1896

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. Songs of the Soul. San Francisco: The Whitaker & Ray Company. 1896. 162 pages. [PMC] [RCL] [FRS] [MGK] [MCK] [OAK has an autographed copy.] [AAS has an autographed first edition.] [HON has a first edition, large paper and leather bound, inscribed by author. An extra leaf is at end with Miller's explanation of various editions of this title.] [HUN has a copy inscribed by the author.] [USC has 1896 “Songs of the Sun-lands.” [See also 1886.]
-----. Songs of the Soul. London: G. Routledge, 1896. 162 pp. Included: Sappho and Phaon, Sunset and Dawn in San Diego, A Song of the Soundless River, Columbus, Mother Egypt, Java, 1883, and The Passing of Tennyson [MCK]
-----. Dakota and other poems in Later American Poems. Edited by J.E. Wetherell. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Ltd. [“Dakota,” p. 61.] [MGK]
-----. The Legend of the Coyote, The Little Gold Miners of the Sierra, and Treeing A Bear. In Pacific Nature Stories. Edited by Harr Wagner. San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Co. 1896. 152 pages. This book was Vol. 2 of the Western Series of Readers and was supposedly released again in 1901 but not seen by MGK. [HON] [MGK] [See also October 1883, 1886]
-----. Peace and other poems. In Martial Recitations. Collected by James Henry Brownlee. Chicago. [BAL (6:214) notes, “All Miller material herein re-printed from other books.” Peace appears on p. 5 and is extracted from The Song of the Centennial, 1876.] [MGK]
-----. The Treasury of American Sacred Song. Selected by W. Garrett Horder. London. [BAL (6:214)] MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller's Views.” San Francisco Call 79.35 (4 January 1896): 13: 6 [CAL] [Newspaper account of New Year's entertainment at Partington's School of Illustration outlining and quoting a paper, “The First Books and Last” read by Joaquin Miller.] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller at Palo Alto: Lecture on ‘Hints from Nature.’” San Francisco Call 79.89) (27 February 1896): 4: 5 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The Laziest Town on Earth (Oakland).” San Francisco Examiner (9 March 1896) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Lion in the Path: Joaquin Miller Talks to Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.” San Francisco Call 79.141 (19 April 1896): 1-4 [CAL] [Lecture on “Prohibition” at Carmel or Pacific Grove.] [See partial reprint 1993.] [MGK]
-----. “The Frémont Road.” [HON notes, “A.MS. (unsigned) 20 mounted leaves fol. in a volume.” A date of 5/18/1896 is given. [HON] has this document in JM Box 2: vol. 7 (2).] [MGK]
-----. “The Beauty of an Idea.” The San Francisco Call (28 May 1896): 8: 2 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller at Seattle: The Poet of the Sierras Flouts the Men Who Favor Gold.” San Francisco Call 80.44 (14 July 1896): 4: 3 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “The Story and the Glory of the Golden Gate.” San Francisco Call 80.77 (16
August 1896): 17: full page [CAL] [MGK]
-----. Stay Hand, Gold Tories! San Francisco: Diers Print. 1896. [BAL (6:199) notes that this single leaf has at the end of the text: “El Dorado, Cal., October 24, 1896.”] [See San Francisco Call, 15 December 1895] [MGK] [STANFORD - MELVYL] [WC] [MCK] “At head of title: Joaquin Miller’s latest and best.” [Tories possibly a misprint of Torres, a well known Mexican miner’s name as the 1895 article was all about Hangtown (Placerville).] [MGK]
-----. “Joaquin Miller: His Home.” New York Daily Tribune. (8 November 1896): 5: 3.
-----. “The Great Emerald Land.” Overland Monthly 28.168 (December 1896): 641-644. [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [SPL] [MOA] [MGK] [MCK] [About Oregon.]
-----. “The Pioneers to Oregon. The Great Emerald Land.” Written for the Oregon
Pioneer Association, 1896. [OHS Papers File].
-----. “California's Corner Stone.” Family Journal (December, 1896) [HON] [MGK]
-----. A picture of Joaquin Miller at “The Hights.” Christmas Day, 1896. Copyright George Wharton James. [Out West 5.3,4 (March-April 1913): 140)] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Lucas, Judge Daniel Bedinger. Nicaragua: War of the Filibusters. Introductory Chapter
by Lewis Baker. Richmond: B. F. Johnson Pub. Company, 1896. 216pp. [WC]
[HGT] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Conway, New Hampshire: [Tienda El Quetzal, 1986] 1896. 216pp. [WC] [MCK]
Review of Songs of the Soul. 1896. The Critic 24 [MGK]
Hueffer, Ford Madox. Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Works. London: Longmans, Green and Co. pp. 288-289. [RCL] [MGK]
Stoddard, Charles Warren. “Poet of the Sierras.” Exits and Entrances.(see 1903) Pages 221-233 cover Joaquin Miller in this period. [MGK]
“As Talked in the Sanctum.” Overland Monthly 27.158 (February 1896): 135 [MOA] [MCK]
Crane, Stephen. “A Great Mistake.” The Philistine 2.4 (March 1896) Includes works by Miller. [MCK]
“Joaquin’s Stage Debut.” San Francisco Call 79.121 (30 March 1896): 12:1 [CAL] [MGK]
Gregory-Flesher, Helen E. “Literary Workers of the Pacific Coast.” Munsey’s Magazine
15 (April 1896): 98-99. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“The Majestic Sierras. Joaquin Miller Addresses An Audience on Mountain Scenes.” Morning Call 79.147 (25 April 1896): 8: 2 [CAL] [Miller narrated a Camera Club showing of pictures; the audience viewed in rapt silence.] [MGK]
Stoddard, Charles Warren. “The Poet of the Sierras.” Overland Monthly 27.162 (Second Series.) (June 1896): 664-673. [PMC] [OAK] [H ON] [CAL] [RCL] [CSC] [MCK says pp. 264-273 from PET and MOA] [Pagination differs in some series.] [MGK]
Review of Songs of the Soul. Land of Sunshine 5 (June 1896): 75 [RCL] [CCL] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK]
Anon. “The Sierra Poet. Joaquin Miller Chats with Old-Time Friends in Spokane.”
