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''Sherlock Conan Holmes'' is an article published in the [[Daily Express]] on 29 september 1921.

The article includes a short poem by [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]].


== Sherlock Conan Holmes ==
[[File:daily-express-1921-09-29-p5-sherlock-conan-holmes.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Daily Express]] (29 september 1921, p. 5)]]

[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], speaking at the Stoll Film Company's dinner at the Trocadero, complained that some readers confused the personality of the author with that of the principal character he created.

<q>"An attack made on me some years ago attributed to me, in clever doggerel, [[Sherlock Holmes]]' 'vices of self-conceit and self-complacency,'"</q> said [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur]], <q>"and I replied with the following:—</q>


<poem>
"Pray master this, my esteemed commentator.
That the created is not the creator.
Just grasp this fact with your cerebral tentacle.
That the doll and its maker are never identical."
</poem>

[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur]] said that after-lecturing in New York he read in the papers that "As the author advanced to deliver his lecture a thrill of disappointment ran through the assembly." The audience had expected to see a cadaverous-looking person with marks of cocaine injections all over him.





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