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Title: Irvine (Leigh Hadley) "The History of New California" Typescript,
Date (inclusive): 1905
Collection number: Mss125
Creator:
R. Coke Wood
Extent: 0.3 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Irvine (Leigh Hadley) "The History of New California"
Typescript, Mss125, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the
Pacific Library
Leigh Hadley Irvine (1863-1942) was an author, editor, and journalist. He was, at various
times, the assistant managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner in 1888, Sunday editor
of the Sacramento Union (1898-1899), managing editor of the newspaper syndicate,
1906-1909, and managing editor of the Daily Eureka Times (1912-1913). Irvine was also the
author of a number of books, including: Irvine's New Cyclopedia of Diction, (1910); A
History of California's Bench and Bar, (1912);and the History of Humboldt County, (1913).
This collection consists of an incomplete, typescript of 156 pages of "The History of New
California" edited by Leigh H. Irvine and published in 2 volumes by Lewis Publishing Co.
(1905). The manuscript is a partial draft of the first part of volume 1. Many chapters
were written by important educators and scholars such as David Starr Jordan and James
O'Meara. The manuscript has no bibliography or footnotes.