Eddy Gilmore: From Selma to Russia and Back

Here we have another discovery that popped up recently as my brother Richard and I continued our journey through all the family materials at mom's house in Huntsville. Of course, what caught my attention first about this October 6, 1953 Look magazine was actress Ava Gardner on the cover. Duh. But as I examined the issue, I also found a long article on Alabama native Eddy Gilmore and his Russian ballerina wife Tamara. You just never know what will turn up where. I'd read a bit about Gilmore in the past, so I decided to do this blog post and explore his life and career some more.

Eddy Lanier King Gilmore was born in Selma on May 28, 1907. I found little about his family via Ancestry.com. His father was Edwin Lanier Gilmore and mother Evelyn B. "Emely" King Gilmore. That at least explains his two middle names. I did find Edwin's World War I draft registration card, which listed him as a traveling salesman for the C.W. Cooper Company, wholesale grocers. Indicative of his future profession was Eddy's job as a young boy--delivering newspapers for the Selma Times-Journal. 

Gilmore graduated in 1928 from Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, founded by Andrew Carnegie and now Carnegie Mellon University. He worked at the Atlanta Journal until 1932 and then the Washington Daily News until the Associated Press hired him sometime before 1940. Soon the AP sent him to the Soviet Union as bureau chief where he lived until 1953. Thus he covered the Eastern Front of World War II as the Soviets battled Nazi Germany.

During his time in the country he interviewed Joseph Stalin; that piece won him the 1947 Pulitzer Price for Telegraphic Reporting-International. Gilmore spent most of the rest of his life working for the AP in London, He died there of a heart attack at his East Grinstead country home after a day at work on October 6, 1967. Several people who knew him noted that he never lost his Southern accent. 

While living in the Soviet Union Gilmore met and fell in love with Tamara Kolb Chernashova, a ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. Soviet citizens were not supposed to fraternize with foreigners, but their relationship persisted despite government refusals to let them marry. They were finally able to wed in 1950, but unable to leave the country until after Stalin's death in 1953. The couple would have three daughters and a son. After leaving the Soviet Union Gilmore often wrote about the royals of Europe he met, both their glamour and the reality. 

The Look magazine article features Eddy and Tamara describing life in the Soviet Union--the prices of foods and clothing, the salaries earned by different workers, etc. A pair of quotes from Tamara struck me. 

"I am a Russian, sometimes happy, sometimes sad. It is a big and strange and mysterious country, even to Russians, but it is our land. It's not for me to criticize."

"When we came away, it was first Stockholm, and then Paris and then New York and then Alabama. They are nice, these places. I would like to go again to Paris."

I don't know about Tamara visiting Alabama again, but Eddy's body was returned to Selma for a funeral service and burial. See below for more images and information.

In 1968 Tamara published Me and My American Husband. She remained in London until her death on April 15, 1980; she was 52, 20 years younger than Eddy. 

A 2014 article about "Selma's forgotten Pulitzer Prize-winner" can be read here and the Associated Press' obituary here. Some of his papers are held by Syracuse University.

Gilmore's grave in Live Oak Cemetery, Selma. According to an Episcopal Diocese record I found via Ancestry.com, his burial service was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in that city. 

Source: Find-A-Grave

Tamara's grave in Gunnersbury Cemetery, Greater London

Source: Find-A-Grave

Via Ancestry.com I found Gilmore's World War II draft registration card, which he filled out on October 16, 1940. At the time he was living in Silver Springs, Maryland, and working for the Associated Press. On the other side the personal description noted height as 6 feet, 205 lbs., with brown eyes and hair and a "ruddy" complexion. Oh, and the card gives next of kin as Mrs. Margaret Cook Gilmore, "wife", the first I've read about her. I was unable to find any more information. 

Alabama River at Selma on a 1907 Postcard

Now we come to a post on one of my favorite topics, old postcards. I've written one piece on a number from my own collection, "Some Old Alabama Postcards (1)". I really must move on to part two one of these days. I've also incorporated postcards into a number of entries on this blog, such as the one on "Carnegie Libraries in Alabama."

I've found many interesting cards, such as the one below, at the Alabama Mosaic collection of digital resources from various libraries in the state. You can browse through more than 8200 here. 

So what's up with this postcard? First, it was issued by the Rotograph Company, founded in New York City in 1904. The company closed in 1911, but not before it had printed cards with numerous images from around the U.S. 

