Container List

BOX 1: HENRY MEADE BLAND COLLECTION, 1907-1958

1.1 HMB OBITUARIES, 1931

"Unto That Still, Fair Garden," San Jose Mercury Herald, (4/30/31).

"Henry Meade Bland," Westward.

"Bard of Sierras--State's Sweetest Singer," San Jose Mercury Herald, (4/30/31)

"Autobiography of Poet Laureate Given," n.s., (4/30/31).

"State Poet Laureate Dead," n.s., (4/30/31).

"Henry Meade Bland, Poet of California," n.s., (4/30/31).

"Henry Meade Bland, Laureate Poet of California Passes Away," San Jose Mercury Herald, (4/30/31).

"Long Friendship Ended," n.s., (5/1/31).

"Henry Meade Bland," n.s. [newspaper photo]

"Rites Tomorrow for Dr. Bland, Poet Laureate," San Jose Mercury Herald, (5/1/31).

"A Tribute to the memory of Henry Meade Bland," Assembly Daily Journal, (5/6/31).

"Tributes Paid to Life, Writings of Dr. Bland," San Jose Mercury Herald, (5/8/31).

1.2 OTHER BLAND PAPERS

-Like Dawn Sierran [order form for copies of book]

-Comment on the Bland Poems

-"Door to Markham Cottage Now Bears Plaque," San Jose Mercury Herald, (3/18/26).

-"Short Story Club of State Normal is a Medium for Developing Talent," n.s.

-"Dr. Bland Awarded Prize in Contest of World's Poets," n.s.

-"Faces You Have Seen," n.s.

-"State Confers Honor on Professor Bland of Normal School Faculty," n.s. [1929?]

-Resolution of Respect in memory of Dr. Henry Meade Bland from the California State Legislature, (1931).

-"San Jose Poet," San Jose Mercury Centennial Edition, (6/17/51). [Edwin Markham]

1.3 TYPESCRIPT & PRINTED COPIES OF INDIVIDUAL POEMS

-"Sir Henry Hudson," n.s.

-My Juliet Rose; "One eve an autumn rose full-blown"; "The Rose"

-A Ballad of Peace (1928) [printed by lst Methodist Church, San Jose]

-"A Song of Songs" (1927) [ded. to Rockwell D. Hunt; w/ env. ad- dressed to Mabel Breeden]

-"Poems for Christmas" (1930) [w/ env.; addressed to Mabel Breeden]

-"From Mount Lowe," n.d.

-"The Sea," n.d. [2 l.]

-"The Ninth of September" (1928) [4 l.]

-California - A Song of the Ultimate West, n.d.

1.4 FRAMED COPY OF "THE FIREPLACE SPEAKS," (1928). [handwritten by poet; ded. to Mabel Breeden]

1.5 BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED BY HMB

-A Song of Autumn and Other Poems, (1907).

-Prose and Poetry for Children, (1914).

-The Golden Gate Birthday Book, (1914).

-Sierran Pan and Other Poems, (1922).

-Stevenson's California, (1924).

-A Day of Poetry, (1925). [2 copies]

-California and Other Poems, (1926).

-A Day in the Hills, (1926). [3 copies]

-Forty-Seven Poems by Henry Meade Bland, (1928).

-The Search and Other Poems, (1928). [2 copies]

-The University of California, (1930).

-Like Dawn Sierran, (1937).

1.6 BOOKS ABOUT HMB

-Peterson, Martin Severin, The Poet Bland and Sixteen Specimen Poems, (1943).