1869

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Joaquin, Et Al. London: John Strangeways. 124 pages. [UOL] [RCL] [1869 date questionable, since Miller did not go to London until 1870. MGK]
-----. Joaquin, Et Al. Portland, Oregon: Carter and Himes. [This copy is ex the Estelle Doheny Library, auctioned by Christie's in Camarillo, California, February 1-2, 1988.] [FRS] [Juanita says 1869] [MGK]
-----. Joaquin, Et Al. (signed, "Cincinnatus Heine Miller") Portland, OR: S.J. McCormick, Publisher, 105 Front Street. [PMC notes that the author was listed as "C.H. Miller." 112 pages. Specimens 54 pages at end.] [UOL has four copies.] [OAK says this edition is 124 pages in length.] [HON has a copy of the first edition and says it is 112 pages in length.] [AAS says 112p.] [BAL notes it was deposited April 16, 1869.] [Benoni p. 74-117 is a precursor poem of what later appears in Life Amongst the Modocs.] [HUN] [MGK]
-----. Joaquin Et Al. By Cincinnatus H. Miller. Portland: S. J. McCormick, 1869. 112pp. [WC] [MCK]
London: Printed by J. Strangeways, 1872. 1869. 124pp. [WC] [MCK]
London: John Camden Hotten, 1869. 124pp. [WC] [MCK]
London: John Camden Hotten, 1872. 1869. 124pp. [WC] [MCK]
-----. Sack Cloth and Ashes. “Date on the basis of postmarked envelope in which the
production was mailed. Galley proof. Not pre-pared for publication, thus...
Elsewhere unlocated. At end of text: C.H. Miller.” [BAL (6:183)] [MGK]
-----. Benoni (Canyon City) City Journal (26 July 1869): 1. [An early poem called “...From Benoni, and signed by C.H. Miller” rptd. in Oregon Historical Quarterly 37 (September 1936): 165] [MGK] [MCK]

Secondary Sources
Himes, George. “Curator of the Oregon Historical Museum. Private Journal.” 1869. [PET] [MGK] [MCK]
City Journal [Canyon City, Oregon] (28 June 1869): 3. Notice that on June 9th Judge C. H. Miller married David Beesley and Irene Davis [MCK]
Advertisement. City Journal [Canyon City] (28 June 1869 and 26 July 1869): 3.
“C. H. Miller. Attorney, etc. Will practice in all the courts except the County Court. Office in old Court House, Canyon City.” [MCK]
Advertisement for Joaquin Et Al. Oregon Daily Herald [Portland, Oregon] 20 April 1869 to approximately 3 July 1869. [Multnomah Micro] [MCK]
An Oregon Book!
Just Published
Joaquin !!
Et. Al,
By Cincinnatus H. Miller
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1 Vol, 16 mo; 112 pp., Handsomely bound
in cloth. Price $1.50
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What the Press Say of it:
“Nothing is hazarded in pronouncing this
one of the handsomest things in American
poetry” - Oregonian
“We consider these as among the best
poems, taken altogether ever published in
Oregon” - Herald
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This volume is the brain-work of the
Pioneer Poet of the Northwest, and should find a
hearty welcome in every household throughout
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It is also a most
fitting souvenir to forward to friends
in the Atlantic states.
Copies mailed free to any portion of
the Union on receipt of price.
S. J. McCormick
Publisher, Portland
Oregonian, Review of Joaquin Et. Al. [See Advertisement 20 April above. MCK]
“Friendly Call” The Guard [Eugene, Oregon] (18 December 1869)
“Hon. C. H. Miller, County Judge of Grant county, gave us a friendly call during the week. He is looking well and reports everything in the upper country as being lively, and extremely democratic. Judge Miller is down on business and visiting his relatives in this county.” [NAOSUB] [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter(s) to Samuel A. Clarke. Papers, 1845-1897. [OHS] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (3 January 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19139] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Ella Luckey from Cañon City, Oregon (10 January 1869): 2 p. [University of Oregon.] [In Wagner 1929:59-60] [LHM] [MGK]
-----. Letters to Charles Warren Stoddard and others. (23 March 1869 - 1875. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11242-11281] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Cha[rle]s W[arren] Stoddard from Portland, Oregon (23 March 1869): 3 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11242] [MGK]
-----. Letter to James H. Miller from Sunny Ridge, Oregon (12 April 1869): 2 p. [University of Oregon.] [In Wagner 1929:62] [LHM] [MGK]
-----. Letter to S.A. Clarke from Eugene City, Oregon (29 May 1869) [University of Oregon.] [In Wagner 1929:62] [LHM] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (13 June 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19140] [MGK]
-----. Letter to ____________ from Portland, Oregon (18 July 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19141] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Cha[rles] Warren Stoddard from Cañon City, Oregon (30 August 1869): 4 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11243] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John DeWitt Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (30 August 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19142] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John DeWitt Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (3 September 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19143] [MGK]
-----. Letter to James H. Miller from Cañon City, Oregon (17 September 1869): 3 p. [University of Oregon] [LHM] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Ella Luckey from Canyon [sic] City, Oregon (23 October 1869): 2 p. [University of Oregon] [LHM] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard from Cañon City, Oregon (30 October 1869): 4 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11244] [MGK]
Thompson, J. Letter to Joaquin Miller from Harrisburg, Oregon (27 May 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19269.] [MGK]
Harte, Bret. Letter to Joaquin Miller (19 August 1869). In The Pursuit of Poetry, Flower, Desmond, ed.. 1939, pp. 216-182. [CAL] [See also Winn 1953] [MGK]
Slater, James Harvey. Letter to Joaquin Miller from ___________. (20 November 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19264] [MGK]
Williams, George Henry. Letter to Joaquin Miller from ___________.
(2 December 1869) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19270]
[MGK]
Book reviews of Joaquin Miller’s works. A collection of printed notices, reviews etc. cut
from periodicals and newspapers, individually mounted and chronologically arranged . [HON has in JM Box 5: part 1, 1869-1887; part 2, 1890-1930] [MGK]
Harte, Bret. 1869- 70 Bret Harte Papers (ca. 1869-1870). Sutro Library.
[Includes letters to Joaquin Miller] [MGK] Bancroft Library. [STANFORD-MELVYL] [MCK]
Saxton, Robert. “Joaquin Miller” In Mental Photographs; An Album for Confessions of Tastes, Habits and Convictions. New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1869. 8. [78]pp. [WC], [INT - 10/11] [MCK]
Ephemera, 1869- 1872. [Three portraits (two autographed) and a lock of hair,
autographed portraits are dated: Oct. 30, 1869 and Sept. 1872] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11249] [MGK]
St. James Gazette [unlocated] referred to by Herbert Bashford claims Miller was thought
to be Robert Browning. (SeeBashford Overland Monthly 75. 2 (February 1920): 112.) [MGK]

 
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