1893

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. The Building of the City Beautiful. 1st Edition. Cambridge & Chicago: Stone & Kimball., 1893. 196 pp. Only 500 copies were printed of the first edition. [PMC] [RCL] [HUN] [USC] [MGK] [WC] [MCK] [AAS has a first edition.] [UOL has a copy of the second edition in its “Rare Book” collection.] [OAK states only 50 copies of the “large paper edition” were printed. They have copy “X.”] [HON has copy #31 of the “large paper edition” with two holograph letters by the author, signed, laid in.] [HON has a copy of the first edition inscribed by author. Holograph letter by author, signed, laid in. In addition, [HON] has a presentation copy of the first edition autographed by the author with a quotation from “Dawn in San Diego.”] [“This first edition on small paper is limited to 50 copies.”] [LHM has a copy with handwritten inscription to book's original owner by Lischen Miller, Joaquin Miller's sister-in-law.] [See also 1892, 1894, 1897.] [MGK]
-----. 2nd Edition. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. 1893. 196pp [WC]
-----. 3rd Edition: Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. 1893. 196pp [WC]
-----. London and Chicago: Elkin Mathews and John Lane and Stone and
Kimball, 1894. 196pp [WC]
-----. Trenton, New Jersey: A. Brandt, 1905. 243pp [WC]
------. Joaquin Miller’s Poems. San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing
Company, 1917 [STANFORD - MELVYL]
-----. Bear Edition. Joaquin Miller’s Poems, Volume 7. San Francisco: G. F.
Weber, 1919. 1905. 243pp [WC]
-----. Songs of the Sierras and Sunlands. [Copyright 1892 by Morrill, Higgins & Co.] Copyright 1893 W.B. Conkey Company. Chicago: W.B. Conkey. 309 pages. (Two volumes in one.) [HON] [MGK] [Ohio Historical Society] [WC] [MCK] [HUN says 1893, 1892.] [No Preface in the 1893 edition.] [The 1893 edition contains the poems: Arizonian, An Indian Summer, Above the Clouds, Burns, Byron, Even So [Even So has some stanzas deleted from the poem as published in Boston in 1871.], From Sea to Sea, Ina, Joaquin Marietta, Kit Carson's Ride, The Last Taschastas, Myrrh, The Ship in the Desert, The Tale of the Tall Alcalde, and With Walker in Nicaragua.] [Strangely Wagner (Overland Monthly 75. 2 (February 1920): 120) claims that the W.B. Conkey edition is “spurious.”]
-----. Songs of Summer Lands. 1893. Chicago: W.B. Conkey. 254 pages. [OAK] [HUN] [The 1893 edition contains the poems: Songs of Summer Lands, The Sea of Fire, The Rhyme of the Great River, Part I, The Rhyme of the Great River, Part II, Isles of the Amazons, The Ideal and the Real, A Dove of St. Mark, Il Capucin, Sunrise in Venice, A Garibaldion's Story, Sirocco, and Como.] [See also 1892, 1912.] [MNS says Songs “for” Summer Lands] [MGK]
-----. After the Snow and the Shroud. 1893 [?] Oakland, CA. [BAL (6:198) is not sure of the date and wonders if it was printed as a proof only. It is a single leaf and probably reprinted from The Building of the City Beautiful, 1893, “where the poem appears as the introduction to Chapter XXIII.”] [MGK]
-----. Arizonian. (pp. 134-135) and The Passing of Tennyson. In E.S. Michels' The Story of the Files. 1893. Cooperative Printing Co. [OAK] [MGK]
-----. Christmas Eve in the Palm Land and other poems. Readings from California Poets. 1893. Selected by Edmund Russell. San Francisco. 124 pages. [HON] [BAL (6:214) notes: this publication, “Contains much material by Miller, including some extracts and altered titles; none here first published in book form.”]
