Oh, wow. You're quite right that losing stuff like that is something that everyone can sympathize with; but it would have been about a hundred times worse for Watson, losing a part of what little he has left of his friend. This was very moving.

beautiful explanation for the time of the publication of the Hound of the Baskervilles

Wow, that was just...amazing. I don't believe I've ever read a oneshot that was so packed with emotion and fact at the same time. Completely amazing. I am quite sorry for KCS' loss, but I'm glad you shared this story with us! :) Definitely one I will be reading again.

This is so well-done! Excellent.

I had planned to write something for KCS along these same lines, but I have no doubt that yours is infinitely better. I truly think this is one of the best things you've written.

You wrote it that quick? Well, I'm... staggered. How do you do it? :)

All those stories lost to fire... the Victorian equivalent of modern day computer failure. A great sorrow indeed then as now.

Well done. Enjoyed it!

Ahh...the Malfunctioning Computer of Holmes' time...so many of us have experienced that before...

Great writing! So sad to think that Watson lost 'The Hounds'...

Wow. I mean, WOW. That pained me more than some of the better deathfics I've read, but I'm a magpie to the ninth degree. Excellent work, especially on such short notice. & my condolences to KCS computer death is tough, and evil.

I was completely taken aback by how fast this was written and put up - so much so that it combined with the subject matter made me emotionally incapable of reviewing until now.

I cried along with Mrs. Hudson and Watson at the end; many times I've wondered just how bad the fire in Baker Street was, and this was heartwrenching. Ten years is a long time; it never occurred to me that he might have it done that long before. I'm still teary about it, actually.

But a theraputic kind of sadness, I think, and so thank you very, very much. And it ended on a lovely note, not a sad one at all, and so thank you for the smile as well. I really do appreciate it.

Oh gosh. I'm blown away by the speed this was completed in and the topic of the heartwrenching death of a story . . . untold numbers of stories. It never is the same rewritten.

But I'm eternally grateful Watson did get the case written, and that you wrote this.

I like it. Dead computers, been there done that, bought a portable hard drive.

Awesome! Wonderfully done,thank you for sharing!Please post again soon.