Author: Edinburgh Conan Doyle

Memories and Adventures, with Douglas Kerr

This is the first of a new series of posts highlighting talks, interviews, and podcasts featuring editors of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing a selection of recordings from the past few years, offering insight into the research and editorial work behind the Edition. We begin with our General Editor, Douglas Kerr, discussing Memories and Adventures on the always-excellent Doings of Doyle podcast:

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We were shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death on 11 June of our friend and colleague Simon James. He was a member of the Edinburgh Conan Doyle Edition team, and many of us also knew him from other contexts. Simon was a great scholar and critic, and a genial, very funny and empathetic friend. He was wonderfully curious about everything and everybody, and must have been a fabulous teacher.

Messages from colleagues speak of ‘such a loss of a great scholar and truly wonderful, generous and talented man’, ‘a warm, kind, generous person’, ‘a wonderful scholar and a valued colleague’, ‘a vibrant and generous personality’, ‘very good at making one feel supported in one’s endeavours’, ‘the model of a true scholar and gent’; and on and on.

It is a great loss and we send our condolences to Kate and his family.

Douglas Kerr