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C.C. Dasham & Jeb Alexander
Jan. 30th, 2015 09:44 am
The torment and loneliness of homosexuality in a more repressive era is palpably evoked in this intense diary of Jeb Alexander aka Carter Newman Bealer. Jeb, who was an editor in a government office in Washington, D.C., bequeathed to his nephew Ina Russell 50 volumes of diaries from which she distilled Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945. Extending from the WWI armistice to the stock market crash to the defeat of fascism, this gracefully written diary includes myriad impressions of topical events and people. But the unifying thread is Jeb's love affairs, including his long time relationship with C. C. Dasham aka Isham W. Perkins, a state department employee. They probably met in 1925 when Dash moved to Washington to work as Librarian. They were together fro 40 years, from 1925 to 1965. Dash retired in 1967, 2 years after Jeb’s death and moved to Florida. (P: Carter N. Bealer, Paris, Summer, 1928)Carter N. Bealer (Oct. 17, 1899, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA - May 11, 1965, District Of Columbia, USA) was an aspiring author and diarist who chronicled his life experence from 1912 to 1964. Moving to Washington, D.C. with his father and stepmother in 1908, he attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia from 1918 to 1922. Graduating from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1927, Bealer worked for many years as an Editor of government publications. He travelled abroad often, including a trip to Europe during the very outbreak of World War II. He was a great lover of literature and the theatre, and left a large collection to the Washington and Lee Library. He is buried at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA, Plot: Site 5, Block 16, Lot 314.
Isham W. Perkins at Notre Dame, Paris, 1928. Photo by Carter N. Bealer
The unifying thread of Jeb Alexander's diaries, are the love affairs, including his long time relationship with C. C. Dasham aka Isham W. Perkins, a state department employee. They probably met in 1925 when Dash moved to Washington to work as Librarian. They were together fro 40 years from 1925 to 1965. Dash retired in 1967, 2 years after Jeb’s death and moved to Florida. Jeb bequeathed the diaries to his nephew, Ina Russell, from which she distilled Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945.
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