Finding Aid to the Collection of George Sterling Papers, circa 1880-1950, bulk 1880-1926

Finding Aid written by Revised by Alison E. Bridger

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University of California, Berkeley

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Finding Aid to the Collection of George Sterling Papers, circa 1880-1950, bulk 1880-1926

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 60

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Finding Aid Written By:: Revised by Alison E. Bridger
Date Completed:: August 2007

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Collection of George Sterling papers

Date (inclusive): circa 1880-1950,

Date (bulk): bulk 1880-1926

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 60

Creators : Sterling, George, 1869-1926.

Extent: Number of containers: 10 boxes and 1 volume. Linear feet: 4

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Abstract: Contains correspondence; manuscripts of poems, essays, stories and plays; Carmel diaries; clippings; bibliographies and checklists; publishing agreements, certificates of copyright, etc.; papers regarding his estate. Also includes some letters addressed to his sisters regarding preparation of biographies and settlement of the estate.

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English

Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Collection of George Sterling Papers, BANC MSS C-H 60, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Alternate Forms Available

Boxes 1-3 and 9 are also available on microfilm, [BANC MSS C-H 60 FILM]. Selected items from boxes 4, 5, 7 and 8 are also available on microfilm, [BANC MSS C-H 60 FILM]. Upton Sinclair correspondence also available on microfilm, [BANC MSS X-X FILM 5]. Sinclair Lewis correspondence also available on microfilm, [BANC MSS X-X FILM 11].

Related Collections

Rudolph Blaettler collection of George Sterling papers, 1907-1926. BANC MSS 85/54.

James L. Henry collection of George Sterling manuscripts, circa 1903-1926. BANC MSS 77/116.

Cornelia V. Christenson collection of George Sterling papers, 1914-1926. BANC MSS 81/85.

George Sterling letters and poems: California, to Grace Warlock, 1917-1996, (bulk 1923-1925). BANC MSS 98/91.

George Sterling letters: San Francisco, Calif., to Marie Parmelee, 1920- 1925. BANC MSS 88/180.

George Sterling letters to Ambrose Bierce, 1901-1912: typescript (carbon), circa 1930. BANC MSS 85/133.

A.M. Robertson collection, 1901-1934. BANC MSS 2002/203.

See library catalog for more related collections.

Separated Material

Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (Added to: George Sterling photograph collection, BANC PIC 1984.080--PIC) Portraits transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1961.006--AX, BANC PIC 1963.010--POR, BANC PIC 1967.003--POR) Printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Poets, American--California

Carmel (Calif.)--Intellectual life

Manuscripts for publication

Scripts (documents)

Diaries

Clippings

Poems

Norris, Thomas W. (Thomas Wayne). Thomas W. Norris collection

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Collection of George Sterling Papers was acquired from many different sources. Most of the papers came from the T. W. Norris Collection, and are so identified, but there have been significant additions as gifts (including from Warren Howell, Robert H. Barlow, the John F. Neylan Estate, and Thor Liliencrantz) and through purchases (including from John Howell Books and Mrs. Alice Sterling Gregory). Many single items have been donated or purchased also, and occasionally Sterling material has been removed from other collections and placed here. In all cases, provenance has been indicated either on the documents or on the folders. Additions purchased from Serendipity on August 7, 2007.

Accruals

No additions are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Bancroft Library staff; additions of 2007 by Alison E. Bridger.

Biographical Information

George Sterling, a poet, was born in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York and moved to California in 1890. He had friendships with many literary figures including his mentor Ambrose Bierce, Jack London and Clark Aston Smith. In 1905 he moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea and many authors and artists followed him here. He also kept a room at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco where he took his life in November 1926.

Scope and Content of Collection

Contains correspondence; manuscripts of poems, essays, stories and plays; Carmel diaries; clippings; bibliographies and checklists; publishing agreements, certificates of copyright, etc.; papers regarding his estate. Also includes some letters addressed to his sisters regarding preparation of biographies and settlement of the estate.

Series 1 Correspondence circa 1880-1947

Physical Description: Boxes 1-2; Box 10, folders 1-7

Arrangement

Arranged hierarchically.

Scope and Content Note

Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of George Sterling, as well as correspondence to his two sisters Alice Gregory and Flora Liliencrantz following his death.

