EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS MILLENNIUM
CALENDAR ©
Compiled by Bill Hillman
DECEMBER 2000
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1895: Ed had made the championship
team of the year and is listed as: "Captain-
Quarterback, Height 5-10, Weight
165, Age 20 yrs, 4 mos." - Lt E. R. Burroughs heads a group of 11 editors
of The Adjutant
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1904: Ed tries a series of jobs:
a high-rise timekeeper, door-to-door book salesman, a seller of electric
light bulbs to janitors and candy to drugstores, an accountant and office
manager, etc
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1909: Lack of funds results
in Ed creating drawings & verses for home- made Christmas cards.
1918: Out
of Time's Abyss in Blue Book
1946: Submits Night of Terror to a variety
of magazines - a retitled version of the old 1943 More Fun! More
People Killed story - rejected & unpublished.
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1926: Gives support to another
fan club: The Edgar Rice Burroughs Club. He later suggests they use the
name of the 1916 club: The Tribe of Tarzan.
1945:2: Rubimore takes over Sunday Tarzan strip
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1941: A new Carson of Venus
story started on 2nd but abandoned because of the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor.
1942:1: Contributes Somewhere on Oahu -
News Bulletin - N.Y. World
1942:4: Begins the first in a series of war diaries: Happenings
in New Caledonia and Australia.
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1911: 8pm - starts TA-
longhand.
1936: Starts Tarzan and the Elephant Men
(sequel to Tarzan and the Magic Men) - rejected by Argosy
1937: 'Two Gun' Doak Flies South written
as John Tyler McCulloch - rejected by Liberty, Cosmopolitan, &
Blue Book. It is retitled Mr. Doak Flies South but never
published.
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1896: Ed writes Colonel J.
Sumner Rogers at MMA - possibly obtain help in getting a discharge or transfer,
or to set up a return to the Academy, or perhaps just to offer an apology
for his past behaviour.
1917: Ed, dissatisfied with the motion picture industry
and the progress made on adapting his writings, dumps his 10,000 shares
of capital stock.
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1916: Ed directs McClurg to dedicate
the forthcoming
The
Son of Tarzan first edition to son Hulbert
1926: War Chief of the Apaches is rejected
by Country Gentleman magazine
1935: Writes the light verse, Dear Old Eight-Two-
Three while convalescing in room 823 at the Good Samaritan Hospital
in LA
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1915: Son of Tarzan
runs in 6-parts in All-Story Weekly ($3,000)
1918: Submits a plan to the Dept of Justice - to alert
the public to the menace of communism by writing fiction of a future world
under Bolshevikism - rejected
1934: Ed files for divorce
1942: Hulbert is promoted to 1st Lt
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1912: Ed submits a more detailed
outline of the Tarzan sequel
1915: H. R. H. the Rider is completed
1929:4: Ed shares his criticisms over the Tarzan strips
with nephew Studley.
Studley later forwards detailed criticisms to the Metropolitan Syndicate
1942: Departs in morning as war corresp. Flown to
Canton Island & on to New Caledonia where he meets naval Lt Thompson
- Rochelle Hudson's husband.
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1928: Tarzan and Pellucidar(TEC)
is written (79,446 words). Some or all of the book is dictated to Ediphone
cylinders.
1934: Granted a "quickie" divorce: wife's "extreme
cruelty" & "incompatibility of temperament." Emma receives a generous
settlement.
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1920: Munsey Co. informs
Ed that Davis has left to form an agency for authors
1941: 7:55 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Old military
man is finally in the right place at the right time. Ed & Hulbert watch
the attack from the hotel tennis court, at first thinking it a military
practice exercise
John Carter of Mars by JCB - Sunday feature appears.
Wartime paper shortage forces its demise in the spring of 1943
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1922:9: GL in Argosy
1929: Universal releases the serial Tarzan and the
Tiger with Frank Merrill
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1915: Jewels
of Opar is finally accepted by Davis at Ed's price of $2,500
1916: Republic Motor Truck Co. of Alma, Mich convince
Ed to write a 1,900-word promotional booklet detailing his experiences
on his transcontinental trip - the whimsical An
Auto- Biography - the POV of a Republic truck
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1918: Finishes When Blood
Told
1924: Contacts a Franklin High School (LA)
principal asking assistance in revising a current piece of writing - probably
Marcia
of the Doorstep
1947: ERB spends the
entire day correcting
Llana of Gathol page proofs
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1893: Ed is reprimanded for
participating in a hoax involving a Springfield rifle duel to the death
with another student
1918: Starts The Debt
1930: Washington officially approves a post office
at Tarzana
1934:
Variety reports the Guatemala Tarzan film will be Tarzan
and the Green Goddess. Also considered are New
Adventures of Tarzan & Tarzan's 1935 Adventures
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1936: Jack marries Pomona College
classmate, Jane Ralston
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1926: Writes L. B. Mayer requesting
that Joan be given a tryout for a part in "Old Heidelberg."
1941: Ed's first of a series of "Laugh
It Off" columns appears in the Honolulu Advertiser &
Star-Bulletin. He was asked to write this by a military acquaintance at
General HQ. Ed is extremely proud of his new role of War Correspondent
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1892: Superintendent Rogers reports
that: "Cadet Burroughs has made excellent progress in his studies during
the last three months and is satisfactory in discipline...."
1918: H.R.H the Rider in All-Story
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1893: Ed sends a letter home
describing "the duel" episode and his "first, last and only stage experience"
as a bewhiskered actor in the not-so-successful, cadet touring stage play,
The
End of His Tether
1918: Little
Door is firmly rejected by Collier's & later by People's
Home Journal.
