Historians -- Texas
Found in 1575 Collections and/or Records:
Bears: "Nat Straw, Last of the Grizzly Hunters," correspondence, photographs, 1928-1958, undated
Bears: Notes, correspondence, transcriptions of articles, clippings, various stories, 1937-1956
Bears: Various drafts and research notes, undated
Bears: Various drafts of articles about bears, undated
Bears: Various journal and magazine articles, clippings, bibliographical material, 1930-1960
Beautiful Moments
Although Kirkland never officially published her poetry on its own, it appears in her novels and short stories. For many years, her Christmas cards featured her Christmas poems which are listed here in chronological order by year. Also of particular interest is a one-of-a- kind handmade booklet of Kirkland's war poems written for World War II soldiers. Poems listed with quotation marks represent the first line of untitled poems.
Bedichek, reviews and scraps, 1947, 1957, undated
Ben Carlton Mead - includes published materials. Note: “Gold” magazine and a souvenir play program (for “Texas” at Palo Duro Canyon) both have illustrations by Mead. Program is inscribed by Mead to Dudley Dobie, Sr.
Series II contains personal correspondence, organized alphabetically. Some folders include photographs and published materials. Certain letters are only addressed to or from nicknames, including “Bibba” (Deborah Dobie) and “Guyo” (Guy Skiles). Of particular note is a series of letters sent between Dobie, and his wife Deborah Dobie in 1935-1936, while he was traveling the state collecting historical artifacts for the Texas Centennial Exposition’s Hall of State.
Bertha after Dobie’s death, undated
Bertha Dobie's gardening columns, 1933, 1935, undated
Bertha Dobie’s gardening columns, undated
Bertha Dobie's information file, clippings, notes, sketches, newsletters, 1937-1972
Bertha McKee Dobie and Edgar Kincaid Papers, 1926-1974, undated
“Between Two Rivers of the Rocky Mountains” - drafts (handwritten) - also includes a newspaper article by Dr. Robert T. Hill and a program, “Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting, Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science (May 1960)
Bible, inscribed from Dobie’s parents, 1908
“Bienvieda Home-Coming, Senator Yarborough” (2 copies), 1970
“Big Bend Aids”
“Big Bend” Notes. W. H. Dodd, etc., 1939
“Big Bend Support” notes
Bill Leftwich, “Longhorns are Back” pamphlet
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.