-----. “Letter.” San Francisco Traveller. 1893 [PET: Reprinted in An Illustrated History of Montana 1894.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. O’er the Llano Estacado. In No. 40. Standard Recitations. 1893. Compiled by Frances P. Sullivan. [BAL (6:214) notes that the poem appears on p. 25 and appeared previously as Tantalus: Texas in One Hundred Choice Selections No. 20, 1881.] [See also 1890.] [MGK]
-----. The Passing of Tennyson. In The Story of the Files. A Review of Californian Writers and Literature by Ella Sterling Cummins. 1893. [BAL (6:197) notes that the poem appears on pp. 139-140 and is collected in Songs of the Soul, 1896. In addition, a part of a sketch on Robert Browning appears on pp. 137-138 and a paragraph on Madge Morris Wagner appears on p. 283.] [MGK]
-----. Twilight. In Life's Sunbeams and Shadows, Vol. 1. 1893. Edited by John Cotter Pelton. San Francisco. [HON] [MGK]
-----. Autumn Leaves: A Pictorial Library of Prose, Poetry and Art by...Eminent Authors...Joaquin Miller...and Many Others. 1893. Edited by Daphne Dale. National Book Mart. [BAL (6:207)] [MGK]
-----. Scrap Book Recitations No. 9. By H.M. Soper. 1893. Chicago: T.S. Denison. [BAL (6:214)] [MGK]
-----. Shoemaker's Best Selections. Number 21. 1893. Philadelphia. [BAL (6:214)] [MGK]
-----. Sun Prints in Sky Tints. By Irene E. Jerome. 1893. Boston. [BAL (6:214)] [MGK]
-----. Five-line note by Miller appears in In Re Walt Whitman. [1819-1892] Edited by Horace L. Traubel, et al. 1893. Philadelphia: David McKay. [BAL (6:198) notes that Miller's work appears on p.366.] [MGK]
-----. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. [1806-1861] San Francisco Morning Call (1 January 1893): 13: 7 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “A Watch-word in Joaquin Miller's Chirography.” San Francisco Examiner. (1 January 1893) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Lord Houghton. [1809-1885] San Francisco Morning Call (8 January 1893): 14: 1-2 [CAL] [HON] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Charles Kingsley. [1819-1875] San Francisco Morning Call. p. 13:7. (15 January 1893): 13: 7 [CAL] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Jean Ingelow. [1820-1897] San Francisco Morning Call. (22 January 1893): 14:7. [CAL] [HON] [MGK]
-----. Trelawney with Shelley and Byron. San Francisco Morning Call (29 January 1893): 14: 1 [CAL] [HON: “Trelawny with Shelly and Bryon”] [MGK]
-----. Trelawney with Shelley and Byron. Pompton Lakes, NJ: Biblio Co. 24 pages. [FST: “Reprinted from San Francisco Morning Call, January 29, 1893: 14:1,2.”] [MGK]
-----. “London on the Surface.” San Francisco Morning Call. (5 February 1893): 13: 6-7 [Miller's first day in London, 1870.] [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Dining in London.” San Francisco Morning Call (12 February 1893): 13: 7 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The City of Genoa.” San Francisco Morning Call (19 February 1893): 15: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The City of Rome.” San Francisco Morning Call. (26 February 1893): 14: 4 [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Old Gib At Castle Rocks. Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. (March 1893): 271-272. [Reprinted in The Castle Crags Wilderness State Park Association handout, ca. 1931.] [MGK]
-----. “Naples as Seen by an American.” San Francisco Morning Call (5 March 1893): 15: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The City of Venice.” San Francisco Morning Call (12 March 1893): 14: 7 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The City of Milan.” San Francisco Morning Call (19 March 1893): 15: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The French Capital.” San Francisco Morning Call (26 March 1893): 15: 1 [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The Great City of Montezuma.” San Francisco Morning Call (2 April 1893): 14: 7-8. [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The Press.” San Francisco Morning Call (28 May 1893): 1. [HON] [CAL] “[Truth, and Light]” [MGK]
-----. Songs of the Sierras. San Francisco Morning Call (28 May 1893) [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Paris or the Pines.” San Francisco Morning Call (28 May 1893): 14: 1 [HON] [CAL] [John Brothern name of protagonist while John Britton used in same story printed as “Through a Sierra Fire” in 1903.] [MGK]
-----. Columbus. San Francisco Morning Call (28 May 1893): 7: 3 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The Olive on the Heights.” Peterson Monthly (June 1893) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Bard and the Bandit (Chris Evans): An Interview.” San Francisco Examiner. (4 June 1893) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Dawn through the Golden Gate. Californian 4 (July 1893): 214-215. [OAK] [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Charcoal Sketches of the Dominion of Canada.” San Francisco Morning Call (29 July 1893): 1: 5 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. The Right to Fight. Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (August 1893) rept. (August 1873) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Californian Coyote. The Independent. New York. (21 September 1893
[HON] [MGK]
