1908

Primary Sources
Columbus by Cincinnatus Miller 1841-1913. 101 Best Poems Ed. by ? Prudy . Library of Congress Catalogue 609006 [MGK]
-----. Resurge San Francisco and San Francisco. In Poems of American History Collected. By Burton Egbert Stevenson. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press. 1908. [BAL (6:2202) notes that this book is a reprint except for Resurge San Francisco (p. 658) which appears as Resurgo San Francisco in Miller's Collected Works. San Francisco appears on p. 657 of this book.] [CAL] [MGK]
-----. Through Italy with the Poets. Compiled by Robert Haven Schauffler. New York. [BAL (6:215)] [MGK]
-----. Resurgo in San Francisco. The Circle. (January 1908) [HON] [MGK]
-----. Resurgo San Francisco. Current Literature 44 (9 January 1908): 218-9. Resurgo. (excerpt) [San Francisco] The Independent 69 (9 January 1908): 113-114 [MGK]
-----. Shadows of the Plains. Overland Monthly n.s. 51 (January 1908): 62-63. [PMC] [OAK] [HON] [MGK]
-----. “Tales of Bad Men and Frontiersmen.” Pacific Monthly 19.1(January 1908): 1-10
Portland, OR. [HON] [HGT] [WWU] [MGK] [MCK] [Lute Pease was editor in 1909. Lischen Miller was editor of Drift in August 1908. It consolidated with Pacific Monthly and then Pacific Monthly sold to Sunset in 1912.] [MGK]
-----. Cedars By Oregon Seas. Sunset Magazine 20 (February 1908): 326. [HON] [CAL] [CSC] [MGK] [Quotes Swinburne “By Seas...” whereas in 1884 he quoted him “On seas....”]
-----. Resurgo San Francisco. Current Literature 44 (February 1908): 218-219 [PMC] [MGK]
-----. “An Old Time California Burglar.” Oakland Tribune (February 1908). [HON] [MGK]
-----. Come to My Sunland! Grizzly Bear 3 (May 1908): 7 [CAL] [MGK]
-----. “A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever.” (Florence, Oregon) The West 18. 1 (22 May 1908): 2: 1-3 [MGK]
-----. “Our Undiscovered Oregon.” Pacific Monthly 19.6 (June 1908): 651-658. [HON] [MGK] [MCK] [WWU: pp. 653-654 missing in WWU's copy.] [MGK]
-----. To Russia. The Independent 65 (10 December 1908): 1372. “From The Independent of March 23, 1882.” [PMC] [See also To Rachel in Russia, June 1, 1882; To Russia in In Classic Shades, 1890; ...Four Songs.... To Russia...,1906; Feb. 27, 1913.] [MGK]

