Register of the Henry Meade Bland Collection, 1907-1951
Register of the Henry Meade Bland Collection,
1907-1951
Collection number: Mss67
Holt-Atherton Department of Special CollectionsUniversity Library
University of the Pacific
- Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
- University Library, University of the Pacific
- Stockton, CA 95211
- Phone: (209) 946-2404
- URL: https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections
- Processed by:
- Don Walker
- Date Completed:
- 1994
- Encoded by:
- Don Walker
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).