Talk:John Henry Goldfrap

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This page had its content partially deleted by User:12.202.196.178 on April 6, 2005. I believe there was no reason for it, so I restored the deleted information. Garybrimley 03:19, 13 April 2005 (UTC)[reply]

[The poster signed his comment, but his sig has since been deleted. I am restoring the signature. Rags (talk) 02:32, 30 December 2016 (UTC)][reply]

Series[edit]

According to the insertion I have in a volume of The Dreadnought Boys (Aboard A Destroyer), all of the series he contributed to make up the larger "Circling the Globe Series". Volume one, "In the South Seas", and 27, "Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon", are attributed to Captain Wyn Roosevelt, probably also one of Goldfrap's pseudonyms. Rags (talk) 03:07, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

He wrote four titles in "The Boy Allies" series, probably after the start of WWI. Pseudonym Robert L. Drake. Rags (talk) 04:04, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The U.S. Library of Congress now identifies (assigns LCCN to) only these five pseudonyms of John Henry Goldfrap, which are the same five whose series we now list:

(primary identity) Howard Payson at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalog records – with linked e-copy and e-copy
Fremont B. Deering at Library of Congress, with 0 library catalog records
Wilbur Lawton at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalog records – with linked e-copy online
Dexter J. Forrester at Library of Congress, with 0 library catalog records
Marvin West at Library of Congress, with 0 library catalog records

It does also identify Captain Wyn Roosevelt and Robert L. Drake:

Wyn Roosevelt at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalog records - three as born 1870, one as born 1876
Robert L. Drake at Library of Congress, with 10 library catalog records – as pseudonym of Clair W. Hayes (15 records)

and it catalogues, probably holds, more of their books. --P64 (talk) 21:16, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Boy Aviators[edit]

The Boy Aviators begins in 1910, earliest of the series as we list them. Here are some notices in newspapers (not simple advertisements or listings, after the first which is my earliest 1916 hit for "Wilbur Lawton").

Cincinnati Enquirer, 1910-05-16 p. 7, "Among the New Books" --one listing following the reviews and notes: The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua, 50 cents
Detroit Free Press, 1910-05-22 p. D8, "Among the New Books" --brief review: Nicaragua, "... Two brothers, owners of The Golden Eagle, a biplane of novel construction, take ship for Nicaragua, meaning to make their aeroplane a feature in a typical South American revolution."
St Louis Post-Dispatch, 1910-06-18 p. 6, "Reviews of New Books" --Nicaragua, "extravagant adventures of Frank and Harry Chester, New York boy aviators, when they went to visit their father on his Nicaragua plantation"
Philadelphia Inquirer, 1910-06-19 p. 4, "Latest in the World of Books" --Nicaragua, under heading "Aeroplane in Fiction": "A new and realistic treatment of the aeroplane in fiction is provided by [CWL], a student of aviation ... § ... much instruction regarding the making and manipulation of airships is to be garnered ... § The book is the first of a series in which aviation will largely figure ..."
DFP -07-16 p7, "Among the New Books" --capsule review: The Boy Aviators on Secret Service
Louisville Courier-Journal, 1910-07-23 p. 5, "Vacation Books" --lead review: Nicaragua
DFP -09-11 pC3, "Among the New Books" --capsule review: The Boy Aviators in Africa
SLPD -09-17 p10, "Reviews of New Books" --review: Secret Service
LCJ -09-17 p5, "Boys Books and Other Juveniles" --lead review: Secret Service, for "boys and even grown-ups, interested in aerial flight and its great possibilities in peace and war."
New York City newspapers, and advertisements, first appear among the hits for this automated search ("Wilbur Lawton") in mid-October: "The Boy Aviators' Series", 6 stories, illustrated, 50 cents each postpaid
LCJ -10-29 p5, "Boys' and Girls' Books" --lead brief review: Africa, where "they try to recover a great horde of ivory", hidden in the mountains
DFP -11-19, p7, "New Books" --capsule notice, "The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash brings into a story the newest method of inviting dangers."
Boston Globe, 1910-12-17 p. 11, "Boy Aviators" --short article, '[CWL] sustains the interest ... with his latest, adventure narrative, "The Boy Aviators in Record Flights, in which the airships of rival newspapers engage in a flight, for a prize of great wealth, from New York to California."

--P64 (talk) 20:54, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]