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University of Texas, Center for American History

A Guide to the Roy Bedichek Papers, 1897-1959


Descriptive Summary

CreatorBedichek, Roy, 1878-1959.
TitleRoy Bedichek Papers
Dates: 1897-1959
AbstractRoy Bedichek (1878-1959) was a naturalist, educator, writer, and director of the University (of Texas) Interscholastic League from 1914-1948. Papers document his studies of ornithology, botany, wildlife, and conservation, history and philosophy and include literary productions, correspondence, and business records.
Extent55 ft., 8 in.
LanguageEnglish.
RepositoryCenter for American History, The University of Texas

Biographical Note

Roy Bedichek was born on June 27, 1878in Cass County, Illinois. At the age of six he and his family moved to Falls County, Texas. Bedichek attended the Bedichek Academy at Eddy, a school founded by his father. He entered the University of Texas at Austinin 1898 and worked for John A. Lomax in the Office of the Registrar until graduating with a B.S. in 1903. In 1910 he married Lillian Greer; they had three children together. From 1903 until 1917, when he returned to the University, Bedichek held many jobs: reporter, high school teacher, newspaper editor, and secretary to two Chambers of Commerce, one in Deming, New Mexico, and the other in Austin (where the Chamber of Commerce was then known as the Young Men's Business League). From 1915-1916 Bedichek worked as the executive secretary to Will C. Hogg'sOrganization for Promoting Interest in Higher Education in Texas. In 1917 he returned to the University of Texas at Austinas the director of the University Interscholastic League(UIL, aka Texas Interscholastic League). Through his belief in the benefits of educational competition Bedichek shaped the UIL's policies and made the fledgling league a success. Bedichek served as director of the UIL until his retirement in 1948.

Bedichek is best known for his work as a Texas naturalist and his friendship with J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb.His career as an author and his relationship with Webb and Dobie are intertwined, as it was these two friends who encouraged Bedichek to write his first book, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist(1947). To write this work, Bedichek took a hiatus from the UIL and went into a year long seclusion at Webb's Friday Mountain Ranch. Bedichek wrote two more books, Karånkaway County(1950) and Educational Competition(1956) before his death in 1959. The Sense of Smell(1960) was published posthumously. Bedichek's letters have been collected into three books, including one detailing his friendships with Dobie and Webb.

Scope and Contents

Papers concern the career of Bedichek (1878-1959), naturalist, educator, and writer. Materials relate to Bedichek's activities as editor of the Deming (New Mexico) Headlight (1910-1912), director of the University (of Texas) Interscholastic League (1914-1948), and secretary of the Town and Gown Club of Austin (1930-1934); his studies of ornithology, botany, wildlife, and conservation; and historical philosophical studies. The collection includes documentation for Bedichek's publications: the Interscholastic Leaguer, published under his editorship; Adventures with a Texas Naturalist (1948); Karånkaway Country (1950); Educational Competition (1956); and The Sense of Smell (1960). Included are correspondence, literary productions, business papers, pamphlets, brochures, broadsides, newspapers, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Organized into twelve series:

  • 1. Subject classified files
  • 2. Correspondence files
  • 3. Literary productions
  • 4. Reference files
  • 5. Business files
  • 6. Educational Competition
  • 7. Materials found on Bedichek's desk at time of death
  • 8. Posthumous materials
  • 9. Printed materials
  • 10. Oversized materials
  • 11. Artifacts
  • 12. Photographic material

Index Terms

Subjects (Persons)
Beard, Ena.
Bedichek, Bachman Greer.
Bedichek, Lillian Greer.
Bedichek, J. M., Mrs.
Bedichek, Roy, 1878-1959--Archives.
Carroll, Gay B.
Carroll, Mary Virginia Bedichek.
Cowan, Ina.
Crane, Edward, 1883-1959.
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964.
Doughty, Leonard.
Faulk, John Henry.
Holmes, Edwin R.
Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948.
McJohnson, O. Sam.
Oberholser, Harry C. (Harry Church), 1870-1963
Owens, William A., 1905-
Pipkin, Sarah Bedichek.
Thompson, Fred.
Tinkle, Lon.
Webb, Walter Prescott, 1888-1963.
Willard, Una B.
Williams, Dan.
Witt, Edgar E.
Subjects (Organizations)
Single Tax League.
Town and Gown Club (Austin, Tex.)
University of Texas. Bureau of Extension.
University Interscholastic League (Tex.)
Subjects
Athletics--Texas.
Botany--Texas.
Education--Texas.
Environmental protection--Texas.
Naturalists--Texas--Archives.
Ornithology--Texas.
Smell.
Places
Austin (Tex.)--History--Sources.
Deming (N.M.)--History--Sources.
Photographic Subjects (Persons)
Barron, Anne--Photographs.
Bedichek, Bachman--Photographs.
Bedichek, Lillian Greer--Photographs.
Bedichek, Mary--Photographs.
Bedichek, Roy, 1878-1959--Photographs.
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964.--Photographs.
Doughty, Leonard--Photographs.
Faulk, John Henry--Photographs.
Kidd, Rodney J.--Photographs.
Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948--Photographs.
Pipkin, Alan Collins--Photographs.
Pipkin, Sarah Bedichek--Photographs.
Shelby, T. H.--Photographs.
Bedichek family--Photographs.
Photographic Subjects (Organizations)
Deming Chamber of Commerce (N.M.)--Photographs.
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity--Photographs.
University of Texas--Photographs.
Arbutus.
Photographic Subjects
Athletic clubs--Texas--Austin--Photographs.
Bird watching--Photographs.
Boards of trade--New Mexico--Deming.
Gardens--Texas--Austin--Photographs.
Greek letter societies--Texas--Austin--Photographs.
Oak--Photographs.
Swallows--Photographs.

