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William P. Hobby Jr. & Diana Poteat Hobby Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0628
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes Diana P. Hobby's writing and research notes, from the early 1950s to 2014, focused on her study of William Butler Yeats. The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs and slides from the Hobby family's worldwide travels and their frequent visits to Ireland, and to Diana Hobby's family farm in North Carolina, Forest Home, along with their equestiran endeavors and competitions, and their lives and friends in Houston, TX.

Dates

  • ca. 1950s-2000s

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from the William P. Hobby, Jr. and Diana Poteat Hobby Family Collection must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.

Biographical / Historical

Diana Poteat Stallings Hobby (1931-2014), the daughter of writer Laurence T. Stallings and his wife, Helen Poteat, was born in New York City. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1952 and received her Ph.D. at Rice University in 1981. She was book editor of the Houston Post, a longtime editor of Studies in English Literature at Rice, and a lifelong champion of the humanities, libraries, and nature conservancy.

Biographical / Historical

William Pettus Hobby, Jr. (1931- ), born in Houston and a 1953 Rice University graduate, was lieutenant governor of Texas, 1973-1991. He is the namesake son of a former Texas governor and of Oveta Culp Hobby, director of the Women's Army Corps and first secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. William P. Hobby, Sr., and his wife were publishers of the Houston Post, of which their son was president, 1963-1983. He was chancellor of the University of Houston system, 1995-1997, and taught at the University of Texas at at Rice. Married in 1954, the Hobbys had four children: Laura Hobby Beckworth, Paul W. Hobby, Andrew P. Hobby, and Katherine Hobby Gibson.

Extent

2.75 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five series: Papers of Diana P. Hobby and William P. Hobby, Jr.; Photographs of family at Forest Home, Caswell County, NC; Photographs, oversize; Photographs, family, friends and vacations; Slides.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the William P. Hobby, Jr. and Diana Poteat Hobby Family Collection, ca. 1950s-2000s
Status
Completed
Date
2016
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

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Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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