Vincent Starrett Collection Finding Aid
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Folder 1:
Content: Correspondence to Jay Finley Christ (photocopies)
12 August, 1944
23 August, 1944
21 September, 1944
30 September, 1944
13 October, 1944
8 January, 1945
31 July, 1945
January 1947
May 1947
September 1947
7 November, 1947
March 1948
27 July, 1949
17 June, 1950
August 1950
15 September, 1950
19 September, 1950
24 September, 1950
28 March, 1951
30 August, 1951
September 1951
18 September, 1951
22 September, 1952
October 1952
November 1952
8 January, 1953
18 February, 1953
28 October, 1955
22 March, 1956
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Folder 2:
Content: Correspondence with Basil Rathbone (photocopies)
13 July, 1947 (to Starrett)
25 July, 1947 (to Starrett)
14 September (to Starrett)
25 November, 1948 (to Starrett)
18 December, 1948 (to Starrett)
11 March, 1949 (to Starrett)
5 January, 1951 (to Starrett)
New York City Sunday (date ?) (to Starrett)
N. Y. C Sunday (date ?) (to Starrett)
13 November, 1951 (to Starrett)
16 January, 1952 (to Starrett)
30 January, 1952 (to Starrett)
17 May, 1952 (Starrett to Basil)
8 June, 1952 (to Starrett)
3 September, 1952 (to Starrett)
28 May, 1953 (to Starrett)
12 September, 1953 (to Starrett)
7 October, 1953 (to Starrett)
8 October, 1953 (to Basil)
18 October, 1953 (to Starrett)
9 November, 1953 (to Starrett)
14 November, 1953 (to Starrett)
30 November, 1953 (to Starrett)
4 January, 1954 (to Starrett)
15 January, 1954 (to Starrett)
17 February, 1955 (to Starrett)
3 August, 1955 (to Starrett)
21 September, 1955 (to Starrett)
27 September, 1955 (to Basil)
24 March, 1958 (to Starrett)
7 April, 1959 (to Starrett)
24 September, 1965 (Basil to Michael)
27 July, 1966 (Basil to Mike)
7 July, 1967 (Basil to Mike)
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Folder 3:
Content: Correspondence with Walter Klinefelter 1930-1960 (photocopies)
8 March, 1930 (to Klinefelter)
March 1930 (to Klinefelter)
24 May, 1930 (to Klinefelter)
5 September, 1930 (to Klinefelter)
17 September, 1930 (to Klinefelter)
4 February, 1931 (to Klinefelter)
16 February, 1931 (to Klinefelter)
11 March, 1931 (to Klinefelter)
12 April, 1932 (to Klinefelter)
2 May, 1932 (to Klinefelter)
4 May, 1932 (to Klinefelter)
15 November, 1932 (to Klinefelter)
23 November, 1932 (to Klinefelter)
27 December, 1932 (to Klinefelter)
11 April, 1933 (to Klinefelter)
2 May, 1933 (to Klinefelter)
4 November, 1933 (to Klinefelter)
20 April, 1934 (to Klinefelter)
12 December, 1934 (to Klinefelter)
10 January, 1935 (to Klinefelter)
15 January, 1935 (to Klinefelter)
11 June, 1935 (to Klinefelter)
13 January, 1938 (to Klinefelter)
13 October, 1938 (to Klinefelter)
19 December, 1938 (to Klinefelter)
9 March, 1941 (to Klinefelter)
27 March, 1941 (to Klinefelter)
16 September, 1941 (to Klinefelter)
17 January, 1942 (to Klinefelter)
24 June, 1942 (to Klinefelter)
8 August, 1942 (to Klinefelter)
September 1942 (to Klinefelter)
1 November, 1942 (to Klinefelter)
26 November, 1942 (to Klinefelter)
3 December, 1942 (to Klinefelter)
5 May, 1943 (to Klinefelter)
April 1948 (to Klinefelter)
1949 (to Klinefelter)
23 August, 1951 (to Klinefelter)
29 October, 1952 (to Klinefelter)
18 December, 1954 (to Klinefelter)
31 March, 1960 (to Klinefelter)
21 April, 1960 (to Kelley)
23 April, 1960 (to Klinefelter)
23 April, 1960 (to Kelley)
