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Actor and playwright William Gillette (1853-1937) is best known in the stage role of Sherlock Holmes. He built a 24-room castle overlooking the Connecticut River in Hadlyme in 1919 which today is a museum and state park.

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Sherlockian.Net: Images of William Gillette Reproductions of cigarette card, and cartoon done for Vanity Fair magazine. www.sherlockian.net/stage/gillettepics.html

William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes Photos of the actor plus reproduction of letter to him from Arthur Conan Doyle. www.sherylfranklin.com/sh-gillette.html

William Gillette Photographs of him and of his tombstone from Riverside Cemetery in Farmington, Connecticut. Includes interactive visitor comments and brief biographical sketch from Find A Grave. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=391

The William Gillette Series Brief bio of the stage actor plus description of related collection in the Watkinson Library at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. www.trincoll.edu/depts/library/watkinson/gillette.htm