Garden, Y. Billy collection of S. S. Van Dine Y. Billy Garden collection of S.S. Van Dine MSS 9701

Y. Billy Garden collection of S.S. Van Dine MSS 9701


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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Ellen Welch

Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Identification
MSS 9701
Title
Y. Billy Garden collection of S.S. Van Dine addition 1936-1975
URL:
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/189519
Quantity
0.012 Cubic Feet, 3 legal folders
Language
English .

Content Description

This collection contains correspondence, stationary, a photograph, and a copy of the Philip Vance Murder Cases from Y. Billy Garden, the secretary to detective novelist S.S. Van Dine, pseudonym of Williard Huntington Wright.

The correspondence is between Garden to Evelyn Phaup, a collector of Wright, from Richmond, Virginia. The correspondence includes impressions of S.S. Dine from Garden and offerings of some of his mementos.

The photograph of Van Dine is signed to Garden. There is blank stationary of Van Dine with an illustration of a scotch terrier.

Also included is a "dummy" copy of the Philip Vance Murder Cases that Garden sent with a letter that states "I myself do not have a copy...but I do have a bound dummy of all the extraneous material of that volume. The binding is exactly like the volume itself."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Container List

Mixed Materials folder: 1
Correspondence of Y. B. Garden and Evelyn Phaup
1973-1975English.
Mixed Materials folder: 2
Blank stationery of S. S. Van Dine
Scope and Contents

Includes Sporran Kennels stationery. Wright was owner of the kennel.

Mixed Materials folder: 3
S. S. Van Dine, "Philo Vance Murder Case" dummy copy
1936English.
Mixed Materials folder: 4
Autographed photograph to Y. B. Garden