Perface
To Volume II, in Which the Author Attempts to Rectify Errors in Volume I |
| I open this volume two of the history of the Texas Folklore Society with the errata sheet for volume one because one must confess his sins and rectify them before he can cleanly enter the portals of the next worldand sin again. |
| Charles Hagelmanback in Houston, Texas, for over ten years but still writing on Northern Illinois University letterheadpointed out that on page 144 I referred to April 21 as Texas Independence Day (really March 2) instead of San Jacinto Day. Hagelman also thought that the picture of the western star labeled "Wm. S. Hart" looked like Buster Keaton. It does, in fact, but that is illustrator Charles Shaw's area, and I will not take issue. Jack Burnett Kellam, artist-poet-musician of Zellwood, Florida, who has written a book on his longtime friend John Henry Faulk, noted that Frank Dobie Faulk was the child of John Henry and Lynne Smith, John Henry's second wife, not Hally Wood, his first wife (page 256). Wallis R. Sanborn II, San Angelo, Peggy Skagg's student, who wrote a graduate paper on Walter Prescott Webb, showed me that Webb's first publication was "Notes on the Folklore of Texas," published in The Journal of American Folklore, 28 (January-March 1915); I had erroneously placed his first paper in PTFS I, 1916 (page 80). Herbert Halpert, Folklore Professor Emeritus at the University of Newfoundland, wrote a "Dear Dr. Aberfeldy" salutation and explained that I had written his name three times on one page and had spelled it two different ways (page 208). To pile Pelion on Ossa, I misspelled it ("Halbert'') in the index. Herbert C. Arbuckle III, the Society's bibliographer, |
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