Leslyn eventually recovered both her health and her mental balance and thereafter disappeared from Heinlein’s life entirely. She died in Hueneme in 1981.
Telegram unsigned but Sam Kamens to Robert A. Heinlein, 10/20/48.
Virginia Heinlein, IM with author, 05/04/2000.
RAH, letter to Rip van Ronkel, 10/29/48.
Appendix A: Family Background (pages 479–492)
RAH, letter to Werner Heinlein, 02/27/57.
Virginia Heinlein, letter to author, 11/16, 17/2000.
See, for example, David McCullough, John Adams (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), especially chapter 2.
Heinlein notes that this Lorenz was the “longest-lived” of all the Heinleins in the direct line of descent, but Heinlein’s sister Louise Bacchus, who passed away on December 9, 2007, attained the great age of ninety-eight and a bit more than nine months. William I. Bacchus, e-mail to author, 02/15/2009.
RAH, Expanded Universe, 1–2.
RAH, letter to Judith Merril, 05/16/57.
Civil War historian Geo Rule researched the enrollment records of Ohio and Illinois and was not able to find a listing for Lawrence Heinlein. He also checked—unsuccessfully—for Samuel Edward’s name, out of an abundance of caution.
RAH, interview by Alfred Bester, Publishers Weekly (July 3, 1973), 44.
The dates seem inconsistent, as the 1843 birthdate for Alva Evans Lyle would make him age seventeen in 1860 and therefore an appropriate age for enlistment. However, the Butler Library sources give an 1853 birth year for Dr. Lyle—the same year as Samuel Edward Heinlein—which would make both of them turning twelve in 1865, just barely eligible for the anecdote. The anecdote, as given by Virginia Heinlein in an interview by the author, did not specify which grandfather; however, the peripatetic Lyles could conceivably return to a homestead in Minnesota, whereas it would have had to be Ohio for the Heinleins.
The canvas, painted in 1869 and 1870, is now in the collection of the State Historical Society of Missouri at Columbia.
Virginia Heinlein, letter to Leon Stover, 05/01/89.
A search of President James Monroe’s family genealogy going back to England in the sixteenth century fails to reveal any plausible direct connection to the Ohio Monroes from which Adelia Woods was descended.
RAH, letter to Alice Dalgliesh, 01/28/52.
Virginia Heinlein, e-mail to author, 10/23/2001.
Virginia Heinlein, e-mail to author, 10/18/2001.
Virginia Heinlein, taped interview by author, Second Series, Tape B, Side A, see also Virginia Heinlein, letter to author, 10/01/2000; Virginia Heinlein, e-mail to author, 10/23/2001.
Undated index card in “Misc 3” file of the RAH Archive, UCSC.
Notecard found in the manuscript file for Starship Troopers. Heinlein kept a card file of ideas and fragments that could be developed into story figures; when he began a book, he would pull out the cards that might be useful for the book and begin shuffling them in his mind. He always finished a book with more cards than he had started with.
Appendix B: Campaign Biography (pages 493–494)
RAH, letter to Cal Laning, 11/26/50, “My next activity was in a councilmanic campaign for James A. Carter, who was later federal attorney and is now, I believe, a federal judge. The L.A. Times tried to pin the red label on Jim, using some (faked?) stationery. I don’t know whether Jim was ever a commie or not. He did not sound like one, and he did not act like one—but he certainly was in the company of a large number of them at one time or another. I don’t think he actually was; his law partner of that period had been Harry Bridges’ attorney. Bridges quit him because this partner of Jim’s (name escapes me) would not accept the party line—so Jim was probably never a commie.”
RAH, letter to Cal Laning, 11/26/50, “I seem to have skipped over the ’36 elections, in which I was elected to the Democratic County Central Committee and appointed to the state committee. Nothing much about either, as it might relate to communism and me. In the primary I supported Ordean Rockey, a custardhead but firmly anti-communist; in the final I supported John Dockweiler, a devout Catholic. In 1937 I headed up the county committee’s investigation of relief agencies and ran into a lot of semi-overt communist activity, a good deal of it run by Pat Callahan, a registered communist and a Workers Alliance organizer. I tangled with him in front of the county committee and tried to get him thrown out. John Anson Ford, county supervisor, then chairman, might remember this.”
