J. Frank Dobie Papers 1890s-1991 (bulk 1914-1964).

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J. Frank Dobie Papers 1890s-1991 (bulk 1914-1964).

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Drafts of Dobie's posthumous books, research material, drafts of newspaper columns, magazine articles, lectures, transcriptions of radio broadcasts, correspondence, photographs of family and friends, property deeds, income tax records, personal items (pipes, clothes, a favorite chair), wills, and clippings about Dobie as well as articles, clippings and photographs that had belonged to Bertha McKee Dobie and/or Edgar Kincaid. The correspondence series includes letters to Bertha Dobie, as well as letters from authors Roy Bedicheck and Isabel Gaddis, among others. There is a good representation of Dobie's research interest, his later books and articles, his stint in the army as chronicled in his letters home to his wife, and his lectures on American History at Cambridge University in England. There are many personal photographs of Dobie, his wife and friends as well as an album of 19th century photographs of the Dobie family.

25 boxes plus oversize (12.5 linear ft.)

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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Bedichek, Roy, 1878-1959

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Roy Bedichek was born in 1878 in Illinois but moved to Texas as a child. After graduating from the University of Texas, he worked as a reporter, teacher, and editor and as secretary of various organizations before becoming associated with the University Interscholastic League in 1917 where he remained as director until 1948. He was an avid amateur naturalist and began to write about his interests in 1946. He completed four books before his death in 1959. From the description of Bedic...

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...

Dobie, Bertha McKee, 1890-

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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 ...

Gaddis, Isabel

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Kincaid, Edgar B. (Edgar Bryan), 1921-1985

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Born to rancher and oilman Edgar Bryan Kincaid, Sr., and his wife Lucille McKee in San Antonio, Texas, Edgar Bryan Kincaid, Jr. (1921-1985) moved to Austin in 1939 to live with his aunt Bertha McKee and her husband and folklorist J. Frank Dobie. Graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 1943, Kincaid spent much of his time on ornithological field trips in Texas and Mexico. Following the death of ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser in 1963, Kincaid began editing and research...