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artist. Along with views by Dorothea Lange Blanding Sloan's and Imogen Cunningham, Sloan's photo­ graphs were exhibited in Haviland Hall on California Etchings the Berkeley campus in November, 1934, as part of an exhibition dealing with the self- Fourteen original etchings by Blanding help cooperative movement in California. Sloan, dating from his 1931 trip through the Born in 1886 in Corsicana, Texas, where Gold Country, have recently been acquired his father was a leading surgeon, Sloan by the Library and provide an interesting studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine contrast to the nine photographs, depicting Arts and designed costumes and lighting the Depression in the Los Angeles area, effects for the Chicago Players Workshop. which heretofore had been Bancroft's only Subsequently he maintained studios in Sau- representation of the work of this California gatuch, Michigan, in Carmel and San Fran- [1] cisco, and, finally, in New York City. A audience gathered in Wheeler Auditorium have been printed by Christopher Froschover versatile artist, he worked at various times for the 31st Annual Meeting of The Friends of Zurich. It now seems more likely that it as a painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, of The Bancroft Library on Sunday after­ was the work of two printers. Parts I, II, and printmaker, and illustrator. noon, June 4th. Speaking on "The California VI most probably were printed by Eucharius By the time he was forty years old, Sloan Woman," a title she chose but later found Cervicornus, who set up a press at Marburg, had produced an impressive oeuvre which is "a meaningless generalization," Miss Didion the seat of the Protestant University, in partially described in a catalogue, a copy of mentioned such specific women as Julia 1535. Parts III-V appear to be the work of which is also in the Library. Etchings and Morgan, Isadora Duncan, and Gertrude Stein, Johannes Soter, a printer of Cologne, who Block Prints of Blanding Sloan, published and then turned to consideration of her own owned the type used for the small framed in 1926 by the San Francisco firm of Johnck, life as a Californian: initials found in the text. The crudely done Kibbee & Company, lists one hundred and I was born in Sacramento in December woodcut illustrations, throughout the text, thirty-eight etchings and forty-one block of 1934. The last surviving member of used previously in a Frankfurt Bible of 1534, prints whose subjects range from San Fran­ the Donner Party, Isabella Breen, the are the work of Hans Sebald Beham. Hans cisco to Carmel to the University of Califor­ infant found close to death in the fire Holbein the Younger designed the so-called nia campus. Included are views of Sloan's pit with the walls of snow, died in "English" title page of 1535, with its elabo­ "studio in the woods" in Carmel as well as March of 1935. California history was rate woodblock panels picturing Henry VIII, his studio and marionette theater at 2625 very close to us in Sacramento. flanked by King David and St. Paul, giving Polk Street in San Francisco. In his intro­ Later in her talk she noted that "it is dif­ the Bible to a group of mitred prelates. duction to the catalogue, Idwal Jones notes ferent to be Western, and to pretend that Joan Didion in Wheeler Auditorium. Miles Coverdale was born in 1488 and the artist's humor and vitality: "This pre­ this is no longer or never was so is to ignore (Photo by Mary-Ellen Jones) educated at Cambridge. An Augustinian friar, he left the Order in 1527 to become sent display of his etchings are an augury— the narrative force of the story Westerners photographs representing work by Gertrude an itinerant evangelical preacher and reform and a present source of delight to those who learn early . . . that the wilderness was and Atherton, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Willa advocate, and spent much time on the conti­ love craft, line and poetic feeling." is redemptive, and that a radical break with Cather, and Edith Wharton, to name but a nent, apparently making the acquaintance His artistic craftsmanship and quick eye civilization and its discontents is distinctly few. Among Joan Didion's work on display of William Tyndale in Hamburg. He was for salient detail are well represented in this an option." is the manuscript of her latest novel, A Book highly favored by King Henry VIII, and new group of etchings. There are views of Under the chairmanship of William P of Common Prayer, for which, together with with the aid of Thomas Cromwell secured Coloma, of Mark Twain's cabin at Jackass Barlow, Jr., the business meeting was con­ the body of her fiction, she received this the King's support for his version of the Hill, and of the old stage coach station at ducted prior to the major address. The year's Morton D. Zabel Award from the Scriptures. Consecrated Bishop of Exeter in "Forrest Home." Aside from the useful sub­ Friends approved election of John R. May American Academy of Arts and Letters. The 1531, he was deprived of his see at the acces­ ject matter, students of art and printing will to a second four-year term along with the exhibition will continue on view through sion of Queen Mary, but