Lecoq and Dupin, elevating himself above them. Watson then writes "I felt rather indignant at having two characters whom I had admired treated in this cavalier style" (Doyle 19).
It's so relatable to any reader who has heard someone make a dismissive remark about a character they love - you feel offended on their behalf, as Watson does then.
I think it is his great interest in detective novels and reading in general that helps make Watson such a lover of adventure, and at least in part, so eager to accompany Holmes on any case - suddenly his life is the stuff of fiction, and it's wonderful to him.
When I had got so far in my list I threw it into the fire in despair.
Watson being a very mature adult, A Study in Scarlet
In addition to the contradictions of what Stamford says, there's the fact that the Holmes we see in STUD is not the Holmes Watson describes in later stories - or the Holmes we see generally portrayed in adaptations. I do not think this was a change of heart on Doyle's part, I think it's simply an instance of Watson being an unreliable narrator - or perhaps Holmes decided he didn't want the public knowing what an absolutely enthusiastic puppy he was, and told Watson to make him sound more cool and aloof.
The fact of the matter is that Holmes is the absolute opposite of cool and aloof when he first meets Watson. I'll present these quotations to you without comment - they are all from the same scene, on pages 10, 11, and 12.
"At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure. 'I've found it! I've found it,' he shouted to my companion, running towards us with a test-tube in his hand. 'I have found a re-agent which is precipitated by haemoglobin and nothing else.' Had he discovered a gold mine, greater delight could not have shown upon his features."
"He seized me by the coat-sleeve in his eagerness, and drew me over to the table at which he had been working."
"'Ha! ha!' he cried, clapping his hands, and looking as delighted as a child with a new toy. 'What do you think of that?'"
"His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination."
"Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with me. 'I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street... which would suit us down to the ground...'"
"'Oh, that's all right,' he cried with a merry laugh. 'I think we may consider the thing as settled - that is if the rooms are agreeable to you.'"

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His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.
Watson's description of Holmes as Holmes finishes discussing the uses of his new discovery of a reagent that detects haemoglobin, page 11 of A Study in Scarlet
It is so clear to me that we aren't supposed to trust or even particularly like Stamford - the fact that some readers and in particular Steven Moffat seem to have taken what he says about Holmes as fact is incredibly frustrating to me.
Watson is defending Holmes even before he meets him, and even though he's a little alarmed by Stamford's mention of Holmes beating corpses, it seems obvious whose side we should be on when Stamford says Holmes might slip something into a friend's drink just to see what it did and then continues, "To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness. He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge." To which Watson replies, "Very right too" (Doyle 9).
There's also the moment before this where Watson who already most readers have probably grown to like gets frustrated with Stamford and says "It seems to me, Stamford, ...that you have some reason for washing your hands of the mattter. Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it? Don't be mealymouthed about it" (Doyle 9).
Once Watson meets Holmes, too, it's worth mentioning that it doesn't seem like Stamford's words ever come back to him - he isn't suspicious of Holmes, just intrigued by him, and Holmes never does what Stamford seemed so worrisome of him doing.