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Register of the Margaret B. Taverner Collection,
1940-1960
Mss36
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Title: Margaret B. Taverner Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1940-1960
Collection number: Mss36
Creator:
Margaret B. Taverner
Extent: 0.5 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], Margaret B. Taverner Collection, Mss36,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Margaret Taverner was an educator in Stockton, Calif.From the late 1940s
through 1961 she was a counselor, then Associate Dean of Women at Stockton
[Junior] College. During most of that time Miss Taverner carried out research
on the Gold Rush era writings of Bret Harte and Mark Twain. She was
particularly interested in the relationship between the prose of these two
writers and the locales which inspired it. Miss Taverner died in 1961 or 1962.
Her mother, Mrs. G.M. Taverner, and a friend, Miss Ina Marmon, gave Margaret
Taverner's notes to Holt Atherton in 1967.
This collection consists of photos and notes Taverner gathered in the
course of her research on the relationship between the real and fictional
landscapes in the California writings of Mark Twain and Bret Harte
(1940-1960).