Studies in Starrett

Studies in Starrett

An exploration of the works of Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett

(October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974)

Curated by Ray Betzner
Original content owned and copyrighted by Ray Betzner

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A ‘new’ report on the first official Baker Street Irregulars dinner

August 19, 2024 by Ray Betzner

The Press, Watson. . . .

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August 19, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Starrett’s Scrapbook, Harry Hansen, Alexander Woollcott, Christopher Morley, Baker Street Irregulars, Mattias Bostrom, Steven Rothman, Harrison "Terry" Hunt, Linda Hunt, Susan Dahlinger, The Baker Street Irregulars Trust, The New York Wold-Tribune, The Watertown Times, H.W. Bell, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Chicago Daily News, William Gillette, Gray Chandler Briggs, William Rose Benet, Steven Vincent Benet, Autolycus in Limbo, The Saturday Review of Literature
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Dedications

May 22, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Monkey glands, McCarthyites and the W.G.A.

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Walter M. Hill, In Praise of Stevenson: An Anthology, W.C. Morrow, Ambrose Bierce, Rhymes for Collectors, Lilian Hartsig, Ebony Flame, Lilian Starrett, Bella Starrett, Banners in the Dawn, Thomas Kennedy, Buried Caesars, Robert Polk Starrett, Flame and Dust, Richard Le Gallienne, Coffins for Two, Fifteen More Poems, Charles Parsons, Ray Latimer, Seaports in the Moon, Ambrose Bierce: A bibliography, Penny Wise and Book Foolish, M.J. Latimer, Murder on B Deck, Stanley Starrett, Harold Starrett, Robert Starrett, The Blue Door, Edwin Baird, Dead Man Inside, Scott Cunningham, The End of Mr. Garment, Stirling Parkinson, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Frederic Dorr Steele, Gray Chandler Briggs, Charles Honce, Midnight and Percy Jones, Persons From Porlock, Christopher Morley, Oriental Encounters, The Great Hotel Murder, Riley Blackwood, Books Alive, Bookman's Holiday, Georgia E. Bennett, Autolycus in Limbo, The Case-Book of Jimmie Lavender, Harry E. Maule, Ellery Queen, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Murder in Peking, Lin Yutang, Books and Bipeds, Book Column, Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century, Wendell W. Goodpasture, Late Later and Possibly Last
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The Poet's Corner

April 12, 2020 by Ray Betzner

A consideration of Starrett the poet via 9 books.

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April 12, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Flame and Dust, Ebony Flame, Brillig, Autolycus in Limbo, Rhymes for Collectors, Estrays, Fifteen More Poems, Banners in the Dawn, "Shop Windows in Winter", Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, The Camelot Press, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Walter M. Hill, An Iron Dog, Covici-McGee, Pascal Covici, November 24 1918, charles Hon, William Rose Benet, Epigram, Edwin B. Hill, Summer Shower, E.P. Dutton, To Wicky, To Wicky: My Wire, The Dierkes Press of Chicago., Alice, Alice Where art thou?
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"This poem by my good friend Vincent Starrett"

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 8

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Profile by Gaslight, Edgar W. Smith, Basil Rathbone, Vincent Starrett, 221B, The Baker Street Journal, In and Out of Character, Autolycus in Limbo, Christopher Morley, Sonnet on Baker Street
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'Part of a slim volume"

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 7

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Edgar W. Smith, Vincent Starrett, Autolycus in Limbo, William Rose Benet, Richard Hart, Baltimore Evening Sun, To a Very Literary Lady, E.P. Dutton, Charles Honce
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A.K.A. Vincent Starrett

May 12, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Starrett used many names in his career.

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May 12, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, Charles V.E. Starrett, Charles E.V. Starrett, Stephen Huguenot, Edgar Savage, Vincenzio, Vinpenny, Banners in the Dawn, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Chicago Daily News, The Editor: The Journal of Life for Literary Workers, Lincolnana, Reedy's Mirror, True Detective, Short Stories, Column Poetrs, Jay Finley Christ, Jay Finch, Poetry magazine, Wisconsin State Journal, Weird Tales, Roy Franklin Dewey, Lucian Taylor, The Great Lakes Review, Charles L.P. Silet, Autolycus in Limbo, A Literary Anthology, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare, Et Cetera, Pascal Covici, Charles Vincent Starrett, Graceland Cemetery, Christopher Morley

Salomé

March 10, 2018 by Ray Betzner

The two versions of a Starrett sonnet

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March 10, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Salome, Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Estrays, Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, King Herod, John the Baptist, Banners in the Dawn, Autolycus in Limbo
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"221B" fresh from Starrett's typewriter

February 21, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Autolycus in Limbo: The Manuscript

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February 21, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Autolycus in Limbo, Vincent Starrett, Charles Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, William Rose Benet, 221B, E.P. Dutton, Edgar W. Smith, Hell, Hell Said the Duchess, Cherchez la Femme, Banners in the Dawn, The Golden Eagle Press, Sam A, Sam A Jacobs, The Public Papers of a Bibliomaniac, Ames W. Williams

221B's First Public Appearance

October 05, 2017 by Ray Betzner

Starrett's sonnet has a coming out party

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October 05, 2017 /Ray Betzner
Charles Collins, The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Vincent Starrett, 221B, Chicago Tribune, A Line O' Type or Two., Bookman's Holiday, Two Sonnets, Christopher Morley, Edgar W. Smith, Sonnet on Baker Street, Autolycus in Limbo, Sherlock in the Trib, Ely Liebow, John Nieminski, Bowling Green, Saturday Review of Literature
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An Icon in the Making

August 13, 2016 by Ray Betzner

From Starrett to Loving to Zimmer and more

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August 13, 2016 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Don Loving, Mathew Zimmer, Charles Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, Autolycus in Limbo, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Great All-Star Animal Base Ball Game, Steven Rothman, Steven Doyle, Francine Kitts, Robert Thomalen, The Golden Eagle Press, S.A. Jacobs, Pascal Covici, W.S. Hall, Frederic Dorr Steele, Edgar W. Smith, Rex Stout, Christopher Morley, Earle F. Walbridge, Michael Murphy, Fridolf Johnson
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A Bookman and his Dealer

March 14, 2015 by Ray Betzner

Ben Abramson was a book seller, a publisher and a dreamer.

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March 14, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Ben Abramson, Edgar W. Smith, Reading and Collecting magazine, The Baker Street Journal, Steven Rothman, Books and Bipeds, Autolycus in Limbo, The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette, Christopher Morley, Argus Books, August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, P.M. Stone, James Keddie, Snow for Christmas
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The 'Starrett Smiley,' and other curious features of his signature

March 29, 2014 by Ray Betzner

The first of a two-part post on the many curious and wonderful autographs left behind by Vincent Starrett.

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March 29, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Arthur Machen, Arthur Machen: Novelist of Ecstasy and sin, Books and Bipeds, Books Alive, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Baker Street Journal, Ambrose Bierce, Autolycus in Limbo, Michael Murphy, Starrett Memorial Library, Chicago Murders
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