1883
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
January-February
- Sherlock Holmes spent the whole day over Lloyd's registers and the files of old papers following the future career of every vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and in February in 1883. (FIVE, 432)
March
- On March, the 10th, 1883, colonel Elias Openshaw received a letter from India, with a Pondicherry post-mark, and containing 5 dried orange pips. (FIVE, 432, 81)
May
- On May, 2, 1883, Elias Openshaw is found dead. (FIVE, 123)