Related Material

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Texas Authors Manuscript Collection

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Roy Bedichek Papers, 1897-1959, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Inventory

Subject classified files:
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3Q1Abbott thru Ames - Bergeron thru Bloodgood
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3Q2Blow thru Bordner - Corpus thru Crain
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3Q3Crane Edward 1917-47 - Dobie, J. Frank 1950-59
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3Q4Dobie, J. Frank-clippings, etc. - Dugger, Ronnie
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3Q5Duncan, H.-Ekfelt - Ellis, Mrs. A. C.,-Ettlinger
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3Q6Evans thru Farr - Fort Worth thru Fuermann
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3Q7Fullingim thru Gelling - Hatchitt, Joe B.
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3Q8Hedgpeth thru Hendricks - Huff thru Johnson, Sikes
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3Q9Johnson W. W. thru Jones, J. J. - Lomax, J. A. 1942-44
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3Q10Lomax, J. A. 1945-48 - McTeer, John M.
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3Q11Meeks thru Miller, E. T. - Owens, William A.
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3Q12Oxford thru Peek - Ross thru Sealy
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3Q13Seever thru Shuffler - Talley thru Texas Geographic Society
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3Q14Texas Intercollegiate thru Texas (State of) Press Assn. - Wasson thru Webb, J. O.
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3Q15Webb, Walter P. 1937-1943 - Williams, Dan 1922-1939
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3Q16Williams, Dan 1940-1945 - Witt, Edgar E. 1947-1949
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3Q17Witt, Edgar E. 1950-1951 - Yager-Zimmer
Correspondence files:
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3Q17Beard, Ena, 1928-1959
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3Q18Bedichek, Bachman, photocopies
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3Q19Bedichek, Bachman, 1929-1944
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3Q20Bedichek, Bachman 1945-1962, undated- Bedichek, Jane
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3Q21Bedichek, John - Bedichek, Lillian, 1902-1930
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3Q22Bedichek, Lillian, 1931-1959 - Bowen, Mrs. Y. P. (Mariana)
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3Q23Carroll, G. B. (Gay) - Carroll, Louise
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3Q24Chancey, Mabel - Osburn, Luna
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3Q25Pipkin, Alan - Willard, Una B., 1922-1948
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3Q26Willard, Una B., 1949-1959 - Yoder
Special correspondence
Literary production:
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3Q27Speeches:
Arabs and Arabia
Birds
Books
Canyon Conference (talks at)
Dallas talk, November 27, 1953
Dobie, J. Frank
Miscellaneous
Naturalism
Nature Trail and Sanctuary (City of Austin)
Patriotism
Public education/recreation
Town & Gown Club
Writing
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3Q28Competition
Machine culture
Newspapers, inaccurate reporting
Water in Texas
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3Q29Birds in Texas, Kiwanis, August 1, 1951
Censorship
Creative writing
E. D. Shurter dinner, May 6, 1954
Education
Folklore
Library extension, Abilene
Miscellaneous
Socializing value of contests
WAOI radio talks
Wayne Morse dinner, January 31, 1954
Poetry, verse
Forewords:
Aunt Dicy Tales
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3Q30Articles:
"Nose of a Naturalist," Southwest Review, winter 1958, notes, drafts and revisions
"Animal Tales" - "The Woman in the Case"
Rats
Conservation
"The Socializing Value of Contests in the Public Schools," bound copy
Southwest Review, correspondence with Allen maxwell,1946-1951
"Speech Teacher and Competition"
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3Q31"Publicity for Tax-Supported Institutions of Higher Learning," notes and typescript in bound notebook
Birds of Austin region
"Animal Tales: Function and Folklore"
"Folklore in Natural History"
Birdlife in Texas, variety of
"Marking Up Library Books"
"The Texas Fine Arts Association"
"Free Discussion"
"'Body ' and 'Soul'"
"The Sports Page vs. the Movie Page"
"Open Letter to the Idle Rich (From One of the Herd)"
"Parable of the Sales Tax"
"The Words with Which We Address Animals"
"The Singletax Program," June 1912
Dallas News articles on athletics, correspondence, clippings and manuscripts, 1926
Birds, education of young
"The Hogg Organization," The Daily Texan, September 26, 1930
"From Dam Building to Dam Break," Austin American, July 1956
Conversations, dialogues (and ideas for)
William Owens, Austin American, August 9, 16, 1953
"The Job that is Too Big for Texas," 1955
Camp education
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3Q32Alcalde columns
"How to Read a Newspaper"
"In Defense of Contests"
Rejects
