Attention all group members - Please read

[JakeTucker]

Late last week I heard from one of our group members that Anson (Bob) Roberts died on July 31st, apparently quite unexpected.

Bob and I corresponded quite a bit with each other since I got to know him about 5 or 6 years ago. He shared a lot of content with me and I managed to find the odd title that he didn't have, which would surprise me as he had a huge collection.
I don't follow any of the other groups here but as Times Past shows the latest comments in all groups along the right-hand side on most pages I would often notice that he was active in a lot of groups.

Bob set up a FTP for a while titled Always 1895. In memory of Bob I'd like to quote Vincent Starrett.

"But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Watson . . . Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there as one writes? . . . Outside the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest deviltry. Within, the sea coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won ease . . . So they still live for all that love them well: in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895."

[David Knight]

I miss Bob - his acerbic wit and generosity. Rick too. And whilst we're at it; Katy! x

[Jack Adams]

So so sorry to hear this news.....my love and thoughts to his family & friends

[Lefevre of Montpellier]

Monsieur Bobby,

Tomorrow marks 4 years since you returned to 1895, I do hope you and The Detective are busy solving the mysteries of the after life.
Votre dans Sherlock,

Lefevre

[Lefevre of Montpellier]

I cannot believe that it's been just over a year that you stepped off a Hanson cab into the fog and out of our community. if there is a somewhere else, I sincerely hope that you and The Detective are busying yourselves with some abstruce problems. While back here we think of you my friend.
a la prochaine Bob, RIP.
Lefevre

[Bruce Fisher]

Bob was one of the regulars here and regularly was so generous with his time and sharing. For which we're all so grateful and always will be.

And for those who believe or what to believe that there may actually be sometime after our sojourn here on Earth, perhaps can take comfort in believing that Bob is now one with the radio signals he so loved. 

And that everytime one of us may tune into a broadcast, maybe just maybe is Bob is listening in too with the same heartfelt fervor he always acknowledged.

RIP Bro.

[Lefevre of Montpellier]

Monsieur Bobby,

"I considered it the greatest privilege to have been permitted to study your methods. I confess that they quite surpassed my expectations, and that I am utterly unable to account for your result."

Ten years, three thousand emails and messages, hundreds and hundreds of files exchanged, loading our respective 'Tin Dispatch Boxes' with each others Sherlockian hoard, I have that and more to thank you for mon ami!

Vôtre dans Sherlock,

Lefevre

A la prochaine!

[David Holman]

Well said Lefevre:)

[Mike Hobart]

I was sorry to hear this news.    By the way, for years I thought his name was a pseudonym based on the SF writer Robert Anson Heinlein.   But apparently I was wrong !

[semoshorts]

Sad news.  He will be missed.  

[codepop]

I heard about this on OtrPlus.  Very sad.  I will remember him and his family in my prayers.