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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'I know him from the photograph.' – The Man with the Twisted Lip

October 08, 2024 by Ray Betzner

“You have the photograph?”

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October 08, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Dan Loving, Don Loving, Ben Hecht, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Burton Rascoe, Stanley Starrett, Hugh Young, Robert Polk Starrett, Margaret Dennison Starrett, Vera Cruz, Peter Ruber, The Last Bookman, Oppenheim's, Eugene Hutchinson, Jimmie Lavender, Rachel Latimer, Books Aive
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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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'Poor Stuff, But Accurate'

February 28, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Chicago, Mexico and Richmond meet in The Reviewer

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February 28, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Richard Harding Davis, Jack London, Chicago Daily News, Vera Cruz, RHD in Mexico, The Reviewer, Hunter Stagg, Arthur Machen, James Branch Cabell, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, H.L. Mencken, "Camera", William Dudley Murgatroyd, "A Dream of Wings", "Butterflies of Uganda", Frank Vigor Morley, Peter Ruber
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'Some new and poignant loveliness'

January 31, 2024 by Ray Betzner

An Estray in New York

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January 31, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Estrays, Vincent Starrett, THe Bookfellows of Chicago, Wilbur Underwood, R.L.S., Robert Louis Stevenson, McSorley's Old Ale House, Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, Argosy Books, Grand Central Termiinal, Times Square, New York Public Library, Winnie the Pooh, Charles Dickens, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Basil Thompson, The Camelot Press, Longfellow, L'Envoy, Hart Crane, Chicago Daily News, Ebony Flame, Flame and Dust, Banners in the Dawn

Far too few words about Ben Hecht

October 28, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Picking Pictures for Ben

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October 28, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, Vincent Starrett, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Associated Press, Chicago Renaissance, Richard Little, Charles Collins, A Line O' Type or Two., George Wharton, Christian Dane Hagerty, Lloyd Lewis, Sheherezade, Carl Sandburg
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Provenance

February 27, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Do we ever really ‘own’ a book?

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February 27, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Officium Baetae Marie Virginis., Frank Morris, Waldo Leon Rich, Nellie Brown, Saratoga Springs, Silver Blaze, The Valley of Fear, Reading, Freeman's Auctions, Fanny Butcher, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Charles Honce
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"Our Correspondent Wounded!"

October 05, 2019 by Ray Betzner

More than a century later, can we learn the truth?

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October 05, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Mexico City, Vera Cruz, Chicago Daily News, McNaught's Monthly, Xochimilco, Fred Boalt, Zapatistas, Robert Mangler, Caxtonian, Caxton Club, Caxton Society, C.V.E Starrett
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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

"Christmases Remembered"

December 11, 2015 by Ray Betzner

A gift of pearls for this holiday season, courtesy of Vincent Starrett

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December 11, 2015 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Monologue in Baker Street, Fridolf Johnson, Gourmet magazine, Chicago, Chicago Daily News
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"Dear Mother — "

August 16, 2014 by Ray Betzner

How an inscribed volume of Starrett's poems brings both elation and sadness.

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August 16, 2014 /Ray Betzner
Charles Prepolec, MacLeod's Books, Margaret Deniston Young, Chicago Daily News, Born in a Bookshop, Karen Murdock, Sherlock Alive, Banners in the Dawn, Vancouver, November 24, November 24 1918, Ray Betzner
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