1883

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Oregon Idyll. New York. 1881 [PMC] [MGK] Listed as in 1883 in “Joaquin Miller Books.” (60 entries) [OHS Clippings File] [MCK]
-----. Songs of the Sun-Lands. Boston: Roberts Bros. 1883. 212 pages. [UOL] [OAK] [MGK]
-----. William Brown of Oregon. Cleveland, OH: The Alden Printing Company. 1883. 17 pp. [GRA] [PMC notes “(wrapper)” on this book's card.] [BAL (6:192) notes, “Collected in In Classic Shades, 1890.”] [MGK] Listed in “Joaquin Miller Books.” (60 entries) [OHS Clippings File] [PET] “Poem printed on part of rectos only, sample business cards occupy remainder of leaves.” [STANFORD-MELVYL] [WC] [MCK]
-----. Calls. 1883 [MCK]
-----. Peace on Earth. 1883. [BAL (6:182)] [See also 1885.] [MGK]
-----. Puts, 1883 [MCK]
-----. Straddles, 1883 [MCK]
-----. Ballad of a Brave Cattle-Man. Standard Recitations by Best Authors. Compiled by Frances P. Sullivan. New York: M.J. Ivers & Co. 1883. [HON has #11.] [BAL says No. 2. Standard Recitations by Best Authors.] [MGK]
-----. Brilliant Diamonds of Poetry and Prose... Compiled by Rev. O.H. Tiffany. Published for the Trade. 1883 [BAL (6:213)] [MGK]
-----. “The Brown Earth.” The Independent Almanac. New York: The Independent. Reprint. [BAL] [See May 10, 1883.] [MGK]
-----. Fifteen quotations by Miller appear in Poetical Quotations, edited by Anna L. Ward. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. [PMC] [Quotations include My Ship Comes In, published in 1876 in the New York Independent, Unloved and Alone, which [BAL] says originally appeared as To Carrie A.S. in Songs of Italy, 1878, and in Surf and Wave: The Sea as Sung by the Poets, edited by Anna L. Ward. [MGK]
-----. Gems for the Fireside... Compiled by Rev. O.H. Tiffany. Springfield, MA. 1883 [BAL] [MGK]
-----. The Jewess, Peter Cooper, and Princess Lillie appeared in California-Album in German. San Francisco: Druck von Rosenthal & Roesch. 1883. [BAL (6:192) notes that the poems appeared on pp. 101-101, 105, and 107-108.] The first two poems were collected in Memorie and Rime, 1884, and Princess Little, (otherwise Unica-Aeterna) appeared in Songs of Italy, 1878. [MNS notes the poems in both English and German, Jewess p. 100] [MGK] [WC] [MCK]
-----. No. 2 Standard Recitations by Best Authors. Compiled by Rev. O.H. Tiffany. Published for the Trade. 1883. [BAL (6:213)] [MGK]
-----. Over the Mountains... In Songs of E. Catenhusen. New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co. 1883. [BAL (6:192) notes that the text for this sheet music is otherwise not located. It begins: “Over the mountains and down by the sea, / A dear old mother is waiting for me...”] [MGK]
-----. Robin Hood's Ghost. In Lost in Pompeii.... Edited by Henry Howard Clark. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company. 1883: 124-134 [HON] [MGK] [WC] [MCK]
-----. The Sioux Chief's Daughter. One Hundred Choice Selections, No. 19. Edited by Phineas Garrett. Philadelphia. 1883 [HON] [MGK]
-----. William Brown of Oregon [_____ - _____] One Hundred Choice Selections, No. 22. Edited by Phineas Garrett. Philadelphia. 1883. [BAL] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Walker in Nicaragua, and Sunrise in Venice.” In Songs of Three Centuries. Ed. By John Greenleaf Whittier, Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge 1883: 313, 314. (http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/pageview [MGK]
-----. “How I Became Chief of the Scalplocks.” The Wasp. 1883 [HON notes that this spoof was later reprinted in 1970 6 pp. by Bird in Hand Press, Los Angeles for the Zamarano and Roxeburghe Clubs in Los Angeles September 26-27 1970 (200 copies).] [MGK]
-----. Washee Washee. American Missionary 37.1 (January 1883): 24 [MOA] [MCK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: His Observations on Life and Character in New York.” The Times: Chicago 18 (7 January): 5: 7,8 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Gold Hunters in the Snow.” New York Sun (14 January 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Passing Observations on Life and Character in New York.” San Francisco Morning Call. (14 January 1883): 1: 5 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: The Church of Strangers in New York.” The Times: Chicago 18 (21 January 1883): 5: 7-8 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Church of Strangers in New York.” San Francisco Morning Call 53.59 p. 1:3,4. (28 January 1883): 1: 3-4 [HON] [CAL] [The article ends with a poem entitled To Her and includes a line beginning, "Sail on!" used again later in his Columbus.] [MGK]
