Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Henry Meade Bland Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1907-1951
Collection number: Mss67
Creator:
Mildred Bland McCormack & Robert L. Breeden
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Henry Meade Bland Collection, Mss67,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Biography
Henry Meade Bland (1863-1931), was a native California poet who
succeeded Ina Coolbrith as the state's Poet Laureate (1929). After graduate
study at the University of the Pacific (1890-91), Stanford (M.A. 1895) and the
University of California, he taught English at San Jose State Teachers
College(1899-1931), the forerunner of San Jose State University. During the
early years of the twentieth century, Bland penned reviews of the works of
California writers for Town and Country. He was the friend of Joaquin Miller
(his daughter married Miller's grandson), Jack London, John Muir, Edwin
Markham, and other California literary figures. His verse was published in
Sierran Pan & Other Poems (1924) and six other volumes. His prose writings
include Stevenson's California (1924) and Prose & Poetry for Children
(1914). Edwin Markham wrote of Bland's poetry that it contained "lines of true
beauty and mystic music." David Starr Jordan noted that Henry Meade Bland's
poetry was "always sane."
Scope and Content
This Bland collection contains copies of the poet's works with
annotations in his own hand, Bland obituaries and a study of the poet's work
(1951).