Incoming

Single letters

Box 1

Collier's 1926 August 30

Box 1

Lewis, Sinclair 1921 November 16

Box 1

London, Jack 1907 August 9

Box 1

Miller, Joaquin 1901 January 28

Box 1

Scollard, Clinton 1925? September 1

Box 1

Tibbet, Lawrence Mervil 1927 March 27

Box 1

DeCaseres, Benjamin 1925-1926

Box 1

Jeffers, Robinson 1924-1926

Box 1

Jeffers, Una (Call) 1925-1926

Box 1

Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel 1913-1914

Box 1

Masters, Edgar Lee 1926

Box 1

Mencken, Henry Louis 1918-1926

Box 1

Robertson, Alexander Mitchell 1908-1926

Box 1

Robertson, Louis Alexander 1904-1908

Box 1

Sinclair, Upton 1907-1923

Box 1

Stoddard, Charles Warren 1906

Box 10, Folder 1

Stoddard, Charles Warren 1907

Box 2

Outgoing 1880-1926

Box 10, Folder 2

Braithwaite, William Stanley 1916

Box 10, Folder 3

London, Jack 1915

Box 10, Folder 4

Snowden, Helen W. 1923

Box 2

Sinclair, Upton 1907-1916

Scope and Content Note

photocopies

Box 10, Folder 5

Wandrei, David 1926

Box 10, Folder 6

Wiley, Hugh 1925

Box 10, Folder 7

"Georgie" 1922

Gregory, Alice (Sterling)

Scope and Content Note

regarding brother George Sterling.

Box 2

Barber, Jackson 1938

Box 2

Dumont, Henry 1935-1936

Box 2

Miscellaneous letters 1926, 1947

Liljencrantz, Flora (Sterling)

Scope and Content Note

regarding brother George Sterling.

Box 2

Bohemian Club, San Francisco 1926-1927

Scope and Content Note

Written by Haig Patigian and Porter Sesnon.

Box 2

Cushing and Cushing 1927-1931

Box 2

Day (John) Company 1937

Scope and Content Note

Written by Richard J. Walsh.

Box 2

Howard, John Galen 1926

Box 2

Howell, John 1937-1939

Box 2

Modern Library Inc. 1927

Box 2

Oxford University Press 1937-1938

Box 2

Miscellaneous letters 1926-1937

Series 2 Diaries 1905-1913

Physical Description: Box 3

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

Contains diaries written in Carmel. Also includes typed transcripts, the carbons of which have explanatory notes by Miss Nellie Barnes.

Box 3, Folder 1

Diary June 30, 1905 to December 28, 1906

Box 3, Folder 2

Diary August 1, 1907 to August 18,1908

Box 3, Folder 3

Diary August 19, 1908 to September 30, 1909

Box 3, Folder 4

Diary October 1, 1909 to January 18, 1911

Box 3, Folder 5

Diary January 19, 1911 to November 11, 1912

Box 3, Folder 6

Diary November 12, 1912 to November 24, 1913

Series 3 Writings circa 1892-1926

Physical Description: Boxes 4-8; Box 10, folders 8-16; Volume 1

Arrangement

Arranged by type of writing and then alphabetically by title.

Scope and Content Note

Contains handwritten manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, stories and plays many of them signed and given as gifts to friends and colleges. A few items have comments from Ambrose Bierce. Some poems have the same title but are different works.

Poems, manuscripts

Box 4

A-F

Box 4

The Abalone Song

Box 10, Folder 8

The Abalone Song

Box 4

The Abandoned Farm

Box 4

Above the Sea

Box 4

Abraham Lincoln

Box 4

Adullam

Box 4

The Aeroplane

Box 4

After Sunset

Box 4

After the Storm

Box 4

After Vacation

Box 4

Afternoon

Box 4

Afterward

Box 4

All:

Box 4

Amber

Box 4

America. Independence Day 1905

Box 4

Annus Mirabilis

Box 4

Answering

Box 4

Arabian Lulliby

Box 4

Art & Life

Box 4

The Ashes in the Sea

Box 4

The Ashes of Astarte

Box 4

At Dusk

Box 4

At the Apothecary's

Box 4

At the Club

Box 4

At the Grand Canyon

Box 4

At the Grave of Serra

Box 4

At the Keyboard

Box 4

At the Last

Box 4

At the Lily's Heart

Box 4

At Noon

Box 4

At Sunset

Box 4

At Sunset (version 2)