-----. Dakota. The Century 25.4 (February 1883): 551 [OAK] [HON] [CSC] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
-----. “In the Land of Clouds.” St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 10 (February 1883): 248-252. New York: The Century Co. 1883. [children's literature] [HON] [WWU] [About Mt. Hood, Oregon and a lap dog.] [MGK] [MCK]
Huelings Miller (Joaquin's father) died February 2, 1883. He was buried at West Point Cemetery, Coburg, Oregon, February 4, 1883. [MGK]
-----. “How the Millionaire Fleeced the Poet.” New York Times. New York 1883 (10 February 1883) [Originally appeared in the Somerville, NJ Unionist.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Gold Hunters of ‘61.” San Francisco Morning Call 53.80 (18 February 1883): 3:7 [CAL] [About Oregonians and Californians in Idaho.] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin at the Capital” “Observations in Washington by the Poet of the Sierras,” “The Next President,” “Decorative Art in America,” “The City of Splendid Vistas,” “Social Types Photographed at Leisure.” [Cor. New York Star.] San Francisco Morning Call 53.87 p. 1:3,4. (25 February 1883): 1: 3-4 [CAL] [The article says ‘capitol,’ the heading is ‘al’ [sic]] [Written at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C. on February 15, 1883.]
-----. “A Poet Talking Politics.” The Eugene City Guard. Whole no. 798 (3 March 1883): 8:1 [MGK]
-----. “Some Reflections Upon the Evils of the Accumulation of Millions by Individuals.” The Times: Chicago. 1883: 18 (4 March 1883): 6: 6-7 [HON] [MGK]
-----. Pajaronian. Lodi Sentinel (1883) [A poem about his cousin Senator John F. Miller from California.] [MGK]
-----. Peace. The Independent. New York (8 March 1883) [HON] [MGK] [Elsewhere listed as March 18 and as a story of Miller’s early life – not a poem.]
-----. Pajaronian repeated by [Ambrose Bierce] in a commentary in The Wasp 10 (10 March 1883): 7. [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: Charcoal Sketches of Peoples Prominent in the Metropolis and Their Peculiarities.” The Times: Chicago 18 (18 March 1883): 14: 7-8 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Pit River Massacre.” San Francisco Chronicle 1 (25 March 1883): 1-2; 1 (1 April 1883): 1-2 [CAL] [MGK] [FST] [MCK]
-----. “Robin Hood's Ghost.” Wide Awake. (April 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Robin Hood’s Ghost.” In Lost in Pompeii. By Henry Howard Clark. Boston,
1883: 124-134 [WC] [MCK]
-----. “Joaquin's Sunday Letter: His Opinion of the Conkling-Haverstick Tragedy, and His Hopes of New York's Reform; His Ideas of the “Passion "Play” and Its Author, Salmi Morse; The Remains of John Howard Payne---The Prospects of Victor Napoleon Becoming Emperor of France; Tariff on Art.” The (Chicago) Times 18 (1 April 1883): 16:7-8 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller. His Opinion of the Conkling-Haverstick Tragedy.The King of Siam and the Treaty with America--Napoleon IV--Honoring the Memory of John Howard Payne –Etc.” The Morning Call LIII.129 (8 April 1883): 1 [MGK]
-----. “A Brief Campaign.” San Francisco Chronicle 1 (8 April 1883): 1-2 [FST: “Miller's leadership in an Indian war in Oregon in March, 1864.”] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “49” The Gold Seekers of the Sierras. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (14 April 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: What He Has to Say About the Stupendous and Massive Brooklyn Bridge.” The Times: Chicago 18 (15 April 1883): 16: 3-4 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Convent Schools of Canada and America.” The Times: Chicago 18 (29 April 1883): 15: 4-5 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Mr. Tennyson's Fairies.” Wide Awake 16 (May 1883): 110-111 [HON] [MGK
-----. The Brown Earth. The Independent (New York) (10 May 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Life in New York: The Poet of the Sierras Gives Good Advice to the Ambitious Youth of the Country.” The Times: Chicago 18 (13 May 1883): 1-2 [HON] [MGK]
