[PW] Story Possibly in late 1932 LIBERTY magazine

[Shari Haber]

Dennis:

Beatrice Grimshaw wrote quite a few stories for LIBERTY, but I did not 
find any with a title similar to "The Cave." Unfortunately, the 2-vol. 
published index of LIBERTY appears to have sprouted feet and went AWOL, 
and nobody seems to know where it is. I did however, just in case, check 
our microfilm of the mag. for Oct.-Dec. 1932, and there were only 2 
Grimshaw stories:

The Ship That Ran Herself--Oct. 22, 1932, p. 6
The Bride of the Raja--Dec. 3, 1932, p. 10

I wonder if the editor might have changed the name of one of her 
stories??

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Lien" <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:23 PM
Subject: [PW] Story Possibly in late 1932 LIBERTY magazine


> Does anyone on the list have easy access to LIBERTY magazine
> for October through December 1932?  If so, would s/he be willing
> to check for presence in those issues of one or more short stories
> by Beatrice Grimshaw, especially one called "The Cave"?
>
> A colleague with a deadline is writing an article on her for a
> reference book and is trying to find original publication of that
> story.  A reprint claimed it was "copyright 1932 by McCall 
> Corporation"
> but between us we've been through all 1932 and early 1933 issues of
> McCALL'S MAGAZINE, BLUEBOOK MAGAZINE, and REDBOOK MAGAZINE -- the
> three serials McCall were publishing at the time that contained
> fiction -- and found the story did not appear in any of those three.
>
> Since Grimshaw had also had several stories around this period
> in LIBERTY, which was published by Macfadden, I suspected the reprint
> datum was in error and perhaps should have read copyright by Macfadden
> rather than by McCall (all these Scots-named companies looking 
> alike...)
>
> I've been through LIBERTY for January through September of 1932 and
> found five stories by Grimshaw in that run, plus one more in the
> first quarter of 1933, but none is "The Cave."  U of MN Library
> lacks September-December 1932 of LIBERTY.
>
> Four of the 13 issues in question are in the FICTIONMAGS INDEX
> so only the other nine would need to be checked.
>
> http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/t705.htm#A16174
>
> LIBERTY had a table of contents listing on an early page in each issue
> in 1932 so checking would be quick if the magazines were at hand.
> Hoping someone can help...
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu
>
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