1880

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Six lines of poetry in Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston. Edited by Mrs. John T. Sargent. Boston. 1880 [BAL (6:212) notes that the six lines of poetry appear on p. 399 and are extracted from the proem to Part V, “Isle of the Amazons,” Songs of the Sun-Lands, 1873.] [MGK]
-----. The Union of American Poetry and Art. By John James Piatt. Cincinnati. 1880 [BAL] [MGK]
-----. Hope. Californian (April 1880) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Pacific Revisited, I.” The Independent. New York (29 April 1880) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Pacific Revisited, II.” The Independent. New York (6 May 1880) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Two Babes of the Wood, A Comedy Drama in 4 Acts. (13 May 1880). [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list.] [MGK]
-----. Shoshone. Californian 1 (June 1880): 498-501. [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Beyond the River.” “Address of Mr. Joaquin Miller.” The Society of the Army of the Potomac. Report of the Eleventh Annual Re-Union at Burlington, Vermont, (16 June 1880). New York: Macgowan & Slipper. (132 pages; Beyond the River, pp. 58-59) [HON] [BAL (6:189) notes that Beyond the River is presented in nine stanzas. For another version, truncated, see Representative Poems..., 1886.] [MGK] [WC] [MCK]
-----. The Danites. Typed copy of the script produced at the Broadway Theatre, New York, September 2, 1880. [Astor Library at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City.] [MES typed copy.] [MGK]
-----. Fair Ina. [Ina Coolbrith] Argonaut (2 October 1880). [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The New Napoleon.” Californian 2 (November 1880): 389-393. [OAK] [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Utopian Community.” New York Daily Tribune (28 November 1880): 4: 6 [MGK]
-----. “Utopia.” Californian 2 (December 1880): 557-563 [HON] [“Utopia” reprinted in (Miller 1977:233-247).] [MGK]
-----. Welcome, Sierra. Californian (December 1880) [HON] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Beadle, John Hanson. Western Wilds, and the Men Who Redeem ThemCincinnati: Jones Brothers, San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, and Houston: James & Co., 1880.
First printed in 1877. Also printed in 1878, 1879, 1881 and 1882.
“Sketch about Miller.” San Francisco Chronicle (8 February 1880): 1:1. [CAL] [MGK]
“Items.” Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (24 April 1880) [Joaquin Miller has lately married a New York actress and authoress.”] [MGK]
“Veterans of the Potomac: The Society’s Eleventh Annual Meeting.” New York Times
(17 June 1880): 2. [NYT online] [MCK]
“An Oregon Prose-Poem.” New York Times (4 July 1880): 8 [NYT online] [MCK]
“Hungry Democratic Pilgrims: A Spicy Account of the Stream of Politicians Running to
Governor’s Island.” New York Times (30 July 1880): 1 [NYT online] [MCK]
“Visiting Niagara Falls.” New York Times (2 August 1880): 1-2 [NYT online] [MCK] [See letters also]
Rothwell, Annie. “Edge-Tools.” Appleton’s 9.51 (September 1880): 193 [MOA] [MCK]
“Notes of the Drama.” New York Times (19 September 1880): 7 [NYT online] [MCK]
Gally, James W. “A Listening Loafer.” San Francisco Argonaut (2 October 1880)
Gally’s sketch of two miners pokes fun at Miller’s The Ship in the Desert and
Bohemians. Reprinted in Martin Lewis’ The Mining Frontier: Contemporary Accounts from the American West in the Nineteenth Century, 1967 [MCK]
“Joaquin Miller in Wall Street.” New York Daily Tribune. (24 October 1880): 3:4 [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller’s Parents” Daily Alta California 32. 11,175 (18 November 1880): 5 :5. [Alludes to Miller’s having an Indian son.] [A few notes about the father and mother of the “Poet of the Sierras” and their home at Coburg, Oregon. Portland Standard.] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to [William Hayes Ward]. (1880?) 4 p. [Addressed: My dear dear Editors Independent.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11277.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William Hayes] Ward. (1880?) [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM
11278.] [MGK]
-----. Letter, 187? June 28, Niagara Falls, Canada, to [no name, n.p.], 1870-
1879? [University of Michigan Library], [WC].[MCK] [See Secondary above]
“Reports all is well; he will be in New York soon; he and a fellow visitor
are enjoying the Falls.” [WC] [MCK]
Anthony and Ellis’s Dramatic Festival, This Evening Joaquin Miller’s Great American
Play in Four Acts, the Danites. [S.l.: Libbey & Scales, Printers, 1880-1889?
[WC] [MCK]
Wilkins, Jasper. “Journal of the Weather Kept by Jasper Wilkins 1880-1882.” [LHM] [A
farmer near to and familiar with the Miller family] [MGK]

 
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