Box 4

At Villa Montalvo

Box 4

Atthan Dances

Box 4

Autumn

Box 4

Autumnal Hope

Box 4

Autumnal Love

Box 4

Ballad of the Swabs

Box 4

Beauty Renounced

Box 4

Beethoven

Box 4

Before Dawn

Box 4

Before Dawn (version 2)

Box 4

Before an Ocean

Box 4

Beloved

Box 4

Beneath the Redwoods

Box 4

Beyond the Music

Box 4

Beyond the Tides

Box 4

The Binding of the Beast

Box 4

The Black Hound Bays

Box 4

The Black Vulture

Box 4

Bliss Decreed

Box 4

Blue Ranges

Box 10, Folder 16

Blue Ranges

Box 4

Bombardment

Box 4

By Another Sea

Box 4

By Carmel Mission

Box 4

By Lonely Waters

Box 10, Folder 16

By the Sea

Box 4

By the Sea of Time

Box 4

By the Western Ocean

Box 4

California to the Artist

Box 4

Careless (in vol.)

Box 4

The Carmel Millionaire

Box 4

The Castaways

Box 4

Caucasus

Box 4

Change

Box 4

The Cliff-Dwellers

Box 4

The Cocktail Song

Box 4

The Coming of Helen

Box 4

Communion

Box 4

A Compact?

Box 4

Comparison

Box 4

Compensation

Box 4

Completion

Box 4

Conclusion

Box 4

Confession

Box 4

Confiteor

Box 4

Contrition

Box 4

Conviction

Box 4

Coronal

Box 4

Coronation

Box 4

A Couch of Love

Box 4

Coup de Grace

Box 4

A Critic

Box 4

A Cry of the Heart

Box 4

The Cynic

Box 4

"Dad" Tatlow Advises

Box 4

The Dark Nation

Box 4

Darling!

Box 4

The Daughters of Discussion

Box 4

Dawn

Box 4

A Day

Box 4

The Dead Captain

Box 4

Dear to Me

Box 4

The Death of Circe

Box 10, Folder 16

The Death of Circe

Box 4

"Deep unto Deep"

Box 4

Dendra's Song from "Truth"

Box 4

The Desert

Box 4

A Deserted Farm

Box 4

Devotion

Box 4

Dirge

Box 4

Distance

Box 4

Divinity

Box 4

A Dog Waits His Dead Mistress

Box 4

Doubt & Worship

Box 4

A Dream of Arcady

Box 4

The Dream of Wilhelm

Box 4

Dreams

Box 4

Duandon

Box 4

The Dusks of Destiny

Box 4

The Eagle

Box 4

Earth-Worms

Box 4

Egon's Song from "Truth"

Box 4

Eidolon

Box 4

An Elegy; Harry M. Maxwell

Box 4

Enchantment

Box 4

Endearment

Box 4

Enigma

Box 4

Entreaty

Box 4

Eros in Heaven

Box 4

The Eternal Visitant

Box 4

Evanecence

Box 4

The Evanescent

Box 4

The Evening Star

Box 10, Folder 16

The Evening Star

Box 4

Ever of You

Box 4

Everest

Box 4

Exiles

Box 4

The Faithful

Box 4

Far and Near

Box 4

The Far Feet

Box 10, Folder 16

The Far Feet

Box 4

Far Peace

Box 4

The Farm of Fools

Box 4

Farmer Haynes Discusses his Niece

Box 4

Farwell and Meeting

Box 4

Fate's Flower

Box 4

The Faun

Box 4

Feb. 21, '08

Box 4

"57"

Box 4

The Final Faith

Box 4

Finis

Box 4

Fire of Dreams

Box 4

The First-Born

Box 4

The First Food

Box 4

The First Snow

Box 4

The Fish Hawk

Box 4

The Flag (in vol.)