Fragments and rejects
Correspondence
Letters concerning books, 1947-1951
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist:
1946
Ward Lockwood, illustrator, 1947-1954
Victor Gollancz, Limited, British edition, 1948-1949
"Raven" article, 1951
Serialization of Karånkaway County, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1955
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1945-1961
Miscellaneous
Book reviews:
A Sand County Almanac, review by Roy Bedichek, 1949
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3Q33Correspondence with Lon Tinkle, 1948-1959
Various reviews, including some correspondence with editors:
1938, 1948, 1952-1953, 1956
1931, 1944, 1953-1955, 1957
1941, 1947-1948, 1951-1952, 1955-1957
Notes for review of Edwin Way Teale's The Wilderness World of John Muir, [ca. 1954]
Materials on Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Frontier, [ca. 1952-1953]
Manuscript and published versions of review on Mikhail Prishvin's The Lake and the Woods, 1952
Notes for review of Flat Top Ranch, undated
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3Q34Miscellaneous:
"Memories: Chiefly of Animals":
Typed manuscript, undated
Revise copy, undated
Typed manuscript with notes by Una B. Willard, undated
Outline and notes for a course on contests, undated
Book project, undated
"CB," (Conversation Book), undated
Autobiographical notes, undated
Reference files:
Newspaper clippings and correspondence
Newspaper clippings and notes
Notebooks, five homemade notebooks" containing handwritten and typed notes, including rejects, fragments, ideas for projects and notes on various subjects, including education and nature, undated
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3Q35Notes:
"Assort, discard or file"
"These may be worked over experimentally"
"CB" (Commonplace book) notes
Bird lists:
Two bound volumes, 1946-1949, 1954-1955
Loose handwritten notes, May 25, 1930-December 29, 1940, undated
Loose handwritten notes, April 11, 1915, September 1940-February 1946, May 2, 1953
Memorandum book, 1934-1938, March 10, 1953
Spiral notebook, March 8, 1936-April 17, 1937
Spiral notebook, also includes notes on Thoreau and other authors September 1937-September 1938
Spiral notebook, October 1931-December 1941
Spiral notebook, April-October 1940
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3Q36Spiral notebook, also includes flower lists April 12, 1941-May 11, 1941
Spiral notebook, also includes flower lists December 24, 1942-November 24, 1945
Register book, October 17, 1943-January 14, 1945
Cardinal honeyeater sightings, 1951-1952
Birds:
Order Passeres, Family Alaudidae
Order Passeres, Family Certhiidae
Order Passeres, Family Cillidae
Order Passeres, Family Corridea
Order Passeres, Family Fringillidae
Order Passeres, Family Hirundinidae
Order Passeres, Family Mniotiltidae
Order Steganopodes, Family Pelecanidae, Family Phalacrocoracides
Caddo Lake and State Park, clippings, letters, map, 1934, 1941-1943, 1946
Notes on books:
Spiral notebooks, notes on Russia and the Russians, by Edward Crankshaw and The Steep Places, by Norman Angell, also includes bird list, 1948March 21, 1948
Spiral notebook, notes on Williamson, book unknown, undated
Notes on the writings of Herodotus, undated
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3Q37"Mostly marginal" notes on various authors, literary and scholarly, undated
"CLK notes," on The Great Chain of Life, by Joseph Wood Krutch, [ca. 1957]
"Anti-nature, HAG" notes, undated
"Colynum," notes on various sources for work on this title, undated
Aristophanes, undated
The Crisis in Human Affairs, by J. G. Bennett, [ca. 1951]
Cabeza de Vaca, undated
Darwin, "'Vav.'," undated
A. S. Eddington and Ralph B. Winn, undated
The World as I See It, by Albert Einstein, [ca. 1949]
Fifteen Greek Plays, [ca. 1943]
R. C. Jebb and George Sarton, undated
The Story of My Heart, by Richard Jefferies, undated
Mind and Matter, by C. E. M. Joad, undated
John Keats, undated
Human Destiny, by Pierre Lecomte du Nouy, undated
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3Q38Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, by Werner Jaeger, undated
The Story of Our Civilization, by Phillip Lee Ralph, undated
From Copernicus to Einstein, by Hans Reichenbach, undated
Jean Jacques Rousseau, undated
Man on His Nature, by Sir Charles Sherrington, undated
The Wisdom of Laotse Tao, by Lin Yutang, [ca. 1948]
(Henry David) Thoreau's journal, undated
Greek Civilization and Character, by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, [ca. 1953]
The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen, undated
"Magic Moments," "for index by 'Colyum'," undated
William Wordsworth, undated
Notes on clippings:
"Avocets," 1944, 1948, 1953
Birds, undated
Flowers, undated
Miscellaneous notes and newspaper clippings on nature, conservation, animals and education, 1949-1951, 1957
Education, /Birds, 1923, 1926, undated1951
Miscellaneous clippings, 1949
Miscellaneous clippings, 1946, 1951-1953
"The Mexico-Texan Corrido," by Brownie McNeill, [ca. 1941]
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3Q39Nature, conservation, writing, 1950-1950
Proverbs, undated
Notes on books and clippings:
Nature and education, 1946-1949, 1953, undated
Nature, history, conservation, religion, etc., 1941-1942, 1944-1946, 1952, undated
