1894

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. The Battle of Castle Crags. [San Francisco: The Traveler] 1894. 20
pp. [WC] [STANFORD - MELVYL] [MCK]
-----. The Building of the City Beautiful. Trenton, NJ: Alfred Brandt. 1894. [PMC] [UOL says this third edition was published by Stone & Kimball, Chicago. Newspaper clippings and photographs are laid in this copy. 196 pages. [UOL also has the second edition, published the same year by the same publisher.] [OAK has a copy of the second edition.] [See also 1893.] [2nd Edition. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894.196 pp [WC] [MCK]]
-----. An Illustrated History of The State of Montana. Containing a History of the State of Montana from the Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and full-page portraits of some of of its Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and prominent Citizens of To-day. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. 2 parts in 1. 1894. 822 pp. [AAS] [HON] [UOL] [RCL] [BAL] [WC] [HUN has Vol. 1 and 2, leather and gold copy.] [Miller's own history, passim.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----.“49.” words by Joaquin Miller; music by Leila McDermott France (1850- ) . Dedicated to Ella Sterling Cummings (San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) Civic Center, San Francisco, CA (Call No.: Special Collections) [MGK]
-----. In the Grand Plaza of Mexico. In Selections from the Youth's Companion for Supplementary Reading. Number 3. “The American Tropics.” Boston: Perry Mason & Company. 1894 [BAL (6:198) notes that the work appears on pp. 38-45.] [MGK]
-----. Introduction [by Joaquin Miller] Linda Vista Vineyards: Mission San Jose, Alameda Co., Cal. By C. McIver. New York City: McIver & Lawton, Press of H. S. Crocker Company, 1894. 58 pp. [WC] [MCK]
-----. American Song: A Collection of Representative American Poems, With Analytical and Critical Studies of the Writers. Introduction and Notes by Arthur B. Simonds.
New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1894. 307pp. 262-268.
Includes Joaquin’s At Bethlehem (263), In Yosemite Valley (264), Charity (265), Palatine Hall (267) and A Nubian Face on the Nile (268). First Internet Edition 1997. Rutgers University Libraries. PS583.S795A [MGK] [MCK]
http://www.webincunabula.com/html/english/books/a/american.htm [MGK]
-----. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894. 310pp [WC] [MCK]
-----. “Songs by Charles Denee...Goodnight...” Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt [sic] [1894] [BAL (6:198) notes that this sheet music is otherwise not located.] [MGK]
-----. Sappho and Phaon. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (January 1894) [HON] [MGK]
-----. To the King of Sequoia Park. Traveler (January 1894) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Washington by the Delaware. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. (February 1894) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “What Sound was That?” Arena 9 (March 1894): 560 [MGK]
-----. “Criticism of Col. John P. Irish.” San Francisco Morning Call (18 May 1894): 10: 1 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The Californian Tramp.” The Independent. New York (14 June 1894) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Poor. The Youth's Companion 68 (28 June 1894): 298 [MGK]
-----. The Lesson. The Youth's Companion 67.3,505 (but the 68th year?) (26 July 1894): 335 [MGK]
-----. O Peerless Singer. [Tennyson d. 1892.] Cited in Overland Monthly 24 (August 1894): 138 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. To the California Pioneers. Hights, Okland [sic] California (September 1894) [BAL (6:198) notes that this is a single cut sheet. “The poem also appears in [Celebration of the] Forty-Fourth Anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers, September 10, 1894. Collected in Complete Poetical Works, 1897.”] [HUN] [MGK] [See also a speech to General Barnes (OHS Clipping file)] [MCK]
-----. Celebration of the Forty-Fourth Anniversary of the Admission of California into
the Union by the Society of California Pioneers Held at Pioneer Hall. San
Francisco: Sterett, 1894. (10 September 1894) 18pp. [STANFORD - MELVYL] [MCK] Includes poem by Miller.
