Thank you, great thread. I found this:

http://finalproblem.tumblr.com/post/136467917360/its-not-611174-in-mycrofts-notebook-its

 

Thanks for that link, Susi!
In the link I left they also talk about that number 611174 and are connecting it to a disease that affects certain breeds of dogs, "canine lupus". Redbeard belongs to one of those breeds. 

I don't know about the things that are written. Maybe he's writing in codes that no one would understand (except Sherlock, obviously. And maybe Mary) because all the informations he keeps in there about Sherlock could be used against Sherlock (and against Mycroft, at the same time) if they fell in "dangerous" hands...

I have no problem imagining Mycroft keeping a notebook about Sherlock. I can actually picture him having a whole cupboard full of notebooks containing informations about Sherlock throughout the years and that the key to the cupboard is kept in a secret place... Mycroft loves Sherlock so much and he wants to protect him so bad...

He even kept a file on John when Sherlock was away. So yeah, I guess he owns not one notebook, but many of them!

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I mentioned it above, Silverblaze: The Greek Interpreter. 

"In your own case," said I, "from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty of observation and your peculiar facility for deduction are due to your own systematic training.""To some extent," he answered thoughtfully. "My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist. Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.""But how do you know that it is hereditary?""Because my brother Mycroft possesses it in a larger degree than I do."

But I also like the reference to magic lanterns and ghostly special effects in the Gaiman story! 
 

 

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Liberty wrote:

I mentioned it above, Silverblaze: The Greek Interpreter. 

"In your own case," said I, "from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty of observation and your peculiar facility for deduction are due to your own systematic training.""To some extent," he answered thoughtfully. "My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist. Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.""But how do you know that it is hereditary?""Because my brother Mycroft possesses it in a larger degree than I do."

But I also like the reference to magic lanterns and ghostly special effects in the Gaiman story! 
 

 

Thanks, and sorry for repeating you. I guess I didn't read properly.

Yes, but I also think that the notes are readable on a purpose. Even if it's only a red herring

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That would be fabulous!
Was Uncle Rudi part of that branch of the family?!

I always thought Benedict said it wrong in HOB, too!

"cherche la femme" is Mycroft's line to Sherlock in the cemetery as they are about to dig the grave ;)

So what is it Sherlock says in HOB?
'Cherche le chien 'or something?