Race and race relations, literature, undated
"Mocker" (mocking bird), 1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1958, undated
Fireplace (194) and solitude (464), undated
Writing and writers' methods (534), 1951, undated
"Notes and clips to be filed," 1926, 1951, 1955, 1957, undated
"Clips and notes to be filed," 1950-1951, 1957, undated
Wartime, 1918
Hobo, 1913
Patriotism, land, old age, Tacitus and other topics, 1934-1944, undated
Clippings, photocopies of, various topics, including articles on and by Bedichek 1946-1959
Sense of Smell:
Manuscript:
"Transcendental Noses"
"Racial Odors I (pages removed for final assembly)"
"Racial Odors II"
"Blended Odors"
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3Q40"The Dog's Nose"
"Literary Noses"
"Racial Odors III"
"Man's Nose: Interior"
"Man's Nose: Exterior"
"Odors of Mood I"
"Nasal Motivations"
"The Nostalgic Nose"
"The Scent of These Armpits"
"Folklore of the Nose"
"Odors of Lore"
"Introduction"
"Odors of Mood II"
"The Black Vulture's Sense of Smell"
"A Malodorous Frankenstein: I. Water Pollution"
"The Municipal Nose (becomes 'Municipal Stenches' in book)"
"The Desensitized Nose"
Annotated manuscript pages:
"Insect Noses"
"Odors of Love: Natural and Artificial"
"Some Curious Nasal Motivations"
"Folklore of the Nose"
"Transcendental Noses"
"Some Literary Noses"
"The Dog's Nose"
"The Black Vulture's Sense of Smell"
"The Gates of Memory"
"Racial Odors (draft for final copy)"
"Odors of Mood I"
"Odors of Mood II"
"Blended Odors"
"The Scent of These Armpits"
"Man's Nose: Interior"
"The Outside Nose"
"Introduction"
"Municipal Stenches"
"The Malodorous Frankenstein"
"The Sentinel: Function of the Nose"
"Notable Human Noses"
First draft, in typist's order:
"The Nostalgic Nose"
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3Q41"Blended Odors"
"The Desensitized Nose"
"Odors of Love: Natural and Artificial"
"A Malodorous Frankenstein"
"The Folklore of the Nose"
"The Dog's Nose"
"Some Literary Noses"
"Racial Odors I"
"Racial Odors II"
"Racial Odors III"
"Man's Nose: Interior"
"Man's Nose: Exterior"
"Odors of Mood I"
"Odors of Mood II"
"The Municipal Nose"
"Nasal Motivations"
"The Black Vulture's Sense of Smell"
"Introduction"
Outlines, handwritten
"Introductory and concluding chapter material," typed and handwritten notes
"Supersensitive noses, in preparation," typed and handwritten notes
"Excreta material from 'Man's Nose and the Machine," typed and handwritten material removed from manuscript
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3Q42"1st draft of XV chapters on 'Odors,' February 5, 1949," annotated typescript
"1st draft of a few chapters on odors:"
"III: 'The Handkerchief: Symbol'"
"I: 'Man's Nose: Exterior and Interior'"
"VII: 'Supernoses'"
"VIII: 'Racial Odors'"
"IX: 'Racial Odors (continued)'"
"XI: 'Nasal Motivations'"
"X: 'Literary Noses'"
"XII: 'Noses in Love-Literature'"
"XIII: 'Blended Odors'"
"XIV: 'Memory's Nose'"
"XV: 'An Odorless Memory'"
"Unnumbered notes on odor"
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist:
Requests for permission to publish quotations, 1946-1947
Introduction-rejects
Press comments (excerpts), American and British, [ca. 1948]
"Years of Solitude," first draft
Corrections of first edition
"#303-Intro-mostly used up," book plan notes
"Intro. C. D.," typed and handwritten material
Diaries and journals:
Camp diary, September 3-17, 1932
"Nature," typed notes, August 23-25, 1945
"C. D.," (Camp Diary), narrative, itinerary and maps of Panhandle trip, September 7-21, 1952
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3Q43Spillar Ranch camp diary, May 27-30, 1955
Cherry Springs camp diary, April 16, 1955
Camp diary, August 3, 1955
Spillar Camp and Cacti Lodge camp diary, October 2-4, 1955
Charleston to Pittsburgh, river trip notes, summer 1904
New Mexico bicycle trip journal, March 1909
"The Birth of Mary Virginia," diary, December 11, 1911
Round Rock mounds, field notes, May 20, 1919
"Notes on Leander Mounds," July 9-19, 1919
Burns Goat Ranch mounds, July-August 1926
Oregon trip, notes and itinerary, June-August 1947
Portland trip, diary, bound volume, July 18-31, 1947, also includes "Camp McCulloch Road" entry, April 17, 1949
Bus diary, July 1951
New York bus trip, schedule, bird lists and partial diary, April-May 1957
St. Louis, notes, undated
Athletics:
Notes, typed and handwritten, 1922-1923, 1930-1931, 1937-1938, undated
Clippings, 1926-1937, undated
Karånkaway County:
Requests for permission to publish, 1949-1950
Preface and introduction notes
"In defense of Brush," annotated carbon
"Chapter order and notes on new chapters"
"Notes on Karånkaway County"
"Coleman County notes, some used in Karånkaway County, 1949-1950
"Leftover notes: Coleman little waters"
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3Q44Notes on Semple and other books, for "Goats II"
"Eagle Lake notes," March 1950
"More silt-notes and rejects"
"Little Waters-notes and rejects"
"Guadalupe River-leftover notes, etc."
"Coon notes"
"Leftover brush"
"Goats in moderation, leftover"
"Last of the Whoopers, notes and rejects," 1949-1950
"Swifts and scissor tails, notes and rejects," 1949-1950
"Sky (leftover)," 1950
"Little Waters, leftover," 1949-1950
"References and rejects from chapter originally titled 'Sky'"
