March 3, 1890, Boston Museum, Boston, Massachusetts; published by H. Roorbach in 1897) Maid of All Work (1890; never produced) Mr. Wilkinson's Widows (adapted from Alexandre Bisson's Feu Toupinel, March 23, 1891, National Theatre, Washington, D.C.) Settled Out of Court (adapted from Alexandre Bisson's La Famille Pont-Biquet, August 8, 1892, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York) The War of the American Revolution (January 1893, "nine scenes with historical commentary, written for the 'Barnum & Baily people', for a libretto to use with their 'Vast Episodic Drama of the Revolution'") Ninety Days (February 6, 1893, Broadway Theatre, New York) Too Much Johnson (adapted from Maurice Ordonneau's La Plantation Thomassin, November 26, 1894, Standard Theatre, New York; published in 1912) Secret Service (May 13, 1895, Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; published in 1898; published by Samuel French Ltd. in 1898) "The Tale of My First Success," New York Dramatic Mirror, The Christmas Number 1886, December 26, 1896, pg. 30 Because She Loved Him So (October 28, 1898, Hyperion Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut) Sherlock Holmes (with Arthur Conan Doyle, October 23, 1899, Star Theatre, Buffalo, New York; published by Samuel French, Ltd., in 1922, by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., in 1935, and by Doubleday in 1976 and 1977) "The House-Boat in America," The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 5, June 2, 1900 The Frightful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes (March 24, 1905, Joseph Jefferson Holland Benefit, Metropolitan Opera House; later retitled The Harrowing Predicament of Sherlock Holmes and finally The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, published by Ben Abramson of The Argus Book Shop in Chicago in 1955) Clarice (September 4, 1905, Liverpool, England) Ticey, or That Little Affair of Boyd's (June 15, 1908, originally retitled A Private Theatrical, then retitled A Maid-of-All Work, later retitled That Little Affair of Boyd's, Columbia Theatre, Washington, D.C.) Samson (adapted from Henri Bernstein's Samson, October 19, 1908, Criterion Theatre, New York) The Red Owl, originally titled The Robber (One-Act Play, August 9, 1909, London Coliseum; published in One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Second Series, Samuel French, Ltd., 1925, pp. 47–80) Among Thieves (One-Act Play, September 6, 1909, Palace Theatre, London; published in One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Second Series, Samuel French, Ltd., 1925, pp. 246–267) Electricity (September 26, 1910, Park Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts; published by Samuel French Ltd. in 1924) Theatrical managers exposed; A few words from Mr. William Gillette at the annual dinner of