Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Songs of the Mexican Seas. Boston: Roberts Bros. (1887): 132 pages. [UOL] [OAK] [RCL] [HON has two copies. One is a first edition with a holograph letter, signed by Miller, laid in.] [BAL (6:195) notes that three editions of this book were published by Roberts Bros.] [AAS, HUN & USC have first editions.] [MGK] [Middlebury College] [MCK]
-----. Shadows of Shasta. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. (1887) [PMC] [MGK]
-----. Arbor Day. Edited and compiled by Robert W. Furnas. Lincoln, NE: State Journal Company. [BAL (6:196) notes: “On pp. 181-182, a poem by Miller at the first festival of tree-planting, celebrated early in 1887 [Nov. 27, 1886], at Yerba Buena, California. Collected in Complete Poetical Works, 1897, as Arbor Day.“] [MGK]
-----. “A one-paragraph Tribute.” In Beecher Memorial-- Contemporaneous Tributes to
the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher. Compiled and edited by Edward W. Bok. Brooklyn, New York: Privately printed (1887) [MGK]
-----. “California's Tribute to Margaret Mather.” 16 pages. (1887) [HON notes, but does
not cite publication for “Tributes in prose and verse, including one by Joaquin Miller.”] [MGK]
-----. The People's Song of Peace. In At Gettysburg. By Rowland B. Howard. Boston:
American Peace Society. (1887) [BAL (6:213) notes that the poem appears on p. 4 and appeared previously in The Song of the Centennial, 1876.] [MGK]
-----. The People's Song of Peace. In The Elocutionist's Annual Number 15. Compiled by Mrs. J.W. Shoemaker. Philadelphia: The National School of Elocution and Oratory. (1887) [BAL (6:213) notes that the poem appears on pp. 30-31 and appeared previously in The Song of the Centennial, 1876.] [MGK]
-----. “?” in A Masque and Other Poems Boston and New York (1887) [CAM] [MGK]
-----. Wide Awake Pleasure Book: Gems of Literature and Art. Boston. (1887) [BAL (6:213)] [MGK]
-----. The Sea of Fire. The Golden Era 36: 1 (January 1887): 1-5. [HON] [Stanzas VI - XVII.] [MGK] [Note p. 5: “I am preparing for my London House a revised edition of all my poems up to date, whether published or unpublished. This revised work beginning with the October number, 1886, will appear entirely in the GOLDEN ERA, and continuously till complete. Joaquin Miller.] [MGK]
-----. “Bricks.” The Golden Era 36.2 (February 1887):59-61. [HON] [Re laboring class and strikes, obviously written in San Francisco.] [MGK]
-----. “Among the Flowers in Mexico.” The Golden Era 36:2 (February 1887): 65-70. [HON] [U.S./Mexican relationships.] [The Golden Era Magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1852 and removed to San Diego in 1887.] [MGK]
-----. The River of Rest. The Century 32.6 (February 1887): 605. n.s.(February 1887): 115 [OAK] [HON] [SPL] [At death.] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
-----. With Walker in Nicaragua. The Golden Era 36 [I - VIII.] (beginning February 1887): 82-89. [HON] [See “Walker's March,” 1859.] [MGK]
-----. “Bricks,” The Golden Era 36 (February 1887): 113-115. [HON] [Labor rights and equal responsibilities.] [MGK]
-----. “From the Wabash. Enquirer Co.” (16 February 1887) [CAL: Juanita Miller's
Sutro Library list.] [Not seen] [MGK]
-----. Arizonian. The Golden Era. 36 (March 1887) [HON has the manuscript.] [MGK]
-----. “Rambling about Mexico.” The Golden Era. 36 (March 1887) [HON] [MGK]
-----. To Belinda. Argonaut 1 (1 April 1887): 2 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Going to a Mexican Funeral.” The Independent. New York. (7 April 1887) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Mrs. Frank Leslie.” [1836-1914] The Golden Era 36:5 (May 1887): 180-183. [FST incorrectly said Lily Langtry became Mrs. Leslie.] [MGK] [MAR] [MCK]
-----. “For Forty-Eight Days.” (5 May 1887) (Copyright by Franklin File). [CAL] [MGK]
-----. [Article about Oregon.] Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (28 May 1887) [MGK]
-----. To Toetihuican. The Independent. New York. (28 July 1887) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Our Heroes of To-Day.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1:5 (3 September 1887): 13: 2-3. Written in Oakland, Cal., August 30, 1887. [CSL] [MGK]
-----. “Legend of the Spotted Horses.” San Francisco Morning Call. (3 September 1887): 5: 3. [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Open Letters from Joaquin Miller.” #1 “To My Fellow-members of the Congress of American Forestry.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.6 (10 September 1887): 5: 1-5.(others say p. 2.) [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. Paper urging the turning over of all government forest lands to the respective states read by secretary at American Forestry Congress, September 16, 1887, Springfield, Illinois. American Forestry Congress Proceedings, pp. 25-26. [CAL] has as 634.9 A512 1887. [CAL] notes, “Mentions Indians as the only true foresters he ever knew. The squaws burned the dry leaves and grass thus preventing forest fires.” [MGK]
