1888

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Fifty-Eight Stories from American Sources. Complete Stories by Joaquin Miller. London: Saxon & Company. 1888. 186 pages. [BAL (6:210) notes that this book has not been located, but it was probably issued in printed paper wrapper.] [MGK]
-----. “Game Regions of the Upper Sacramento,” “Early California Mining and the Argonauts,” “The San Joaquin Valley,” “The New City by the Great Sea (San Francisco),” and “Yellowstone Park.” In Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico. Edited by John Muir. San Francisco and New York: The J. Dewing Company. 1888: 111-120, 233-240, 257-264, 353-368, and 421-432. [BAL] [CAL][MES: Miller's chapters first published in 1888. “Yellowstone Park” omitted in 1976 reprint of 1894 edition. West of the Rocky Mountains, Ed. by John Muir, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press, pp. 508] [MGK]
-----. Irish Dialect Recitations. Edited by George M. Baker. Boston. 1888 [BAL] [MGK]
-----.” The Legend of the Loom and the Hammer” and Twilight in Nazareth. In Belford's Annual. 1888-1889. Edited by Thomas W. Handford. Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford Clarke & Co. [BAL (6:195) notes that the former poem appears on pp. 146-148 and that the latter appears on p. 78.] [MGK]
-----. Poems of Wild Life. Edited by Charles G.D. Roberts. London. 1888 [BAL] [MGK]
-----. “That Gentleman from Boston Town. [An Idyl of Oregon].” In Standard Comic Recitations by Best Authors. Compiled by Frances P. Sullivan. New York: M.J. Ivers & Co. 1888 [BAL (6:196) notes that this work appeared on pp. 13-14 and was collected in In Classic Shades.] [BAL also notes that it was reprinted and reissued.] [MGK]
-----. Young People’s New Pictorial Library of Poetry and Prose: Embracing History, Biography, Poems, Stories, Travels and Adventures. New York: N. D. Thompson Pub. Co.,1888. 512pp. Contains the following works by Miller: “Mr. Tennyson’s Fairies,” “The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras” and “Robin Hood’s Ghost.” University of Oregon, (Library Catalog) [WC] [MCK]
-----. Oakland. Oakland Tribune. Illustrated Special Edition. (January 1888): 1 [OAK] [MGK] [STANFORD-MELVYL] [MCK]
-----. “Mission San Ho-zay.” Oakland Tribune. Illustrated special edition (January 1888): 81, 83 [OAK] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: The Poet of the Sierras on the Climate.” Oakland Tribune. Illustrated special edition. (January 1888): 93 [OAK] [MGK]
-----. “Old Californians.” The Golden Era 37.11 (January 1888): 36-40 [HON] [The Golden Era Co., San Diego, California, News Co., San Francisco, California, Brentano, New York, Gillig, London.] [Dave Cotton, Dr. Stone, Bill Fox, Squire Gibson and others mentioned.] [This ….day of February 1855 Miller on Greenhorn Creek, Greenhorn, Washington, with a group of miners from Oregon. Spent time at Lower Soda Springs in summer of 1887. See also Leslie's Illustrated Weekly.] [MGK]
-----. On Oakland Heights. Oakland Enquirer. (January 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Boxing Day.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (7 January 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Horace Greeley Crossing the Sierras. Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (7 January 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. A Fellow-Countryman in a Strange Land. Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (14 January 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Set Your Face away from the City.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (14 January 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Original poem at the dedication of college at San Diego. San Francisco Call. (15 January 1888) 4: 5 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “A Day in a Kindergarten.” Pacific Rural Press 35 (28 January 1888): 66 [MGK]
-----. The Larger College. Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (28 January 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Memoirs of John Charles Fremont.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly (28 January 1888) [HON] [See also Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1907.] [MGK]
-----. Under the Syrian Stars. The Independent. New York. (2 February 1888) [HON] [See also Building the City Beautiful 1905: 32.] [MGK]