returned to Eng­ be interested in the complete set of annotated following new Council members: A. Lindley September. land under Elizabeth and participated in the proof states which accompanies each etching. Cotton, Mrs. Richard P Hafner, Jr., James Miss Didion has also contributed the text For example, John [i.e. James] Marshall's E. O'Brien, and Norman Philbrick. The consecration of Matthew Parker as Arch­ for this year's Keepsake, which is now being bishop of Canterbury. He died in 1568. Cabin is represented in four successive ver­ gratitude of the membership was expressed mailed to members. Consisting of three short sions which allow us to follow the evolution to Mrs. Calvin K. Townsend, Norman stories which she published in magazines in As he did not know Hebrew and seems to of this plate from the preliminary line etch­ Strouse, Harold G. Schutt, and the late Ken­ the early 1960'$ — the only ones she has have made little use of the Greek Biblical ing (here reproduced) through the succeed­ neth K. Bechtel, all of whom had served two written for publication — as well as an intro­ text, Coverdale depended upon the German ing states when aquatint was added to pro­ consecutive terms. Greetings to the Friends ductory essay describing their creation, Tell­ Bible of Ulrich Zwingli and Leo Juda (1524- duce tonal values, and when dry point, and their guests were delivered by David S. 29), Luther's German Bible (1532), the Latin roulette, burnishing, and scraping were em­ ing Stories has been handsomely designed Saxon, President of the University, Albert and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. version of the Hebrew scholar Sanctes Pag- ployed to develop the final form. H. Bowker, Chancellor of the Berkeley cam­ ninus (1528), William Tyndale's New Testa­ Blanding Sloan's move to New York City pus, and University Librarian Richard M. ment and Pentateuch (1525-30), and the brought to a close his career as a participant Dougherty. Director James D. Hart pre­ The Cover dale Bible Vulgate of St. Jerome. At Cromwell's insis­ in the California art community, but this sented his annual state of the Bancroft report, Through the generosity of the same anony­ tence, Coverdale brought out a revision of suite of etchings remains to preserve his re­ mentioning notable acquisitions and gifts, mous donors who presented the Tollemache his version in 1539, based upon the so-called sponse, as an artist, to the scenes where west­ and thanking the staff for its efforts during Codex described in the last issue of Ban­ Matthews Bible of John Rogers, printed in ern history was made. the past year. croftiana, the Library has received a fine copy Paris and known as the "Great Bible" on Following the meeting, a reception was of the editio princeps of the English Bible, account of its large size. It is from this 1539 translated by Miles Coverdale. The volume revision that the best known portion of Cov- 31st A nnual Meeting held in the Library's Gallery and Heller Reading Room to open a new exhibition, is handsomely bound in sixteenth century erdale's work, the Psalms, passed with altera­ Joan Didion, novelist and essayist, a fourth- "Women Writers." From the Bancroft's col­ morocco, the work of Tuckett, Binder to tions into the Book of Common Prayer. His generation Californian who graduated from lections have been brought together an ex­ Queen Elizabeth I. Dedicated in 1535 to Psalms are also the basis of the newly-trans­ the University in 1956, addressed a large citing selection of books, manuscripts, and Henry VIII, this Bible was long thought to lated Psalter of the Proposed Book of Com- [2] [3]

) Copyright 1978 The Friends of the Bancroft Library mon Prayer (1977) of the Episcopal Church. Hezeta set sail from the Mexican port of version in the Archivo General de Indias in The Coverdale Bible reflects the concilia­ San Bias to explore the California coast and Seville, another has a scale "tuesas de Paris," tory spirit of its compiler. Notes to the text to investigate reports of English and Russian and still another has a cross, possibly denot­ come chiefly from the Zurich Bible of 1531, activities in the North Pacific. By the fall of ing a landing place. The added French scale and caustic or controversial introductory ma­ that year the vessels had completed their might be an indication that these maps were terial and marginal notes have been elimi­ mission and returned to Monterey with ac­ either made by a French draughtsman, or nated. The Apocrypha had been scattered counts of several major discoveries along the that they were prepared for a French official. throughout the Old Testament in the Sep- northwest coast of North America. One of tuagint, Vulgate, and Wycliff Bibles. Cover- the expedition's ships, the San Carlos, under dale, however, following the example of the Juan de Ayala, is generally considered the Le Conte Family Letters Zurich Bible and the general belief of the first to sail through the Golden Gate. Hez- y reformers that the canon of Scripture should eta's Santiago was the first to reach the Co­ All Hail! Proud Queen of Science! be limited to works found in the Hebrew lumbia River, while the Sonora, under Juan Haughty Josephine! whose infinite de­ Bible, placed the books of the Apocrypha in Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, penetrated light is to grind that infinitesimal heel a separate section between the Old and New farther north than any previous Spanish voy­ into the ten thousand hearts of your Testaments, a practice still followed in Angli­ age, reaching as far as fifty-eight degrees ten thousand and one victims, and to can and Protestant Bibles. Although the north latitude, into waters off southern respond to their ten thousand times ten books of the New Testament are printed in Alaska. thousand wails of mortal agony with a the accustomed order, on the title page of Eight manuscript maps relating to these ringing burst of joyous mirth! listen to the New Testament section, Hebrews, James, important voyages have recently been added the utterance of the mighty spirit of Jude, and Revelation are listed after the Pe- to the Bancroft's cartographic collections the sublime Emperor of Geometry, com­ trine and Johannine epistles. The canonicity through the gift of an anonymous donor. municated in allotropic autograph, flow­ of these books had been in doubt at various Dr. and Mrs. John LeConte in their The earliest of the maps, "Piano del Puerto ing from the ferriginous pen of his me- Berkeley garden, c.i8go. times in the early Church, and Coverdale y Nueva Poblacion de San Bias," dating from tempsychosed self, embodied in the may be reflecting also Luther's rejection of 1768 and made by the noted cartographer prince functionary, Benjamin the Scribe. them. Miguel Costanso, shows the port of embar­ Thus begins the delightfully flowery letter War period, as seen from the LeConte home Only seventy-seven copies of the Cover- kation. The others are dated 1775 and in­ of September 13th, 1856 sent by Benjamin in Columbia, South Carolina, and gives fresh dale Bible are recorded, fifty-eight of them clude two versions of a map showing the Peirce, the noted mathematician and pro­ information concerning the first years of the in institutions in the United States, Canada, coast from Monterey to Alaska titled "Carta fessor at Harvard University, to the wife of Berkeley campus. and Great Britain. At the present time no Reducida de las Costas y Mares Septentrion- his good friend and colleague, John LeConte, John LeConte, a slave-owner and a pas­ perfect copy of the work is known to exist, ales de California." One version is by Hezeta, at that time a professor of physics at South sionate supporter of the southern cause, wrote and the Bancroft's copy has been supplied the other by Bodega y Quadra and Antonio Carolina College. This is one of a group of of his feelings about the impending Civil with twenty-nine leaves in facsimile, includ­ Francisco Mourelle. Also by Bodega and Peirce letters included in a box of correspon­ War to Peirce, his sympathetic friend in the ing three title pages: the original or "For­ Mourelle are the "Piano del Puerto de la dence to and from John and Eleanor Jose­ north. He attacked both the Harpers Ferry eign" title, the "English" title dated 1535, Bodega" (Bodega Bay), and the "Piano de phine Graham LeConte which has recently incident and the statements made by north­ and the "English" title dated 1536. These la Entrada o Puerto de Bucareli" (Bucareli been made available for scholarly research by ern radicals advising slaves to poison their facsimiles appear to have been produced circa Bay, Alaska). Three additional charts by their grandson, Dr. L. Julian LeConte of masters. He desired a clear separation of the i860 by two techniques, page photolithogra­ Hezeta are the "Piano de la Bahia de la Kensington. The collection handsomely sup­ two sections of the country, and even made phy and pen-and-ink calligraphy on litho­ Asuncion" (Columbia River entrance), plements Bancroft's holdings of the papers plans for the establishment of a southern graphic transfer paper. The Library's copy "Piano de la Rada de Bucareli" (Greenville of this distinguished family which played a scientific society. In a letter dated November also includes in facsimile the folded map Bay, Washington), and the "Piano del Puerto prominent role in the beginnings of the Uni­ 25th, i860 he wrote: found in some copies following the Penta­ de los Remedios" (Sealion Cove, Alaska). versity of California. It is almost impossible for the Northern teuch. This significant addition to the Ban­ These attractive maps are drawn in pen- Covering the period from 1852 to 1896, mind to comprehend the breadth and croft's collection of early Bibles is a fine and-ink, some have watercolor as well, and the correspondence is rich in many respects. depth of the feeling of the people of the specimen of a remarkable achievement, the several of the sheets are interesting also for It provides an invaluable look into the per­ South in relation to this perpetual anti- completion of a new version of the Bible their watermarks, which show a horse and sonal lives and, to some extent, the research slavery agitation at the North. You within about one year. rider over the letters "SBP" and a bull over interests of two famous American scientists, must bear in mind, that with us it is the name "Patrone." The maps differ in Peirce and LeConte, as well as recording not a question of abstract rights:—it is Maps of the some respects from copies