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An eccentric in British tradition, he attracted eccentrics: A millionaire
who collected cooky-cutters; a Heights woman who liked tennis balls,
of which she had thousands; a Shakespearean scholar, formerly on the
Columbia and U of H faculties, who retired to a job as a night elevator
operator at the Rice Hotel.
Self-exiled to Salado, an old Bell County town, in 1955, his life-
long concerns were his family and books. Books occurred first, in
1905, when at the age of 12 he became a cash boy in the book de-
partment at Wannamaker's, in Philadelphia, for a wage of 33 cents
a day.
World War I brought him to Texas, and later he moved to Houston.
In 1929, just as the stock market crashed, he leased 10,000 square
feet in the basement of the old Thalia Club Building at Rusk and
San Jacinto. Later he moved to Fannin, then briefly to Travis and
finally to the house on Alabama from which he moved to Salado.
All his book stores were oases. And so was Herbert Fletcher, whose
character was informed by a nobility that he bore with as a nuisance.
He bore with me, too. How grateful I am for that!
Five books published by the University of Texas Press have received
awards in two recent competitions in the art of bookmaking. Selected
as "top honor books" in the nineteenth annual Chicago Book Clinic
Exhibition are The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo (translated by
George D. Schade) and The Horsemen of the Americas by Edward
Lorocque Tinker. Winners of the 1967 Southern Books Competition
are Aunt Clara by Donald and Margaret Vogel, Who if I Cry Out
by Gustavo Corcao (translated by Clotilde Wilson), and The Twelve
Prophets of Aleijadinho, text by Graciela Mann and photographs by
Hans Mann. Four of the books were designed by Jo Alys Downs of
the Press staff. The other, Aunt Clara, was designed by the Amon
Carter Museum of Western Art in Fort Worth, for whom it was
published.
Two Texans received special awards for their work in the preserva-
tion of Texas heritage from the Archives and State and Local History
Round Table of the Texas Library Association. Dora Dieterich Bon-
ham of Austin and San Angelo and Chester V. Kielman, director of
the University of Texas Archives, received the awards at a luncheon
meeting of the ASLH Round Table, held April 5 in San Antonio's
Convention Center on the HemisFair grounds. Kielman received an
Award of Merit for compiling and editing The University of Texas
Archives, and Mrs. Bonham was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation
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