Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd

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Notes Abbreviations Byrd Collection Richard E. Byrd Collection, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Virginia Byrd Papers Admiral Richard E. Byrd Papers, Record Group 56.1, Byrd Polar Research Center Archives, The Ohio State University Archives, Columbus EBB Eleanor Bolling Byrd HFB Harry F. Byrd HFB Jr. Harry F. Byrd Jr. MAB Marie Ames Byrd NARA National Archives and Records Administration, Suitland, Maryland REB Robert E. Byrd RG Record Group USAS United States Antarctic Service Introduction 1. “The Spirit of Adventure,” undated editorial, folder 43, Byrd Papers. 2. Charles J. V. Murphy, “Admiral Byrd: Greatest Polar Adventurer Goes to Claim Antarctica,” 27, 29, 37; Robert N. Matouzzi, “Richard Byrd, Polar Exploration, and the Media,” 210. 3. Alton A. Lindsey, “Inside Byrd’s Second Antarctic Expedition,” p. 13, accession 19935, folder 15, “Publications by Lindsey,” Lindsey Papers. 4. Edward Goodale, “Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and His Place in History: Nineteen Twenties and Thirties,” p. 4, Goodale Papers. 5. Lindsey, “Inside Byrd’s Second Antarctic Expedition,” 3, 7. 6. Lindsey, “Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Two Approaches to Leadership,” p. 3, accession 199815, folder 2, “Byrd and BAE II,” Lindsey Papers. 7. Frederick Lewis Allen, OnlyYesterday (1931; reprint, New York: Bantam, 1957), 252. 463 8. REB to Rodman Wanamaker, May 23, 1927, folder 4344, Byrd Papers; Byrd, “The First Flight to the North Pole,” folder 4272, ibid. Chapter 1. “Danger Was All That Thrilled Him” 1. Byrd, Alone (New York: Kodansha International, 1995), 36, 49–51. This facsimile edition of the 1938 publication issued by G. P. Putnam’s Sons of New York contains slightly different pagination than the original. All citations are to this edition. 2. Typescript copy of an untitled article from the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, September 16, 1886, in folder 32, Byrd Papers. Eleanor Bolling’s distinguished family line was remembered at her death in 1957, just six months after that of her illustrious son, in an article titled “Mrs. Byrd, Mother of Tom, Dick and Harry, Dies at Home,” Winchester Evening Star, September 18, 1957, folder 33, ibid. 3. Charles J. V. Murphy, Struggle: The Life and Exploits of Commander Richard E. Byrd, 3. 4. Ibid. The quote and related material is from “Virginia Byrds Again to Fore,” New York Times, February 14, 1926, sec. 9, p. 6. 5. William Byrd II is quoted in Thomas J. Wertenbaker, The Golden Age of Colonial Culture (1949; reprint, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1961), 125. See also Carl Bridenbaugh , Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South (1952; reprint, New York: Atheneum, 1966), 13–193; and Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968), 139. Dick and Harry Byrd’s angry reaction to publication of their ancestor’s diary is in many letters in folders 45, 47, and 117 in the Byrd Papers. See especially REB to Otway Byrd, February 25, 1942, folder 117; to HFB, March 9, 1942, folder 45; and to HFB, March 20, 24, April 20, 1942, folder 47. Harry’s own anger is conveyed in HFB to REB, March 3, 1942, folder 117. 6. John H. Crown, a Baltimore journalist, went to Winchester shortly after Richard Byrd’s flight to the North Pole in 1926 and did a thorough study of the town and the Byrd family (“Hometown Bursting with Pride over ‘Dick’ Byrd,” Baltimore Sun, May 26, 1926, copy in Byrd Collection). Byrd’s comments on Winchester’s Civil War experience are in the unpublished portion of his manuscript for Skyward, p. 13, folder 3876, Byrd Papers (hereafter cited as Skyward manuscript). Maude Ludwig’s letter to REB, January 19, 1950, is in folder 33, ibid. Harry Flood Byrd remembered taking his grandmother to the cinema and her teary reaction to the flag (telephone interview with author, November 1, 2001). 7. “Byrd’s Rising Star,” clipping in folder 41, Byrd Papers. 8. See REB to HFB, April 5, 1950, folder 51, ibid. Douglas Southall Freeman’s letter to HFB, May 2, 1951, is in ibid. and quoted in part in Ronald L. Heineman, Harry Byrd of Virginia (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996), 3. Richard Evelyn’s encouragement of young men is recounted by Fred Kosslow to HFB, March 12, 1957, folder 57, Byrd Papers. His insistence on being informally addressed as Dick is in Crown, “Hometown Bursting with Pride.” 9. Quoted in Crown, “Hometown Bursting with Pride.” 464 Notes 18.218.254.122] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 17:03 GMT) 10. Byrd’s political philosophy and influence are emphasized in ibid...