Editing Whitaker's Almanack (section)

==In popular culture==
*''Whitaker's Almanack'' provides the key to a [[book cipher]] message at the beginning of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s 1915 [[Sherlock Holmes]] novel ''[[The Valley of Fear]]''.  Lt. Cmdr. Data refers to the ''Almanack'' in his [[Holodeck]] portrayal of Holmes in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[Elementary, Dear Data]]."<ref name="trivia">{{cite web|url=http://whitakersalmanack.com/history/whitakers-trivia/|title=Literary References|publisher=Whitaker's|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070553/http://whitakersalmanack.com/history/whitakers-trivia/|access-date=14 May 2021|archive-date=2016-03-04}}</ref>
*''Whitaker's Almanack'' is mentioned in chapter 2 of [[Bram Stoker]]'s ''[[Dracula]]'', with a copy being owned by the Count.<ref name="trivia"/>
*It is also mentioned in [[Virginia Woolf]]'s short story "[[A Haunted House and Other Short Stories|The Mark on the Wall]]",<ref name="trivia"/> the James Bond novel ''[[Moonraker (novel)|Moonraker]]''<ref name="trivia"/> and Evelyn Waugh's ''[[Vile Bodies]]''.<ref name="trivia"/>
*In "The Round Dozen", a short story by [[W. Somerset Maugham]], a character recalls being advised by a famous novelist that the two most useful books for a writer are the Bible and ''Whitaker's Almanack''.<ref name="trivia"/>