This card has a view of the Alabama River passing through Selma, with a bridge in the foreground constructed in 1885 by the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works. Another postcard below shows the draw bridge open for river traffic. This structure was replaced by the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1940.

The address side of the card tells us it was sent to Miss Zola Campbell of Darlington, Indiana. Via Ancestry.com and Find-A-Grave I located a Zola Campbell who died in 1960 aged 78 and is buried in Darlington. Various entries for her in the U.S. census track her through the years in Indiana; she never married. In 1950 she was living with another single woman two years younger on Main Street in Darlington and working as a library assistant. The 1940 census gives the same information, except she is a "Senior Library Clerk."

The postmark is unreadable, but the sender has conveniently written a date, August 21, 1907, on the front of the card along with his message. The one-cent Ben Franklin stamp used here was first issued in 1902. 

So what is our correspondent's message on this postcard? He [presumably] informs Zola that "Haven't seen or heard of any of our party so far" and puts those words in parentheses. Also set off that way is "Used to swim here" either under or near the bridge. Does that mean he grew up in Selma? Visited relatives there? 

Finally, at the bottom of this side of the card is "Now wont [sic] you be good? Been fishing up the State and am headed for Texas. Had great time. Write me. With love [what may be] Mom and Dad. If that last part is correct, the card may have been written by her father, Thomas M. Campbell, who was also born in Indiana. Perhaps the "our" is himself and his wife, Zola's mother.

Except for the swimming and fishing notations, much of this message is cryptic to us. What "party" is he expecting to see or hear from? Why does he ask Zola about being good? By 1907 she was 26 years old. What is the background of the note "Used to swim here"? 

Zola Campbell's obituary can be seen below. Since she lived in a small town and died in 1960, and had a sister that survived her, I wonder if anyone in Darlington today could offer some clues. 

I presume the "B5-PC 4.50 1907" notation in pencil was added by a dealer in such ephemera.

Ah, the mysteries of postcard messages more than a hundred years old....

Source: Troy University Digital Collections

Source: Indianapolis News 23 August 2023. The 1920 U.S. Census gives her occupation as milliner. 

Source: Alabama Dept of Archives and History

Movies with Alabama Connections: Symbol of the Unconquered

Oscar Micheaux was born on a farm in Illinois in 1884, the fifth of thirteen children in the family. By the time of his death in 1951 he had written seven novels, and between 1919 and 1948 he also wrote, directed and produced 44 silent and sound films. He created the first black-owned film company and is considered the most important black filmmaker in America in the first half of the 20th century.

Only three of his 24 silent films are known to survive, the one discussed here released in 1920, Within Our Gates [1920] and Body and Soul [1925]. Symbol was restored a few years ago from the only known surviving print, but some of it is still missing. The film is available on a five-disc set, Pioneers of African-American Cinema. I saw it recently on Turner Classic Movies. I've also written a blog post on one of Micheaux's sound films, Birthright [1939], which was based on Alabama author T.S. Stribling's novel The Store. 

Symbol opens as Eve Mason leaves her home in Selma, Alabama, and heads to the Pacific Northwest. She has inherited property from her grandfather and thus has become a part of the Great Migration of blacks out of the south into other areas of the country that lasted from about 1916 until 1970. Most moved to urban areas, but Eve moves to property outside a small place, Oristown.

Eve soon meets her neighbor, a young prospector named Hugh Van Allen. He helps her get settled and comes to her rescue when she needs him. The film is a mix of themes: a "white-skinned" black [Eve] trying to fit somewhere, land thieves, a black man who hates all members of his race, and the good man [Hugh] who becomes wealthy, and the couple in love [Eve and Hugh] finally together in the end. There's even a nighttime raid by a Northwest version of the KKK, the Knights of the Black Cross. A more detailed summary of the story can be found here. 

This film is worth watching for several reasons, not the least of which is the all-percussion musical score composed for the restored version by legendary jazz drummer Max Roach. In Symbol as in his other films Micheaux tries to tell an interesting story with a variety of black characters who are not stereotypes. In the two I have seen, he succeeded. This film, released November 29, 1920, was filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the center of the American commercial film industry until everything moved west. 

Some more comments are below. 

