1885

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Memorie and Rime. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.1885. Standard Library No. 108. 237 pp. [UOL] [MGK]
-----. Paquita, The Indian Heroine. [Life Among the Modocs]. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co. 1885: 445 pp. [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Peace on Earth. Boston: L. Prang & Co. [BAL (6:194) notes that this is a single leaf of flexible white card stock. The poem begins, “We bring the Peace, the Saviour Saith: / The white unfolded wings of Faith...” It is otherwise not located.] [BAL (6:182).] [See also 1883.] [MGK]
-----. Tally Ho! Song for Baritone. Words by Joaquin Miller, Music by John Philip Sousa. Washington, D.C.: John F. Ellis & Co. 1885 [MGK]
-----. The Fortunate Isles. In Standard Recitations by Best Authors. No. 9. Compiled by Frances P. Sullivan. New York: M.J. Ivers & Co. 1885 [GRA] [BAL (6:194) notes that this poem appeared on pp. 15-16 and was collected in In Classic Shades, 1890.] [See also Jan. 3, 1885.] [MGK]
-----. The Pacific Tourist. Adams & Bishop's Illustrated Trans-Continental Guide of Travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Edited by Frederick E. Shearer with Special Contribution by: Clarence King; Joaquin Miller. New York: Adams & Bishop 1881 [MGK]
-----. Thompson's Prodigal and Other Sketches. By Bret Harte, with a “Story of Wild Western Life.” By Joaquin Miller. London: Ward, Lock and Co.; New York: Warwick House. [BAL (6:182, 6:207)] [MGK]
-----. “The Opening of the World's Fair at New Orleans.” The Independent. New York. (1 January 1884) [MGK]
-----. The Fortunate Isles. Argonaut (3 January 1885) [HON] [GRA] [MGK]
-----. “New Orleans and the World's Exposition.” The Times: Chicago. (4 January 1884) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “In the Land of Ponce de Leon.” The Independent. New York. (5 February 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Washington Monument. The Independent. New York. (19 February 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Three Merry Days of New Oreleans [sic].” The Independent. New York. (5 March 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Washington Monument. The Youth's Companion 58 (19 March 1885): 113 [MGK]
-----. Card from Joaquin Miller to the Editors. Argonaut. (21 March 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Winter Watering Place.” The Independent. New York. (2 April 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Sunday at Fort Sumter.” The Independent. New York. (16 April 1885) [HON] [A description of Charleston and the area.] [MGK]
-----. “From New Orleans to Vera Cruz.” The Independent. New York. (7 May 1885) [A description of his trip.] [MGK]
-----. The Soldier's Home, Washington. The Independent. New York. (28 May 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Horace Greeley's Ride with Hank Monk. The Independent. New York (9 July 1885). Reptd. below. [MGK]
-----. Horace Greeley's Ride with Hank Monk. San Francisco Morning Call 58.41 (12 July 1885): 10:6 [HON] [CAL] [Read by Joaquin Miller at the Fourth of July celebration at Woodstock, Connecticut.] [MGK]
-----. “The Wolf Den in Putnam Park.” The Independent. New York. (16 July 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “With Bret Harte in Sherwood Forest.” The Independent. New York. (20 August 1885) [MGK]
-----. “Play Writing Lecture.” New York Times. (2 September 1885): 4: 4 [MGK]
-----. Sword of the South (incomplete). Literary Life. (October 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “In Lord Byron's Rooms at Newstead.” The Independent. New York. (1 October 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Drowned. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. (December 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Nell Gwynne's Home.” The Independent. New York. (3 December 1885) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Christmas Wishes...” Boston: L. Prang & Co. (December 1885) [BAL (6:194) notes that this was a single card with Miller's poem that begins, “This book should hold a hundred leaves / And every leaf a song as dear....”] [HUN] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Elliot, Alexander, ed. Hood in Scotland: Reminiscences of Thomas Hood, Poet and
Humorist; Including Sketch of His Antecedents, Original Letters and Poems Hitherto Unpublished, and Letters, &c. Dundee, 1885 [MAR] [Dundee, J. P. Mathew, 1969. 1885. 178pp.] [WC] [MCK]
Stedman, Edmund Clarence. The Poets of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1885: 47, 452. [RCL] [CCL says 542.] [MGK] [MCK]
“What of They.” The Critic. n.s. 3 (10 January 1885): 22 [RCL] [MGK] [PET] [MCK]
Review of ‘49, The Gold-Seeker of the Sierras. The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art 59 (31 January 1885): 151 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Grant County News. Canyon City, Oregon 7.6 (7 May 1885)… An article re Miller’s cabin in Canyon City and the state of its orchard in 1885…as rptd. from West Shore. [DCS] [MGK]
Wynne, Faith. “Joaquin Miller in His Cabin.” Literary World 16 (30 May 1885): 189-190 [HON] [RCL] [MGK] [MAR] [PET] [MCK]
Fleming, J. C. “The Future of French Canada.” Catholic World 41.244 (July 1885): 477.
[MOA] [MCK]
“The Celebration at Woodstock: Speeches by John Sherman, John A. Logan, Dr.
M’Cosh and Others.” New York Times (5 July 1885): 1 [Also speech by Miller (see Primary July listings above)] [MCK]
Stedman, Edmund Clarence. “The Twilight of the Poets.” The Century 30.5 (September 1885): 792. [MOA] [MCK]
“The Great Dramatist Found.” New York Times (2 September 1885): 4.
Quite lengthy Review of Miller’s lecture - “we find his first lecture in the Washington Post.” [MCK]

