EDITOR'S NOTE

This piece of fanfic by William Gilmour was first published as part of Vern Coriell's original Burroughs Bulletin series. Vern had formed the Burroughs Bibliophiles with the personal permission of Edgar Rice Burroughs back in the late '40s. After Vern's health and energy started to fail the BBs were revived by George McWhorter at the University of Louisville, Ekstrom Rare Books Library. 

Over the years George devoted a tremendous amount of time and personal resources to the publishing of a new series of quarterly Burroughs Bulletins as well as the monthly newsletter: The Gridley Wave. George gave ERBzine permission to release electronic versions of all his Gridley Waves and to reprint all these zines back to Issue No. 1. George's Burroughs Bulletin was a gorgeous slick magazine with each issue devoted to an ERB title. 

After reaching the end of Burroughs titles the BB Board of Directors decided that perhaps the daunting task of publishing these magazines and newsletters on such a regular basis should be turned over to a younger man. The job was taken over by Henry Franke. 

Leaving this labour of love that he had invested so many thousands of dollars and man-hours over decades was very difficult, but he prided himself in the quality and regularity of these hundreds of publications which had brought countless ERB devotees to the fold. 

Of interest to fans of the Bibliophiles is 
THE HISTORY OF THE BURROUGHS BIBLIOPHILES AND BULLETIN
By
George T. McWhorter 
That we published back in ERBzine No. 0148
www.erbzine.com/mag1/0148.html


This is part of our 
GEORGE McWHORTER TRIBUTE
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Read all the Gridley Wave Newsletters from 1959-2010
Starting at ERBzine 3450

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See all the covers and contents of the 
BURROUGHS BULLETIN
published by George McWhorter

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and at the
Official Burroughs Bibliophiles Website 
www.burroughsbibliophiles.com