INDEX
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ABC radio
Abolition movement
Ackerman, Forrest J.
Adam Link (Binder brothers)
Adams, John (husband of Keith Hubbard)
administration, RAH learns
The Adventure of the Man Who Wasn’t There
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Aerojet
aeronautical engineering, RAH’s training in
Aeronautical Materials Laboratory (AML), at Naval Aircraft Factory (Philadelphia)
friction between civilian and Navy-trained personnel
African blood in the Lyle family
After Doomsday (proposal)
agents, literary
agricultural workers, class warfare against, in California
Agriculture Adjustment Act
aircraft carriers
Air Force, U.S., and space exploration
airplane motors, RAH’s study of
airplane travel in
Air Scoop
alcoholism, RAH’s views on
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
“All,”
Allis-Chalmers
All-Story magazine
Alvarez, Luis
Amazing Stories
America
as country of the future
as RAH’s religion
twentieth century
values of
American Interplanetary Society
American Legion
American liberal movement, radical-socialist wing of
The American Mercury
American populist tradition
American Rocket Society
Americans for Democratic Action
American Zionist Emergency Council
“America’s Maginot Line” (article)
“‘—And He Built a Crooked House—,’”
Angelus Temple (Los Angeles)
Annapolis, Md.
Annapolis (movie)
anthologies
antimatter theme
anti-Semitism, RAH’s rejection of
antiwar strike by students (1935)
Appeal to Reason (journal)
appendicitis, as cover story for pregnancy
apple selling
Argosy magazine
Aristotle
Arizona, tour through with Ginny
Arkansas, USS (battleship)
arms race
Army, U.S.
cadets in
inadequate provisioning of troops in Spanish-American War
Army-Navy exercises, in North Atlantic waters
Army-Navy football games
1926
1927
movie about
Arnac, Marcel, An Animated Cartoon
Arnold, Elcy
Aronovitz, David
art (painting and drawing), RAH takes classes in
artificial satellites
Arwine, John S.
Asimov, Gertrude
Asimov, Isaac
“Nightfall,”
“Assorted Services” project (of Ackerman and Emsheimer)
Astonishing
Astounding Science-Fiction
“Probability Zero” department of tall tales
RAH’s list of story notes f
or
reader’s popularity poll in (the “Analytical Laboratory”)
writers of, lost to the World War II effort
Astronautics
astronomy
RAH’s interest in
studies at the Naval Academy
atomic bomb
international control of
atomic physics
atomic power
atomics, Smyth Report on, sent to RAH
atomics articles, RAH’s
atomics theme of stories
Author & Journalist magazine
Authors Guild
RAH joins
authors’ rights
Ayers, William Ira (uncle)
Bacchus, Louise Heinlein (sister)
Bacchus, Wilfred “Bud,”
little Bacchi of
“Back of the Moon” (article)
Badeau, Frank
Bailey, Luther
Baldwin, Maria Woods (second wife of Samuel Edward Heinlein)
Baldwin Locomotive, Standard Steel Division
Ballistic Computer School
Bancroft Hall, Annapolis Naval Academy
banking
Baptists
Barbary Coast, San Francisco
Barnes, Arthur K.
Barnsdall, Aline
Baruch, Bernard
Bates, William Horatio, sight exercises
“A Bathroom of Her Own,”
Battle of Britain
battleships
coal-burning
Baum, L. Frank
Oz books
Sky Island
Beard, Chester
Beck, Billie (Harriet Helen Gould) (known as Sally Rand). See also Rand, Sally
Bell, Eric Temple (John Taine)
Bellamy, Edward
Equality
Looking Backward, 2000–1887
Bellamy, Marion
Benét, Stephen Vincent
John Brown’s Body
Young Adventure
Berlin Wall
Berrien, F. D.
Betty Boop comic strip
Beverly Hills, Calif.
“Beyond Doubt” (by Elma Wentz, with advice from RAH)
Beyond This Horizon (book)
“Beyond This Horizon” (serial)
Bible Belt Christianity
Bierce, Ambrose
Big Pond Fund
Big Secret
Bilbo, Theodore G.
