The Morris Cook Collection of J. Frank Dobie Materials, 1916, 1929-1988 1941-1964

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The Morris Cook Collection of J. Frank Dobie Materials, 1916, 1929-1988 1941-1964

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Morris Cook was a bookseller in Austin, Texas. James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. The Morris Cook Collection of J. Frank Dobie Materials is a collection of materials by or about the Texas writer J. Frank Dobie. The collection incorporates magazines, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, notes and letters from Dobie spanning the years 1916 to 1988.

2.8 linear feet; (about 2,000 items)

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The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries . Special Collections

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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

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J. Frank Dobie was a noted Texas author and English professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also editor of the Texas Folklore Society's publications during the 1930's and 1940's. From the description of Letter : to W.A. Philpott, 1938 April 12. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22699684 Historian, author, folklorist. Born in 1888 on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, Dobie was awarded his B.A. by Southwestern University (1910), M.A. by Co...

Texas Folklore Society

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The Texas Folklore Society was founded on December 29, 1909 in Dallas, by Leonidas Warren Payne and John Avery Lomax, with the purpose of preserving and presenting Texas folklore. The organization is now located at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. From the description of Texas Folklore Society records, 1909-1970. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70706014 ...

Cook, Morris

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J. Frank Dobie was born on September 26, 1888. He left the ranch when he was sixteen and moved to Alice, where he lived with his Dubose grandparents and finished high school. In 1906 he enrolled in Southwestern University in Georgetown, where he met Bertha McKee, whom he married in 1916, and Professor Albert Shipp Pegues, his English teacher, who introduced him to English poetry, particularly the Romantics, and encouraged him as a writer. He worked two summers as a reporter, first f...

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Cook, Morris G.

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Hertzog, Carl

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