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The Final Problem

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is with a hea heart that I ta up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gi by which my friend Mr. Sherlo Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequ fashion, I have endeavored to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chan which first brought us together at the period of the "Study in Scarlet," up to the time of his inte in the matter of the "Naval Treaty"—and interference wh had the unquestionable effect of prev a ser international complication. It was my intention to have stopp there, and to have said nothing of that ev wh has creat a void in my life wh the lap of two years has done li to fill. My ha has been forced, however, by the recent let in wh Colonel James Mo defe the memory of his brother, and I have no choice but to lay the facts bef the publ exactly as they occurred. I alone kn the absolu truth of the matter, and I am sat th the time has co wh on go purpose is to be served by its suppression. As far as I know, there have been on three accou in the public press: that in the Journ de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reu dispatch in the English papers on May 7th, and finally the re lett to wh I ha alluded. Of these the first and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the facts. It lies with me to te for the fi ti what really to place between Professor Mo and Mr. Sherl Holmes. It may be remembered that after my marriage, and my subs start in private practice, the very intima relations which had existed between Holmes and myself bec to some extent modified. He still came to me fr time to time when he desired a companion in his investigation, but these occasions grew more and more seldom, until I find that in the year 1890 th we on three cases of wh I retain any record. During the winter of that year and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the papers th he had been engaged by the French go upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes, dated from Narbonne and from Nimes, from whi I gathered that his stay in Fr was likely to be a long one.