“The Billion Dollar Eye” (article)
Binder, Earl and Otto (pseudonym Eando), Adam Link
Bingham, George Caleb
Black N
“The Black Pits of Luna,”
blacks
Black Tuesday
Blackwood, Algernon
Blakely, Captain
Blassingame, Lurton
Bliss, Arthur
blood collection services
“Blowups Happen,”
Blue Book
Boeing F4B fighters
bohemianism
Bolsheviks
bombing of civilians
Bond, Ward
Bond-Charteris Enterprises
Bonestell, Chesley
book contracts, morals clause in
The Book of Knowledge (encyclopedia)
book publication, RAH thinking of writing for
Borough, Rube
Boucher, Anthony (pseudonym of A. P. White)
Bowen, Brita
Bowen, J. Hartley
Bowling, Frank
boys’ books
Boy Scouts of America
Boys’ Life magazine
Brackett, Leigh
Bradbury, Ray
Brady, Franklyn
Brandley, Buck
breastfeeding
Bremerton, Wash.
Briggs, Mary (later Collin)
Britain
declares war on Germany (1939)
news from
in World War II
British (Royal) Navy, RAH’s description of
“Broken Wings” (alternate title)
Bronner (book editor)
Broun, Heywood
Brown, John
Brown, Johnny Mack
Browning, Robert, “Pied Piper of Hamelin,”
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryan, William Jennings, Jr.
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buck Rogers (comic strip)
Buffalo Bill
Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Bureau of Navigation (Navy)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
A Princess of Mars
Warlord of Mars
“A Business Transaction,”
Butler, Missouri
Butler Academy (Butler, Missouri)
“By His Bootstraps,”
Cabell, James Branch
Figures of Earth
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
Café au lait au sucre “Caffy” (cat)
Cagney, James
California
earthquakes in
elections of 1934, and governor race
elections of 1936
elections of 1938
59th Assembly District
immigration into, from the Dust Bowl
oil conservation initiative, Proposition
oil industry in
party politics in
politics in, RAH’s involvement after the war
California Newspaper Publishers Association
California Pacific Exposition (San Diego, 1936)
California Real Estate Association
Cal Tech
Cameron, Marjorie
Campbell, Doña
Campbell, John W., Jr.
acceptance letter
“All” (collaboration with RAH)
confrontation with, over rights
Heinleins as godparents of child Leslyn
letter to RAH about contraterrene matter
meets RAH in New York
misunderstandings of RAH’s themes and stories
off-and-on friendly correspondence with
own science fiction writing
RAH calls, cancelling trip to New York after Pearl Harbor attack
RAH wish to tell he was retiring from pulp fiction
reactions to long-life series
rejection letters from
self-aggrandizing statements of, re wartime research
wartime correspondence with RAH re war
Campbell, Leslyn
Campbell, Philinda Duane
Camp Goodland
Canadian Douglas Plan
Canadian Social Credit Union
“candidatitis,”
Canterbury, Kateto ch.
Cantor, Eddie
Capone, Al
“The Captains and the Priests,”
Captain’s Mast
carbon-black idea
Carey, Kathleen
Carnell, Michael
Carnell, Ted
Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
Carter, James M.
Cartmill, Cleve
“Deadline,”
“Oscar,”
Cartmill, Jeanne
car travel, forbidden to midshipmen
Catholics
Catledge, Turner
CBS, RAH interview on
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
a story about
Central High School, Kansas City
The Centralian high school yearbook, RAH notices in
Century of Progress World’s Fair, Chicago
Chamber of Commerce, California
Chandler, Harry
characters in a story, hearing them talk
Charles, Joel
Charteris, Leslie
The Saint’s Choice
Charter of the United Nations
Chase, Stuart, Tyranny of Words
Chastain, Dr.
Chautauqua circuit
Cherokee Indian blood in the Lyle family
&nb
sp; chess
Chesterfield Club (Kansas City)
Chicago, III.
Army-Navy game of 1926 in
Bam’s short stay in, as child
radicalism in
RAH studies in
South Side
Chicon (second world science fiction convention)
China, in World War II
Chinatown, San Francisco
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Christianity
Bible Belt
RAH’s disbelief in
The Christian Science Monitor
Christmas, Heinlein family’s celebration of
Chrysler Building
Churchill, Winston
circus, RAH goes to, and is amused by elephants
Civic Research League
Civilian Military Training Camp (CMTC)
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