Newspaper advertisement for the film

Source: Wikipedia

That subtitle may have been included to gather attention, since the surrogate Klan group is not really a major presence in this film. The Klan did appear in Oregon in the early 1920's as the group began it's "second wave" resurgence. 

Neighbor Hugh Van Allen helps Eve get settled in the tiny cabin on her grandfather's land. 

Just above the bed in the cabin is a portrait of Booker T. Washington

Eve Mason and Hugh Van Allen declare their love for each other by the end of the film. 

Alabama Victory Ships in World War II

I seem to be doing a series on this blog about ships with names connected in some way to Alabama. This post fits that group. In previous items I've discussed the 1898 USS Alabama battleship, the USS Birmingham and early flight, the effort to save the World War II USS Alabama battleship, and the SS Selma, a concrete ship. This time let's look at Victory ships named for Alabama cities. 

During World War II various United States shipyards produced 531 ships of the Victory class, cargo ships that were an improved design over the older Liberty class. Five types were constructed across two main categories; 414 were standard cargo ships and 117 were attack transports. You can find a list of the ships here and by building shipyard here.  

Many of the Victory ships were named after U.S. cities. In my research I discovered seven vessels named after Alabama locations. As you'll see I found little information on four and more on three of them. I've included the shipyards where they were built.


SS Anniston Victory Permanente Metals, Richmond, California delivered Feb 21, 1945

SS Bessemer Victory California Shipbuilding Corporation, Los Angeles delivered Aug 30, 1945. Had some commercial service in Vietnam, remained in the National Defense Reserve Fleet and berthed on the James River in Virginia until sold in the late 1980's and finally scrapped in India in 1991

SS Dothan Victory Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, delivered Nov 7, 1945

SS Eufaula Victory Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore, delivered Dec 12, 1944

SS Selma Victory California Shipbuilding Corporation, Los Angeles, delivered July 29, 1944

USS Talladega Permanente Metals, Richmond, California, delivered Oct 31, 1944. The Talladega was the only attack transport I found among the Victory ships with Alabama connections. The vessel worked various areas of the Pacific during the war, including the Battle of Iwo Jima. Here's the details on that from the Wikipedia entry:

Talladega sortied from Saipan as a unit of Task Group 56.2, the Assault Group, on 16 February, and arrived off Iwo Jima on the morning of 19 February, "D-day".^[4] Four Marines pictured in Joe Rosenthal's famous flag-raising photograph debarked from Talladega to climb Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima: Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, and Mike Strank.^[2] After landing her troops, she remained off the beaches embarking combat casualties for six days before heading back toward Saipan.^[4]

His Wikipedia entry notes this information about Hayes, a Native American:

He was the subject of an article by journalist William Bradford Huie, which was adapted for the feature film The Outsider (1961), starring Tony Curtis as Hayes. The movie inspired songwriter Peter La Farge to write "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," which became popular nationwide in 1964 after being recorded by Johnny Cash. In 2006, Hayes was portrayed by Adam Beach in the World War II movie Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood.

Sousley, Block and Strank are all portrayed in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers. William Bradford Huie, a Hartselle native, was a well-known novelist and journalist at the time. 

The Talladega also participated in the Korean and Vietnam wars and was finally scrapped in 1982. You can find many more details and a photo gallery about her here.

The city of Talladega has honored the ship with a monument on the courthouse square.

Photo taken by Rivers Langley 27 October 2011

Source: NavSource

SS Tuskegee Victory Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, delivered June 5, 1945. The ship spent seven years in commercial service after the war, then returned to the National Defense Maritime Fleet in 1952. In 1958 she was refitted as a Bowditch class oceanographic survey ship for the Navy and rechristened the USNS Dutton. She served in that capacity until February 1980; the vessel was scrapped in September 2007.

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SS Selma Victory and six other ships of the class being outfitted at the California Shipbuilding Corporation in Los Angeles in June 1944 

Source: NavSource Online

USS Talladega a Victory class attack transport ca. 1945

Source: Wikipedia

SS Tuskegee Victory after its conversion to the USNS Dutton

Source: Wikipedia 

Red Oak Victory in 2013, at that time the only operational vessel of the class

Source: Wikipedia

S.S. Selma, A Concrete Ship

Did you know concrete ships were once a thing? Neither did I. Let's investigate.