"Diseased Rivers, notes, clips and rejects"
Lower Colorado River Authority
Interscholastic Leaguer:
Notes and clippings, 1958
Notes, clippings and typescripts of columns, 1957-1958
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3Q45Water in Texas:
Brady Creek, report, notes and map, 1953, 1955
Clippings, 1949-1952, 1956
United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, correspondence and reports, 1956-1957
"Dam at Montopolis," notes and clippings, 1947-1949, 1954-1957
"Water for Texas," notes and clippings for "Water Series," 1945, 1949, 1954-1955, 1957, 1958
"River pollution," clippings, 1939, 1945, 1948-1959
Clippings and correspondence, 1948, 1950-1955
"Water in Texas, mesquite," clippings and notes, 1952-1954, undated
"Rivers," clipping and note, 1948, undated
Soil water conservation:
Clippings, 1953, 1955
"Dust-wind erosion, purple sage conservation," clippings, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1954
"Top-soil (conservation)," clippings and correspondence, 1948-1950, 1955, 1958
"Compost, mineralized ('normal soil')," clipping and letter, May-June 1954
Maps, map of Texas and correspondence, 1950
"Soil-water conservation, rivers, etc. outlines and random notes," 1948-1952
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3Q46Various topics, clippings number 14-47
"834," clippings, 1950, 1953-1957
Soil-water conservation, correspondence, notes and clippings, 1957
"Ground water-salt intrusion," material from the United States Department of Interior, 1954
"Water, 846," clippings, 1949-1952
"Water-soil, Bartlett," correspondence, notes, map and printed material, March 1955
"No. notes on soil-water cons," numbered note cards with corresponding subjects, some with clippings attached
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3Q47"Refuge notes index," numbered note cards with corresponding subjects related to notes taken
Smog, Community Air Pollution: Air Pollution Training Course Manual, 1957
The land question and the single tax:
Single tax league, notes and correspondence, June-July 1915, January-March 1916, 1934, 1941, undated
Single tax league, declaration and correspondence, March 16-June 7, 1916
Single tax league, correspondence, December 29, 1917-March 2, 1933, undated
Land, notes and clippings, 1916, 1946, undated
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TXC 42Single Tax and Single Tax League, correspondence and notes, 1913-1937
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3Q47Town & Gown Club, correspondence and notes, 1943-1959
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TXC 43Town & Gown Club, Austin, 1930-1958
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3Q47Bird scrapbooks:
"Birds Scrapbook, Volume II," scrapbook of newspaper clippings and correspondence:
Pages 1-100, 1934-1938, 1943, 1947
Pages 101-170, 1936, 1938-1941, 1947
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3Q48Pages 181-236, 1941-1943, 1947
Clippings removed from binder:
Pages 1-33, 2944-1945
Pages 34-78, 1945-1946
Pages 79-94, 1935, 1940, 1946-1947
Pages 95-106 and blank pages, 1935-1936, undated
MA thesis, Interscholastic Non-Athletic Contests:
Bound copy, 1925
Unbound copy, 1925
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3Q49Typescript, now titled School Contests, 1956
Miscellaneous clippings:
Various topics, 1939-1943
Various topics, 1944, undated
Eddy Scientific and Literary Institute, programs, 1902-1913
University Interscholastic League:
Minutes, taken on a folder, December 16, 1931
Waco Kiwanis Club, correspondence, clippings, notes and typescript of Q&A, August 1947-February 1948
Rodney Kidd, correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1948-1950, 1952-1953, 1955-1959
Miscellaneous correspondence, to Oletta Johnson and Bruce Roach, November 30, 1948, August 20, 1950
E. D. Shurter, correspondence, newspaper clippings and obituary by Bedichek, 1920-1923, 1936, 1946
Retirement letters, 1948-1949, 1956
Board of Regents, 1940-1941
"Letters of Appreciation to Roy Bedichek," bound volume, 1950-1951
T. U. Taylor Research Center proposal, September 20, 1951
University of Texas Archives, Library, correspondence, 1946-1947
University of Texas, correspondence regarding employment, 1902, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1945-1946, 1948-1953, 1955-1957
University of Texas Press, Frank Wardlaw, correspondence, 1951-1958
University of Texas, Research Council of the University of Texas Research Institute, Dean A. P. Brogan of the Graduate School, correspondence negotiating a grant to write Karånkaway County, April 1948-February 1951
Correspondence, 1924-1926, 1937, 1941
Printed material, 1915-1938, undated
Cards addressed to Texas schools, otherwise blank, undated
Declamation contest, correspondence and printed material, 1929-1932
Declamations, undated
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3Q51Educational Competition:
Notes for book, outline, plans, design, chapter headings
"In preparation, see 'phony' contests (integrate with?)," notes
"Competition," notes, clippings and corrected typescript
"Chapter headings," notes
"Criticisms and criteria for educational contests," notes and quotations
"Debate, dialectic, etc.," notes and corrected typescript
Contests:
"1: Defense of extension activity..." 1944, 1947, undated
