ERBzine 0563: March: An ERB Odyssey

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**MARCH**
**ERB ANNOTATED PERPETUAL CALENDAR** ***Compiled by Bill Hillman***
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1919: Purchases Mil Flores ($125,000) 540 acre San Fernando estate of late General Otis, founder of the LA Times	1923: Incorporates himself as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. & draws salary 1938: Starts SMM 1943: Returns to Pearl Harbor on USS Shaw from New Caledonia etc	1914: Metcalf purchases M & *BTa* at record prices 1925: Replies to Enrico Caruso, Jr. about Italian publishing rights 1933: Writes funny Tarzan play "Tarzan & Jane, a Jungleogue"	1912: OT rejected by Metcalf - Book publishers not interested 1916: BTa on McClurg 1925: mortgages Tarzan Ranch for $200,000 to rescue foundering El Caballero 1933: LV starts in Argosy	1906: Many recommendations for position of Cavalry Instructor & Tactical Officer 1935: Disappointed over the uncut film from Guatemala
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	1936: JBJ as Whitman Big Big Book 1942: Complains to Senator Johnson of the peril facing California from weak defences at Hawaii	1915: RT on McClurg - Wyeth DJ - St. John interiors 1917: ST on McClurg - St. John illos 1934: Emma takes her first flying lesson 1944: writes Diary #4 - Tarawa- Kwajalein		1906: Seeks commission in the Chinese & Nicaraguan Armies 1917: Upset that McClurg forgot Hulbert dedication in ST 1932: CiG serial starts in Argosy		1919: Urges friend Bert Weston to buy ranch sites on either side of his new Tarzana Ranch tarzana.ca 1941: Marriage over - Flo & kids leave Hawaii on Lurline 1949: Benedryl, prescribed to alleviate Ed's Parkinson's syndrome or paralysis agitans
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1931: Tarzan Sunday colour pages by Maxon debut (later taken over by Foster)	1920: Writes 5 pages of unfinished The Ghostly Script	1916: Starts New Stories of Tarzan (JT) for Blue Book (writes at Oak Park, on camping trip and CA) 1933: General King, commandant of Michigan Military Academy & ERB's role model, dies	1930: Brother Frank Coleman Burroughs (48) dies in Wilmette, IL. 1930: Starts Tarzan and the Man Things (TI) 1937: *"Man-Eaters"* article about lions completed 1942: Protest to Col.Bourland over treatment of the BMTC by military	1897: Father obtains discharge for Ed from Cavalry. Reasons: underage & weak heart 1938: The Red Star of Tarzan(FC) starts in Argosy 1950: Ed dies after eating breakfast in bed while reading the Sunday comics. He is cremated at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles	1914: Submits GF to Metcalf (A-S) - suggests nephew Studley do art 1920: "Tarzan and the Valley of Luna" (5 pts. TU) starts in All-Story 1937: Sends out form letter to sell "Autobiography" 1941: Writes of meeting fan, pulp writer, & pro wrestler, Prince Ilaki Ibn Ali Hassan 1943: Writes Diary #3 1944: On missions to Gilbert & Marshall Islands
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1913: CG submitted to All-Story 1936: Starts Elmer (RJ) (named after skull in sons' skull collection)	1897: Commanding officer 7th Cavalry rates Ed's character as "excellent" on discharge 1942: Receives documents of final property settlement with Florence	1923: GL on McClurg 1939: Refuses to donate to an Oak Park ERB Museum because first writing done in Chicago	1899: Tries to secure an appointment in the army through War Dept. www.ERBzine.com/war	1880: Emma's hotelier father, Alvin Hulbert, elected Alderman of the 12th Ward 1948: LG on ERB Inc. with JCB illos	1941: Tormented over Florence and finances, Ed has a slight stroke in his sleep 1950: Jack removes Ed's ashes - they are buried beside his mother's beneath the black walnut tree in front of the ERB offices in Tarzana.	1914: Family leaves California for Chicago 1928: Indicates to Blue Book that he plans to write a Venus series
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1919: JT on McClurg 1928: Starts LE 1934: Divorce decree is granted to the Dearholts	1923: Starts BHB 1933: Brother Harry's wife Ella is killed in a car accident near Ann Arbor, Mich	1913: Starts Number Thirteen (MMe) 1935: Meets with his attorney to make plans for his wedding to Flo	1888: George takes in James M. Johnson, a Confederate negro acquaintance from the war. He is made practically one of the family	1887: Eddie is taken out of public school & placed in Mrs. Cooley's Maplehurst School for Girls during a diphtheria epidemic	1920:Nephew Studley returns to Chicago where his year-old daughter dies of spinal meningitis	1930: Suffers abdominal pains - contemplates rest trip to Fr Somali Land to research Tarzan 1934: *Tarzan and His Mate* completed

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The events in this ERB Calendar have been collated and excerpted from
The ERB Bio Timeline
ERB CHRONO-LOG: LIFELINES BIO 1875-1950
and
ERB: The War Years
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please visit our
www.erbzine.com/bio
and
www.ERBzine.com/events

The Heins Abbreviations used for the ERB book titles are listed at:
ERB Motes and Quotes 0067
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ERB C.H.A.S.E.R. ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

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