These ships were built of a combination of steel and ferrocement, or reinforced concrete. Several were built by the U.S. in World War I due to steel shortages. The war ended before any were used, but such ships and barges were built and deployed by the U.S. and Great Britain during World War II. The U.S. alone built 104 of the vessels. The concrete boat actually dates to 1848 in France; vessels with concrete hulls have been launched even in recent years. A website dedicated to the history of these vessels is here.

The largest of the twelve concrete ships constructed by the U.S. during the First World War was the S.S. Selma and its twin the S.S. Latham. These ships were not entirely concrete, of course, only the hulls. The S.S. Selma weighed 7500 tons, was 434 feet in length, and could make about 12 miles per hour. 

F.F. Ley and Company built the S.S. Selma in Mobile, and she was launched on June 28, 1919. That same day the Treaty of Versailles was signed, long after hostilities had ended in November 1918. Since the government no longer needed her, she was sold to a private company and began working several ports along the Gulf Coast as an oil tanker. 

In May 1920 she struck a jetty in Tampico, Mexico; the accident put a long gash in the hull. Temporary repairs allowed the shipped to be towed to Galveston, but no permanent repairs could be made. The owners then partially sank her near Pelican Island in a specially dug channel on March 9, 1922. The wreck has been visible ever since and has become a tourist attraction.

A recent article from the Associated Press describes the current status and probable future of the SS Selma. The wreck has been a state archaeological landmark since 1993 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, but the president of the corporation that owns her noted rapid deterioration and the possibility she could be under water in fifteen years. That would be a sad fate indeed for a vessel just now reaching 100 years after launch.

An appreciation of the SS Selma by Richard W. Steiger can be found here. A web site devoted to all the concrete ships of World Wars I and II is here. More about the SS Selma can be found in Dorothy Anne Rowland's 2018 thesis, "The History of Galveston's Concrete Ships" [Texas A&M University, PDF file]. 

You can find a gallery of photos of the wreck here.

Source: Shipwreck World

Source: Wikipedia

Selma's Concordia College Closes

On April 28 Selma's Concordia College held its final graduation in the school's gymnasium. About 150 students received degrees in the 92nd graduation ceremony. Concordia had 445 students registered in the fall 2017 semester.

School funding had been in crisis for some years, and enrollment was falling. In February 2018 the decision to close was announced. The Selma campus was the only historically-black one in the Concordia University System of ten schools operated around the U.S. by the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. 

The school opened in 1922 as both a high school and college to train church workers. The college closed during the Depression. Eventually the college reopened, and the institution became known as the Alabama Lutheran College and Academy. The name was changed in 1981. In 1997 two 1928 buildings, Bakke Hall and the Dormitory, were listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. In 2010 the campus had expanded from 22 to 57 acres. 

The school competed in several men's and women's sports, and fielded a football team from 2005 until 2015 when costs became prohibitive.

Alabama has 14 other historically-black universities, four-year colleges and community colleges currently operating. Daniel Payne College, opened in Birmingham in 1880, previously closed in 1977. 

Alabama Author: William Chambers Morrow

In 1985 Doubleday published Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural : A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New, 650 pages of stories, many written by giants of literature ranging from Bram Stoker to Tennessee Williams and J.R.R. Tolkien. Tucked in among these works is "His Unconquerable Enemy" by W.C. Morrow, who just happened to be born in Selma on July 7, 1854. Another of his stories was adapted for the "Young and the Headless" episode of the Monsters TV series broadcast on November 25, 1990, and starring Karen Valentine. "An Original Revenge" appears in The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories published in 1995 by Carroll & Graf. 

Morrow died in 1923. Let's investigate. 

Morrow's Wikipedia entry and his information on the Tellers of Weird Tales site offer some information about his early years in Alabama. Wikipedia's source is a critical essay on Morrow's work in S. T. Joshi's book The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004). Terence Hanley, who maintains the Tellers site, does not give a source for most of his material, although he does quote another book by Joshi on Ambrose Bierce and his remarks about Morrow's writing. I've also done a bit of research in the U.S. Census and elsewhere, so here's the scoop so far.

Wikipedia notes, "Morrow's father was a Baptist minister and the owner of a farm and of a hotel in Mobile, Alabama. The American Civil War meant that the family lost its slaves and by 1876 the young Morrow was running the hotel, having graduated from Howard College (now Samford University) in Birmingham at the age of fifteen." 