-----. Kelly's Paul Revere. Harper's Weekly (26 May 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Harper's Weekly (26 May 1883) [MGK] Reprinted in The Scoop (21 November 1914) as a riddle. The person who was able to decipher Miller’s handwriting won a year’s subscription.This story of this “riddle” is retold in Courtland Matthews’ “Abominable Penmanship of Poet Joaquin Miller.” Oregonian (14 September 1947) (Magazine Section): 8. [PET] [MCK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: The Universal and Undaunted Yankee Promises or Big Thing in Elephants Wall St. Talk ...” The Times: Chicago. 1883:18 (27 May 1883): 16:4-5. [HON] [Includes revised version of "That Texas Cattleman."] [MGK]
-----. “Idahho.” Continent (30 May 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller's Tribute to his Wife.” Walla Walla, WA: Walla Walla Watchman. (1 June 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Old Country Road. The Independent. New York. (7 June 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: On the Diversion of the Anglomaniacs.” The Times: Chicago. 1883: 18 (10 June 1883): 16: 7-8 [HON] [Includes "To The Arms of the Potomac."] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: Gen. Crook...in the Pitt River War.” The Times: Chicago. 1883: 18 (24 June 1883): 15: 5 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “JOAQUIN MILLER: Leaving the Heated City with Condolences for Those Who Can't Get Away: A Word in Behalf of Street-Car Horses and on Street-Car Manners Generally: Amusements in the Metropolis.” [Cor. The Times: Chicago 1883] 18 (8 July 1883): 14: 6-7 [Article dateline: New York, July 6, 1883.] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Our Western Cousins. (12 July 1883) [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list.]
[MGK] [MCK]
-----. The Silent Man: A Comedy-Drama in Four Acts. New York. 61 pp. [PMC] [BAL (6:191) notes: “Presumably printed for copyright purposes only. Deposited July 12, 1883. The Holograph copy inscribed by Miller ‘...Not published...20 July 83.’”][LC Call No: PS2397.S42 1882.] [MGK] [STANFORD - MELVYL] [MCK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: Some Reflections on Leaving the Heated City: A Word in Behalf of Street-Car Horses and on Street-Car Manners Generally A Good Word for Tramps.” San Francisco Morning Call. 15 July 1883): 1: 3 [CAL] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Tally-Ho! [A musical drama in three acts.] Presented in Washington, D.C. (20 July 1883) [HON] [see September 20] [MGK]
-----. “Charcoal Sketches of the Dominion of Canada.” The Times: Chicago. 1883:18 (22 July 1883): 13: 7 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Midsummer Pleasure Trip...Great Rivers of Canada.” The Times: Chicago. 1883: 18. (5 August 1883): 13: 4-5 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Old Quebec.” The Times: Chicago. (19 August 1883) [HON] [Written on August 18 in Quebec.] [MGK]
-----. “Old Quebec.” San Francisco Morning Call (30 August 1883): 5: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “On Boston...Flagrant Immorality...” The Times: Chicago. (2 September 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Charcoal Sketches: Playhouses of Gotham.” The Times: Chicago. (16 September 1883 [HON] [MGK]
-----. Tally-Ho!. [A musical drama, in three acts] New York. [PMC] [BAL (6:192) notes, “Presumably printed for copyright purposes only. Deposited Sept. 20, 1883. According to the Library of Congress music for this drama was composed by John Philip Sousa.”] [MGK]
-----. Java. The Independent. New York. (27 September 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Charcoal Sketches: Old Dominion.” The Times: Chicago. (30 September 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Little Gold Miners of the Sierras.” Wide Awake (17 October 1883): 7-22. [HON] [See also 1886; Pacific Nature Stories 1896, 1901.] [Mentions Jim Keene.] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: Sketches Among the Mountains of the Old Dominion. A Noble Type of the Old Dominion, The Blue Ridge Negro Stationary, The Story of Bull Run.” San Francisco Morning Call 54.129 (7 October 1883): 1: 5 [HON] [CAL] [Written in Manassas, Virginia Sept. 27 for the The Times: Chicago.] [MGK]