"2: Criticisms of speech contests, N.C.A. committee recommendations, reply of Boweraly," notes and clippings, 1951
"6: Basketball, NY scandal (1951) and athletic scandals," notes and clippings, 1931-1948, 1951
"8: Soft schooling, or 'easyism'," notes and clippings, 1951-1954
"9: War as a contest," notes, undated
"10: Speech," notes and corrected typescript, [ca. 1953]
"11: Socializing value of speech contests," notes and clipping, 1951
"11a: Music contests," correspondence, clippings, notes and typescript, 1954, undated
"12: Debate," notes and clippings, 1953
"13: Superior pupil, contest for," note, undated
"Discerning talent," notes, undated
"15: Speech, 'Cleon the Demagogue'," notes, [ca. 1951]
"16: Awards," notes, December 5, 1950
"17: Speech, 'Inherently Competitive'," notes, undated
"18: Criteria," notes for speech, February 7, 1952
"22: Athletics (college)," notes and clippings, 1950-1951
"25-29: Education, specialism, criticism of, soft schooling, habitual vision of greatness," notes and clippings, 1948, 1950, undated
"31: Athletics, sportsmanship," notes and clippings, 1950
"34: League history," letter from J. S. Henderson to R. J. Kidd, April 30, 1950
"35: Athletics, contest," notes and clippings, 1953
"36: League history, contests," notes, undated
"37: League history, Shurter-Ellis correspondence, 1913," correspondence, clippings and typescripts, 1913, 1931, 1950
"40: Spelling and plain writing," notes and clipping, 1953
"42: Speech at Lubbock," notes on talk, undated
"43: Essay announcement of 'Improved Order of Red Men'," printed material, correspondence and clippings, 1952
"44: Greek contests," notes, undated
"45: Emulation among Greeks," notes, undated
"46: Education for leadership," notes and correspondence, 1953
"47: Competitions, international, wars," notes, undated
"49: Declamation contests," notes, undated
"51-53: Contests, training," notes, undated
"57: Competition versus cooperation," notes, undated
"58-60: Extension services, standards and outline notes," notes, undated
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3Q52"61: 'Leaguer', notes for articles for 1951-1952 issues," [ca. 1951]
"63: Declamation," notes, undated
"64: Activity," notes, undated
"66-67: Discipline," notes, undated
"68: Sportsmanship," notes, undated
"69: Talent," notes and clippings, 1953
"70: Letter (November 17, 1944) about founding of leagues," copy of letter to the editor of The Daily Texan, November 17, 1944
"71: Ellis, successive mental states," printed article, undated
"72: Science talent contests," clippings, printed material, correspondence and notes, 1951-1955
"73: Competitive natures," notes, undated
"74: 'Habitual Visions of Greatness'," notes and clipping, undated
"75: Public school," clipping, March 1951
"76: Competition and cooperation," notes, undated
"76: Competition, pioneer," typescript and clipping, 1951
"77: Competition, biology," notes, undated
"78: Teaching, ancient contempt for," notes, undated
"80: League personalities, league state meeting 1953, notes for talk," notes, 1953
"81: Contests, un-educational," typescript, undated
"82: Botany contest," printed material, correspondence and notes, 1941, 1953, undated
"83: Text books adopted, text book laws, November 1950," folder only, 1950
"84: Conversation as competition," notes, undated
"85: Extra-curriculars," notes and clippings, 1951-1953
"86: Competition," notes and references, undated
"87: Fairs, competition in," notes, undated
"88: Journalism contest," statistics, clipping and notes, [ca. 1959]
"89: Contests as recreation, in defense of," notes, undated
"89a: Anecdotes (League)," notes, undated
"90: Television," clipping, 1951
"91: Greece, influence of," notes, undated
"92: Cooperation v. competition," notes, undated
"93: Appendices," notes, carbons and typescripts, undated
"94-96: Hero, arguments from history, exposition," clippings and notes, undated
"97: Extra-school competitions," notes and correspondence, 1951
"99: Competition, suppression of classroom competition," notes, undated
"99: Classical quotes on educational value of contests," notes, [ca. 1948]
"100: Mechanization of the school," notes, undated
"101: Competition and monopoly," notes and printed material, 1951
"101a: Chapter heading," notes, 1952
"105: Superior pupil," clippings, notes and debate conference rolls, 1944-1945, 1952-1953
"106: Activities in primitive life," clipping and notes, undated
"107: Recommendations of the Contest Committee of the North Central Association," report and correspondence, 1950
"109: Vocational agricultural contests," notes, undated
"110: Fake or phony contests," notes, clippings and typescript, 1954-1955
"111: Criteria for interschool contests," notes, [ca. 1953]
"112: Care-taking function of public schools," clippings, 1952-1953
"113: Habitual vision of greatness," notes, 1953
"114: Religions and contest," notes, undated
"115: Periodical references consulted," notes, undated
"117: Participation," notes, undated
"118: Nebraska Teachers College meeting," notes, undated
"119: Court action vs. League," correspondence, case studies and notes, 1951-1953
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3Q53"120: Music-Competition Festivals," bibliography and notes, undated
"120a: Miscellaneous outlines on public school contests," outlines and notes, undated
