Container List
Series 1
Correspondence
1863-1901
Physical Description:
Box 1, folders 1-11
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
Contains one incoming letter, outgoing, including a few transcripts, and letters
discussing Harte.
Box 1, Folder 1
Incoming
circa 1863
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 2
Outgoing
1866-1869
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 3
Outgoing
1870-1872
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 4
Outgoing
1875-1878
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 5
Outgoing
1880-1884
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 6
Outgoing
1885-1889
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 7
Outgoing
1890-1894
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 8
Outgoing
1895-1901
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 9
Outgoing
undated
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 10
Outgoing - transcripts
1870-1895
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2693, reel 1
Box 1, Folder 11
About Bret Harte
circa 1876-1880
Series 2
Writings
circa 1857-1875
Physical Description:
Box 1, folder 12; Box 2
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and alphabetically.
Scope and Content Note
Contains a diary from 1857-1858, and manuscripts of his writings, some of which have
been bound.
Box 1, Folder 12
Diary
1857-1858
Scope and Content Note
-also available on microfilm BANC FILM 2165
Box 2, Folder 1
Concerning California and the Mercantile Library of San
Francisco
circa 1870
Box 2, Folder 2
The Heathen Chinee or
On the Sinfulness of Ah Sin as reported by Truthful
James
circa 1870-1875
Box 2, Folder 3
The Idyll of Red Gulch
1869
Box 2, Folder 4
The Mystery of Hacienda
undated
Box 2, Folder 5
The Story of an Ornithologist
circa 1867,
1877
Box 2, Folder 6
Miscellaneous manuscripts
circa 1864-1874
Box 2, Folder 7
Book reviews of other author's works
undated
Series 3
Miscellaneous
1863-1951
Physical Description:
Box 1, folders 13-15; Roll 1; Oversize volume 1.
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically.
Scope and Content Note
Contains papers relating to Harte's employment as a superintendents clerk at the U.S.
Branch Mint, San Francisco, a flag made during the American Civil War by Harte and his
sister, clippings, and other miscellaneous items including a lock of hair.
Oversize Volume 1
U.S. Branch Mint, San Francisco
1863,
1868
Roll 1
United States Flag
circa 1861
Box 1, Folder 13
Documents relating to Harte's U.S. Flag
circa 1944-1959
Box 1, Folder 14
Clippings
circa 1914-1951
Box 1, Folder 15
Miscellaneous
circa 1870-1890
Microfilm BANC MSS C-H 57 FILM
Receipts, from Bret Harte for Mrs. Harte's services as choir singer at First
Unitarian Church of San Francisco
1863
Scope and Content Note
-only available on microfilm.