Secondary Sources
Armes, William D. “Joaquin Miller and His Work.” University of California Chronicle. Vol. 15; 357 [CAL] [MGK]
Rossetti, William M. ed. The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti. Appendix:
Extracts From the Diary of William M. Rossetti, 1871-1895. London: Brown,
Langham, 1908. 242pp. [WC]. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1908. 242pp. [34, 207, 211] [PSU] [WC] [MCK] [See also 1968 and 1973]
(34) Reprint of letter to William dated July 28, 1871 in which Christina notes that Mr. [Charles Bagot] Cayley borrowed her copy of Songs of the Sierras.
(207) Diary Entry dated February 18, 1871. William Rossetti notes:
“[Frederick] Locker and Cincinnatus Miller, a Californian whom Locker made known to me, also [W. J.] Stillman, came to Euston Square: the former two were introduced to Christina, whom they more especially wished to know”
(211) Diary Entry dated March 19, 1871. William Rossetti writes:
“Joaquin Miller looked me up at Somerset House, and left with me
the remaining proofs of his forthcoming volume. He showed me the dedication, ‘To the Rossettis.’ I strongly recommended him to write direct to Gabriel as to the matter before anything further is done. I mentioned the dedication to Christina. She feels some hesitation in sanctioning it, not knowing what the book may contain. If she makes up her mind to object, she is to write to Miller. I looked through the proofs and noted down some remarks on them. They include a series of poems about Christ, named Olive Leaves, implying a sort of religious, or at least personal, enthusiasm, mixed up with a good deal that has more relation to a sense of the picturesque than of the devotional. These poems, though far from worthless from their own point of view, are very defective, and would, I think be highly obnoxious to many readers and Reviewers. I have suggested to Miller the expediency of omitting them altogether. - Christina, I find, has already read these particular poems, and to some considerable extent likes them, which is so far in their favour as affecting religious readers”
Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. New York: D. Appleton and
Company, 1908. 139-140, 310 [RCL] [RCL: Includes letters from Miller to Whitman.] [MGK] [MCK]
Visscher, William Lightfoot. A Thrilling and Truthful History of The Pony Express.
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company, 1908 [HGT] [MCK]
Editorial on poem Resurgo. The Independent 64 (January 1908): 113-114. [PMC] [MGK]
Gaines, Mrs. Nettie S. “A Visit to the Home of Joaquin Miller.” Pacific Short Story
Club Magazine 1(January 1908): 17-18. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
McCrackin, Josephine. “Joaquin Miller.” Santa Cruz Sentinel (25 January 1908) [C.W. Stoddard Collection, Bancroft Library.] [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Redington, J.W. “Joaquin’s Experiment.” Sunset Magazine 20. 4 (February 1908): 397-398. [CAL] [Providing for the homeless.] [MGK]
Stoddard, Charles Warren. “In Old Bohemia II: The Overland and the ‘Overlanders’.” The Pacific Monthly 19 (March 1908): 267-268. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
“The Lost Bohemia of San Francisco.” The Literary Digest 36 (14 March 1908):
375-376. [RCL] [Excerpts from The Pacific Monthly (Dec. 18, 1907): 639(?). See p. f-46.] [MGK] [MCK]
“Washington Theatricals” (Juanita Miller). San Francisco Morning Call (26 April 1908): 76 : 3 [MGK]
Anecdotes. San Francisco Morning Call (5 May 1908): 6: 6. [CAL] [MGK]
Comments in the Personals sections on arrival and departure of Joaquin Miller in Florence, Oregon. The West 17-18, (May 15, 22, 29, 1908) [MGK]
“A Famous Poet at Florence, 1908.” Oregonian (17 May 1934): 12 [OHS Clippings
File] Picture of Joaquin and his brothers [MCK]
Bland, Henry Meade. “How Some Western Writers Work.” Overland Monthly n.s.
51 (June 1908): 511-513. [RCL] [MGK] [MCK]
Marshall, Dexter. “Pioneers Who Are Still With Us.” Pittsburgh Dispatch (12 July
1908) [OHS Scrapbook 50, pages 35-36] [MCK]
Allan, Paul. “’Views of Readers: Ingersoll or Hubbard?’” New York Times (25 July
1908) [Online: BR418]
Allan writes that lines from a previous query are not original to either
Ingersoll or Hubbard but to Joaquin. The said lines are from Joaquin’s tribute to Peter Cooper, printed April 4, 1883.
Love, Robertus. “Letter to the Editor 3.” New York Times (25 July 1908) [Online: BR418] [MCK]
Rollin. “Views of Readers: The Joaquin Miller Quotation.” New York Times (1 August
1908) [MCK] [Online: BR430] Rollin attributes some lines of Miller’s to Martial, a Greek poet.
Hakness, Aldan. “Praise for Joaquin Miller.” New York Times (22 August 1908) [Online: BR458] [MCK]
A big fan of Miller, Hakness, writes: “No poetry of the present age has any claim to the unconventional freedom, the supreme independence, the spontaneity, the bold and vigorous originality, the all-pervading passion, the unresting energy and the prodigal wealth of imagery which stamp the poetry of Joaquin Miller.”
Akin, Myrtle E. “Joaquin Miller’s After-Dinner Speech.” Overland Monthly n.s.
52 (September 1908): 278-279. [RCL] [MAR] [PET] [PMC] [OAK] [HON] [CAL] [MGK] [MCK]
Herren repays Miller’s kindness. San Francisco Morning Call (11 September 1908): 10 : 3 [CAL] [MGK]
Hill, G. R. “Views of Readers: Joaquin Miller’s Poetry.” New York Times (19
September 1908) [Online: BR515]
“In a recent issue . . . one of your correspondents praises the poetry of
Joaquin Miller and wonders why his works are not now more widely read.
I have often wondered why myself. A few critics have pronounced him
the greatest of living American poets . . .”
Auringer, O. C. “Lack of Appreciation of Poetry Declared to be Due to Absence of a
Leisure Class - Can a Democracy Produce or Recognize Art? - ‘Set in the Silver Sea’ - Another Novelist’s Alleged Error.” New York Times (26 September 1908) [Online: BR530]
“ . . . it is doubtful if there exists among us that width and wisdom of critical discernment which could at the same time rightly appraise the varying excellencies of two poets, as Whitman - on the one hand, a poet of personality, great in himself apart from his poetry, and Miller on the other, richly gifted and with the art to turn his muse to story-telling. What is needed is an improvement in both criticism and public appreciation . . .”
Reed, Helen Leah. “The Joaquin Miller Quotation.” New York Times (3 October 1908) [Online: BR548]
Reed quotes and translates one of the odes of Horace and then writes:
“Among the earlier forms of the sentiment expressed by Joaquin Miller, does not this take precedence?”
Stabler, Margurite. Review of As It was in the Beginning. The Pacific Monthly 20. 6 (December 1908)): 608 [MGK]
Stoddard, Charles Warren. “In Old Bohemia.” The Pacific Monthly 18( December 1908): 639 [RCL] [MCK]
Millard, Bailey. “The Wild Joaquin.” The Bookman 28 (December 1908): 342-343, 348-349 [PMC] [HON] [CCL] [RCL] [HGT], [MAR] [PET] [MGK] [MCK]
Miller’s tour of the world. San Francisco Morning Call (8 December 1908): 27: 1 [CAL] [MGK]

Letters and Archival Papers
Huntington, Hallie. Interviews Dr. Eva Johnson.” Typed manuscript at [LHM]. [Said Lischen couldn’t get Joaquin, whose poems she loved, so she took George. Miller. [Hearsay] [MGK]
Miller, George Melvin.“Locating the New York-Florence Highway.” Picture. (Title of article [from an Oregon paper?] by George Miller on the history of the highway
1843, 1844-1908.) [LHM] [MGK]
Miller, Joaquin. Letter to James Carleton Young (4 May 1908). [HON has in JM PS 2397
L6, 1907.] [MGK]
-----. Letter to Dear Cousin June 16 [19]08 The Hights. [HON has in JM Box 1:folder 24.2] [MGK]
Ad for The Oriental Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward FitzGerald, with
Photographic Illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom., New York Times (4 December
1908) [Online: HBN717] Miller and other writers and poets of the West posed as models for this work. [MCK]

 
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