[5] One of the items for sale at the event was a special Bazaar Number of the Council's weekly magazine, The Student, containing works by several popular authors, including Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, Walter Besant, William Muir, and Louis Tracy.

[6] Conan Doyle's contribution, "The Field Bazaar", was a very short story—it was two pages long—about Watson's connections to Edinburgh University, and his cricket-playing college days.

[8]And in its first post-bazaar issue, The Student reported enthusiastic reader appreciation, including: We received a good deal of gratuitous advice from people who were kind enough to buy the Bazaar number; but one man in particular really took the biscuit.

The Strand and The Idler only publish stories by "Sherlock Holmes" at varying intervals, and when even magazines like these can obtain a limited amount of MSS.

For MCC v Cambridgeshire at Lord's, in 1899, he took seven wickets for 61 runs, and on the same ground two years later carried out his bat for 32 against Leicestershire, who had Woodcock, Geeson and King to bowl for them.

He then concludes, to Watson's astonishment, "that the particular help which you have been asked to give was that you should write in their album, and that you have already made up your mind that the present incident will be the subject of your article."

[22] Since then, "The Field Bazaar" has been republished several times,[23] including appearances in collections edited by leading scholars of Conan Doyle and of Holmes.