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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Unpacking The Book Collector’s Packet

February 04, 2025 by Ray Betzner

From a Fragment of Autobiography to Holiday Books.

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February 04, 2025 /Ray Betzner
The Black Cat Press, Walter Klinefelter, Vincent Starrett, Autobiography, Born in a Bookshop, The Book Collector’s Packet, Irvin Haas, The American Book Collector, Otis At Bunker Hill, Lynd Ward, Fragment of Autobiography, A Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books, Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Christmas Books, Christopher Morley, Luther A Brewer, Torch Press, Books about Poictesme, An Essay in Imaginative Bibliography, James Branch Cabell, Norman W. Forgue, Thomas N. Fairbanks, Ex Libris A. Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes

BSI’s first “official” dinner in the news

August 27, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Those crazy Sherlock Holmes fans

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August 27, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars Trust, Christopher Morley, Christ Cella's, Gene Tunney, Alexander Woollcott, Vincent Starrett, Associated Press, Burton Freund, William Gillette
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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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Walter Klinefelter in Portrait and Profile, Part 1

May 09, 2024 by Ray Betzner

Profile of a Shy Sherlockian

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May 09, 2024 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Walter Klinefelter, York College, All About Mother Goose, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes in Portrait and Profile, Julie Rosenblatt, Al Rosenblatt, Harrison "Terry" Hunt, Linda Hunt, Jon L. Lellenberg, Aboriginals, Origins of Sherlock Holmes, The Saturday Review of Literature, Frank V. Morley, Christopher Morley, Arthur Machen, Tom O'Bedlam and his Song, The Apellicon Press, The Merrymount Press

Merry Christmas Mr. Moore

April 15, 2023 by Ray Betzner

A Sherlockian treasure went to the Weird of Warrenville. Why?

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April 15, 2023 /Ray Betzner
"221B", Vincent Starrett, The Weird of Warrenville, Edward Martin Moore, Sherlockiana: Two Sonnets, Edwin B. Hill, Christopher Morley, Starrett Smiley, Sonnet on Baker Street, Brillig, Pojny Barn Press, Larry Porter, Strutt Moore

Watching two Sherlockians at play

March 03, 2022 by Ray Betzner

Sherlockian Penpals

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March 03, 2022 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, Cornelis Helling, Christopher Morley, Saturday Review of Literature, Jules Verne, Trade Winds, P.E.G. Quercus, Frederic Dorr Steele, Baker Street Journal, Baker Street Irregulars, Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes, Some Reminiscences of An Old Sherlockian
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Best. Day. Ever. Part II

November 30, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Morley praises Starrett’s poetry, pellucid gin, and ‘the delicacies of print’

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November 30, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Christopher Morley, Vincent Starrett, Brillig, Baker Street Journal, Steven Rothman, Ballad of Brobdingnag, Lines on a Lady, Hackensack Marshes, Hackensack Meadowlands, Columbia University Press, Night Watchman, Sitzfleisch

Starrett steps into the world of Dr. Thorndyke

September 09, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Why did R. Austin Freeman dedicate a book of mysteries to Starrett?

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September 09, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, R. Austin Freeman, Thorndyke, The Puzzle Lock, 14 Great Detective Stories, Modern Library, Christopher Morley, Kent State University, The Unique Hamlet, Arthur Machen, Books Alive, “The Case of Oscar Brodski”, Christopher Jervis, Columbo, Seagull Library and Mystery and Suspense, The Singing Bone
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Christopher Morley enters the scene

January 03, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 3

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January 03, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Christopher Morley, Vincent Starrett, A Vincent Starrett Library, Charles E. Honce, Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Carolyn Wells, Michael Gross, Wisteria Lodge, Collier's Weekly, Frederic Dorr Steele, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bookman, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, William Rose Benet, Dupin, Poe, Arthur Conan Douyle, John Valentine, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane: A Bibliography, Stephen Crane, A message for Vincent Starrett, 221B, Anthony Boucher, Elmer Davis
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Sherlockiana: The little leaflets at the start of a movement

