Talk:R. V. C. Bodley

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Additional sources

This New York Times pay article has more information on his book The Warrior Saint : [1]

These books have information on him, but to what extent remains uncertain.

[2] [3][4]

Freikorp (talk) 01:51, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think much point in looking at the Time Magazine letter book (your link). I actually went on the the Time Mag site and you can read the letter itself. It's an amusing letter describing exactly how British schoolboys were beaten (not with a literal cane). Interesting and kind of funny really, the guy had a sort of Tom Wolfe or Steinbeck style of describing things, but not really anything to make it into the encyclopedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.33.69 (talk) 08:25, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RVC is most common name

Use RVC or R.V.C. He was not known as Ronald. Seriously, do a search on his books or google. RVC is how he is known. Like TE Lawrence. Not Theodore.

I don't think we regard google hits as a reputable measure of anything much, since no one else does these days. Ronald will do fine until there is some evidence the other way. By the way, a possible reference is where it says here that Bodley was helped by Anne Fremantle in his Sahara travels. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:51, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There was also a 1943 New Yorker story [5]. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well his books all use that name for him as well.

Art collection

In my search for information on this man I found this, apparently there is a portrait of Thomas Gage in the "Colonol R.V.C. Bodley collection in Boston". [6] I can't find any further mention of this 'collection' anywhere. Freikorp (talk) 03:16, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

South Pacific Mandates

This book has some decent information on his time in the pacific, if anyone wants to expand that paragraph. [7] Freikorp (talk) 03:21, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Could this be a DYK? Honest, I feel like Freikorp and CM and others did some nice work here. (Of course, I really don't know what a DYK is either.)