Article with a bite. For instance, the writer stresses that Miller has only written three plays and comments on Miller’s conclusion that someday someone will write the great American play with the following:
“Why not be frank? Mr. Miller knows very well that the great author has come and has already written the great American play. This author’s name is MILLER. To try to conceal his knowledge of this fact at the end of his lecture, after having exposed it in the course of his argument, is flimsy affection.” [MCK]
Review of ‘49, The Gold-Seeker of the Sierras. The Literary World 16 (5 September 1885): 307 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Literary Notes.” New York Times (14 September 1885): 3 [MCK]
Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. NY:
Macmillan, 1885-1900. 63 v. [HGT] [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard from St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, [Louisiana]. (7 February 1885): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11285.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Charles Warren Stoddard] from St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, [Louisiana]. (2 March 1885): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11286.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer from Washington, D.C. (25 March 1885) [Huntington Library, MSS 1578.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Juanita Miller. (15 April 1885) [HON has on file in JM Box 1: folder 6.3] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Samuel L. Clemens. (22 April 1885) [UCLC] List #39372, annot. [BAN] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Frederick] Locker-[Lampson] from Washington, D.C. (12 May 1885): 1 p. [Huntington Library, LR 269.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer from Washington, D.C. (8 June 1885) [Huntington Library, MSS 1578.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Annie (Adams) Fields from Washington, D.C. (24 September 1885): 1 p. [Huntington Library, FI 3326.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer from Washington, D.C. (10 December 1885) [Re: playing in Rankin's pirated Miller plays. Typed copy.] [Huntington Library, MSS 1578.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer from Washington, D.C. (18 December 1885) [Huntington Library, MSS 1578.] [MGK]
1885-96 Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner (1837-1913) ca. 80 pieces including books, scripts for The Danites, etc. and correspondence. Gift of John Seelye to the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. June 1991. [Huntington Library, MSS 1578. Seen June 1992. [MGK] [HUN]: Wronged, a play, 77 pages; The Danites, a play, 122 pages;‘49, a play, 9 pages.
Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer from Washington, D.C. dated Mar. 25, 1885.
Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer from Washington, D.C. dated June 8, 1885.
Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer [nee Charles Dennison, who performed in ‘49] from Washington, D.C. dated Dec. 10, 1885 re: playing in Rankin's pirated Miller
plays. Typed copy.
Letter to Mr. Charles Palmer from Washington, D.C. dated Dec. 18, 1885.
Receipt for $60.00, from Harriett Estelle Newell, Exec. of the estate of Rebecca F. Martin, New York, June 8, 1896. One year interest on mortgage.
Wallace, Alice Bashford: Photographs related to Alice Bashford Wallace, Herbert Bashford ca 1885-ca. 1915? 1 folder (ca. 15 photographic prints plus clippings and printed ephemera) [Long Display] Print access: [USB] [STANFORD-MELVYL] [MGK] [Alice was Joaquin Miller’s godchild] [MGK]
Burroughs, John.. Papers 1885-1922.in Tracey W. McGregor Library Accession #38-735, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library , University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA references to and autographs of Joaquin Miller. [OLUC] [MGK]

 
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