1870

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. The Arazonian [sic]. 1870 [HON has “A.MS.S. (“C.H. Miller”) 13 leaves, various sizes, mounted in a volume.” Located in JM Box 2:: volume 2 (12a-m).] [MGK]
-----. Pacific Poems. London: Whittingham and Wilkins. (Self-published) Published during Miller’s stay in London.[Cambridge has 1871] [Privately printed; later incorporated in Songs of the Sierras.] Songs of the Sierras, London 1870, Boston and London, 1871. New Revised ed. Chicago, 1892] [BAN] [RCL]. [PMC states that this 107 page publication has “printer as publisher” in London, Eng.] [UOL has a copy in their “Rare Book” collection (107 pages).] [HON has a copy and notes that their copy is one of 100 copies printed.] [AAS has a presentation copy inscribed by Miller.] [BAL (6:183) notes three bindings were issued. See [BAL] for specific details concerning each binding.] [HUN says Whittingham and Wilkins Printers and Publishers] [MGK]
-----. Myrrh. (Eugene, Oregon) State Journal Vol.?(?)?:?. (11 June 1870): ?. [MGK]
----- Reprint of stanzas from Myrrh, With Walker in Nicaragu, A Fragment, and
Arizonian OHS Scrapbook 36 p.117.
-----. “Plain Language from Truthful James: Chinese and Americans Cheating At Cards.” Overland Monthly 5.3 (September, 1870): 287. San Francisco: Overland Monthly Publishing Company. [HON] [SPL] [MGK]
-----. Rough Times in Idaho. Overland Monthly 5.3 (September 1870): 280-286. [SPL] [HON has the galley proofs, with corrections.] By “C.H. Miller.” [Reprinted in Miller, 1977, pp. 105-116.] [Also reprinted as Old Baboon in Idaho Yesterday (1968) 2-8.] [Baboon is Peter Bablaine from Easton, Northampton Co, PA.] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
-----. “Notes from An Old Journal.” (17 August 1870 and 28 September 1871) [Miller 1977:3-24] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
A Review of Joaquin Et Al in “Current Literature.” Overland Monthly. Portland, OR: S.J. McCormick. Vol. 4.1 (January, 1870): 104. [RCL credits this review to the editor, Bret Harte & others say Ina Coolbrith but Rhodenhamel 1973: 101 says Stoddard and Coolbrith urged Harte to do the review] [MGK]
[Harte, Bret] Review of Joaquin et al. Overland Monthly 4.1(January 1870): 104.
[RCL], [MOA].
“Finds that of the three poets Reviewed, Miller gives the best promise of
writing much more ‘vigorous poetry than has yet been written in
California.’ He shows that poetic instinct, though at present he is given to ‘pawing and curveting.’ [Attributed to Bret Harte as editor of the Overland in his unsigned column, ‘Etc.’ However, Bland [Bland, Henry Meade. “Sketch of the First Western Literary Period.” Pacific Short Story Club Magazine 4(July 1911): 5-7.] states that Ina Coolbrith wrote the Review to replace Harte’s original which was scathing.] [RCL 17] [MCK]
Suit for Divorce, Theresa Miller and C.H. Miller, April 4, and 18, 1870, Circuit Courts of Coos and Lane Counties, Oregon State Archives. [FST] [MCK] [MGK]
“Oregon.” Oregonian (6 December 1870) [OHS micro] [MCK]
“C. H. Miller, formerly of Oregon, author of Joaquin and other poems, is in
London, writing letters for Pomeroy’s Democrat.”

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to John D. Miller from Portland, Oregon. (12 January 1870) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19144] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from ___________. (1 February 1870) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19145.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard from Portland, Oregon. (2 February 1870) 3 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11245.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from ___________. (12 March 1870) [“Saved $7000 in gold.”] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19146.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to James H. Miller from Portland, Oregon. (18 March 1870) 2 p. [University of Oregon] [LHM] [In Wagner 1929:62.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from Portland, Oregon. (20 March 1870) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19147.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to James Steel from Portland, Oregon. (25 March 1870) [Bonds sold to C.H. Miller.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19265.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Dr. John D. Miller, Easton, PA, from Port Orford, Oregon. (27 June 1870) [Re: Divorcing his wife, Minnie Myrtle, and provisions for care of his children in San Francisco. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19148.] [States poem enclosed, but was not. Probably the poem Myrrh.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to J.C. [D.] Miller, M.D., Easton, Pennsylvania, from San Francisco, Cal.
(3 July 1870) [FRS] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard. (22 July 1870): 4 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11246.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Francis Haynes Jenks from New York. (11 August 1870) [Receipt for bonds.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19258.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from London. (20 October 1870) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19149.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Frederick Locker-Lampson (9 November 1870) [HON has in JM Box I: dummy folder.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John D. Miller from London. (8 December 1870) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19150.] [MGK]
-----. Eight letters to Frederick Locker-Lampson from 1870 to 1872. [HON has in JM Box 2:: vol. 2 (3-11).] [MGK]
Hood, Thomas. “the younger.” Letter to Joaquin Miller, ca 1870. [HON has in JM Box 2: vol. 21 (13)] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Frederick Locker [-Lampson] November 1870. [HON has in JM Box 2: vol. 2 (2).] [MGK]
Autograph Collection of Famous Men and Women, 1845-1901. [University of Michigan
Library] [WC] [MCK]
By Joaquin Miller: Poems, Articles, Stories, Letters, & ca. : a Chronological List.
Claremont, CA : Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont Colleges, 1900s-???. [WC], [INT - 10/12] [MCK]
Miller, Joaquin, Collection of Papers, BANC MSS C-H 58, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley
Three boxes and two cartons of mainly correspondence. Correspondents include Madison Julius Cawein to Harr Wagner, Ina Coolbrith, Iza Duffus Hardy, Elbert Hubbard to George Wharton James, Miriam Florence (Follin) Leslie, Jack London, Edwin Markham, Abigail Leland Miller (telegram to Harr Wagner), George Melvin Miller, James Duval Phelan, James Whitcomb Riley, Edmund Riley, George Sterling, Charles Warren Stoddard, John Swinton and Madge Morris Wagner. [MCK]
Miller, Joaquin. Folder, Miami University.
Contains two items: a letter from James Mitchell Smith and a photograph of
Joaquin and Helen Smith Mitchell [MCK]
Hutton, Laurence. Photograph Albums, Manuscripts Division, Princeton University
Library. Box 2, Album 4. Photograph of Joaquin listed in online catalog. [MCK]
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton. Papers, 1854-1940. [DUKE] [WC] [MCK]
“The bulk of the collection consists of copies of personal letters to Milnes, 1873-1880. Also included are verses by Joseph Hunter and Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, known as Joaquin Miller. Miller's letters describe Italy and literary and public figures” [WC] [MCK]

Photo Collection, San Francisco PublicLibrary. http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/sfhistory/biolistm.htm [MCK]
Rossetti Mss., 67 items, Lilly Library, Indiana University. Joaquin listed. [http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/rossetti.html] [MCK]
Searing, Laura Redden (1840-1923). Papers, 1846-1963, Western Historical Manuscript
Collection - Columbia. [MCK]
Troxel, Janet Camp. Collection of Rossetti Manuscripts (C0189), Princeton University
Library. [Online Catalog] [MCK]

 
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