Vol. 1, no. 2 (October 1957)
| Editor | Justin G. Schiller (uncredited) |
October 1957 Selected Contents
This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.
A Letter from the Honorary President
.Frank J. Baum, the eldest son of L. Frank Baum, dispels the popular myth that the character of Dorothy is based on a real child of his father’s acquaintance. He recounts his father’s love for children and that “Dorothy” may have been one name he hoped to give a daughter he never had.
Dear Fellow Oz Friends
Fred M. Meyer, at this time the Club’s “Royal Historian” (soon to be redesignated the Club Secretary), puts this new Oz Club in context, giving brief details of previous Oz Clubs all the way back to 1915. A slightly truncated version of this article was reprinted in the August 1961 issue.
A Letter’s Hall of Fame
L. Frank Baum pens an amusing set of verses thanking Mrs. C. B. Boothe for a gift of “Ma’s Cottage Cheese.” Reproduced from a 1910 letter.
How Ruth Plumly Thompson Came to Write Nineteen of the Famous Oz Books
Ruth Plumly Thompson gives a brief and very polished account of how she became the second Royal Historian. This article was reprinted in the April 1961 issue.
My First Acquaintance with Oz
Ruth Berman becomes the first Club member to publish her personal experience of falling in love with the Oz books.
No. 1 Ozomane Contest
The Baum Bugle sponsors its own version of the famous Reilly & Britton contest for John Dough and the Cherub in 1906, asking readers to submit their suggestion of whether Chick the Cherub is a boy or a girl. First prize was a 1952 copy of The Songs of Father Goose, and the winner was announced in the May 1959 issue.