-----. “The World Moves.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly (18 February 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A.J. Stevens. Master Mechanic.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (10 March 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Forest Trees.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (10 March 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Parallel Plans for Parallel Cities.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (17 March 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “A Thousand Miles of California.” The Independent. New York. (22 March 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “South America lies outside the Western Course...” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (31 March 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. San Diego. The Golden Era 37.14 (April 1888): 234-235 [HON] [“The Editor's Office” column states, “Joaquin Miller, who attended the laying of the corner stone of the San Diego College at Pacific Beach, wrote a poem while here, for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. There are even those who will doubt the poetic merit of the lines, but their doubts will be inspired by a lack of culture.” A poor bread and butter poem for Harr Wagner who was promoting real estate in the area. Not to be confused with Dawn in San Diego, November 1892.] [MGK]
-----. “Farther Side of Mexico.” The Independent. New York. (5 April 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Sioux Chief's Daughter. Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (14 April 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From New Orleans to Vera Cruz.” The Independent. New York. (7 May 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Advanced Studies. The Youth's Companion 61 (17 May 1888): 244 [MGK]
-----. “Shadows of Shasta.” Golden Era 37.5 (May 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Legend of the Shastas.” The Golden Era 37.6 (June 1888): 323, 324. [HON] [“Grizzly” is here spelled correctly.] [MGK]
-----. To Karnak on the Nile. The Independent. New York. (19 July 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The North American Nile.” The Independent. New York. (2 August 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Our Great Emerald State (Oregon).” The Independent. New York. (16 August 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “El Rio Colorado.” Oakland Daily Evening Tribune. p. 9:1-3. (18 August 1888): 9: 1-3 [OAK] [MGK]
-----. “To General Black, Pension Bureau.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (18 August 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Wise Men of the East. The Independent. New York. (6 September 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Christ in Egypt. The Youth's Companion 61 (6 September 1888): 426 [MGK]
-----. A Pious Heathen. The Independent. New York. (13 September 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “To the American Barons: Brown, Smith and Jones.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (15 September 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. A Twilight on the Mount of Olives. The Independent. New York. (11 October 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From San Diego to Mexico.” The Independent. New York. (20 October 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “To Three Aspiring Young Ladies.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (20 October 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Poveri! Poveris! Feed My Sheep. The Century 37.1 (November 1888): 58. [OAK] [HON] [MGK] [MCK]
----- “In the Olive Lands.” [Santa Barbara] The Independent. New York. (2 November 1888) [HON says November 22] [MGK]
-----. “From Kansas City to Pueblo.” The Independent. New York. (10 November 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “To the City Father, Mr. McFadden & the City Father, Mr. Van Tassell.” Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (10 November 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Bravest of Battles, Whatcom Reveille. Vol. ? No. 24 (16 November 1888): 1.
-----. Down Into The Dust. Illustrated Pacific States. (December 1888) (A poem with a fine picture of Joaquin Miller.) Engraved copy California State Library. [See also July 1877.] [MGK]
-----. “What Bart Says.” The Daily Examiner. San Francisco. XLVII.156 (Sunday, 2 December 1888): 9: 5-8. Signed “H.L.W.” [MGK] [This article signed H.L.W.(?Harr L. Wagner?) which purports to have been an interview with Black Bart himself could only have been written by Joaquin Miller as only he knew of the roads and ranches described.] [MGK]
