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You asked How did Watson meet Sherlock Holmes?
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“…I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts.”A Study in Scarlet · ch. 1
“Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said Stamford, introducing us.A Study in Scarlet · ch. 1
The answer, checked
✓Watson runs into Stamford, who had been a dresser under him at Barts, at the Criterion Bar. 1
✓Stamford takes him to the hospital laboratory and introduces him to Sherlock Holmes. 2
✕Holmes had already heard of Watson’s service.Cut: no passage says so
You asked How did Watson meet Sherlock Holmes?
Short answer
Through Stamford: an old dresser of Watson’s from Barts, met by chance at the Criterion Bar, who knew a man at the hospital laboratory looking for someone to share rooms. 13
Back in London and short of money, Watson was standing at the Criterion Bar when someone tapped him on the shoulder: young Stamford, who had been a dresser under him at Barts. 1 When Watson said he was looking for cheap lodgings, “That’s a strange thing,” Stamford remarked: he was the second man that day to say so. The first was a fellow at the chemical laboratory up at the hospital, who couldn’t find anyone to go halves with him on some rooms. 3
Stamford took him there. “Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” he said, introducing them, and Holmes, gripping his hand, told him at once that he had been in Afghanistan. 2
LORE’s readingThe first thing Holmes ever does in the book is read Watson at a glance. Watson’s astonishment is the reader’s introduction to his method.
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