(OHS Clipping File) End of article is dated (16 June 1896). [MCK]
Lengthy description of Harr Wagner and Miller’s lectures in Spokane, WA.
Myers, Frank Elliott. “Defenders of the Union.” Overland Monthly 28.163 (July 1896): 60 [MOA] [MCK]
Sherman, Ellen Burns. “Joaquin Miller.” [Review of Songs of the Soul.] The Critic 29: 19-20. n.s. 26. (11 July 1896) [CCL] [PMC] [HON] [PET] [RCL] [RCL states, “Questions why the preceding generation has neglected Miller, but suggests a new generation of readers will bring about a Miller renaissance. Finds originality and freshness in this new collection of poetry, and a marked improvement in metrical structure over his earlier work.”]
“Defects Noted and Virtues Praised.” [Review of Ellen Burns Sherman’s review.] San Francisco Call 80.49 (19 July 1896): 23: 2-3 [CAL] [MGK]
“Book Reviews. Songs of the Soul.” Overland Monthly 28.164 (August 1896): 232-233. [RCL says this is n.s.] [CAL says this is a review of Songs of the Soul.] [MGK] [MOA] [MCK]
Payne, William Morton. Review of Songs of the Soul. In “Recent Books of Poetry,” The Dial 21(1 September 1896): 122 [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“Etc. The Presuming West.” Overland Monthly 28.166 (October 1896): 484-485 [MOA] [MCK]
Pratt, Mary Louise. “Joaquin Miller’s Mountain Home.” Midland Monthly (November
1896): 399-402. [WC] [MCK]
Wells, Carolyn. “The Latest Things in Poets,” (14 November 1896). On Noguchi, online at: http://www.media.kyotou.ac.jp/edu/lec/edmarx/Noguchi/tour/Latest.htm
Oregon Historical Quarterly 56.4. 1896. pp. 338-340 [CAL] [MGK]
Warner, Charles Dudley, ed. Library of the World’s Best Literature: Ancient and
Modern. Vol. XVII-XXV New York: Peale & Hill. 1896. [CCL:(17)10028] [WC]
Mention of Miller appears on pp. 10027-10036. The Ship in the Desert and Kit Carson. [MGK] [MCK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to George M. Miller (10 February 1896) Frontier. (1932) Vol. 12(2). [Written from “The Hights.”] [MGK]
-----. Letter to John F. Rose (4 March 1896) [Huntington Library, in LOCKLEY (Frederick E.) COLLECTION, Box 12 (uncatalogued).] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Emma Hilborn – Minnie’s sister. [Addressed My dear Aunt Ema] from Hotel Del Coronado (Mch? 1896). [BB} [MGK]
-----. Inscription (2 June [18]96, San Francisco, California on flyleaf of his Songs of the Soul. [HON has (PS2397 So 1896)] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Charles Warren Stoddard] from The Portland, Portland, Oregon. (4 June 1896): 2 p. [Addressed: Dear gentle Charley.] [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11300.] [MGK]
-----. A Freeman’s Fourth [poem for the 4th of July] , July 3, 1896, Pendleton, Oregon “given to Benjamin S. Burroughs just after JM read it in Pendleton.” [HON has in JM Box 1:folder 31] [MGK]
-----. [HON has an “A.L.S. 3p. 8vo.” with signature cut off to Stone and Kimball dated 8/1/1896, San Francisco in JM Box I: folder 16.] [MGK]
-----. A.L.S. re: Walt Whitman from San Francisco. August 16.
-----. [HON has an “A.L.S. 1 p. 4to.” to David Muir dated 11/5/1896 “Hights” with a stamped, addressed envelope in JM Box I: folder 17.] [MGK]
-----. A.L.S. re: Walt Whitman from San Francisco. August 16.
-----. Six letters to Edwin Bliss Hill. 1896 [Huntington Library, in HILL (Edwin Bliss) COLLECTION, Box 7 (16).] [MGK]
Cheney, John Vance. Letter (7 August 1896) Chicago, Illinois [to] Mr. Edwin Markham,
[Staten Island, N. Y.]. In Markham Manuscript Collection, Wagner College,
Staten Island, NY. [WC].
“John writes again very poetically about his work. He offers suggestions
written by Katherine Sharpe from the Library School of Amour Institute in Chicago. He discusses correction of a copy of "Golden Guess". The Critic has had good things about old Joaquin.” [WC] [MCK]
Newell, Harriett Estelle. Receipt for $60.00, from Harriett Estelle Newell, Exec. of the estate of Rebecca F. Martin, New York (8 June 1896) One year interest on mortgage. [Huntington Library, MSS 1578.] [MGK]

 
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