Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Bart's — specifically one of its chemical laboratories — was the location of the very first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet. Bart's was Dr. Watson's alma mater. This fictional connection led to a donation of £650 by the Tokyo "Sherlock Holmes Appreciation Society" to the Save Barts Campaign in the 1990s.
The second series' final episode of the updated BBC series Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall", had Holmes believed to have fallen to his death from the roof of St Bartholomew's as a surrogate for the waterfall of the original story "The Final Problem".
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“Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn’t any good to me without hooks.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)