Guide to the Overland Monthly Records, 1869-1886

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Social Sciences --Publishing

Guide to the Overland Monthly Records, 1869-1886

Collection number: BANC MSS C-H 97

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University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
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Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Overland Monthly Records,

Date (inclusive): 1869-1886

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 97

Creator: Overland Monthly

Extent: Number of containers: 1 box

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Overland Monthly Records, BANC MSS C-H 97, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

The Overland Monthly was founded in 1868 by Anton Roman, a San Francisco bookseller and publisher who felt that he could make a success of a monthly magazine distinctively literary in character and devoted to the interests of the Pacific States. The first issue appeared, with Bret Harte as editor, in July 1868, and it subsequently became one of the greatest magazines of its day. Its fortunes declined, however, after Harte's departure for the East in 1871 and with the depression of 1873. The editorship passed successively to W. C. Bartlett, to Benjamin P. Avery of the Bulletin, and finally to T. A. Harcourt and Walter M. Fisher, two of Hubert H. Bancroft's assistants. With the issue of December 1875 the magazine ceased publication.

In January 1883 a new Overland Monthly appeared, formed by a union of the old and the Californian, a literary monthly. Milicent Washburn Shinn served as editor from 1883 to 1894.

These Overland Monthly papers were transferred to the Bancroft Library from the Main Library, most of them coming from the Rare Books Department in 1958. They consist primarily of letters, ca. 1869-1875, addressed to Benjamin P. Avery and John H. Carmany (who bought the magazine from Roman in 1870). There are also a few letters, 1884-1886, from Sherman Day and Samuel Hopkins Willey, addressed to Miss Shinn. The collection also includes some manuscript poems, a note by Hubert H. Bancroft on his history project, and an account book of moneys paid contributors, 1869-1875. The correspondence, which was removed from the binders in which it was pasted, is arranged alphabetically, with single letters in a miscellany at the beginning. The manuscripts and account book are described in the Key to Arrangement. A list of the major correspondents and the contributors of the manuscript poems are included herein.

Five letters (from Zitella Corke, J.W. Gally, Rose H. Lathrop, John Muir, and Edmund C. Stedman) were added, Mar. 1972, gift of Sheldon Cheney.

Box 1

Manuscripts

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918

Note concerning his work on the Pacific States, Feb. 5, 1874

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

Poem, "The Cross of Portola"

Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909

Poem, "Sail ho"

Taylor, Bayard

Poem, "Notus Ignoto"

Warren, Emily

Poem, "Daisy"

Correspondence Miscellany (single letters)

Barter, George W.

Ltr., Oct. 28, 1873

Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903

Ltr., Nov. 29, 1875

Carr, Jeanne C. (Mrs. Ezra Slocum Carr)

Ltr., Jan. 17, 1872

Chase, A. W.

Ltr., Feb. 12, 1874

Curry, George Law, 1820-1879

Ltr., Feb. 10, 1874

Davidson, George, 1825-1911

Ltr., Oct. 30, 1873

Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874

Ltr., Oct. 9, 1873

Ellis, Edward

Ltr., Dec. 21, 1874?

Foote, Lucius Harwood, 1826-1913

Ltr., Jan. 22, 1874

Gardner, William Henry

Ltr., July 22, 1873

Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928

Ltr., June 15, 1875

Hinton, Charles

Ltr., Mar. 28, 1874

House, Edward Howard, 1836-1901

Ltr., Dec. 8, 1873

Kautz, August Valentine

Ltr., Jan. 22, 1875

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875

Ltr., Nov. 24, 1873

Knight, P. A.

Ltr., Jan. 17, 1874

LeConte, John, 1818-1891

Ltr., n.d.

[Mighels] Ella Sterling (Clark), 1853-1934

Ltr., Jan. 29, 1874

Miller, Joaquin, 1841-1913

Ltr., n.d

Muir, John

Ltr., Apr. 18, 1883

Mulford, Prentice, 1834-1891

Ltr., Nov. 27, 1871

Oak, Henry Lebbeus, 1844-1905

Ltr., Mar. 27, 1874

Scanlan, Michael

Ltr., Jan. 29, 1874

Sharon, William, 1821-1885

Ltr., Jan. 6, 1874

Stebbins, Horatio, 1821-1902

Ltr., n.d.

Stedman, Edmund Clarence

Ltr., Apr. 6, 1888

Strong, John L.

Ltr., Jan. 25, 1874

Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925

Ltr., Nov. 21, 1894

Toft, Peter Petersen, 1825-1901

Ltr., Feb. 23, 1874

Ver Mehr, J. L.

Ltr., Oct. 31, 1871

Alvord, William

3 letters, 1873-1874

Crane, Frances Jane (Timmons) Grayson (Mrs. George Belden Crane - formerly Mrs. Andrew Jackson Grayson)

3 letters, 1873

Day, Sherman

6 letters, 1884

Field, Edward

2 letters, 1874

Field, Stephen Johnson, 1816-1899

2 letters, 1873-1874. Enclosures include letters from Gen. William T. Sherman.

Fisher, Walter Mulrea, 1849-1919

2 letters, n.d.

Gally, John

2 letters, 1873-1882

Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908

7 letters, 1873-1874

Harte, Bret, 1856-1902

21 letters, 1869-1875

Kendall, W. A., d. 1876

2 letters, n.d.

Kip, William Ingraham, bp., 1811-1893

4 letters, 1873-1874

O'Connell, Daniel, 1849-1899

2 letters, 1873 & n.d.

Powers, Stephen

5 letters, 1871?-1875

Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, 1831-1917

2 letters, 1873. Written as secretary of the American Social Science Association.

Seabough, Samuel

2 letters, 1873-1874

Sherman, William Tecumseh 1830-1891

See Field, Stephen Johnson

Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909

2 letters, 1874 & n.d.

Victor, Frances Auretta (Fuller) Barrett, 1826-1902

3 letters, 1874

Widney, Joseph Pomeroy, 1841-1938

2 letters, 1873

Willey, Samuel Hopkins, 1821-1914

3 letters, 1884-1886