-----. “Open Letters from Joaquin Miller.” #2 “To the Young Man Who goes into the Country with a Gun.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.8 (24 September 1887): 4: 4, 16: 1-3 [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. “Etc.” Overland Monthly 10.58 (October 1887): 445 [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [SPL] [A review of John Vance Cheney's Thistle-Drift. Miller quotes from and lauds the book and encourages support of this new poet. Miller did not read the sonnets included because, “...I decline to read anything wherein anyone attempts to fashion words into thought instead of thoughts into words.”] [MGK]
-----. “Open Letters from Joaquin Miller.” #3 “To the Rev. James Warren.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.9 (1 October 1887): 8:1-4. [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. “Open letters from Joaquin Miller.” “To the Untraveled Oregonian.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.11 (15 October 1887): 5: 1-4. [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. A Girl of Honolulu. San Francisco Morning Call 62.138 (16 October 1887): 10: 8 [HON] [CAL] [“In Louisville Courier Journal”] [MGK]
-----. “Open letters from Joaquin Miller.” “To a Fellow-gardener in the New Eden.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1 (22 October 1887) [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [Is there a connection with Jack London's Martin Eden.?] [MGK]
-----. “Open letters from Joaquin Miller.” “To the Man Who is Waiting for the ‘Boom.’” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.13 (29 October 1887): 8:1-3 [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. “To the ‘Young Author.’” Masonic Record. (5 November 1887) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Open letters from Joaquin Miller.” “To the Editor of the ‘Daily Sensational’.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.14 (5 November 1887): 3:1-4 [MGK]
-----. “To the Editor of the ‘Daily Sensational.’” Masonic Record. (12 November 1887) [HON] Something wrong here. Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.15 (12 November 1887): 6:1-3 [MGK]
-----. Oakland Sentinel. Oakland, CA [Not seen]; Reprinted as “Foresighted Joaquin,” in the Knave column of the Oakland Tribune Mar.7, 1954. [The Knave columnist found some new information but jumped to the wrong conclusions, evidently being totally ignorant of Joaquin Miller's real life.] [MGK] [Research for the original unfound New York Herald item.] [MGK]
-----. “That Gentle Man from Boston Town.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.16 (19 November 1887): 4:3-4. [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. “Open letter from Joaquin Miller.” “To the California Road Builders.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.16 (19 November 1887): 8:1-3. [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller's Open Letter” (No. 9). In The New Age. Oakland, California Morning Times. [Wm. R. Bentley, Mgr.] 18.70 (21 November 1887): 3: 3-4 [CAL] [Subtitled, “To the editor of the ‘Daily Sensational.’”] [See 12 November1887.] [MGK]
-----. “Open Letter from Joaquin Miller.” “To the 40,000 School Children of San Francisco.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.17 (26 November 1887): 4:3. [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. “My Mountain of Gold.” The Golden Era. (December 1887) [HON] [“Grizzly” is spelled “grissly”.] [MGK]
-----. “Open letter from Joaquin Miller.” That Faithful Wife of Idaho. Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. Vol. 1.17 [18] (3 December 1887): 4: 4. (A poem) [HON] [CAL] [CSL]
-----. “Open Letter from Joaquin Miller.” “To ‘Some London Capitalists.’” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.17 [18] (3 December 1887): 6: 3 [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [MGK]
-----. Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.19 (10 December 1887): 4: 3-4, 5: 1 [MGK]
-----. Mae Madden. (11 December 1887) [CAL: Juanita Miller's Sutro Library list gives this date.] [See also 1876, A Dream of Italy.] [MGK]
-----. “Open letter from Joaquin Miller.” “To ‘The Grandest Young City on Earth, Sah.’” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1 (17 December 1887): 6: 1-4. [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [Also cited as 11.27 Pacific States Watchman] [MGK]
-----. The First Christmas Morn. The Independent. New York. (22 December 1887 [HON] [Dated Oakland, California.] [MGK]
-----. “Open letter from Joaquin Miller.” “To ‘A Christian.’” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly 1.21 (24 December 1887): 8: 1-4. [Also cited as Pacific States Watchman 11.28 [HON] [CAL] [CSL] [LHM has a clipping copy titled “Joaquin Miller's Open Letter to a Christian.”] [Story of an experience in Nazareth ending with The Bravest Battle.] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Bancroft, Hubert Howe: History of British Columbia 1792-1887. San Francisco: The History Co. 1887 [MGK] [HGT] [MCK]
Gilchrist, Herbert H. Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings. London, 1887. Passim. [MCK]
Leslie, Miriam F. California. New York, 1887. [MAR] [MCK]
Stedman, Edmund Clarence and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. A Library of American
Literature. 11 volumes. New York: William Evarts Benjamin, 1887. Vol. 10: ???, Vol. 11: 554-55. Vol. 10: Portrait and Reprints of “Written in Athens,” “Kit Carson’s Ride” and “Mount Shasta” along with excerpts from “Arizonian”. Vol. 11: Short Biography.
