1884

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. ‘49: The Gold-Seeker of the Sierras. [A novel.] New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls. 1884:148 pages. Standard Library, No. 123. [HUN and AAS say revised and enlarged edition of the story, which was originally published in Bret Harte's Overland Monthly.] [AAS also has a copy saying Standard Library Series No. 18 on the cover.] [PMC] [RCL] [OHS] [UOL] [USC] [OAK] [CAL] [HON has two copies. One has the original paper wrapper and the other is in a cloth binding.] [MES has in original green cloth binding.] [See also 1910.] [MGK] [Middlebury College] [STANFORD-MELVYL] [MCK]
-----. Memorie and Rime. New York: Funk and Wagnalls.[AAS has a first edition.] [HON has a first edition, inscribed by the author and another copy in original paper wrappers, inscribed by the author.] [BAL (6:193) notes that this edition was issued as Standard Library, No. 3, cloth.] [PMC says: Standard Library, No. 108.] [Paper] [MES] 237 pages. [UOL] [OAK] [HON] [RCL] [USC & HUN have a first edition.] [Reprinted in Miller 1977: “Notes From an Old Journal,” pp. 3-24. “An Elk Hunt in the Sierras,” pp. 38-44. “The Pit River Massacre,” pp. 45-51. “In the Land of Clouds,” pp. 94-104. “John Brown--Joseph DeBloney,” pp. 132-139.]MGK has copy #2354 paginated as follows:
I. Notes From An Old Journal
In New York 9, Going 11, In Ayr, Scotland 14, In The Ruins of Melrose Abbey 14, At Lord Byron's Tomb 15, In a Christian's War 17, In London 18, Settled Down in London 19, Cowley House, Cowley Street, Westminister 23, Hunting for a Publisher 23, My First Book 26, The End of the Journal in London 27, Back in America 28, Recollections of the Rossetti Dinner 29, What is Poetry? 38.
II. In California
In California 51, Damming the Sacramento 56, An Elk Hunt in the Sierras 72, The Pit River Massacre 80, The Girl of the Long Ago 88, To the Girl of Long Ago 89, What is Love? 89,
Who is Love? 91
III. In Oregon
In the Land of Clouds 93, An Old Oregonian in the Snow 106, At Home 115, Farewell 117, The New and the Old 118, Fishing in Oregon Waters 122, The North Pacific Ocean 129, Idahho 132.
IV. In Colorado
The Colonel Bill Williams Mine 143, The Cow Widow of Colorado 156, Colorado Madge 175.
V. Rhymes for the Right
To Russia 189, Mother Egypt 190, Miriam 191, Jewess 192, Illinois 193, Washee-Washee 194, To Rachel in Russia 195, We Scribes 196, A Flower from a Battle-Field: Going up Head-An Old Soldier's Story 197.
VI. In Memoriam
Joseph Lane-Senator 201, Tom Hood 207, “Minnie Myrtle” 213, Hulings Miller 220, John Brown-Joseph de Bloney: A California John Brown in a Small Way 232, For Those Who Fail 237.
This copy also includes “'49 The Gold-Seeker of the Sierras” in same binding on additional pp. 1-148.
In “The North Pacific Ocean” he quotes Swinburne “On seas” while in Cedars by Oregon Seas in Sunset in 1908 he quotes Swinburne “By seas.” [MGK] [Middlebury College] [Ohio Historical Society] [MCK]
-----. The Battle Flag at Shenandoah. In Standard Recitations No. 3. By Frances P. Sullivan March. 1884. [BAL (6:193) notes that this poem appears on pp. 46-47 and was collected in In Classic Shades.] [MGK]
-----. The Elocutionist's Annual. No. 12. Compiled by Mrs. J.W. Shoemaker. Philadelphia: Publication Department, National School of Elocution and Oratory. 1884. [BAL (6:193) notes, “Reprint save for ‘Luther,’ p. 140.”] [MGK]
-----. Excelsior Recitations and Readings No. 3. New York. 1884. [BAL (6:213)] [MGK]
-----. Fenno's Favorites. Compiled by Frank H. Fenno. No. 1. Philadelphia. 1884. [BAL (6:213)] [MGK]
-----. “The Fortunate Isles.” The Current. Chicago 2 (1884): 389. [STANFORD -
MELVYL] [WC] [MCK]
-----. “The Girl of Long Ago.” In Parker's Choice Selections No. 1. Readings & Recitations. Compiled by C.C. Parker. Sedalia, MO: J. West Goodwin. [BAL (6:192) notes that this book is a reprint except for "The Girl of Long Ago," which appears on p. 206, which was collected in Memorie and Rime, 1884.] [MGK]
-----. Illustrated Stories from Wide Awake with Episodes from Serials. Boston: 1884?. [BAL (6:213)] [1883 Wide Awake October, May] [MGK]
-----. The Old Soldier Tramp. In One Hundred Choice Selections No. 23. Philadelphia. 1884. [BAL (6:213) notes that the poem appears on pp. 114-115 and is titled The Tramp of Shiloh in the 1881 The Reading Club No. 9.] [MGK]
-----. The Sacred White Elephant--Toung Taloung. In White Elephant Chimes. Buffalo, NY: Courier Company. 1884. [BAL (6:193) notes that a letter from Miller to P.T. Barnum dated June 6, 1883 appears on p. 5. The poem, elsewhere unlocated, appears on pp. 6-7.] [MGK]
-----. “Negro Funeral.” The Times: Chicago. (2 January 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Home, Sweet Home; for the Hearth.” The Cottage Hearth. Boston 10.1 (3-7 January 1884) [Willis Boyd Allen, Ed.] “was born at Kittery Point, Me., July 9, 1855; graduated at Harvard, class of 1878, and at Boston University Law School, 1881. He has practiced law since that year, and has for some time been editor of The Cottage Hearth, and co-editor of Our Sunday Afternoon. Allen's literary focus was primarily on stories for young people.” (http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/allen_willis.html) [WC] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Holiday Season in the Great Stone and Iron City (New York).” The Times: Chicago. (6 January 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----.”Negro Funeral (Wash. D.C.).” The Times Chicago (20 January 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “For the Hearth.” The Cottage Hearth. Boston 10.2 (February 1884): 46-49 MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Neighbors.” (9 February 1884) [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list. Not located] [MGK]