15 October, 1964 (to Klinefelter)
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Folder 4:
Content: Miscellaneous Correspondence
Correspondence with Harry Hansen (photocopies)
8 July, 1952 (to Starrett)-1
8 July, 1952 (to Starrett)-2
7 April, 1960 (to Starrett)
12 July, 1961 (to Starrett)
Correspondence from James B. Stronk – June 13, 1969 (photocopy)
Western Union telegram to Starrett from Catherine Barth Executive Secretary (photocopy)
Correspondence from Mrs. Ira Nelson Morris
15 April, 1947
9 May, 1947
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Folder 5:
Content: Miscellaneous Articles by Vincent Starrett (photocopies)
"The Fugitive" - The Golden Book Magazine, January 1931, Vol. XIII No. 73
"Pleasant Game for a Desert Island" - Chicago Tribune, October 6, 1963
"The Wrong Santa Claus" - King Features Syndicate
"Favorite Classics" - Chicago Tribune, August 27, 1950
"America’s First Breach of Promise Case" - Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1958
"The Spookwriting Industry" - Encore, January 1945, Vol.VII No. 35
"Conversation on a Desert Island" - Reading and Collecting, Feb-March 1938, Vol.2 No.3
"Of Castaways and Islands" - Answers, September 1939, Vol.1 No.19
"The Autograph Habit" - Book Notes, June-July 1926, Vol.4 No.5
"The Terrible Balloon Flight" - Argosy, June 1957
"Michael Wood: A Study in Mysticism" - The Open Court, March 1921, Vol.35 No.3
"Florence Nightingale’s Lost Romance" - The Mentor, March 1926
"The Man Who Made Omar…" - Haldeman-Julius Quarterly, July-Sept. 1927, Vol.1 No.4
"A Sprightly Defense of Reprints by Vincent (Books Alive) Starrett…" - Chicago Daily News, December 4, 1940
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Folder 6:
Content: Miscellaneous Articles concerning Vincent Starrett (photocopies) Chicago Tribune – January 12, 1974
"Writer’s funeral is Sherlockian" by Bob Cromie
Chicago Tribune, October 3, 1968
"Cromie Looks at Authors and Books: A Graceful Tribute to a Chicago Writer" by Bob Cromie Chicago Daily News, April 27-28, 1974
"Never-Say-Die Starrett, the great Sherlockian of [Chicago (crossed out)] World
letters" by Michael Murphy
Vancouver Daily Province, October 4, 1933
"Woman Missing from Inlet Ferry" (death of Vincent Starrett’s mother Margaret
Denniston Starrett)
The Great Lakes Review, Winter 1978, Vol.4 No.2
"Vincent Starrett and The Wave: A Little Magazine of Chicago in the 1920s"
by Charles and Kay Silet
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Folder 7:
Content: The Step Ladder (photocopies)
January 1921, Vol.II No.2 - "The Ghost" by Vincent Starrett
December 1919, Vol. I No. 2 - "The Real Vincent Starrett"
November 1945, Vol.32 No.9 - "His Monument" by Vincent Starrett
February 1945, Vol.32 No.2 - "Wisdom of Old China retold" by Vincent Starrett
March 1944, Vol.31 No.3 - "Wisdom of Old China retold" by Vincent Starrett
February 1944, Vol.31 No.2 - "Came the Dawn" by Vincent Starrett
September 1943, Vol.XXX No.7 - "Summer Night" by Vincent Starrett
June 1943, Vol.30 No.6 - "Starrett in Limbo" by George Steele Seymour
April 1943, Vol.30 No.4
November 1942, Vol.29 No.9 - "Let Shakespeare Speak" reported by Wilfred Hansford Gallienne
February 1941, Vol.28 No.2 - "The Book Shelf"
December 1940, Vol.27 No.10 - "On Reading Books Alive By Vincent Starrett" by Rachel Albright
February 1935, Vol.21 No.2 - "When Jones Died" by Vincent Starrett
