Guide to the Edward J. Wickson Papers, 1868-1923

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Guide to the Edward J. Wickson Papers, 1868-1923

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 1035

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
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Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Edward J. Wickson Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1868-1923

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 1035

Creator: Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James), 1848-1923

Extent: Number of containers: 1 box, 1 carton Linear feet: 1.5

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Correspondence; manuscripts and reprints of his writings; reviews of his books; material re Luther Burbank; clippings; and obituaries.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Edward J. Wickson Papers, BANC MSS C-B 1035, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Biography

Edward James Wickson, professor of agriculture of the University of California, was born in Rochester, New York on August 3, 1848. He attended Hamilton College, graduating in 1872. He was for a while on the editorial staff of the Utica Morning Herald, made a special study of the cheese industry, and was elected secretary of the New York Dairymen's Association in 1871. He also served as president of the Utica Dairymen's Board of Trade. In 1875 he became connected with the Pacific Rural Press. His association with the University of California began as a lecturer in practical agriculture in 1879; he became an associate professor in 1891. He later assumed responsibility for the University Extension courses in agriculture, and became Dean of the College of Agriculture and head of the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1905, becoming emeritus in 1915. Professor Wickson organized the first dairy association in California in 1876 and was active in the California State Horticultural Society. He was the author of numerous articles in professional journals and newspapers, and of several volumes relating to fruits and vegetables and garden flowers. He died July 16, 1923.

Scope and Content

The collection, transferred from University Archives to the Manuscripts Division in 1966, includes correspondence; MSS and reprints of his writings, mainly on agricultural subjects; clippings; reviews of Wickson's work; papers relating to Luther Burbank; and class notes and other materials relating to his student days at Hamilton College.

A key to arrangement and partial list of correspondents follow.

box Box

Letters written by Wickson, 1905-1923

Scope and Content Note

Copies and drafts, arranged chronologically.

Letters written to Wickson.

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically, by name of person or organization. A partial list of correspondents follows the Key. Unlisted letters are in a separate folder, also arranged alphabetically.

box Carton

Wickson's writings - MSS, reprints and clippings

Address at Memorial Services in Honor of Dr. E. W. Hilgard, 1916

Agricultural Development of the Pacific Coast

Agricultural Education in California

California Climate as Affecting Crop Production

California Fruits and How to Grow Them

California's Wealth is Farmer's Opportunity

Climatic Conditions Ideal for Fruit Culture

Cost of Planting and Care of Trees and Vines to Bearing Age

The Development of California Fruit Industries

An Elementary Agriculture of California

Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, a Biographical Sketch

Flax as a Change-Crop with Cereals

Flax Seed in California

Floral Progress

Foundations of Agricultural Credit in Europe

History and Outlook of the California Fruit Industries

Horticulture at the Experiment Station

How California Advanced from Desolation to Triumph

The Improvement of Citrus Fruit Varieties

Improvement of University Grounds

Industrial Use of the Imagination

Intensive Farming in California

Lessons for Populous Agricultural Countries of Modern Times

Luther Burbank, the Man, His Methods and His Achievements

Nurserymen's Service to Suburban Life in California

The Opportunity in Agriculture

The Orange in Northern California

Preparation of Garden Soil

Rural California

The University at Large in the State

Utility of Beauty in Home and Town

What U.C. Has Done for Horticulture

What We Owe the Horticultural Pioneers of California

The Whistling Girl

Writing for Rural Folks

Poems

Miscellaneous fragments and untitled pieces

Reviews of Wickson's California Flower Gardens, California Fruits and How to Grow Them, California Vegetables in Field and Garden

Scrapbook, containing mainly clippings of reviews of Wickson's books.

Plates used in Pacific Rural Press

Plates used in second edition of Wickson's California Garden Flowers

Papers relating to the Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits, 1914.

Scope and Content Note

Including commission as delegate, Mar. 25, 1914, signed by Hiram W. Johnson, and list of delegates.

Material relating to Luther Burbank.

Scope and Content Note

Includes promotional material for Oscar E. Binner Co., Burbank's publisher; A Brief Review of the Great Earthquake of Apr. 18th, 1906 by Burbank (typescript); typescript of an introduction by David Starr Jordan; Wickson's editorial note; clippings.

Material relating to Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.

Scope and Content Note

Includes notebook containing class notes, 1868, for course in Greek, which includes, also, a register of letters written to and received from the class of `69, kept by Wickson as class secretary; copies of the Hamilton Literary Monthly for 1868 and 1869 (Wickson was one of the Monthly's editors); record of class of 1869; and miscellaneous items.

Clippings and obituaries for Wickson

Miscellaneous clippings

Miscellaneous notes, etc.

Adams, Edward Francis, 1839-1929

Letter, Jan. 15, 1907

Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 1858-

51 letters, 1899-1922

Additional Note

Mainly concerning Wickson's Rural California. Also included, a reprint of Bailey's article, What a College Farm Is For

Bellows, John A.

4 letters, 1921

Additional Note

Re his Agricultural Cyclopedia for Young People, including sample pages from it.

Benchley, Leonidas B.

Letter, May 12, 1900

Bentley, Charles Harvey, 1869-1922

Letter, June 13, 1919

Binner, Oscar E.

31 letters, 1911

Additional Note

Re publication of Luther Burbank's work. Enclosure to letter, Oct. 12, 1911: copy of letter by Vernon L. Kellogg; enclosure to letter, Dec. 20, 1911: copy of letter by José D. Husbands.