Verne, E. “Joaquin Miller at Home.” The Writer. 5: 216. [PMC] [MGK]
The Golden Era 1 (January 1887): 59 [PMC] [MGK]
“Poets and Poetry in America.” Critic 10 (January 1887): 57 [CCL]; The Critic New Series 7 (29 January 1887): 56-58. Reprinted from “American Poets.” Quarterly Review 163 (October 1886): 389 [RCL] [MGK] [PET] [MCK]
“Local Ink Drops.” Shasta Courier. (19 February 1887) [Miller “is now editor of the The Golden Era.”] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller, the poet has acquired one hundred acres of land near Fruitdale, and says he proposes to spend the remainder of his life there.” The Morning Call 61.126 (5 April 1887): 1: 4 [CAL] [Fruitvale.] [MGK]
Records of Alameda County, California. “Deeds” Book 320, p. 456. (16 May 1887) [MGK]
Miller sells cabin in Washington, DC. San Francisco Morning Call 62.21 (21 June 1887): 2: 1 [CAL] [Miller sold his cabin in Washington for $5,100 to Assistant Secretary of State Adee. In “Brevities.”] [MGK]
Miller sells cabin in Washington, DC. Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (25 June 1887) [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly: An Illustrated Home Journal. San Francisco, CAL: A. T. Dewey, Publisher 1.4 (27 August 1887): 2: 3 [CSL] [MGK]
The Times. Rev. of the opening of the Danites on Broadway – 22 August 1877
(Marberry cites) [MCK]
“Recent Poetry.” The Critic. n.s 6 (25 September 1887): 150-151 [RCL] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller’s Son.” Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (1 October 1887) [Reprinted from 28 September Nevada City Herald and concerns Miller’s son’s horse stealing.] [MGK] [Nevada City Herald and Shasta Courier eds. both knew Miller.]
“The Son of Joaquin Miller:Arrested for Horse Stealing – Getting His Dishonest Traits Honestly.” Los Angeles Times. (4 October 1887): 11: 1 [DF] [Rpt. refers to Al rather than Hal and to recent visits to Shasta Co. by Miller.] [MGK]
Ad, New York Times (8 October 1887): 5 [MCK]
“Recent Poetry.” Literary World 18 (25 October 1887): 367 [RCL] [MGK] [(29 October 1887) MCK] [RCL 37]
Songs of the Mexican Seas. Literary News. n.s. 8 (November 1887): 330 [RCL] [MGK]
Songs of the Mexican Seas. New York Daily Tribune 6 (November 1887): 1 [RCL] [MGK]
“Songs of the Mexican Seas.” The Critic n.s. 8 (November 1887): 330 [RCL] [MCK]
Payne, William Morton. Review of Songs of the Mexican Seas. In “Recent Books of Poetry”. The Dial 8 (December 1887): 186 [CCL] [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Joaquin Miller’s Lecture.” The Morning Call 63(3), p. 5:3. (3 December 1887): 5: 3 [CAL] [Miller delivered the closing lecture in a series at the Presbyterian Church in Oakland, California. There was a good attendance.] [MGK]
Review of Songs of the Mexican Seas. The Critic 11. (24 December 1887) [CCL] n.s. 8 (24 December 1887): 324 [RCL] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Five letters to John Vance Cheney. (1887)[Huntington Library, CH 111-115 .] [MGK]
-----. Four letters to ________. [Huntington Library, CH 116-119.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to William Hayes Ward. (23 October 1887) [HON has an “A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.” to William Hayes Ward dated 10/23/1887, “Oakland Heights” in JM Box I: folder 8.] [MGK]