-----. Mr. Tennyson's Fairies and Other Stories by Famous Authors in Katy's Birthday. By Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). Boston: D. Lothrop and Company. 1883:149 pages. [AAS has a first edition.] [HON] [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list says date is Oct. 24.] [See also “Mr. Tennyson's Fairies.” Wide Awake. ( May 1883)] [MGK]
-----. “Charcoal Sketches...Capitol of the late Southern Confederacy (Richmond, VA).” The Times: Chicago. (14 October 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Charcoal Sketches: City of Brotherly Love.” The Times: Chicago. (28 October 1883) [Philadelphia.] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Her Picture. The Times: Chicago. (11 November 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Social and Artistic Capital...[Washington]” The Times: Chicago. (11 November 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Luther. The Independent. New York. (15 November 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Triangular Contest for Speaker-ship.” The Times: Chicago. (25 November 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Pilgrimage to Harper's Ferry.” The Times: Chicago. (9 December 1883) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Lost Cabin.” The Morning Call. Vol. 55(16)(December 16,1883): 1:3,4. [Not credited to Joaquin Miller but to H.L.W. [H.G.M.?], however only Miller would have recited the story as told by Boles, whom everyone else thought deceased. Miller had known Boles since 1853.]
-----. “Beautifying the Nation…the Vanderbilts…N.Y.C….” The Times. Chicago (23 December 1883). [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Wonderful City.” The Current I-XXXIII (1883) [Not seen] [HON] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
“Players Making Merry.” New York Times (1 January 1883): 5 [NYT online] [MCK]
Death of Miller’s son. San Francisco Morning Call. p. 1:6 (25 January 1883): 1: 6 [CAL] “The Salem, Oregon, Talk says: Joe Miller, son of Joaquin Miller, died at the residence of his grandfather, H. Miller, on the 4th of this month.” [MGK] [Actually Joe Miller appears to have been an Indian ranch hand.] [MGK]
“Fleecing by J. Gould in Purchase of Western Union Stock.” New York Times. p. 5:5. (10 February 1883): 5: 5 [MGK]
[Ambrose Bierce]. Comments on the Pajaronian which appeared in the Lodi Sentinel and The Wasp 10.345 (10 March 1883): 7 [MGK]
“City and Suburban News: New York.” New York Times 28 April 1883: 8. [NYT
online] “Joaquin will recite a poem before the New York Press Association at the
Madison-Square Theatre on Tuesday afternoon, June 19.” [MCK]
New York Daily Tribune. [Joaquin Miller’s Wife] (8 May 1883): 6: 1 [MGK]
Ambrose Bierce. “Joaquin Miller.” The Wasp 10.355 (19 May 1883): 5 [MGK]
“The Actors and Managers.” New York Times (30 December 1883): 3 [NYT online] [MCK]
Richardson, Charles F. A Primer of American Literature, 1883. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. C1883: 117pp. [online: Link]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Inscription to Mr. [Charles Carol Goodwin] ?, 1883 on cover of his “Tally Ho!”, a musical drama in four acts. [HON has uncatalogued in Inscriptions and Letters] [MGK]
-----. . Letter to “My dear Chroniclee (?) [18]83 New York. [HON has in JM Box 1: folder 6.] [MGK
-----. Letter to P.T. Barnum. (6 June 1883) [BAL (6:193)] [See White Elephant Chimes 1884.] [MGK]
-----. Typed letter, 1883, from B.F. Stevens, 4 Trafalgar Square, London for the Executors of Charles Whittingham to Joaquin Miller re: disposition of the late Charles Wittingham's books warehoused by Chiswick Press. Miller's handwritten __________ to Dear H. 1½ pages. [FRS] [MGK]
De Grummond Children’s Literature Research Collection, McCain Library, The
University of Southern Mississippi. Includes correspondence between the editors of St. Nicholas Magazine and its contributors including Miller. [MCK]
Traubel, Horace and Anne Montgomerie, Papers (Bulk 1883-1947) [WC] [MCK]
University of Florida, Manuscript Letters, John McKay Shaw Collection, Shaw Box
1645, Folder 4 (5 items) (cataloging in progress) Two letters by Joaquin listed in online catalog. [MCK] [OLUC]

 
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