1863

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. [Miller's secessionist-pro-South editorial on p. 2. of a copy of the Eugene City Review [Eugene City, Oregon] (3 January 1863) to [UOL] by Mrs. Emma Preston.][See (9 November 1952) article.] [MGK] [“Freedom of the Press.” [OHS Microfilm] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “A Leaf From History.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (10 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Oregon. Part 3. By “Agricola.” Eugene City Review (10 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Oregon Editors - ‘Situations.’” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (10 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Oregon. Part 4. By “Agricola.” Eugene City Review (17 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “What Has Checked the Usurpations of the Administration?” Unsigned. Eugene
City Review
(17 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Executive Power.” By “B. R. Curtis.” Eugene City Review (17 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Greenbacks.” Unsigned. Eugene City Review (24 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Now and Then.” Unsigned. Editorial in the Eugene City Review (31 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “Support Your Paper.” Unsigned. Editorial in the Eugene City Review (31 January 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “A Bunch of Twigs from Sleepyvale.” By “U Know Who.” Eugene City
Review
(7 February 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. “From Salem - Letter No. 2.” By “Caucasian.” Eugene City Review (7 February 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Dawamish. Golden Era (8 February 1863) By “Sitcum Siwash.” [MGK] [FST 51] [MCK]
-----. “Breakers Ahead.” By “C. H.” Eugene City Review (4 February 1863) [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Valedictory. Eugene City Review. (14 February 1863) [HON] [MGK] [OHS Microfilm] [MCK]
-----. Answers to Correspondents. The Golden Era 11.11 (15 February 1863): 4.
[Joaquin Miller was evidently writing to the Golden Era and submitting poems under pen names. The editor [Joe Lawrence] answered "Agricola" and quoted fourteen lines from the "pome", Oregon, saying …A modicum of thought and music flow felicitously together here.”] [MGK]
-----. Answers to Correspondents. The Golden Era 11.15 (15 March 1863): 4 [MGK]
The editor answered and printed Miller's rebuttal to the editor’s February 15 remarks as well as a Miller poem titled My Muse. [MGK]
-----. The Hunter’s Home. By “Sitcum Siwash.” Golden Era (8 March 1863) [MGK] [FST 51] [MCK]
-----. On the Rappahanock. By “Sierra.” Golden Era (31 May 1863) [MGK] [FST 51] [MCK]
-----. Answers to Correspondents. The Golden Era 11.27 (7 June 1863): 4 [MGK] [The editor prints another four chapter (one page) melancholy romance entitled, "Minerva Jane Blossoms," by “Professor Nathanuel Bones, DD.”] [MGK]
-----. Answers to Correspondents. The Golden Era 11.29 (21 June 1863): 4 [MGK]
The editor prints another four chapter (one page) submission by “Professor Bones,” entitled, "JULIUS BOREGARD." [MGK]
-----. The Siege of Vicksburg. "Cincinnatus." The Golden Era. (5 July 1863): 3: 4-5 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Cape Blanco. By “Cincinnatus.” The Golden Era (19 July 1863) [FST 51] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Answers to Correspondents. The Golden Era 11.33 (19 July 1863): 4. The editor answers and prints a letter and a poem, Cape Blanco by "Cincinnatus." [During this period, Joseph E. Lawrence and James Brooks were proprietors of the Golden Era, which began as a weekly paper.] [MGK]
-----. Lake Tahoe. By “Sierra.” The Golden Era (26 July 1863) [MGK] [FST 51] [MCK]
-----. De Laine. A Tale of the Battle of Gettysburg. By “Ned Miller.” Golden Era 11.38 (23 August 1863): 8 [SPL] [HON] [MGK] [FST 51] [MCK]
-----. Under the Apple Tree. By “EGO” with editorial comment in Golden Era (16 August 1863) [Rptd. see August 2000] [MGK]
-----. Answers to Correspondents. The Golden Era 11. 38 (23 August 1863): 4. The editor acknowledges receipt of several pieces, including "... Professor Bones' Epistle to the Web-feet;..." and The Patriot Dead which appeared later. The Epistle has not been located and others in the August 23 list may also have been attributable to Miller. [MGK]
-----. Answers to Correspondents. Golden Era (30 August 1863): 4. “Oocaria’s” Feathers Pluck No. 49 is responded to and “M’s” poem My Future is published. [these sound more like Miller than Minnie to me.] [MGK]
-----. The Patriot Dead. by “Ned Miller.” Golden Era 11.44 (4 October 1863): 2:2 [FST] [HON has typed September 27] [MGK] [MCK] [Rex Burress suggests that The Patriot Dead’s style may have been patterned after Thomas Hood’s The Bridge of Sighs.] [MGK]
-----. “The Devil’s Castle.” Police Gazette, Fall 1863. [Walker]. Published according to Joaquin, see Franklin Walker, page 150 [MCK]
-----. Hoe Out Your Row. Boise News [Bannock City. I.T.]: 1. 2 (6 October1863): 1 [So far no other source proven, so possibly by Miller.] [MGK]
-----. Cape Blanco. Golden Era 11.44 (4 October 1863) [SPL] [See July 19-Frost] [MGK]
-----. Happiness. Eugene City Review. (8 November 1863) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Editor News: from Bannock City, Dec.2, 1863.” By “H.M.” Boise News 1.11 (December 1863): 3:2 Bannock City, Idaho Territory. [A report on certain mines, especially the El Dorado District and mentions Mr. David Markham.] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
“From Auburn and Boise Mines.” “Mr. Mossman gives us the following…” The Walla Walla Statesman 2.22 (16 March 1863): 3: 1. [MGK]