"121: Survey conducted in 1954 by Mrs. June Mitchell..." report, 1954
"122: Discussion method in teaching," notes and newspaper clipping, 1953
"123: Extension Association Roster," roster and correspondence, 1952
"124: League and Senate Committee," notes, typescript and reprint of speech by Homer P. Rainey, 1941-[ca. 1949]
"126: Harvard competitions," newspaper clipping and correspondence, 1943, 1952-1953
"127: Activities Conference (programs)," empty folder
"128: Slide rule bulletin," notes, report and newspaper clippings, [ca. 1954]
"128a: League origin (first letter-head)," newspaper clipping and letterhead, undated
"129: Contest, as a situation of tension," notes and newspaper clipping, undated
"130: Teachers, low I.Q.," magazine clipping, 1952
"131: Declamation contest," notes, undated
"132: Dewey," notes, undated
"133: Education and training," notes and typescript, undated
"134: Elite," notes, undated
"135: Prizes, awards, etc.," pamphlet, A Proposed Government Incentives, Awards and Rewards Program, 1952
"136: Mathematics contests," notes, typescript, undated
"137: Art contests," correspondence, 1944-1945
"140: Contest idea in Hesiod," notes, [ca. 1945]
"141: Public school vs. private school (Scarsdale, N. Y.)," printed material, 1952
"142: Competitions in education," notes, undated
"143: 'Progressive' education, also 'soft schooling'," notes, bibliography, newspaper clippings, 1947, 1953, 1955
"144: Football," magazine clipping, 1952
"144a: Equality," notes, undated
"145: Contests, in defense of," newspaper clippings and notes, 1953-1954
"149: Cultural Olympics," pamphlet and correspondence, 1952-1953
"150: Superior child," notes, undated
"151: Prevalence of contests," notes, undated
"152: Participation in League, 1953," report and magazine clipping, 1953
"153: Conant's Education and Liberty (notes on)," notes, [ca. 1953]
"154: Dual system," notes and typescript, [ca. 1953]
"155: Athletics, intramurals for girls," empty folder
"156: Intra-murals," Handbook for Intramural Athletics, 1952-1953, 1952
"157: Amateurism," notes and newspaper clipping, 1954
"159: History," annotated typescript pages, undated
"160: Contests (Egyptian)," annotated typescript, undated
"161: Education and competition," note with footnote
"162: Core curriculum," report, [ca. 1953]
"163: Counts, 'Dare We,' etc., indoctrination vs. teaching," notes, undated
Miscellaneous, unnumbered notes on contests, undated
Contest cirriculars and bulletins, with correspondence, 1952
Miscellaneous unfiled reference material:
Texas Water Conservation Association, pamphlet and proceedings of the third annual meeting, 1947
Newspaper and magazine clippings, various topics, 1958-1959
Correspondence, 1949-1950
Notes on books and for articles, undated
"An Extension Activity" and "Nose of a Naturalist," by Roy Bedichek, 2 copies each, 1958, undated
Business files:
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3Q54Bank statements, cancelled checks and deposit slips, 1948-1952
Receipts, 1948
Receipts, 1949
Receipts, 1950
Receipts, 1952
Receipts, 1953-1954
Receipts, 1955
Receipts, 1957
Receipts, 1958
Income tax, 1940-1941
Income tax, 1942-1943
Income tax, 1944
Income tax receipts and retirement slips, 1953
Income tax, 1954
Income tax, 1955
Retirement receipts, 1942, 1948-1958
Retirement, correspondence and printed material, 1948, 1951
Houses (800 E. 22 nd and 801 E. 23rd), contract, bill of sale, correspondence and map, 1921, 1926, 1945, 1951, 1955
House (2209 Oldham) bill of sale, receipts, insurance papers, bills, 1947
Social security, correspondence and printed material, 1957
Hall of representatives petition, 1901
Office of Price Administration, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings and official orders, 1943-1948
Cook's Copper Mining Company stock certificate, Deming, New Mexico, 1910
Car information, notes, accident report, receipts, title, 1951-1957
Deming (New Mexico) land, correspondence, tax receipts, tax schedules, news clippings, 1911-1915, 1932-1943, 1953, 1958-1959
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3Q55Deming (New Mexico) land, correspondence, tax receipts, tax schedules, printed material, 1946-1956
Roofing insurance, notes, claim, correspondence, 1948
Miscellaneous, receipts, deeds, check stub, dividend statements, rent agreement, tax schedule, public notice, correspondence, expenses, insurance, mileage ration stamps, 1913-1914, 1938, 1945, 1947, 1949-1958
Assets, financial worksheet, January 29, 1932
First Federal Savings of Austin, annual reports, correspondence, notes, printed material, duplicate account book, 1955-1957
Southern Union Gas Company, letter and bill, December 1952-January 1953
Zoning ordinance, copy of ordinance and petition notes, 1956
Zoning notes, re-zoning request, November-December 1957
Receipt, Department of the Interior, General Land Office, payment on Bedichek's homestead application, November 20, 1909
Resolution of Deming Chamber of Commerce accepting Bedichek's resignation, August 17, 1913
Registration certificates, City Board City Austin, September 12, 1918
Town & Gown Club:
Correspondence and financial papers:
1929-July 1932
September 1932-April 1933
May 1933-1935, undated
Printed material, 1930-1933
Educational competition:
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3Q56Page proofs, pages 5-486, [ca. 1956]