found in the their comments on the activities of the Am­ a practical question,—a question involv­ erican Association for the Advancement of ing the security of property and person Hezeta Expedition archives of Spain and while most of the dif­ ferences are relatively minor stylistic ones, Science and of such friends as Louis Agassiz —of the lives of our wives and children. On March 16th, 1775 three Spanish ships some may be of consequence. For example, and Alexander D. Bache. In addition, it In the post-war period, Josephine LeConte, under the command of Lieutenant Bruno de one shows more soundings than does the affords a well-articulated view of the Civil writing long letters to her sister Mary (Mol- [4: [5: lie) Graham in New York about the changes Funny Ladies in the In the nineteenth century, as more women The popularity of a Mrs. Partington and in southern life styles, noted that no one explored options other than raising a family, a Widow Bedott and their successors prob­ could raise cotton because free labor would Koundakjian Collection the Old Maid took the lead in the comical ably stemmed not only from the reader's not bother with it, and described how south­ parade of female stock characters inherited recognition of everybody's self-righteous, in­ ern society shunned the occupying Union She was somewhat angular, of course, from the preceding centuries. The meddling terfering aunt, but also from a hidden ad­ Army and castigated members of that and rather bony... Her forehead was widow or mother-in-law, the shrewish and miration for the clownish and husbandless society who dared attend social gatherings very high and prominent, having, in­ the spendthrift wife shared with her such female who fended for herself as best she with the northerners. But most of all, her deed, an exposed look, like a shelterless interchangeable features as homeliness, could and did as she pleased in a tightly letters address the poverty and desolation knoll in an open prairie: but, not con­ meanness, coarseness, prudery, vanity, snob­ controlled small-town community. Although that the war had brought to South Carolina tent with this, though the hair above it bery, and stupidity exaggerated by a pre­ created by a woman, the Widow Bedott is and to her family. On September 30th, 1867 was often thin, she usually dragged the dilection for malapropisms. The Old Maid, not treated kindly; on the contrary, this she was moved to write: "The destitution latter forcibly back, as if to increase the however, distinguished herself at an early scheming woman reveals the traditional here is appalling this winter between famine altitude of the former, by extending the age for her independence from man and for weakness for gossip, and appears far less and cold they are dying—both whites and skin. Her mouth was of that class called her preposterous attempts to earn a living in sympathetic than Shillaber's Aunt Ruth or blacks in Shoals . . . . " "primped," but was filled with teeth of a profession, like a man. As John McConnel Clemens' Aunt Polly. Married to a minister The LeContes were not to stay in the respectable dimensions... She had large explained to his readers that the Western herself, Frances Whitcher, through the south for long. The University of California feet, too, and in walking her toes were schoolmistress usually turned into a respect­ Widow Bedott, castigates a society that she had just been established and, through the assiduously turned out. able matron "at last fulfilling her genuine knew only too well, where married women intercession of friends, John was appointed Thus did John Ludlum McConnel describe mission," other male authors saw a frustrated were leaders of a completely domestic world professor of physics in November, 1868. "The Schoolmistress" in his volume of West­ husband-hunter behind every unattached and where insignificant trials and triumphs And so, like many other southerners, the ern Characters, published in 1853, and in­ woman. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the most had to be ridiculously ballooned. Like Har­ family headed for California. On May 9th, cluded in the Koundakjian Collection of widely-read author of her time, successfully riet Beecher Stowe, the author does not criti­ 1869 Josephine wrote to Mollie at length American Humor, described in the issue of mixed wit and sentiment in many cautionary cize this world directly, but rather stitches about her seemingly successful efforts to Bancroftiana for January, 1971. At one tales and novels to show that home was an every cliche and every caricature carefully establish their position in the University glance this Collection makes it clear that earthly paradise and the good wife its guard­ together to make a patchwork quilt of community: women as objects of humor far outweigh the ian angel, especially for husbands who were women's true and false aspirations within The most difficult Regents to manage number of women writers of humor; these restless sailors and care-worn ministers. the limitations of her small-town activities. are Butterworth and Rawlston [sic] they works offer the student of women's writings Americans of either sex did not often Most examples of male ridicule depict tell me (just between ourselves, But and