1904

Primary Sources
Miller, Joaquin. The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller. 1904. Revised Edition, San Francisco: The Whitaker and Ray Co. c. 1897-1902. [PMC] [OHS] [Introduction by Stuart P. Sherman – p. 39 Includes The Truly Brave p. 404, What If We All Lay Dead Below p.404-5, Put Up Thy Sword p. 405, Why Know You Not Soul Speaks To Soul p. 405, The Voice of the Dove p. 405 [MGK] [This was reprinted in 1923 by the Reprint Service Co. MGK has also seen a shorter illustrated version with poppies on the cover that includes notes by Miller pp. 321-327.] [MGK]
-----. “Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian in Memoriam.” In A Biographical Sketch of the Life of Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian. By Imogen Holbrook Vivian. San Francisco: The Whitaker & Ray Company. 1904. [BAL (6:202) notes that the work appears on p. 9.] [See also 1903.] [MGK]
-----. Little Lads. Home and School Stories. By George Cary Eggleston. Akron, OH. [BAL] [MGK]
-----. “Looking Back from the Heights.” [PMC] [MGK]
-----. Poems by Joaquin Miller in The Value of Cheerfulness ed. By Mary M. Barrows, intro. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Boston: H. M. Caldwell Company 1904, 194 pp. [MGK]
-----. Men of Forty-Nine. California Ladies’ Magazine (January 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Letter to Gertrude F. Boyle.” Ability (26 February 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Four Little Girls and Their Four Little Stories. St. Nicholas 31 (April 1904): 520-524 [children’s literature] [HON] [WWU] [PET] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. The Wee Brown Man. Harpers Weekly 48.2471 (30 April 1904): 694 [HON] [CAL] [SPL] [About the Czar and the Japanese.] [MGK]
-----. “A Banished Poet (Robert Burns) [1759-1796]” New Age ( June 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Fisher of Nippon. Century 48 (June 1904): 318. [PMC] [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. A Memory of Nicaragua. Smart Set (June 1904) [HON] [MGK] Though its circulation was relatively small, The Smart Set was a highly regarded magazine with a sophisticated, literary reputation. Its best known editors were George Jean Nathan - the drama critic, and H. L. Mencken - one of the most distinguished social critics in America. http://www.geocities.com/louisebrookssociety/smartset.html [MGK]
-----. “Lovely, Terrible Little Japan.” Colliers (18 June 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Little Brown Men of Nippon.” Arena 32 (July 1904): 18 [PET] [MAR] [PMC] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Under Which King Benzonian? Smart Set (July 1904) [HON]
-----. In a Hard Row for Stumps. Harper's Weekly 48.2482 (16 July 1904): 1098. [PMC] [HON] [SPL] [MGK] [To men who in life “tried to hoe my row.”]
-----. The One Highway. Smart Set (August 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Side Lights from a Poet's Lamp.” Literary West (August 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Sea of Silence.” [Crater Lake] Sunset Magazine 13.5 (September 1904): 395-404. [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK: 394-401]
-----. “A Poet--and Rich!” Argonaut (26 September 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. The Brave Old Way. Smart Set (October 1904): 88 [HON] [MGK]
-----. “The Chinese Exclusion Act.” Arena (October 1904): 352-354 [MAR] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. Bravest Lover. Smart Set (November 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Joaquin Miller's Tribute to the Author of “Liberty's Bell.” California Woman's Magazine (November 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “True Greatness.” Success (November 1904) [HON] [MGK]
-----. “An Old-Time California Burglar.” St. Nicholas 32 .18 (December 1904): 137-139. [Andrew Jackson Larison and a bear] [children's literature] [PMC] [HON] [Larison (Lazarus) also in “Damming the Sacramento” 1882.] [MGK] [MCK]
-----. “Christmas 1904.” [BAL (6:2202) notes that this card contains six lines and is otherwise unlocated.] [See 1912] [MGK]
-----. Miller's plea for forest fire prevention. San Francisco Morning Call (28 December 1904): 11: 28. [CAL] [MGK]
-----. The Building of the City Beautiful. The Arena (December 1904-June 1905) 32: 633-42; 33: 71-81, 187-95, 295-305, 415-27, 526-30, 636-42. [PMC] [HON] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Adams, W. A. A Dictionary of Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players,
Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America From the Earliest Times to the
Present. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1904. 627pp. New York: Burt Franklin [WC]
London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. 627pp. [WC] [PSU] [PET] [MGK] [MCK] [See also 1964 and 1968]
Douglas, James. Theodore Watts-Dunton. Poet, Novelist, Critic. London: Hodder and
Stroughton, 1904. 483pp. 301 [WC] [PSU] [MCK] New York: Lane, 1904. 481pp. [WC] [See also 1973]
Despite a reputation for being anti-American, Watts-Dunton had many
American friends including Joaquin Miller [MCK]
Nettleton, Charles P. A Voice From the Silence. Edited by Ina Coolbrith. Biographical
Sketch and Poem by Isabel Darling. Appreciation by Rev.. Hamilton Lee. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1904. 113pp. [STANFORD - MELVYL] [WC] [MCK]
“By Edwin Markham, Joaquin Miller and Ina Coolbrith.”
Noguchi, Yone. “Joaquin Miller at Home.” National Magazine 21. Boston. 1904.
[PET] [MGK] [MCK]
Wilkins, Mary E. Little Lassies. Akron, OH, New York, and Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Co. 1904. [BAL (6:217) notes: “Although the title-page lists Miller as one of the contributing authors, the book contains nothing easily identifiable as his.”] [MGK]
Wright, Helen Ellsworth. “Looking Backward from The Heights.” Overland Monthly
n.s. 43(January 1904): 11-13 [PMC] [MAR] [PET] [CAL] [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
[RCL notes, “...interview with Miller’s mother, giving her reminiscences of Miller’s boyhood in Indiana and Oregon.”] [PMC and [CAL] list same vol. and pp. but not n.s., also list title as “Looking back from the ‘Hights.’”] [MGK]
Review of As it Was in the Beginning. The Critic 44 (February 1904): 190-191. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Miller’s Hearst suit. San Francisco Morning Call (14 April 1904): 0: 2 [CAL] [MGK]
“Pictureque Siskiyou: New and Interesting Story of Joaquin Miller.” Los Angeles Times
1886 ( 15 May 1904): C12 ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times 1881-1995) [DF] [MGK] [Another 1886 version of Miller’s shooting the sheriff.]
“The Magazines: Features of the Leading American Monthlies for June.” New York
Times (28 May 1904) [Online: BR364-BR365] [MCK]
The Century - Joaquin’s “The Fisher of Nippon”
The Smart Set - “A Memory of Nicaragua”
San Francisco Chronicle. (29 May 1904): 8: 5 (Magazine) [CAL notes that a review of George Wharton James’ A Little Journey to the Home of Joaquin Miller appears in this newspaper.] [MGK]
[Quote of Miller concerning Chinese Exclusion Act.] The Arena 32 (July 1904): 353 [MGK]
“Texas oil lands fortune.” San Francisco Morning Call (16 September 1904): 4: 3 [CAL]
“Magazines for 1905: Some of the Plans of the Important American Monthlies for the
Coming Year.” New York Times (26 November 1904) [Online: BR800]
Flower, B.O. “Joaquin Miller: A Nature-Loving Poet of Progress.” The Arena 32 (December 1904): 603-615 [PMC] [RCL] [HGT] [MAR] [MGK] [MCK] [MCK cites as “Joaquin Miller: A Sierra-Loving Poet of Progress.” ]