-----. “From Pueblo to Salt Lake City.” The Independent. New York. (5 December 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “To the President-elect of the U.S.” [Benjamin Harrison] Pacific States Illustrated Weekly. (15 December 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From Salt Lake City to the Pacific.” The Independent. New York. (19 December 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From Bethlehem to Nazareth.” The Independent. New York. (20 December 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “From San Francisco to Japan.” San Francisco News Letter. (22 December 1888) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Santa Claus in San Francisco. The Daily Examiner. San Francisco. Christmas issue XLVII.179 (25 December 1888) [This issue is not available on microfilm and Examiner refuses to provide.] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of the Pacific States of North America: Oregon.Vol. II, 1848-1888 San Francisco: The History Company, 1888.Vol. 2: 692. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Herringshaw, Thos. W. Prominent Men and Women of the Day. A. B. Gehman and
Company, 1888 [MCK]
Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico. Edited by John Muir. San Francisco and New York: The J. Dewing Company. Republished. as West of the Rocky Mountains, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press. [p. 306 John P. Irish quotes Joaquin Miller: “No architect that ever lived could build a tree.” ] [MGK]
Morris, Madge. “To Joaquin Miller: After Reading My Mountain of Gold in the Golden Era for December [1887].” The Golden Era 38.1 (January 1888): 5 [MGK]
Burbank, William F. “A Poet’s Home: The Unique Home of Joaquin Miller on the Mountain Side near Oakland.” Oakland Enquirer (1 January 1888): 26-27, Spec. Ed. [OAK] [HON] [MGK]
News item about an original poem at the dedication of San Diego College at Pacific Beach, San Diego. San Francisco Morning Call 63.46 (15 January 1888): 4: 5 [CAL] [”At the dedication of the new college at San Diego [College at Pacific Beach, San Diego] next Thursday, Joaquin Miller will read an original dedicatory poem.”] [MGK]
“Literary Notes.” New York Times (21 May 1888): 3 [MCK]
A Review of Picturesque California from the Argonaut, May 23, 1888 [MCK]
The Grant County News (Canyon City, Oregon) 10.15 (28 June 1888): 3: 2 para. 15. [DCS] [MGK]
“The picnic, oration, music, etc., at this place on July 4th will be held at Mrs. Kelly’s orchard, where an abundance of shade can be had-and historical shade, too, for Joaquin Miller planted that same orchard.”
Wood, Fremont. “Writers of Plays.” San Francisco The Sunday Call 64.150 (28 October 1888): 12: 3. [CAL] [MGK]
“Does Joaquin Miller Shoot Quail With a Rifle?” New York Times (25 October 1888): 3.
“San Francisco, Oct. 24. - While Joaquin Miller was shooting quail yesterday his horse jumped unexpectedly and a bullet went through his left hand. It missed the bones and only made a painful flesh wound. The only danger is from lockjaw” [MCK]
The Grant County News 10.37 (6 December 1888): 3 : 3 item 14. [DCS] [MGK]
“Joaquin Miller has swapped off a manuscript copy of one of his poems for the duplicate of a silver design he saw at the New Orleans Exposition. The silver–worker wanted pay in Miller’s poetry.”

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter addressed “My dear Burbank” from San Diego. (19 January 1888) [CAL: Original letters.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Edmund Clarence Stedman. (4 February 1888) [HON has in JM Box I: folder 9. Dated 2/4/1888.] [MGK]
-----. Joaquin. Letter (8 February 1888) Oakland, California to [Edwin] Markham,
Oakland, California. [MARK MSS] “Acknowledges receipt of check for $50” (MARK) [MCK]
-----. Letter to Julia Ward Howe. (3 June 1888) [HON has in JM Box I: folder 10.] [MGK]
-----. A Letter to My dear, dear S?????? (3 October 1888) about procuring some lilies for his ponds on his Heights property above Oakland. [AAS has the original.] [MGK]
-----. Letter (23 November 1888) Oakland, California to [Edwin] Markham, Oakland, California. [MARK MSS] “Invites Markham to visit him at the Heights [sic]” (MARK) [MCK]
-----. Letter to Edward Markham from “The Heights,” (8 December 1888) [MGK]
-----. Letter (12 December 1888) Oakland, California to Edwin Markham, [Staten, Island, New York]. [MARK MSS]. “Says that Markham can purchase the place next to his own new home. Notes that he will have to pay a small amount to the man leasing the land at this time” (MARK) [MCK]
“‘The Duchess,’ Joaquin Miller, John Vance Cheney and Ambrose Bierce will contribute the Original Literary Features to the CHRISTMAS MORNING EXAMINER.” Advertisement. San Francisco. The Daily Examiner (24 December 1888)XLVII 178:5:4 [MGK]

 
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