Box 4

Flags 'O Truce

Box 4

The Fleet Comes

Box 4

The Flight

Box 4

The Fog Sea

Box 4

For E. H. Sothern

Box 4

Forenoon by the Pacific

Box 4

Foreshadowed

Box 4

The Forest Mother

Box 4

Forest Music

Box 4

Forever and Ever

Box 4

The Forty-Third Chapter of Job

Box 4

The Friends of Wilhelm

Box 4

From Arcady

Box 4

From Dawn to Dusk

Box 4

From Sun to Star

Box 4

From the Gloom

Box 4

From the Shadows

Box 4

From the Train

Box 4

The Fugitives

Box 4

Fulfillment

Box 4

The Futile Song

Box 5

G-N

Box 5

Genesis, XIV, 1-17

Box 5

Germany in Belgium II

Box 5

Germany on the Seas

Box 5

The Gleaner

Box 5

The Glory of the Globe

Scope and Content Note

also on microfilm

Box 10, Folder 9

The Glory of the Globe

Box 5

Goddess--Love

Box 5

God's Lily

Box 5

The Glass of Time

Box 5

Grasshopper

Box 10, Folder 10

Grasshopper

Box 5

The Grey Man

Box 5

The Grizzly Giant

Box 5

The Guerdon of the Sun

Box 5

Harp-Song

Box 5

Haunted

Box 5

The Haunting

Box 5

Heart-Ache

Box 5

Heat in the City

Box 5

Helen

Box 5

Henri

Box 5

Her Welcome

Box 5

Here and Now

Box 5

Heritage of the Skies

Box 5

The Hidden Garden

Box 5

The Hidden Pool

Box 10, Folder 16

The Hidden Pool

Box 5

"His Own Country"

Box 5

Holy River of Sleep

Box 5

The Homing of Drake

Box 5

Hope's Paradise

Box 5

Hotaling's Fancy Farm

Box 5

The Housebreaker

Box 5

The House of Orchids

Box 10, Folder 16

Humility in Art

Box 5

The Huntress of Stars

Box 5

A Hymn for Americans

Box 5

"The Ice-Age"

Box 5

The Ideal

Scope and Content Note

with copies of Ambrose Bierce's comments

Box 5

The Immortal

Box 5

The Immortal Moment

Box 5

In Autumn

Box 5

In Farewell

Box 5

In the Shadow

Box 5

In the Valley

Box 5

In Vain

Box 5

Inarticulate

Box 5

Inauguration Day, 1909

Box 5

Incarnation

Box 5

Inclusion

Box 5

Inclusion (version 2)

Box 5

Infidels

Box 5

Infusion

Box 5

Interpeace

Box 5

Intimation

Box 5

Intimation (version 2)

Box 5

The Iris-Hills

Box 10, Folder 16

The Iris-Hills

Box 5

"The Islands of the Blest"

Scope and Content Note

with comments by Ambrose Bierce

Box 5

Jack London

Box 5

Joan Darc

Box 5

Journey's End

Box 5

June

Box 5

Justice

Box 5

The Killdee

Box 5

Kingships

Box 5

The Kiss

Box 5

The Kiss of Consumation

Box 5

A Knee is Bent

Box 5

The Lagoon

Box 10, Folder 16

The Last Island

Box 5

The Last Mirage

Box 5

The Last of Beauty

Box 5

The Last of Sunset

Box 5

The Last of the Year

Box 5

The Last Suckling

Box 5

The Last Veil

Box 5

Late Tidings

Box 5

Life

Box 10, Folder 16

Life

Box 5

Lilies of Lethe

Box 5

A Listener

Box 5

Loneliest

Box 5

Lonely Beauty

Box 5

Long Island Pebbles

Box 5

Lost Colors

Box 5

Lost Companion (in vol.)