-----. Tantalus--Texas. San Francisco Morning Call (24 September 1893): 11: 4 [HON] [CAL] [See 1890.] [MGK]
-----. Battle of Castle Crags I-III. San Francisco: Traveler. (September-November, 1893) [OAK has a copy of this “6” page booklet.] [HON has a copy of the “20” page publication.] [The Battle of Castle Crags is reprinted or [BAL] 6:198 suspects this work was published in 1894, but no date is given. “Issued as an advertisement for the Tavern of Castle Crag, ‘near the junction of Soda Creek and the Sacramento River,’ California (Miller 1977:27-44).”] Rosenus gives 1894 as the publication date.] [MGK]
-----. “If I Were California.” Californian 5 (December 1893): 88-91.[OAK] [CAL] [HON has the manuscript on file, and also notes a fragment of an article written in December. “A.MS. 1 leaf fol.” and has it in JM Box I: folder 14. [This is about the Chinese. See 1988 reprint.)] [MGK]
-----. “Beautifying the Nation.” The Times: Chicago. (23 December 1893) [HON] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Flower, B. O. “A New Social Vision.” The Arena 9 (1893) [PET] [MCK]
“The ‘Enterprise’ to Suspend: D. O. Mills Says it Does Not Pay to Keep it Going.” New
York Times (15 January 1893): 8 [MCK]
“Minor Sporting Matters.” New York Times (17 March 1893): 6. Paragraph-long description of the sky-cycle built by Joaquin’s brother. [MCK]
“Songs of the Sierras. How it Made the Fame of Joaquin Miller.” San Francisco Morning Call (28 May 1893): 9 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Clarke, Henry V. “The Poet of the Sierras.” Munsey’s Magazine 9 (June 1893): 308-310. [PMC] [RCL] [MGK] [MAR] [MCK]
Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (19 August 1893). [Mention of Miller living in Shasta County and quotes from the Dunsmuir News.] [MGK]
Shasta Courier. Shasta, CA. (7 October 1893) [The continuing saga of Hall Miller, “alias James Miller, son of Joaquin Miller.”] [MGK]
“The Lounger.” Critic. n.s. 20 (4 November 1893): 289 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Obituary. “Mrs. Abbie M. Leland Dead.” New York Times (11 November 189)3: 2.
“Nyack, N. Y., Nov. 10 - Mrs. Abbie M. Leland, widow of Major William W. Leland of Gen. Grant'’ staff and mother-in-law of Joaquin Miller, died here last evening.” [MCK]
“Some New Books” includes a review of Building of the City Beautiful. San Francisco Morning Call 75.3 (3 December 1893): 15: 3 [CAL] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to George Miller. No date. “The Hights” (Frontier) [January 1893. p. 124] [MGK]
-----. Poem/Maxim. There is no ugly thing….” (2 February1893) Lehigh University Digital Library [Manuscript] “The Arbor Day Cross.” [Letterhead explanation of planting of the cross of trees at the “Heights,” –note corrected spelling.] http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/remain/600/index.html (12/09/05) [MGK]
-----. Letter to W.C. Morrow (?). (14 May 1893). The Heights, Oakland. [CAL: original letters.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William Hayes Ward] from “The Hights,” Oakland, Cal[ifornia] (16 June 1893): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11296.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Ella Higginson, New Whatcom, Washington from “The Heights,” Oakland, California. (1 July 1893) [Bellingham, Washington Library holds the original 1 pg. signed holograph letter with “Arbor Day Cross letterhead.” Ella Higginson Papers I, envelope 2, #96.] [BEL] [MGK]
-----. [Maxim:] “Popularity is vulgarity, as a rule.” dated August 3, 1893, “The Hights.” Autograph manuscript. [HON has in Box 1: folder 13.1] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Stone & Kimball. (5 August 1893) [HON has an “A.L.S. 1p. 1g. 4to.” with Arbor Day Cross letterhead to Stone & Kimball dated 8/5/1893 “The Heights” in JM Box I: folder 13:2.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Elwyn Irving Hoffman (26 July 1893) [Huntington Library, in HOFFMAN COLLECTION, Box III (uncatalogued).] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Edwin Markham (28 July 1893) Oakland, California [MARK MSS] [MCK]
“Quick note states he will be in San Francisco and hopes to see Markham. On the letterhead of the Miller home, the Heights and includes his work, The Arbor Day Cross” (MARK).
-----. Letter to Stone & Kimball from The Heights (22 October 1893) [HON has an “A.L.S. 1p. 1g. 4to.” with Arbor Day Cross letterhead to Stone & Kimball dated 10/22/1893 “The Heights” in JM Box I: folder 13:3.] [MGK]
-----.”If I were in California.” [fragment of an article] [December 1893] [HON has in Box 1: folder 14.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to (?) (27 December 1893) “the Hights.” [HON has in Box 1: folder 13.4]
[MGK]
Cummins, Ella Sterling [Michels], ed. The Story of the Files: A Review of Californian
Writers and Literature. San Francisco: Cooperative Printing Company. Issued under the Auspices of the World’s Fair Commission of California, Columbian Exposition, 1893. 460 pages. pp. 21, 135-140 [RCL] [CCL:137 and [HON] say Ella Sterling (Clark) Michels.] [MGK]
Hoffman, Elwyn Irving, Papers of, 1893-1947. Huntington Library [MCK]
Transactions of the Oregon Pioneers’ Association. Portland, OR 1893-1900. [PET] [MGK] [MCK]

 
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