-----. “Miller on the Mormons.” New York Star. (17 February 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Mormonism.” The Times: Chicago. (17 February 1884 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “On the Mormons.” San Francisco Morning Call (24 February 1884): 1: 5 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Presidential Possibilities.” The Times: Chicago. (2 March 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Sealed Unto Him.” (4 March 1884) [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list.] He can be grieved: “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” (Eph 4:30)
(http://www.christianway.org/CS%20and%20the%20Bible/holy_spirit.htm) [MGK]
-----. “Mormon Problem.” The Times: Chicago. (16 March 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Foundation of the National Capital (Washington, D.C.)” The Times: Chicago. (30 March 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Learned Senators.” The Times: Chicago. (13 April 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. ‘49. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. (14 April 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Ill-bred Congressional Accidents.” The Times: Chicago. (27 April 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Prediction.Opposing Tickets.” The Times: Chicago. (25 May 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Woman's Inordinate Social Ambition.” The Times: Chicago. (8 June 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. By the Potomac. The Independent. (19 June 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Head and Tail Presidential Tickets.” The Times: Chicago. (22 June 1884) [HON] [BAL (6:193) says, "Oregon University: Class of 1884."] [Possibly an address.] [MGK]
-----. The Tree by the Well. San Francisco Morning Call. 56.29 (29 June 1884): 9:1 [HON] [CAL] [This poem was written by Joaquin Miller in 1882 and read at the “annual” tree planting by the class of 1884 at the Oregon State University, Eugene City, Oregon.] [MGK]
-----. “Improvement in the Manners of...Lawmakers.” The Times: Chicago. (6 July 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Law-makers do not Remember the Sabbath.” The Times: Chicago. (20 July 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Is It Worthwhile? The Youth's Companion 57 (24 July 1884): 292. [See also 1890] [MGK]
-----. “Where are the Men?” The Times: Chicago. (31 August 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “His Visit to New Bedford: A Young Lady who went to be Baptized and was Drowned Instead.” The Times: Chicago. (14 September 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Danites of New York.” The Times: Chicago. (28 September 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Lost on the Plains.” St. Nicholas.11.12 (October 1884): 937-940. [Children's literature.] [HON] [WWU] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. In the Sierra. Argonaut. (11 October 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Quiet Place in the Alleghenies (White Sulphur Springs).” The Times: Chicago. (12 October 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. After the Battle. Argonaut. (18 October 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “In Magnolia City (New Orleans).” The Times: Chicago. (26 October 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “In the Magnolia Land.” The Independent. New York. (6 November 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “City that Improves on Acquaintance.” The Times: Chicago. (8 November 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “In the Mouth of the Mississippi.” The Independent. New York. (20 November 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Intimidation of the Negro Voter.” The Times: Chicago. (23 November 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. By the Way. The Independent. New York. (24 November 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Life in an Unknown Land.” The Independent. New York. (4 December 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Exposition in New Orleans.” The Times: Chicago. (7 December 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Vicksburg and Environs.” The Independent. New York. (18 December 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Opening of the Great World's Fair (New Orleans).” The Times: Chicago. (21 December 1884) [HON] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon. Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling, 1884:
354-356 [LHM] [Some sic.] [MGK]
“Standard biographical information - Joaquin’s birth, editorship, judgeship, divorce and courtship. Also provides a critical Review of his work overall. Unlike many other sources, this text states that Miller was ‘the Paris correspondent of a leading New York Paper during the Franco-German War.’” [MCK] [HGT]
“As a Dude.” San Francisco Morning Call. (27 January 1884: 9: 7 [CAL] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller’s Suit.” New York Times (13 February 1884): 8.