Letters and Archival Papers
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to [Charles Warren Stoddard] from “The Heights,” Dimond, Cal[ifornia] (12 April 1904): 5 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11305.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [William] Bliss Carman from “The Heights,” Dimond, Cal[ifornia] (18 April 1904): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 7055.] [Bliss Carman (1861- 1929), “unofficial poet laureate of Canada” Left Harvard in 1888, and worked as an editor in New York and Boston, for such journals as The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Current Literature, The Chapbook, The Independent, Literary World, and The Outlook. While at The Independent, published poems by Pauline Johnson, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott and other Canadian authors (http://www.carman.net/bliss.htm) [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Charles Warren Stoddard] from “The Hights,” Dimond, Cal[ifornia] (30 May 1904): 1 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11306.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to [Charles Warren Stoddard] (6 August 1904): 4 p. [Huntington Library, U.6 B10 L.F., HM 11307.] [MGK]
-----. Holograph Letter to Dr. Parker from “the Hights,” Dimond, CA (1 November 1904) Christophe Stickel Autographs & Gallery in Catalogue Seventeen, p. 25, item 87.] [Seen by J. Koenig at the Antiquarian Book Fair, February 1992.] [MGK]
“Letters of Immigrants.” Oregon Pioneer Transactions, 1904-1915. 589-609. [HGT]
[MCK]
Coolbrith, Ina. Letter (9 November 1904) San Francisco, California to Mr. Edwin
Markham, [Staten Island, N. Y.]. In Markham Manuscript Collection, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY [WC] [MCK]
“Ina is asking Markham to autograph 100 copies of Agnes Stowells's late Friend Charles P. Nettleton's book to help the sale of it. Joaguin [sic] Miller is autographing it too” [WC]

 
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