January 03, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 2

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January 03, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Sherlockiana, Edward B. Hill, Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Ysleta, Vincent Starrett, Sherlock Holmes, Cornelis Helling, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Morley, E.E. Kellett, Monody on the Death of Sherlock Holmes, Ronald Knox, Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes, The Final Problem, Cambridge University, The Case of the Missing Patriarchs, Logan Clendening, John Myers Myers, Charles E. Honce, A Vincent Starrett Library, "Scotland Yard", "To William Gillette: On his return to the stage in 'Sherlock Holmes' ", To a Very Literary Lady, To an Undiscerning Critic, Arthur Conan Doyle, Some Piquant People, Lincoln Springfield, Dr. Joseph Bell
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Edwin B. Hill, his little hand press and its big impact

January 02, 2021 by Ray Betzner

Finding Bliss in Ysleta, Part 1

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January 02, 2021 /Ray Betzner
Edwin B. Hill, Edwin Bliss Hill, Ysleta, American Book Collector, Gertrude Hill Muir, Adrian Goldstone, John Myers Myers, A Check-list of items published by the private press of Edwin B. Hill, Kenneth A. Goldblatt, A Vincent Starrett Library, Christopher Morley, Charles Lamb, Edgar Allan Poe, The Wave, The Double Dealer, Fifteen More Poems, Thomas Kennedy, Ellen Denby, Arizona State University, What's O'Clock?
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Penny Poems

December 03, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Kittens, puppies, elephants and rhymes for a penny

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December 03, 2020 /Ray Betzner
Jon Bracker, Jonathan Bracker, Christopher Morley, Vincent Starrett, Penny Poems, Steven Rothman, Vignette Domestique, Elephants in Aspic, Books Alive, Bright Cages
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The Fortnightly Dispatch and Vincent Starrett

May 29, 2020 by Ray Betzner

Talking, a lot, about books

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May 29, 2020 /Ray Betzner
The Fortnightly Dispatch, Steven Doyle, Wessex Press, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Baker Street Journal, Vincent Starrett, Rachel Latimer, 221B, The Unique Hamlet, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Morley, Elmer Davis
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Dedications

May 22, 2020 by Ray Betzner

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

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May 22, 2020 /Ray Betzner
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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"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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“He has done many little things for me."

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 5

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
Edwin B. Hill, Ysleta, Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley, Sherlockiana, Edgar W. Smith
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'Here dwell together still two men of note'

October 19, 2019 by Ray Betzner

‘221B’ Part 4

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October 19, 2019 /Ray Betzner
221B, Vincent Starrett, Starrett Speaks, Wessex Press, Carl Sandburg, Edgar W. Smith, Christopher Morley
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Otto Strikes Twice

January 26, 2019 by Ray Betzner

Two popular paperbacks

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January 26, 2019 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, The Mysterious Library, Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes Library, The Macmillan Company, John Bennett Shaw, Tom Stix Jr., Robert Thomalen, Warner Books, Frederic Dorr Steele, William Gillette, Julian Symons, Pinnacle, Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley
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Revised and Enlarged

November 09, 2018 by Ray Betzner

A Classic is Reborn

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November 09, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Unique Hamlet, 221-B, Alexander Woollcott, Gray Chandler Briggs, Christopher Morley, Peter Cushing, Andre Morrell, Ronald Howard, Adrian Conan Doyle, The Golden Book, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Press, William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederic Dorr Steele, H.W. Bell, Elmer Davis, Morley, The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson, Catherine Cooke, The Baker Street Journal, Edgar W. Smith, Baker Street Studies, Profile by Gaslight, Bookman's Holiday, John Bennett Shaw, Baker Street Irregulars
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The Great Hiatus, 1934-1960

November 02, 2018 by Ray Betzner

Between editions: 1934 to 1960

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November 02, 2018 /Ray Betzner
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley, Edgar W. Smith, William Gillette, Alexander Woollcott, Long Long Ago, Baker Street Irregulars, Rachel Latimer, The Unique Hamlet, 221B, Persons From Porlock, 221B: Studies In Sherlock Holmes, The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson, Books Alive, The Chicago Tribune, Profile by Gaslight, To a Very Literary Lady, The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes:, Sherlock Holmes: A Play
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