Hanley says, "William Chambers Morrow was born on July 7, 1854, in Selma, Alabama, son of a slaveholder. The Civil War and Reconstruction put an end to that of course. In 1870, when the census enumerator found them, Morrow's father and mother were keeping a hotel with their sixteen-year-old son in residence. Morrow graduated from Howard College (now Samford University) at age fifteen and moved to California in 1879. "

Apparently Hanley also relies on the Joshi essay about Morrow. I have not found the family in the 1860 U.S. Census, but I did locate them in the 1870 one. Father William Chambers Morrow and wife Martha are included, as well as daughter Georgia (20), W.C., Jr. (16) and younger sister Dozella (7). The occupation of Morrow's father was given as "Hotel Keeper"; the mother was "Keeping Hotel." They were living in the town of Evergreen in Conecuh County. 

Via Ancestry.com I found Morrow and his father listed in Mobile city directories for 1875 and 1876. The father was Manager of the Gulf City Hotel; his son was the "Proprietor". Both lived at the hotel. So far I have not found the name of the hotel in Evergreen or anything about the Gulf City Hotel in Mobile except it's listing in the 1878 city directory which placed it at the southeast corner of Water and Conti.

 In addition, I've found nothing about Morrow's time at Howard College, which was incorporated in Marion in 1841 by the Alabama Baptist State Convention. The college did not move to East Lake in Birmingham until 1881. If the elder Morrow had indeed been/remained a Baptist minister, he may well have sent his son to Howard.

Morrow apparently left Alabama behind for good in 1879 and moved to California. Why the move there and how he began writing remain mysteries, but from the 1880's until about 1908 he published a number of stories. Listed below are those pieces currently included in the FictionMags Index. Some of his tales and novels were published in newspapers, including William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. 

Many of Morrow's short stories are science fiction or horror. One of his best-known tales is "The Surgeon's Apprentice" (1887), later published as "The Monster-Maker" in his collection The Ape, the Idiot and Other People (1897). A 2000 collection of Morrow's horror and science fiction stories is The Monster Maker and Other Stories. The title story tells of a doctor/mad scientist who has a patient wishing to die. The doctor removes the patient's head and then keeps his body alive. His stories "Over an Absinthe Bottle" [p. 473-4] and "His Unconquerable Enemy" [p. 628-629] are discussed in Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana (2005).

Morrow also published several novels and other works. His first novel, Blood Money, came out in 1882. The work is based on a land title dispute that took place in May 1880 on a farm in the San Joaquin Valley near Hanford, California. A clash between settlers and a U.S. Marshall and others representing the Southern Pacific Railroad resulted in seven deaths. The incident, known as the Mussel Slough Tragedy, later became the basis for Frank Norris' novel The Octopus (1901) and May Merrill Miller's novel First the Blade (1938). Ironically, Morrow began work in public relations for the Southern Pacific Railroad almost a decade later. 

His suspense novel A Strange Confession appeared in the Californian newspaper in 1880 and 1881 but has not been reprinted. Much later he published two adventure novels, A Man; His Mark (1900) and Lentala of the South Seas (1908). He also wrote some non-fiction, such as Bohemian Paris of Today (1900), from "notes by Edouard Cucuel", and a short travel booklet, Roads Around Paso Robles (1904). In 1889 he drew on his youthful experience for a 32-page pamphlet, Souvenir of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California. A history of that hotel can be found here.

Morrow seems not to have published anything after 1908. Almost a decade earlier he had begun to teach writing. The Tellers of Weird Tales site notes, 

"Ambrose Bierce mentioned his friend W.C. Morrow in an essay entitled "To Train a Writer" from 1899. Bierce observed that "Mr. W.C. Morrow, the author of 'The Ape, the Idiot and Other People,' a book of admirable stories, is setting up a school to teach the art of writing. If he can teach his pupils to write half as well as he can write himself he may be called successful." (Quoted in Ambrose Bierce, A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (1998)."

What Morrow did for the remaining years of his life is unknown. He died on April 3, 1923, in Ojai, Ventura County, California. In 1881 he had married Lydia H. Houghton; she is listed with him in the 1920 U.S.Census. The couple is said to have had a child that was either stillborn or died in infancy and no other children. 