Miller, Minnie Myrtle. Golden Era (16 August 1863) [CAL] [Minnie Myrtle Miller wrote many articles for the Golden Era. This is the first one. Perhaps this is why Miller did not do well in San Francisco in 1863; Minnie Myrtle deluged them with her more conformist style of writing] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letters to John D. Miller and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1863 to 1871
-----. Forty-nine letters to John D. Miller. 24 July 1863 to 25 April 1871. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19107-19155] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from San Francisco, California. 24 July 1863 [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19107] [MGK]
-----. Letter to "Dear Brother" [John D. Miller] from San Francisco, Cal. (3 September 1863) 2 p. [FRS] [See August 2000 rpt.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Eugene, Oregon. (12 December 1863) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19109] [MGK]

[Album of Portraits of Noted Persons, Including Joaquin Miller, Also Actors and
Actresses Who Appeared in the Early San Francisco Theater]. [S.l: s.n., 1872?]. Bancroft Library. [STANFORD - MELVYL] [MCK]

Himes, George, Curator of the Oregon Historical Museum. “Life of Most Pioneer Papers
in Oregon Country was Very Brief.” ( OHS Scrapbook 54, p. 124). [MCK]
Note about the Register, Miller’s editorship and its suppression. The
Eugene City Review is also mentioned but Miller is not named as the editor.

Hitchcock-Coit Papers, ca. 1730-1929, 2037 Items, F. W. Olin Library.
http://www.mills.edu/library/LIB_SVCS/LIB_COLL/pcoll_desc/hcp_coll.html [MCK]

Leonard, Alexander Thomas Collection of Letters and Clippings Relating to California
Authors. [BERK], [WC] [MCK]

Morton, Oliver P.; John Richard Brayton, Collection of Papers, 1861-1907 [WC]
“Chiefly papers of Oliver P. Morton (1823-1877), including letters to and from Morton relating to the Civil War, his tenure as Indiana governor (1861-1867) and U.S. senator (1867-1877), and personal matters, and letters (1870-1874) to his family. Correspondents include Schuyler Colfax, Henry W. Halleck, Andrew Johnson, George B. McClellan, Joaquin Miller, William H. Seward, Caleb B. Smith, Edwin M. Stanton, Lew Wallace, and Richard Yates” [WC]

Western Authors Material from the Huntington Library: MS. University of California,
Berkeley. [WC]

 
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