Volume 90, Number 1 - California Historical Society

notes
1892. Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins
Gilman (New York: D. Appleton-Century
Company, 1935), 142. Calla-Shasta wrote
heart-rending letters, bemoaning the loss
of her Sierra homeland and bewailing her
father’s neglect. See Margaret Guilford-
Kardell, “Calla Shasta—Joaquin Miller’s
First Daughter,” Californians 9, no. 4 (Jan./
Feb., 1992): 40–44.
29
For London and Coolbrith, see George
Rathmell, Realms of Gold: The Colorful Writers
of San Francisco, 1850–1950 (Berkeley,
CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1998), 123; for
James and Coolbrith, see Peter Wild, Wayne
Chatterton, James H. Maguire, George Wharton
James (Boise, ID: Boise State University,
1990), 16.
30
At this time she was known as Charlotte
Perkins Stetson, having recently been
estranged from the artist Walter Stetson,
whom she left behind in Pasadena.
31
Denise D. Knight, ed., The Diaries of Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, vol. 2 (Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1994), 505.
32
Ibid., 554.
33
Anonymous (but in the style of Joaquin
Miller), “Poet Got His Bath,” San Francisco
Call, Sept. 1, 1895.
34
George Wharton James, “The Human
Side of Joaquin Miller” Overland Monthly 75,
no. 2 (Feb. 1920), 126; Yone Noguchi, “With
the Poet of Light and Joy,” National Magazine
21, no. 4 (Jan. 1905), 420.
35
Beatrice B. Beebe, ed., “Joaquin Miller
and His Family,” The Frontier 12, no. 5 (May
1932), 344. Charles Warren Stoddard, “Joaquin
Miller at The Heights [sic],” National
Magazine 26, no. 1 (Apr. 1906), 21.
36
Yoné Noguchi, The Story of Yoné Noguchi
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), 69;
Charles H. Scofield, “The Poet of the Sierras:
His Mountain Home Above Oakland,”
Stockton Evening Mail, Mar. 29, 1893; Elsie
Whitaker Martinez, San Francisco Bay Area
Writers and Artists, with an introduction by
Franklin D. Walker, Regional Oral History
Office, Bancroft Library, University of California
at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (hereafter
cited as BANC), 161.
37
Wagner, Joaquin Miller and His Other Self,
124.
38
Martinez, San Francisco Bay Area Writers
and Artists, 161.
39 Scofield, “The Poet of the Sierras.”
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40
Martinez, San Francisco Bay Area Writers
and Artists, 161.
41
Yonejiro Noguchi to Blanche Partington,
Aug. 17, 1900, Partington Family Papers:
Additions, 1865–1979, MSS 81/143, BANC.
Jack London was informally affianced to
Phyllis Partington. A singer, she performed
with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
42
George Sterling, “Joaquin Miller,” The
American Mercury 7, no. 2 (Feb. 1926), 222;
Marberry, Splendid Poseur, 202.
43
Austin Lewis, “George Sterling at Play,”
The Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine
85, no. 11 (Nov. 1927), 344.
44
Marberry, Splendid Poseur, 202, 252–53;
Sterling, “Joaquin Miller,” 221. Marberry
includes a scene in which a surprised
George Sterling observes John Partington
and Ambrose Bierce slaving over the construction
of Moses’ pyramid. True to form,
the very readable Marberry has been a little
loose with the facts. Sterling saw “young
Bierce,” Ambrose’s nephew, not the caustic
journalist, who felt some fondness for his
old acquaintance despite being well aware
of his shortcomings. In his well-read Examiner
column, the elder Bierce had famously
declared that Miller was a liar . . . albeit a
harmless, good-natured one. (Equally memorably,
Joaquin responded, “I am not a liar.
I simply exaggerate the truth.”). Ambrose
Bierce, “Prattle,” San Francisco Examiner,
Jan. 30, 1898.
45
Miller uses the term “hillside Bohemia”
in The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin
Miller (San Francisco: Whitaker and Ray,
1897), 318. Joaquin Miller, The Building of
the City Beautiful (Cambridge and Chicago:
Stone and Kimball, 1894 [privately printed
1893]), 77, 72.
46
“A Selection of Letters from the Markham
Archives,” The Markham Review (Staten
Island, NY: Hormann Library, Wagner College,
May 1969); Louis Filler, The Unknown
Edwin Markham: His Mystery and Its
Significance (Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch
Press, 1966), 68, 70–71, 76.
47
“A Study of Japanese,” San Francisco Call,
Aug. 25, 1895; Miller, The Building of the City
Beautiful, 90.
48
Hubbard, So Here Then Is a Little Journey,
14. “Joaquin Miller,” in Elbert Hubbard and
Bert Hubbard, Selected Writings of Elbert
Hubbard (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co.,
1922), 16.
49
Martinez, San Francisco Bay Area Writers
and Artists, 180.
50
Hubbard, So Here Then Is a Little Journey,
14; Stoddard, “Joaquin Miller at The Heights
[sic],” 26.
51
“Deserted is His Own Good Hall,” San
Francisco Call, Mar. 3, 1895. Carolyn Wells,
“The Latest Thing in Poets,” Critic 29 (Nov.
1896), 302.
52
Noguchi, The Story of Yone Noguchi,
76–77.
53
Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley City Directory:
1889–90 (San Francisco: F. M. Husted
Publisher, Jan. 1890), 586.
54
Robert Boyle, Gertrude’s great-nephew,
has determined that Takeshi Kanno’s passport
was issued in Kyoto in October 1892;
e-mail message to the author, Dec. 15, 2011.
55
Takeshi Kanno, Creation-dawn: (a vision
drama); evening talks and meditations (Fruitvale,
CA: Kanno, 1913). Noguchi included
a couple of sample lines from one of his
poems in a letter to Coolbrith: “The opiate
vapors, in foamless waves, rock about this
dreaming shore of April-Earth,” Noguchi
to Coolbrith, Mar. 19, 1897, Ina Coolbrith
Papers, Additions, BANC).
56
Nina Egert organized the exhibit in conjunction
with her book, Noguchi’s California:
Public Visions of a 19th Century Dharma Bum
(Canyon, CA: Nina Egert and the Vinapa
Foundation, 2010); http://vinapafoundation.
org/VinapaFoundation/Noguchis_
California.html.
57
Alfred James Waterhouse Photographic
Album, 2008.086, BANC; Block Book of
Oakland, vol. 17 (Oakland, CA: Thomas
Bros., 1924); Abigail Leland Miller Papers,
MSS C-H 146, BANC. J. P. Irish praises
Abbie for her success in recouping Waterhouse’s
delinquent mortgage payment.
58
Stoddard, “Joaquin Miller at The Heights
[sic],” 28; Sterling, “Joaquin Miller,” 224.
59
Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming,
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam (New
York: Dodge Publishing, 1905).
60
William D. Armes, professor of American
Literature at UC Berkeley, was a friend
of John Muir, cofounder with Muir of the
Sierra Club, and editor of Joseph LeConte’s
autobiography, Joseph LeConte and William
Dallam Armes, The Autobiography of Joseph
LeConte (New York: D. Appleton and Company,
1903).