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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library, Special Collections
Title: The Waif Manuscript
source:
McBride Rare Books
Identifier/Call Number: MC337
Physical Description:
1 bound volumes
Date: 1899
Abstract: Bound manuscript newspaper of "The Waif," composed by the Literary and Musical Society of Klamathon.
This collection consists of a small folio holding a manuscript copy of "The Waif, vol.1, no.1" newspaper.
"The Waif" manuscript newspaper was published by The Literary and Musical Society of Klamathon. Klamathon was a late 19th-century
lumber and milling town on the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border and the modern town of Hornbrook. The literary
society responsible for the present effort called itself only "The Club," and apparently also had difficulty determining a
name for the publication, according to the foreword, which comprises a three-page deliberation on various potential titles.
The leaf following the manuscript title page lists a female editor, Sarah V. Barnes, and two assistant editors, John Eknall
and Maud Adamson; Barnes was responsible for all of the forematter, including an entertaining apologia for a lack of any recent
news from the Boer War in South Africa. The articles themselves were solicited from society contributors, and are a mix of
current events, biographies, and literary pieces, including a biography of the recently deceased Vice-President Garret Hobart
and a description of the William Lloyd Garrison statue on Boston Common, and several shorter pieces in the tradition of "Pearls
of Wisdom" and "Literary News and Notes."
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from McBride Rare Books, 2022
[Identification of item], The Waif, MC337, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.
All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission
to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives and Special Collections. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is
not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
McBride Rare Books