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Bedichek, Roy, 18781959. The Roy Bedichek family letters / selected by Jane Gracy Bedichek. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-57441-032-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Bedichek, Roy, 18781959Correspondence. 2. Naturalists United StatesCorrespondence. I. Bedichek, Jane Gracy, 1918 II. Title. QH31.B38A4 1998 [B] 97-29539 508' .092dc21 CIP
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Francis Edward Abernethy
xi
Introduction
Jane Gracy Bedichek
xiii
Editorial Notes
xvii
Jumping Off Place
Lillian Bedichek with Toni Lynn Cooney
1
Letters:
19081927
27
1930s
95
1940s
207
1950s
331
Appendix
Chronology
439
Bedichek Genealogy
443
Greer Genealogy
445
Index
447
Page vii
DEDICATION
This collection of the Roy Bedichek family letters is dedicated to all those who help others to see the diversity and feel the rhythms of nature. May outdoor education thrive! May grandparents and grandchildren garden together and on clear nights watch the mighty procession of the constellations cross the sky!
Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to Fran Vick, Director of the University of North Texas Press. Her vision brought this book into being and her enthusiasm strengthened it.
Thanks also to Alan Pipkin, Jane Derrick, and other grandchildren of Roy and Lillian Bedichek who saved family photographs, and to the Barker Library, a part of the University of Texas American History Center, which preserves Roy Bedichek's letters and notebooks for all to read.
JANE GRACY BEDICHEK
Page xi
FOREWORD
I have just finished reading this delightful collection of letters circulated among the Roy Bedichek clan. What a family of writers! Everybody in that circle was an educated and sophisticated writer, who had much to say about everything going on about him or her. This included the scope of the social, political, and natural world as the Bedicheks saw it from the 1920s through the 1950s. The Bedichek family letters represent the best of epistolary literature, an art form that seems to have gone under in the face of telephones and e-mail. Or maybe the e-mail boom will revive it.
The Roy Bedicheks were a close-knit family who felt the need to communicate regularly, and this was probably the result of Dad's being a man of words. Bedichek letters have already been recognized as literary treasures with the 1985 University of Texas Press publication of Letters of Roy Bedichek, written to his friends and colleagues, especially Frank Dobie and Walter Webb. But these present letters have the added depth and dimension of being the personal expressions of a man within his confines and intimacy of his family. And this was a family going through the Depression, World War II, and W. Lee O'Daniels and Joe McCarthy, and ready to talk about everything with decided opinions. These were episodes and personalities that drew fire during their times, and the Bedicheks were quick to respond. These very personal letters from Roy give the reader an insight into an important man's life during an important time and place.
Bedichek talks intimately with his family about topics that he did not discuss to such an extent elsewhere. His anger over Britain and France's inactivity when Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia, his heartache when his son became so occupied by his duties in WWII that he could not write home, his disgust with O'Daniel and McCarthy and Richard Nixon, his love for Adlai Stevenson, and his distrust of the post-war imperialism of Winston Churchill: all of these national and world problems became a part of family discussion and provide valuable sociological insight into American/Texan feelings of the time.
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