Guide to The Waif Manuscript MC337

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.

Purchased from McBride Rare Books, 2022

[Identification of item], The Waif, MC337, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

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