Box 5

The Lost Empire

Box 5

Lost Music

Box 5

The Lost Nymph

Box 5

Lost Sunsets

Box 5

Love Adoring

Box 5

Love and Faith

Box 5

Love and Time

Box 10, Folder 16

Love and Time

Box 5

Love at Sunset

Box 5

Love at Twilight

Box 5

Love Inexhaustible

Box 5

Love Song

Box 5

Love the Transmuter

Box 5

Lover: A Fantasy

Box 5

Love's Companions

Box 5

Love's Consummation

Box 5

Love's Country

Box 5

Love's Farewell

Box 5

Love's Hunger

Box 5

Love's Sacrament

Box 5

Love's Shadow

Box 5

Love's Shrine

Box 5

Love's Silence

Box 5

A Lumberjack Yearns

Box 5

The Lutes of Exile

Box 5

Man

Box 5

Man and Woman

Box 5

The Master Mariner

Box 5

Meeting

Box 5

Melodie in E

Box 5

Memorial Day, 1919

Box 5

Memories

Box 5

The Merciful Man

Box 5

The Messenger

Box 5

A Midnight

Box 5

Miocene

Box 5

Mirage

Box 10, Folder 16

Mirage

Box 5

The Mirror

Box 5

The Modern Muse

Box 5

The Moon of Memory

Box 5

Moonlight in the Pines

Box 5

A Morning Hymn

Box 5

Morning in the Pines

Box 5

The Morning Star

Box 5

The Music of Sleep

Box 5

My Brook (in vol.)

Box 5

My Child-Picture

Box 5

My Songs

Box 5

My Swan Song

Box 5

Myrrh

Box 5

Mystery

Box 10, Folder 16

Mystery

Box 5

Nepenthe

Box 5

The New Goddess

Box 5

Night in Heaven

Box 5

The Night of Man

Box 5

Nightfall

Box 5

Night-Separation

Box 5

The Night-Watch

Box 5

Nimrod

Box 5

Nov. 11, 1918

Box 6

O-S

Box 6

Ocean Sonnets

Box 6

The Oceans

Box 6

An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning

Box 6

Of Yesterday

Box 6

The Old Black-a-Bull

Box 6

Old Cats O'Carmel

Box 6

Old Partings

Box 6

An Old Pine

Box 6

An Old Poem

Box 6

An Old Road

Box 6

"Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium"

Box 6

On a City Street

Box 6

On a Portrait of Lincoln

Box 6

"On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men"

Box 6

Once

Box 6

One Day

Box 6

One Poem

Box 6

Origin

Box 6

Out of the Night

Box 6

"Out of the Ngiht" (version 2)

Box 6

Outward

Box 6

Pacific St.

Box 6

Pain and Joy

Box 6

The Pain of Beauty

Box 6

Paradox

Box 6

Parted

Box 6

Parted (version 2)

Box 6

The Parting

Box 6

Parting (version 2)

Box 6

The Passing of Bierce

Box 6

Passion's Hour

Box 6

Passion's Prayer

Box 6

Past Flesh and Soul

Box 6

The Path to Paradise

Box 6

The Pathfinders

Box 6

The Pathway

Box 6

Pavement

Box 6

Peace

Box 6

Peace Song

Box 6

Penitence

Box 6

The Pinions

Box 6

The Pirate's Grave

Box 6

Poems to Vera

Box 6

Poe's Gravestone

Box 6

The Pony Express

Box 6

A Prayer

Box 6

The Princess on the Headlands

Box 6

Prologue Chorus to "Truth"

Box 6

Protest

Box 6

Pumas

Box 6

The Quarrel

Box 6

The Queen Forgets

Box 6

The Quest

Box 10, Folder 16

The Quest

Box 6

The Rack

Box 6

The Rain

Box 6

Raoul's Song from "Lilith"

Box 6

Reason

Box 6

Recompense

Box 6

The Redwoods

Box 6

Redwoods by Morning

Box 6

The Redwoods Wait

Box 6

Relativity

Box 6

Renouncement

Box 6

Repartee

Box 6

The Restoration

Box 6

The Return of Faith

Box 6

Return, Romance!

Box 6

Revealing Music

Box 6

Revalation

Box 6

The Revenge

Box 6

R. L. S.

Box 6

The Roman Wall

Box 6

Rosa Mystica

Box 6

Rose of the Winds

Box 6

Roses of Sunset

Box 6

The Rune

Box 10, Folder 16

The Rune

Box 6

Safe

Box 6

Said the Wind

Box 6

The Sailing of Keats

Box 10, Folder 11

The Sailing of Keats

Box 6

The Sailor Turns Street-sweeper

Box 6

Sanctuary

Box 6

Sarah the Whale

Box 6

Saul

Box 6

The Sea

Box 6

Sea-Flowers

Box 6

The Sea-Gardens of Carmel

Box 6

The Sea Waif

Scope and Content Note

comments by Ambrose Bierce

Box 6

Seasonal to Date

Box 6

The Seasons

Box 10, Folder 16

The Secret Garden

Box 6

The Secret Room

Box 6

Seismos

Box 6

Serenade

Box 6

The Setting of Antares

Box 10, Folder 16

The Setting of Antares

Box 6

Ships of a Day

Box 6

Sierran Dawn

Box 6

Silence

Box 6

Silver Sword

Box 10, Folder 16

Silver Sword

Box 6

The Sisters

Box 6

The Skull of Shakespeare (in vol.)