Various other questions about Morrow remain to be investigated. Where is he buried? What happened to his wife and his parents and siblings back in Alabama? Did he ever return to his home state before he died? Perhaps one day a fuller biography will be written. 

Morrow lived and worked in San Francisco in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at a thriving time for the city's literary scene. Majors writers such as Bret Harte, Jack London and Frank Norris as well as many lesser known authors plied their trade alongside Morrow. And this group, which preceded the San Francisco Renaissance and west coast Beat writers in the city by many decades, had an Alabama connection.  

Source: Wikipedia

Frontispiece to A Man: His Mark

Artwork by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, a well-known book illustrator and painter of the time

Source: Internet Archive

William Chambers Morrow listing at the FictionMags Index

MORROW, W. C., Jr. (chron.)
• * Bob Angel’s Vision, (ss) The Argonaut
  • Short Stories Feb 1892

MORROW, W. W. (chron.)  [probably not our Morrow]
• * To the Hilt: A Case in Surgery, (ss) The Argonaut
  • Short Stories Jun 1890

MORROW, WILLIAM C(hambers) (1853-1923); (about) (chron.)
• * After the Hanging, (ss); from Collected Sketches.
  • Short Stories Jan 1891
• * As to Her Rascality, (ss) Smith’s Magazine Oct 1908
• * Bal des Quat’z’ Arts / From the Notes of Edouard Cucuel, (ia) Lippincott’s Magazine Nov 1899
• * Clearing the Way, (ss) Cosmopolitan Oct 1906
• * A Cry for Help, (ss) The Argonaut May 10 1890; also as “A Story Told by the Sea”.
• * The Empty Saddle, (ss) The Smart Set May 1905
• * The Haunted Burglar, (ss) Lippincott’s Magazine Jul 1897
  • Weird Tales Sum 1974
• * Held in Reserve, (vi) Short Stories Sep 1890
• * His Unconquerable Enemy, (ss) The Argonaut Mar 11 1889, as “The Rajah’s Nemesis”.
  • Weird Tales Aug 1929
• * In Storm, (ss) People’s Sep 1907
• * A Maiden Effort, (ss) The Wave Apr 20 1892
• * A Marble Woman, (ss) The Penny Pictorial Magazine Jun 17 1899
• * The Monster-Maker, (ss) The Argonaut Oct 15 1887, as “The Surgeon’s Experiment”.
  • Weird Tales Dec 1928
• * The Other Voice, (ss) The Smart Set Jan 1906
• * Over an Absinthe Bottle, (ss) The Argonaut Jan 2 1893, as “The Pale Dice-Thrower”.
  • Weird Tales Apr 1933, Jan/Feb 2004
• * The Pale Dice-Thrower, (ss) The Argonaut Jan 2 1893; also as “Over an Absinthe Bottle”.
• * A Peculiar Case of Surgery, (ss) The Argonaut Feb 4 1889; also as “The Permanent Stiletto”.
• * The Permanent Stiletto, (ss) The Argonaut Feb 4 1889, as “A Peculiar Case of Surgery”.
  • Weird Tales Aug 1930
  • The Golden Book Magazine Oct 1933
• * The Queen of My Little Twelve Devils, (ss) The Wave Dec 17 1892
• * The Rajah’s Nemesis, (ss) The Argonaut Mar 11 1889; also as “His Unconquerable Enemy”.
• * The Removal Company, (ss) The Californian Oct 1891
• * A Story Told by the Sea, (ss) The Argonaut May 10 1890, as “A Cry for Help”.
  • Incredible Adventures #1 1977
• * A Strange Adventure, (ss) The Wave Mar 7 1891
• * The Surgeon’s Experiment, (ss) The Argonaut Oct 15 1887; also as “The Monster-Maker”.
• * The Topography of California, (ar) Lippincott’s Magazine Sep 1892
• * The Voice of Nature, (vi) Short Stories May 1891
• * When Dangers Appear, (ss) The Penny Pictorial Magazine Jul 29 1899
• * The Woman of the Inner Room, (ss) The Argonaut
  • Romance Mar 1891
• * The Wrong Door, (ss) The Argonaut
  • Romance Jul 1891
_____, [ref.]
• * “The Dice Thrower” by Sidney Southgate, (ss) Yes or No Apr 18 1908, as by Thomas Moult.
• * “The Dice Thrower” by Thomas Moult, (ss) Yes or No Apr 18 1908