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Guide to the Edward J. Wickson Papers, 1868-1923

BANC MSS C-B 1035

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Table of contents

Key to Arrangement

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Letters written by Wickson, 1905-1923

Scope and Content Note

Copies and drafts, arranged chronologically.

Letters written to Wickson.

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically, by name of person or organization. A partial list of correspondents follows the Key. Unlisted letters are in a separate folder, also arranged alphabetically.

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Wickson's writings - MSS, reprints and clippings

Address at Memorial Services in Honor of Dr. E. W. Hilgard, 1916

Agricultural Development of the Pacific Coast

Agricultural Education in California

California Climate as Affecting Crop Production

California Fruits and How to Grow Them

California's Wealth is Farmer's Opportunity

Climatic Conditions Ideal for Fruit Culture

Cost of Planting and Care of Trees and Vines to Bearing Age

The Development of California Fruit Industries

An Elementary Agriculture of California

Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, a Biographical Sketch

Flax as a Change-Crop with Cereals

Flax Seed in California

Floral Progress

Foundations of Agricultural Credit in Europe

History and Outlook of the California Fruit Industries

Horticulture at the Experiment Station

How California Advanced from Desolation to Triumph

The Improvement of Citrus Fruit Varieties

Improvement of University Grounds

Industrial Use of the Imagination

Intensive Farming in California

Lessons for Populous Agricultural Countries of Modern Times

Luther Burbank, the Man, His Methods and His Achievements

Nurserymen's Service to Suburban Life in California

The Opportunity in Agriculture

The Orange in Northern California

Preparation of Garden Soil

Rural California

The University at Large in the State

Utility of Beauty in Home and Town

What U.C. Has Done for Horticulture

What We Owe the Horticultural Pioneers of California

The Whistling Girl

Writing for Rural Folks

Poems

Miscellaneous fragments and untitled pieces

Reviews of Wickson's California Flower Gardens, California Fruits and How to Grow Them, California Vegetables in Field and Garden

Scrapbook, containing mainly clippings of reviews of Wickson's books.

Plates used in Pacific Rural Press

Plates used in second edition of Wickson's California Garden Flowers

Papers relating to the Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits, 1914.

Scope and Content Note

Including commission as delegate, Mar. 25, 1914, signed by Hiram W. Johnson, and list of delegates.

Material relating to Luther Burbank.

Scope and Content Note

Includes promotional material for Oscar E. Binner Co., Burbank's publisher; A Brief Review of the Great Earthquake of Apr. 18th, 1906 by Burbank (typescript); typescript of an introduction by David Starr Jordan; Wickson's editorial note; clippings.

Material relating to Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.

Scope and Content Note

Includes notebook containing class notes, 1868, for course in Greek, which includes, also, a register of letters written to and received from the class of `69, kept by Wickson as class secretary; copies of the Hamilton Literary Monthly for 1868 and 1869 (Wickson was one of the Monthly's editors); record of class of 1869; and miscellaneous items.

Clippings and obituaries for Wickson

Miscellaneous clippings

Miscellaneous notes, etc.

Partial List of Correspondents

Adams, Edward Francis, 1839-1929

Letter, Jan. 15, 1907

Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 1858-

51 letters, 1899-1922

Additional Note

Mainly concerning Wickson's Rural California. Also included, a reprint of Bailey's article, What a College Farm Is For

Bellows, John A.

4 letters, 1921

Additional Note

Re his Agricultural Cyclopedia for Young People, including sample pages from it.

Benchley, Leonidas B.

Letter, May 12, 1900

Bentley, Charles Harvey, 1869-1922

Letter, June 13, 1919

Binner, Oscar E.

31 letters, 1911

Additional Note

Re publication of Luther Burbank's work. Enclosure to letter, Oct. 12, 1911: copy of letter by Vernon L. Kellogg; enclosure to letter, Dec. 20, 1911: copy of letter by José D. Husbands.