Series Description From the Series: This series contains family letters to Bertha. The bulk of the correspondence is from her mother and mentions Dobie, his work, and his trips to Mexico. The letters also discuss Bertha's family, health and gardening. Included too are Bertha's gardening columns, and various sundry clippings, pamphlets and articles that she collected about Dobie and other matters of interest to her. Edgar Kincaid's family records and photographs of Kincaid at a book signing for The...

Series Description From the Series: This series contains family letters to Bertha. The bulk of the correspondence is from her mother and mentions Dobie, his work, and his trips to Mexico. The letters also discuss Bertha's family, health and gardening. Included too are Bertha's gardening columns, and various sundry clippings, pamphlets and articles that she collected about Dobie and other matters of interest to her. Edgar Kincaid's family records and photographs of Kincaid at a book signing for The...

Series Description This series contains family letters to Bertha. The bulk of the correspondence is from her mother and mentions Dobie, his work, and his trips to Mexico. The letters also discuss Bertha's family, health and gardening. Included too are Bertha's gardening columns, and various sundry clippings, pamphlets and articles that she collected about Dobie and other matters of interest to her. Edgar Kincaid's family records and photographs of Kincaid at a book signing for The...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

Series Description From the Series: The first subseries within this group of records, Family, contains a family photo album of mostly 19th century photographs of the Dobie and Byler families. Also included are the family bible from which Dobie's father read nightly and two of Dobie's own bibles given to him as gifts: one in 1905 from W. H. Butler and the other from his family in 1908.The next set of files, entitled Graduate Education, contains class notes, the Masters thesis, theater programs and newspaper...

Series Description From the Series: Series IX is divided into six subseries and contains a variety of personal and political material from U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (D- Texas), collected by Dudley Dobie, Sr. from the 1930s to the 1980s. The first subseries contains correspondence covering a wide range of subjects, from personal notes about books and Dobie’s bookstore to Yarborough’s thoughts on war and politics. This subseries also contains correspondence between Yarborough and the following people: Dr. Claude Elliott;...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

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Series X holds various writings by others as collected by Dudley Dobie, Sr. These writings are arranged alphabetically. They include authors Col. M. L. Crimmins, Bill Leftwich, Merze Marvin Seeburger, C. V. Terrell, Edna May Turns, and Sam Woolford. The newspaper articles written by Edna May Turns are from the years 1931 through 1936 and are very fragile. The dates of the writings contained in this series range from 1927 through 1977.

Series Description Series I contains biographical material related to Dudley Dobie, Sr. Folders contain articles about Dobie, information regarding the Dobie family, photographs, and other memorabilia. Folders also include documents pertaining to Dobie’s career, including his time at Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University) and Sul Ross State Teachers College (now Sul Ross State University) and his work for the Texas Centennial Exposition. Other folders hold travel journals and...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...

Series Description Series IV focuses on Dudley Dobie, Sr.’s work as a bookseller. It includes materials regarding his mail-order book business and his two bookstores, called Dobie’s Books. The first subseries holds correspondence spanning from the 1930s to the 1950s, including an array of letters, receipts, invoices, etc. Its first folder includes letters relating to high-profile clients of Dobie’s, such as U.S. Senators Clinton P. Anderson and Barry Goldwater. Another folder contains correspondence to/from...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

Series Description From the Series: Series V contains documents relating to J. Frank Dobie, first cousin to Dudley Dobie, Sr. This series is divided into five subseries.The first subseries consists of three correspondences, including a letter to J. Frank Dobie’s wife, Mrs. Bertha Dobie, from Ralph W. Yarborough. The second subseries holds copies and notes pertaining to J. Frank Dobie’s published works. These are arranged chronologically. The third subseries contains advertisements for J. Frank Dobie’s published works. The...

Series Description From the Series: Series III contains documents relating to writings by Dudley Dobie, Sr., comprised of four subseries. The first subseries contains documents pertaining to Dobie’s published works, arranged alphabetically. Included are handwritten manuscripts, typed manuscripts, notes, and newspaper articles. Also contained within this subseries is Dobie’s 12-part series that appeared in the San Marcos Daily Record about his excursion to the Rio Grande, funded by Henry DuPont. Additionally, his notes and...

Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...

Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...