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Miller, Joaquin. Specimens. n.p. (signed, "C.H. Miller") Portland, OR: Carter Himes. Signed and dated [1/1/1868] copy at [UOL]. [OAK has a 54 page copy but gives no date or publisher.] [HON has a photocopy of this publication as well as a negative photocopy.] “Canyon City, O., April 1st 1868. Preface signed at end: C.H. Miller, Canyon City, O[regon]., April 1st 1868.” [BAL (6:182).] [CAL] [RCL] [Loua Ellah: A Tale of the Rogue River War later becomes, The Last Taschatas in Songs of the Sierras with only minor word changes; some line deletions, stanza reconstructions and change from past to present tense.] [See also Everit 1952.][FST cites 1967:53 a signed copy to his mother Dec. 30, 1869.] [MGK] Specimens, 1868 [MCK]
-----. Shadows, a short blank verse narrative initialed with a quatrain later used at the head of the poem The Ideal and the Real in Songs of Italy 1978. OHS Quarterly (June 1946): 176. Followed by the whole poem in 8 sections on five pages and dated Cañon City, May 68. Page 31-45 the poem Lona Ellah, [Louah?] A Tale of the Rouge River War. Incorrect spelling of Rogue common in that day. In Exile followed [see Stewart Sherman's Collected Poems in 1925] Miranda followed [see Jouquin Et. Al.] [MGK]
-----. To the Poets of California later appears as To the Poets of San Francisco Bay in later printed versions [MGK]
-----. The Minstrel struck through and re-titled A Fragment according to Corning “an amorphous poem of little meaning never repeated elsewhere.” Armina, or the Miner's Fever Dream dated May 18, 1868 and later re-titled Zarana and published in Joaquin Et. Al. [MGK] [SPS 1923:569 Miller in B. I, 174 says that Joaquin, Et Al. was first published in 1868: but the title-page and copyright dated 1869.] [MGK]
-----. Beginning on page 107 a humorous lengthy narrative poem, after the tradition of Longfellow's Hiawatha, but never published elsewhere, Kamnyakking, a tradition of the Columbia Valley. [MGK]
-----. The 117 line "Vale" which later appeared as Ultime. [MGK]
-----. Crossing the Plains. Golden Era XVL.19 (5 April 1868): 4:1 San Francisco. In “To Correspondents:” “H: WE BESPEAK A CORDIAL WELCOME AND ATTENTIVE PERUSAL OF THE SUBJOINED. IN OUTCROPPING VERSE IT TELLS ALL ABOUT “CROSSING THE PLAINS.” SIGNED H***.” [Ella Higginson used "Crossing the Plains" as a title for her version of this experience. See Fred Lockley's column in Oregon Journal (11 September 1930)]
-----. Golden Era (18 April 1868)
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (25 February 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19127] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Portland, Oregon 18 March 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19128] [MGK]
-----. Letter to J.D. Miller, M.D. [Miller's brother John] in Easton, Pennsylvania from Sunny Ridge, Oregon (24 March 1868) [FRS] [LHM] [Partial copy] [Signed C.H. Miller] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Portland, Oregon. Apr. 10, 1868. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19129.]
-----. Letter to Ella Luckey [Miller's sister] from Cañon City, Oregon (28 April 1868) 2 p. [University of Oregon] [Reprinted in Harr C. Wagner, Joaquin Miller and His Other Self . San Francisco (1929): 58-59] [LHM] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Hon. W. Lair Hill, Portland Oregon from Cañon City (12 May 1868) 4 p. [University of Virginia MSS 7132 Box 2] [FG] [Written about six weeks after publication of Specimens and in response to a letter from Hill] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (13 May 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19130] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (24 May 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19131] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (13 June 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19132] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (3 August 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19133] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D.Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (17 August 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19134] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. from Cañon City, Oregon (29 August 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19135] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (3 October 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19136] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (8 November 1868) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19137] [MGK]
-----. Letter to James H. Miller [Miller's brother] from Cañon City, Oregon (17 November 1868) 3 p. [University of Oregon] [LHM] [In Wagner 1929:61] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D.Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (13 December 1868.) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19138.]
Pherne Miller Collection 1868-1976
University of Oregon, Includes 14 original letters by Joaquin. (University of
Oregon Online Library Catalog).
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