years finds me back again, so you can expect me back at it again once more in 1941. Probably in 1976, when they are celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, or what ever it is, 40 years from now, I'll still be farewelling. I should apologize for being here, but I am a man among Yankees, and they take promises with a grain of salt – in fact they usually take them home and pickle them in brine, so they probably knew I'd be back. Besides I have several good excuses – but they really don't count. And besides – and you men who follow horse racing will know what I mean – I'm not running against anyone, they're merely letting me trot around the track." "Farewell, Good Luck, and Merry Christmas." See also References Sources Cook, Doris E., Sherlock Holmes & Much More (The Connecticut Historical Society, 1970). Doyle, Arthur Conan, & Jack Tracy, editor, Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha (Houghton Mifflin; 1st ed., 1980). Haining, Peter, The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Apocryphile Press, 2005). Zecher, Henry, William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes (Xlibris Press, 2011). External links William Gillette Introduction The Baker Street Journal – writings about Sherlock Holmes Gillette Castle State Park in East Haddam, Connecticut Portrait of William Gillette; University of Washington, Sayre collection William Gillette Portrait gallery; NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection William Gillette; PeriodPaper.com about 1910 Website for biographer Henry Zecher. Theatre posters from performances of Held by the Enemy'' at Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in 1887 1853 births 1937 deaths American dramatists and playwrights American inventors American male stage actors American male voice actors American people of English descent Actor-managers Respiratory disease deaths in Connecticut Deaths from pulmonary hemorrhage Male actors from Hartford, Connecticut People from Greenport, Suffolk County, New York Writers from Hartford, Connecticut People from Tryon, North Carolina Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle