Dr. Watson If you won't, I will for you". Holmes suavely responds: "You may do what you like, Doctor". Therefore, the story is presented as "a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson", and most other stories of the series share this by implication. In the first chapter of "The Sign of Four", Holmes comments on Watson's first effort as a biographer: "I glanced over it. Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism...
James Sibley Watson and Margaret Anderson. Watson was also married a second time to Nancy Watson Dean, who carried on her husband's legacy of giving back to the community. She appointed Dale Davis as Watson's Literary Executor after his death, and sold the Watson Papers that Davis compiled to the New York Public Library. James Sibley Watson James Sibley Watson, Jr. (August 10, 1894 – March 31, 1982) was an American medical doctor, philanthropist, publisher, editor, photographer, and early experimenter in motion pictures. Born in Rochester, New York, James Sibley Watson, Jr. was an heir to the Western Union telegraph fortune created by