Box 6

The Slaying of the Witch

Box 6

Solitude

Box 6

Song

Box 10, Folder 16

Song

Box 6

Song (version 2)

Box 6

A Song of Friendship

Box 6

The Song of Henry Maxwell

Box 6

Song of the Swineherds

Box 6

The Song of the Valkyrs

Box 6

Sonnets of Realization

Box 6

Sonnets of the True Beauty

Box 6

Sonnets of the Sea's Voice

Box 6

Sorrow and Joy

Box 6

The Sowers

Box 6

The Sphinx

Box 6

The Spirit of Dusk

Box 6

The Spirit of the Surf

Box 6

Spring in Carmel

Box 6

Star and Storm

Box 6

The Star of Love

Box 6

The Star of Separation

Box 6

Star of the Soul

Box 6

Starlight

Box 6

Stars

Box 6

Stars of the Noon

Box 6

The Strange Bird

Box 10, Folder 12

Strange Waters

Box 6

The Stranger

Box 6

The Stranger at the Gate

Box 10, Folder 16

The Stranger at the Gate

Box 6

Sunset

Box 6

Surety

Box 6

The Swimmer

Box 6

The Sybil of Dreams

Box 6

The Symboled Spirit

Box 7

T-Z; untitled poems; unidentified fragments

Box 7

Tasso to Eleanora

Box 7

Tears

Box 7

Testimony

Box 7

The Testimony of the Suns

Scope and Content Note

with notations by Sterling and Ambrose Bierce

Box 7

"That Walk in Darkness"

Box 7

Then and Now

Box 7

The Thirst of Satan

Box 7

Thou and I

Box 7

The Three Gifts

Box 7

Three Sonnets of the Sea's Voice

Box 7

Three Sonnets on Beauty

Box 10, Folder 16

Three Sonnets on Beauty

Box 7

Three Sonnets on Oblivion

Box 7

Three Voices

Box 7

Through Love's Eyes

Box 7

Thy Lineage

Box 7

Thy Picture

Box 7

"Tidal, King of Nations"

Box 7

The Tides of Change

Box 7

To a Dusk-Rose

Box 7

To a Monk's Skull

Box 7

To a Sculptor

Box 7

To a Water-Fowl

Box 7

To Albert Bierce

Box 7

To Artemis Hunting

Box 7

To Astarte

Box 7

To Beauty

Box 7

To Belgium

Box 7

To Bernice di Pasquali

Box 7

To California

Box 7

To Carl Sandburg

Box 7

To Charles Warren Stoddard

Box 7

To Czar and Emperors

Box 7

To France

Box 7

To France at Verdun

Box 7

To Frank Mathieu

Box 7

To Friend W. Richardson No. 3

Box 7

To General White and visiting officers

Box 7

To Germany (No. 6)

Box 7

To Germany VI

Box 7

To Imagination

Box 7

To Ina Coolbrith

Box 7

To Jack

Box 7

To Life

Box 7

To Louis Untermeyer

Box 7

To Love the God

Box 7

To Margaret Auglin

Box 7

To One Self-Slain

Box 7

To Pain

Box 7

To One Who Passed

Box 7

To Rachmaninoff

Box 7

To Ray F. Coyle

Box 7

To Robinson Jeffers

Box 7

To Ruth Chatterton

Box 7

To Stella

Box 7

To Science

Box 7

To the Bosom of Antonoë, Handmaiden of Aphrodite

Box 7

To the Goddes of Liberty

Box 7

To the Moon

Box 7

To the True Heart

Box 7

To Thy Heart

Box 7

To Vera (5 poems)

Box 7

To Vera at Night

Box 7

To Wordsworth

Box 7

To You

Box 10, Folder 16

To You

Box 7

Together

Box 7

Too Late

Box 7

The Tracker (in vol.)