Note that Miller (represented by Simon Sterne and A. Regensberg), with McKee Rankin (represented by Howe & Hummel) opposite him, sat before Judge Lawrence in the Supreme Court, Special Term the previous afternoon. The reporter discusses what Joaquin alleges in his complaint and that he is seeking $5,000 in damages and an injunction stopping Rankin from playing “49”. A brief overview of the defense follows along with the comment that the Court was occupied mainly with reading text from Miller’s work and text from a report that a court reporter had recorded from the play. [MCK]
“Festivities at the Capital.” New York Times (24 February 1884): 1.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller attended a large reception given by Mrs. McElroy at the
White House during the afternoon. Many of the attendees were wives of
prominent army officers and senators. These women are listed and their dress described. [MCK]
“Gossip About Various People.” New York Times (9 March 1884): 4. [MCK]
Mention of Miller. San Francisco Morning Call. (9 March 1884): 1: 3 [CAL] [MGK]
Miller’s Washington home. San Francisco Morning Call. (23 March 1884): 9: 3 [CAL] [MGK]
“A Man About Town.” New York Times (30 March 1884): 6. [MCK]
“Speaking of Harte, I am reminded that the suit which Joaquin Miller desired him
to bring against McKee Rankin for an invasion of dramatic copyright of ‘Gabriel Conroy’ has come to naught. The poet of the Sierras wrote a furious letter to Harte warning him of this high-handed outrage, and Harte, being duly worked up to a proper pitch of indignation, probably believed that he was being wronged. So he answered Miller’s letter in terms quite as warm as those employed by the poet, and he instructed his next friend to protect his rights. It turns out, however, that William S. Andrews is the owner of the dramatic version of Harte’s novel, and that he bought the right to dramatize the story from the Hartford publishers of ‘Gabriel Conroy,’ and that the publishers bought all rights, the dramatic copyright included, from Mr. Harte. This little story shows how easy it is for a man to be wrought up to such a pitch of indignation that he can forget what are his real rights and what his imaginary ones” [MCK]
Review of Memorie and Rime. The Critic. 4.1 (5 April 1884): 161 [RCL] [MGK] [PET Vol. 4] [MCK]
Campbell, Bartley. My Partner. A play produced at the Olympic Theatre in London, April 10-May8. [I saw the play delivered as a farce by the Western Literature Association (WLA) Reader’s Theatre in Estes Park, Colorado, October 3, 1991, and there was not a line, scene, or situation that couldn’t have been found somewhere in Joaquin Miller’s works. Some reviews suggest Campbell took suggestions from the works of Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller. A German version with the title, Mein Kumpan, was staged in Berlin in 1883 and at Bomberg in 1884. A moving picture version was filmed in 1909.] [Miller knew Frank Campbell, Bartley’s brother in Siskiyou Co. in 1854] [MGK]
Review of Memorie and Reine [sic]. The New York Times. (20 April 1884): 12 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Notes on Lower California.” Overland Monthly 3.5 (May 1884): 548 [MCK]
Woodberry, George E. Review of Memorie and Rime. The Nation. (5 June 1884): 492 [RCL says “Finds the personal tone of this book modest and sincere, but suggests that Miller’s attempt to cultivate a literary art has spoiled the unconventional mastery of his work that was originally his.”] [MGK]
Review of Memorie and Rime. The Athenaeum 2968 (4 October 1884): 331-332 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK – 13 September 1884]
“Joaquin Miller’s Reticence.” The Critic. 5, p. 172. (11 October 1884): 172 [CCL] [RCL] [RCL also says: “Miller’s Reticence.” The Critic. (4 October 1884 n.s. 2:166.] [MGK] [RCL also says “Excerpt of Review of Memorie and Rime from The Athenaeum”] [MCK] [Also Review of ’49 in October 11 issue of The Critic, p. 172]
Review of ’49: The Gold-Seeker of the Sierras. The New York Times. (19 October 1884): 6 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Review of ‘49: The Gold-Seeker of the Sierras. The Independent. 36.1419) (6 November 1884: 11 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Chat of the Theatres.” New York Times (16 November 1884): 14 [MCK]
Review of ‘49: The Gold-Seeker of the Sierras. The Nation. 39 (27 November 1884: 464 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to _____ from The Cabin, Washington, D.C. 1884? 1 p. [Re: Sending in his work.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 19718.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William Hayes Ward] from The Cabin, Washington, D.C. 1884? 1 p. [Addressed: My dear Dr.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11279.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to _________? from “The Cabin, Washington, D.C..” (12 March 1884) Signed J. Miller. [FRS] [MGK]
-----. Inscription (22 March [18]84). The Cabin, Washington D.C. [HON has inserted in his Memorie and Rime PS2397 M5, 1884] [MGK]
Ad, New York Times (12 April 1884): 5. [MCK]
Ad, New York Times (17 December 1884): 5 [MCK]

 
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