Page proofs, title pages and forward, pages 234-349, [ca. 1956]
Typed pages with corrections and notes for title pages, running heads and index, [ca. 1956]
Galley proofs with revisions of index, [ca. 1956]
Bedichek's revisions of entire manuscript, [ca. 1956]
Typescript of rearranged chapter, [ca. 1956]
Bedichek's changes and deletions, 1955
Page proofs and typescripts, with corrections, of appendices, [ca. 1956]
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TXC 41Galley proofs, 2 sets, pages 1-175
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3Q57Materials found on Bedichek's desk at time of death:
Rainey-Regents controversy:
"Stumberg file," correspondence with George Stumberg and others, 1942
Memorial speech, [ca. 1942]
"Committee of Ten," notes, correspondence, 1942
[John A.] Lomax memorial, notes and correspondence, 1947
"Hart, Craven, Sinclair, Trundle, de la Hough genealogy," undated
Posthumous materials:
Memorials and obituaries, 1959
Reviews of Bedichek's works, 1960-1961
Printed materials:
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TXC 42Rainey-Regents controversy at University of Texas at Austin, clippings and other printed material, 1952-1956
University of Texas Press, 1952-1956
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TXC 43Natural History, 15 issues, 1946-1949
Texas Game & Fish, 5 issues, 1947, 1950, 1958
Science Newsletter, 6 issues, 1950, 1952, 1957
Southwest Review, 2 issues, 1958, 1959
Audubon, 1950
Crisis, 1957
Saturday Review, 1954
Newsweek, 1958
Reader's Digest, 1958
Nation, 1952
Scientific American, 1948
Pathfinder, 1943
Louisiana Conservationist, 1948
New Yorker, 2 issues, 1949, 1950
Alcalde, 2 issues, 1937, 1942
Emancipator, 1949
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TXC 44Nature Magazine, 7 issues 1930, 1947-1948
Publications concerning soil and water, quality and conservation in Texas
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TXC 45Publications concerning soil and water, quality and conservation in Texas
Publications concerning soil and water, quality and conservation, non-Texas
Focus newsletter, 1950-1951
In Fact newsletter, 1948-1950
Southern Patriot newsletter, 1944-1946
I. F. Stone's Weekly newsletter, 1958-1959
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TXC 46University Interscholastic League
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TXC 47Publications concerning plants and animals in Texas
Publications concerning plants and animals, non-Texas
Thoreau Society, newsletters and other publications, 1947-1952
Texas Orinthological Society and Travis Audubon Society publications, 1954-1959
Organizations and businesses in Austin, Texas, non-University of Texas at Austin
Education, Texas and non-Texas
Publications concerning national and international affairs
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TXC 48University of Texas at Austin
Bedichek, Roy
Scholastic competition
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TXC 49Business and organizations in Texas
Business and organizations, non-Texas
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TXC 49Persons in Texas:
Webb, Walter Prescott
Dobie, J. Frank
Battle, William James
Ellis, Alexander Caswell
Barker, Eugene Campbell
Bailey, Joseph Weldon
Others
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TXC 50Publications concerning plants, animals, soil and water in Texas
Travis Audubon Society, Texas Orinthological Society and Texas Game and Fish Commission publications
University of Texas at Austin:
Campbell, T. N.
Williams, Roger
Albers, C. Clarence
Others
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TXC 51Business and organizations in Texas, non-University of Texas at Austin
Sinclair, John G., poetry and other writings
Plants, animals, soil and water, non-Texas
Miscellaneous subjects, non-Texas
Focusnewsletter, 1950-1951
In Factnewsletter, 1947, 1948, 1950
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TXC 52Texas Game and Fish, 4 issues, 1956, 1958
New Republic, 2 issues, 1957, 1958
Prevention Magazine, 2 issues, 1951
Ford Times, 1956
Monthly Review, 1949
Science Newsletter, 1958
School Activities, 1952
Technocrats' Magazine, [ca. 1933]
I.F. Stone's Weekly, 1958
Arabian Horse News, 1948
State Observer, 1953
The Land, 1947
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1949
Harper's Magazine, 2 issues, 1957, 1958
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TXC 52BRainey-Regents controversy at University of Texas at Austin, clippings and newspaper sections, 1944-1945
Interscholastic Leaguer, 1922, 1928, 1929, 1948-1950, 1953-1959
Roy Bedichek, clippings and other material
Persons, places, businesses and organizations in Texas, clippings and other material
Miscellaneous subjects, non-Texas
Oversized materials
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3S167Maps:
Austin Quadrangle, topographical map, US Department of Interior, Geological Survey, 1910, 1941
Principal watershed of Texas, 1936
Texas State Game, Fish, Oyster Commission, showing ranges of scaled quail, prong-horned antelope, bobwhite quail, mule deer, fox squirrel, Texas bighorn sheep, black-tailed jack rabbit, wild turkey, 1945
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2.325/OD15Highland lakes of Central Texas, LCRA, 1947