Box 7

Transfiguration

Box 10, Folder 16

Transfiguration

Box 7

Transformation

Box 7

Transmutation

Box 7

The Trapping of Rung

Box 7

Twilight at Midway Point

Box 7

The Twilight of the Grape

Box 7

Twilight Song

Box 7

The Two Buzzards

Box 7

The Two Prayers

Box 7

The Unattainable

Box 7

The Unavailing

Box 7

The Unconditioned

Box 7

Under the Rainbow

Box 7

Until the Dawn

Box 7

Valerie

Box 7

A Vision of Germania

Box 7

A Voice

Box 7

The Voice of the Dove

Box 7

Vox Humana (To Humphrey Stewart at the Organ)

Box 7

War

Box 7

The War-Machine

Box 7

The Way to the West

Box 7

The Wayfarer

Box 7

The Wayside Garden

Box 10, Folder 13

"We are vain seraphs..."

Box 10, Folder 14

Wet Beaches

Box 7

"What Porridge Had John Keats"

Box 7

When Love Restoreth Hope

Box 7

What It's Like

Box 7

Which Was and Never Shall Be

Box 7

The Wild Iris

Scope and Content Note

with comments by Ambrose Bierce

Box 7

The Wild Swan

Box 7

The Willow Choirs

Box 7

Willy Smith at the Ball Game

Box 7

The Wind

Box 7

Wind and Rain

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The Wine of Illusion

Box 7

A Wine of Wizardry

Box 7

The Wiser Prophet

Box 7

Wings

Box 7

"With Brief Thanksgiving"

Box 7

Wonderment

Box 7

The World-Shrine

Box 7

The World-Rachel

Box 7

Worship

Box 7

Yearning

Box 7

"You Coward!"

Box 7

Young Love

Box 7

The Young Witch 1698 (Elder Davenport Speaks)

Box 7

Youth and Time

Box 7

Untitled Poems

Box 7

Unidentified fragments

Volume 1

Fourteen unpublished poems presented to Frederick Woodward Skiff by George Sterling. 1918

Scope and Content Note

Bound in a volume with a letter dated April 29, 1918.

Box 10, Folder 16

Cornelia V. Christenson collection of 24 poems by George Sterling

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence relating to provenance of poems. Poems included in this folder indexed above in contents list for poems.

Box 8

Essays, stories and plays manuscripts

Box 8

Pleasure and Pain essay

Box 10, Folder 15

Poetry in California essay circa 1926

Scope and Content Note

Galley. Published as: "Poetry of the Pacific Coast - California." Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926: Yearbook of American Poetry : 84-103.

Series 4 Miscellaneous circa 1880-1950

Physical Description: Box 9

Arrangement

Arranged hierarchically.

Scope and Content Note

Contains bibliographies, reviews, newspaper and magazine clippings, publishing agreements and other legal documents, poems and essays about Sterling and other miscellaneous items.

Box 9

Bibliographies and checklists of Sterling's poems

Box 9

Reviews

Box 9

Newspaper and magazine clippings

Box 9

Robert H. Barlow gift, consisting of transcripts of Sterling's poems, lists of his poems, and notes used in the preparation of After Sunset, which Barlow edited.

Box 9

Notes contributed by Miss Nellie Barnes on the Barlow material

Poems and essays about George Sterling

Box 9

Lafter, Henry A. poem

Box 9

Leake, Chauncey D. talk on Sterling (photocopy)

Box 9

Smith, Clark Ashton essay

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Stoddard, Charles Warren poem

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Publishing agreements with A. M. Robertson 1907-1916

Box 9

Accounts with A. M. Robertson

Legal documents

Box 9

Deeds

Scope and Content Note

Carmel Developing Co. to Carrie R. Sterling, Feb. 5, 1911 and George Sterling to Carrie R. Sterling, Dec. 15, 1913

Box 9

Certificate of copyright, assignments of copyright, etc. for Sterling's poems

Box 9

Register of births, marriages and deaths from the Sterling family bible

Box 9

Certificate of cremation, etc.

Box 9

Papers regarding Sterling's estate

Box 9

Liljencrantz, Thor letters to James D. Hart about George Sterling

Box 9

Printed items by and/or about Sterling

Box 9

Copies of book inscriptions

Box 9

Miscellaneous