-----. To the California Pioneers. Argonaut. (17 September 1894) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The End of It All. The Independent. (20 September 1894) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Song of the Balboa Sea. I-III. Overland Monthly 24, pp. 353-361, 481-490, 576-584. Vol. 25, pp. 25-36. October 1894-January 1895. [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
-----. “On The Heights; How a Poet’s Rest is Disturbed.” Call 74.136 (14 October 1894): 13: 4-6. [Anonymous but obviously Miller. His and London’s friend Charles M. Shortridge was editor] [MGK]
-----. The maxim, “There are many tomorrows-but there is only one today,” dated 11/7/1894 “Hights” is on file at [HON] in JM Box I: folder 14:3 [MGK]
-----. Bethlehem. The Youth's Companion 68 (27 December 1894): 632 [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Collier, William Francis. A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical
Sketches. New Edition, Revised, With Supplement on English Literature in America. New York and London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1894. 582pp [WC] [MOA] [MCK] [Many editions, but not all with American supplements] [Not seen]
Vedder, Henry Clay. “Joaquin Miller” in American Writers of Today. New York: Silver, Burdett and Company. 1894 [See also 1895] [Citations differ CCL: 306, 311; PMC: 301; RCL: 301-313] [MGK] [MCK]
Review of The Building of the City Beautiful. Literary World 25 (10 February 1894): 38 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“The Social World” New York Times (25 February 1894): 13. Dinner given in honor of Ina Coolbrith by Edward M. Curtiss. During the dinner, Coolbrith entertained her guests with incidents from the lives of Joaquin and Bret Harte [MCK]
Hogan, Elodie. “An Hour with Joaquin Miller.” Californian Illustrated Magazine 5 (March 1894): 439-451 [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [RCL] [MGK] [WC-Hoagan] [MCK]
Flower, B. O. “A New Social Vision.” The Arena 9 (March 1894): 553-60. (RCL 41) [HGT] [PMC] [CCL] [MGK] [MCK] [A review of The Building of the City Beautiful.]
Review of The Building of the City Beautiful. The Dial 16 (16 March 1894): 188 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Comment on New Books.” Review of The Building of the City Beautiful. Atlantic Monthly 74.441 (July 1894): 134 [RCL] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
Portraits of Miller’s home and mother. San Francisco Morning Call. (14 October 1894): 13: 4 [CAL] [MGK]
“Collier’s Estimate of Joaquin Miller.” Overland Monthly 24.143(November 1894):
558. [MOA] Review of William Francis Collier’s A History of English Literature. [MCK]
Review of The Building of the City Beautiful. The Academy. 46 (10 November 1894): 373 [CCL] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to “my dear Louis” from “The Hights,” O[a]kland, Cal[ifornia]. (28 February 1894):1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 15673.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Stone & Kimball from The Heights. (12 March 1894) [HON has an “A.L.S. 2p. 1g. 4to.” with Arbor Day Cross letterhead to Stone & Kimball dated 3/12/1894 “The Heights” in JM Box I: folder 14:2.] [MGK]
-----. “Note” consists of an autographed epigram sent (19 March 1894) to [C.K. Shetterly? Ann Arbor, MI? Control No. : ocm3463734. [OLUC] [MGK]
-----. Letter, to Edwin Markham, Oakland, California. (9 May 1894)Oakland, California, [MARK MSS] “On the letterhead of the Miller home, the Heights and includes
his work, The Arbor Day Cross” (MARK MSS).
-----. Letter to the Hon. the Co. Clerk of Beaverhead Co. Montana from “The Hights,” O[a]kland, Cal[ifornia] (7 September 1894): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 15672 (A, B, C).] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William Hayes Ward] from “The Hights,” O[a]kland, Cal[ifornia] (2 October 1894): 2 p. [Addressed: My dear Independent. With a note by the addressee at top of p. 1.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11297.] [MGK]
-----. [Maxim] “There are many tomorrows – but there is only one today” (7 December 1894) “The Hights.” [HON has in Box 1: folder 14.3] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Elwyn Irving Hoffman. (8 December 1894) [Huntington Library, in HOFFMAN COLLECTION, Box III (uncatalogued).] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Messrs. Stone & Kimball. (21 December 1894): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 31199.] [MGK]
Thomas, Edith Mathia. Letter, (1 January 1894) New York City to Mr. [Edwin]
Markham, [Staten Island]. In Markham Manuscript Collection, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY [MARK MSS] [WC] [MCK] “Extends New Years wishes; asks to give regards to Joaquin Miller” [WC]
Markham, Edwin. Letter, (1 March 1894)“At Home,” [Oakland, California] [to] Mr. C.
M. Carrington, Editor, Saturday Press, Oakland. In Markham Manuscript Collection, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY [WC] [MCK] “Invitation to Sunday dinner with the author Joaquin Miller and others” [WC]
Holmes, Harold C., Papers, 1945-1965. [WC] [MCK]
“Antiquarian bookdealer. Operated Holmes Book Co. in San Francisco and
Oakland (Calif.) (1894-1965). Expert in California literary history with special interest in works of Joseph Henry Jackson, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain. Community leader in Alameda County (Calif.). President of Oakland Rotary Club (1946-1947), member of Alameda County Probation Committee (1948). Penned unpublished reminiscences of Bay Area literary life (1894-1945)” [WC]

 
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