Volume 90, Number 1 - California Historical Society

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Henry Meade Bland to Ina Cook Peterson
(niece of Coolbrith), Mar. 30, 1928, Ina D.
Coolbrith Collection of Letters and Papers,
BANC.
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“Beautiful Ceremony Performed on the
Hights Before Hundreds of Bard’s Admirers,”
San Francisco Call, May 26, 1913.
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Florence Hardiman Miller to Joaquin
Miller, Aug. 5, 1896, Joaquin Miller Collection,
HM 15691, Huntington Library.
“Reception to a Rising Authoress,” San
Francisco Call, Aug. 12, 1896. Mrs. Miller
(no relation) also invited Coolbrith, Edwin
Markham, Millicent Shinn, and Adeline
Knapp. Of the five, the only ones to show up
were Miller and Adeline Knapp, a journalist,
antisuffragette, student of economics, and,
briefly, an object of infatuation on the part
of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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Stuart P. Sherman, The Poetical Works of
Joaquin Miller (New York & London: G. P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1923), 3. “Estimate of Poetry
of Californians by Critic Stirs Literati: Witter
Bynner Says Joaquin Miller’s Work not Permanent
and Gives Vent of Other Iconoclastic
Criticism,” Oakland Post-Enquirer, Nov.
11, 1922. For the most perceptive modern
critique of Miller’s verse, see Frost, Joaquin
Miller.
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Harry Hayden, “Heights [sic] Neglected
by City of Oakland,” San Francisco Chronicle,
July 15, 1923.
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“Joaquin Miller’s Open Letters,” #31.
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Wagner, Joaquin Miller and His Other Self,
132.
sideBar, the irrepressiBle John p.
irish . . . colonel, p. 47
Caption sources: John P. Irish, “Some
Memories of Joaquin Miller,” Out West
7, no. 2 (Feb. 1914), 84–85. Text: Joseph
Eugene Baker, ed., Past and Present of Alam-
eda County, California (Chicago: S. J. Clarke,
1914), 401, 409–11; Descriptive summary,
John Powell Irish Papers, 1882–1923, Stanford
University, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
findaid/ark:/13030/tf9k4007br/entire_text/;
Pauline Jacobson, “Col. John P. Irish, Tory:
Allied at Birth Is Well-Fed. He has Been
an ‘Anti’ All his Life,” The Bulletin, Sept. 9,
1911; “Col. Irish in Japan,” Oakland Tribune,
Dec. 10, 1922; “Col. Irish Killed by Car in
California,” Iowa City Press Citizen, Oct. 8,
1923.
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J. P. Irish to Charles W. Irish, Aug. 10,
1885, Charles Wood Irish Papers, MS C362,
box 2, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
2
Excerpt, Ambrose Bierce, “Black Beetles
in Amber,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John_P._Irish.
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