October 1946, Vol.33 No.8 - "Portrait of an Artist" by Vincent Starrett
November 1946, Vol.33 No.9 - "Portrait of an Artist" (part 2) by Vincent Starrett
February 1947, Vol.34 No.2 - "Conversation at [Midnight (crossed out)] [Barcelona (written in)]" by Vincent
Starrett
March 1948, Vol.XXXV No.3 - "Black Sheep" by Vincent Starrett and "Other People" by Vincent Starrett
April 1948, Vol.XXXV No.4 - "Alice, Where Art Thou" by Vincent Starrett
May 1948, Vol.35 No.5 - "After Much Striving For Fame" by Vincent Starrett
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Folder 8:
Content: Vincent Starrett: In Memoriam by Michael Murphy (photocopy)
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Folder 9:
Content: Vincent Starrett Centenial Fund (photocopies)
Summer 1986 Letter requestiong donations
Commemorating Symposium October 25, 1986 w/letter
Dedication of Vincent Starrett Memorial October 26, 1986 w/map
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Folder 10:
Content: Voyage – Vincent Starrett poem; music by Martha Mendenhall Rippel (photocopy)
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Folder 11:
Content: The American Book Collector (photocopy)
10 th Anniversary – 100 th Issue – Special Mark Twain Number- Vol. X, No. 10, June 1960, “Mark Twain” and “Shaking Hands With Immortality” by Vincent Starrett
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Folder 12:
Content: Chicago Murders (photocopy)
Regional Murder Series edited by Marie F. Rodell, 1945
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Folder 13:
Content: Escape Fugitive (photocopy)
August 8, 1948 (play/manuscript based on a story by Vincent Starrett) with notes at end
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Folder 14:
Content: The Web Program “A” - The Twelfth Juror (photocopy)
Air date: July 4, 1950
(appears to be t.v. script)
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Folder 15:
Content: CBS Radio Network – Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway – The Eleventh Juror (photocopy)
July 22, 1953
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Folder 16:
Content: The Double Dealer (photocopies)
January 1921, "Starrett's Chicago Letter"
February 1921, Vol.I No.2 - "Bluebeard" by Stephen Huguenot (Starrett pseudonym), Starrett's Chicago Letter, and "Inhibition" by Edgar Savage (Starrett pseudonym)
March 1921, Vol.I No.3 - "Two Suicides" by Vincent Starrett (missing page 115)
April 1921, Vol.I No.4 - "Ageless Woman" by Edgar Savage and "Starrett's Chicago Letter"
May 1921, Vol.I No.5 - "Haldane McFall, Novelist" by Vincent Starrett and "Starrett's Chicago Letter"
June 1921, Vol.I No.6 - "Miniature” and “Episode” by Stephen Huguenot
July 1921, Vol.II No.7 - "Little Tales of Mexico- I. How Felipe Looked Out of a Window" by Vincent
Starrett and "Starrett's Chicago Letter"
August/September 1921, Vol.II No.8/9 - "Chicago Letter" by Vincent Starrett
October 1921, Vol.II No. 10 - “Little Tales of Mexico- II. How Rafael Carried His Head” and Review of
“Robertson's ‘Edgar A. Poe'” by Vincent Starrett
November 1921, Vol.II No.11 - "The Passing of James Branch Cabell" by Vincent Starrett
June 1921, "Crescent Moon" by Vincent Starrett
November 1922, Vol.IV No.23 - "Pensee" by Vincent Starrett
July 1925, Vol.VII No.45 - "Weather Report" by Vincent Starrett
January 1926, Vol.VIII No.47 - "A Birthday" by Vincent Starrett