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1924: Ed is excused from jury
duty owing to heart pains and exhaustion and anxiety from overwork.
1930: Tarzana,
California is officially registered as a city with its own post office
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1913: Metcalf makes an offer
for first refusal for all of Ed's 1914 output at 2 1/2 cents per word.
Ed tries to up the offer to 3 1/2 cents. All-Story is planning to change
into a weekly
1925: Submits proposal for a Hollywood gossip column
to the Newspaper Enterprise Assoc of Cleveland - nothing comes of
it.
1940: Starts Tangor Returns - second in
the Poloda series
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1929: Ed writes to brother
Harry to try to convince him to write about his colourful experiences in
Idaho
1938:19 Heil Hitler! 1-page synopsis, offers
a "Suggestion for a story of what a humanitarian Hitler might accomplish
for Germany and the World." A Hitler "double" is used in the plot. Studios
appear afraid to touch it.
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1911: Metcalf rejects OT
"Tarzan" is coined on page 71 of the manuscript. Greystoke was originally
Bloomstoke. In his writing ERB used both the British "grey" and American
"gray."
1936: Submits an idea for a radio show to be called,
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See by the Papers Ed planned to play a columnist for
the Tarzana Tribune.
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1893: MM Academy reports Ed's continuing
improvement in his studies: Average 89.4%.
1926: Apache Devil is rejected by Popular Magazine.
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1911: TA foreward is written
after 95 pages of manuscript have been written.
1937: Daily Express reports that Tarzan
and the Green Goddess is doing great business in England.
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1941: Hulbert expresses his
pride in his father in a letter to Joan.
1941: 24: Hulbert asks Rothmund to persuade ERB to return
to the mainland as he is reluctant to enlist until his father has left.
1949: Nephew Studley
Burroughs (57) dies of an embolism following an operation for a hiatus
hernia
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1929: Ed becomes a grandfather
with the birth of Joanne Burroughs Pierce at Hollywood Hospital.
1929: Elser promises to follow up on Ed's request to have
Webster's and Funk & Wagnall's dictionaries include his bio & the
word "Tarzan" in future revisions
1942: Arrives in Sydney, Aust
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1908: Receives a warm Xmas
letter from father reporting he has paid off Ed's debts to Coleman.
Business has turned sour for all the Burroughs clan
1934: Ed & Flo announce engagement at the Gilbert
home
1944: Spends first Xmas in 11 years with family.
He later meets with Flor & her new husband, Dr. Alfred Chase, &
Caryl Lee
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1892: Nephew Studley
Oldham Burroughs (future illustrator of ERB books) is born.
1945: Ed moves into his new home at 5465 Zelzah Avenue,
Encino. He paid $14,000 for a two-bedroom house on 1/2 acre. Still weak
from his overexertions in the Pacific, Ed now spends much of his time resting
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1946: Ed informs Louise Rogers of
the death of his heart doctor - Dr. John Carden who himself has died of
angina.
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1931:29: Article, Literary
Rights is sent upon request to Writer's Digest. It is published
as Protecting
the Author's Rights in the 1932 Writer's Yearbook.
1939: Bray of McClurg dies. Gould, a McClurg employee
& friend of the Burroughs family had persuaded Bray to publish the
first Burroughs book, TA
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1920: Writes 2 love poems Sweetheart
Eternal & Sweet Rose in God's Garden Above
1922: Submits a 1,000-word article to the LA
Times - gives his views on literary people, collecting, writers of sex
stories, and boring books
1929:30 Dancing Girl of the Leper King is completed
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1918: Local Mystery"
- a fictitious foreign correspondent's account of a visit to Paris - is
printed in the Coldwater, Mich Daily Reporter. (Ed's sister-in-law Leila
is editor). Sometime in this period Ed bought a country place in Coldwater.
The area had been a Burroughs and Hulbert family vacation spot for years
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1915: Beyond
Thirty copyrighted by Street & Smith
1944: Hernia surgery: a month in convalescence.
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1916: Inspired by the recent
death of Jack London, Ed considers writing a biography of the author. Unable
to stir up interest in numerous magazines, he gives up on the idea
January 1, 2001
Day One of the New Millennium
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1922: AEC by McClurg
1926: With
The Author of Tarzan: An Interview With Edgar Rice Burroughs in Which
He Frankly Discusses His Methods and Gives Sound Advice by G.B.
Gravatt appears in The Writers' Monthly
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1927: Ed writes a home movie
script, a silent slapstick melodrama, called Tarzan Pictures Presents
'Them Thar Papers' Cast included all family members, James Pierce
& Joan's friend Miss Florence Gilbert.
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1934: The Dearholt expedition,
aboard the liner Seattle, lands on the Guatemala coast in a storm which
causes incredible difficulties.
1949: Ed suffers a serious heart attack and is placed
in an oxygen tent.
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1940: Ed & Florence move to
the Niumalu Hotel
1941: In the 2,800-word article "Came the
War" Ed describes his and Hulbert's activities during and after
the Japanese attack.
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1941: After the Pearl Harbor
attack Ed & Hulbert volunteer for sentry duty with Patrol 2, Co. A,
1st Battalion, stationed on the wharf at Honolulu Tuna Packers Ltd.
Later Ed is assigned to guard & then to escort "enemy aliens"
to the Immigration Station. The march almost kills him.
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WEBJED:
BILL HILLMAN .