Harold Wilmerding Bell (1885-1947) was an archaeologist and a collector of books and manuscripts relating to the fictional character, Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Bell’s coll...ver maisHarold Wilmerding Bell (1885-1947) was an archaeologist and a collector of books and manuscripts relating to the fictional character, Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Bell’s collection of Sherlockiana was bequeathed to a Boston men’s literary club called the Speckled Band, and is now deposited at the Houghton Library at Harvard.
He edited the Baker-Street Studies (1934), and several works devoted to Sherlock Holmes. He also produced an English translation of Charles Diehl’s Byzantine portraits (1927).
Bell died in 1947.ver menos