history the opportunity to compare the laugh at themselves until the 1830's when wicked women who are out to trap the inno­ don't breathe it) that / can do just what kind of humor written by men about women the behavior and dialects of their back- cent man into marriage and martyrdom. In I please with all the powers that be. Thiswit h that which women have written about country cousins was commonly considered the battle of the sexes they have everything is yet to be proved — certainly nothing themselves. amusing. Readers who thought themselves to gain, that is a man's pocketbook, while he could surpass the Enthusiasm every sophisticated nevertheless also felt nostalgia has everything to lose. The most popular where shown to me. for the so-called simple life. In Appleton's satire of the 'Fifties, "Nothing to Wear," by Later she wrote of her attempts to have her Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor published in William Allen Butler, first appeared in brother-in-law, Joseph LeConte, whom The 1857 one finds "Lines addressed to a Daugh­ Harper's Weekly in 1857, and the author Regents had appointed professor of geology, ter of New England, on the receipt of a wonders if a man "would have much to spare botany, and natural history, and his family Pumpkin Pie on Thanksgiving Day." Au­ if he married a woman with nothing to called to the University as soon as possible: thors and editors who rescued such humor­ wear?" The insatiable lady who "had on a I have not met hint [Butterworth] so­ ous anecdotes for the respectable nineteenth dress which cost five hundred dollars, and cially yet as he is a very important century library met with enormous success. not a cent less, and jewelry worth ten times character to conciliate—I have to be on Benjamin P Shillaber's first volume about more, I should guess," would not fall into my best behaviour—if I could only the exploits of his character, Mrs. Parting­ the category of domestic guardian angel. carry with me the light happy heart of ton, sold a sensational thirty thousand copies Such an unhappy fellow shares the fate of former days I should have little to fear upon publication in 1854; the second volume Paul Potiphar, the victim of his wife in ... A few days will decide this point sold ten thousand even before publication, George William Curtis' Potiphar Papers, besides many others so that my next at a time when New Y>rk City had a popu­ published in 1853; ^e ^as t0 Put UP wlt^ letter will give you an inkling when lation of a little more than half a million and footmen in livery and a mansion filled with Joe may be called here. San Francisco a mere fifteen thousand. The uncomfortable French furniture. Shortly after this, John LeConte was Widow Bedott Papers, edited by Alice B. From the male perspective bad English named Acting President of the fledgling Neal after the death of the author Frances distinguished the young girl who, in board­ University and the two families helped set Miriam Berry Whitcher, claimed even ing school, learned every language but her the tone for the new settlement at Berkeley. greater audiences when it appeared in 1855. V HE S C II O O L .VI ISTKK8 ,S. native tongue, exemplified by the "Wicked [6] :?] Woman" in Charles H. Webb's Parodies, daily toil, and strew some roses in his which appeared in 1876. The uneducated road of life... I write to ask you would Major Gift for the housewife captured the ire of David R. Locke you give me a situation on your rail­ in Hannah Jane (1881) : road? I don't want to be an engineer or Mark Twain Papers She blundered in her writing, and she a female operator, but I yearn to do blundered when she spoke, something Let me, my dear (I hope Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Appert of Pebble Beach And ev'ry rule of syntax that old Mur­ not hard-hearted) sir, have a place near have recently presented a remarkably diverse ray made she broke; you. Let me be your spaniel to fetch and assortment of Mark Twain material includ­ But she was fresh and beautiful, and carry; let me be your gentle 'gazelle to ing more than one hundred first American, I—well, I was young: glad you with my soft blue eye,' open Canadian, and English editions of this Her form and face far, far outweigh letters for you author's works, many of them in nearly mint the blunders of her tongue. (For the answer see page twelve!) condition and several containing inscriptions But, in a typical twist from satire to senti­ by Clemens. In one of the volumes, a first mental self-reproach, the author concludes: edition of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of What wonder that she never read a The Bancroft Fellows Calaveras County, and Other Stories, an magazine or book, inquirer has written on the flyleaf: "Did Combining as she did in one, nurse, The Bancroft Fellowships for the academic John Paul [the pseudonym of Charles Henry housemaid, seamstress, cook ... year 1978-79, for which competition was Webb, who published and edited this first She has made but little progress, and in open to graduate students on all of the Uni­ collection of Mark Twain's stories] discover little are we one; versity's nine campuses, have been awarded you or did you know you were a good thing The beauty rare that more than hid that to Anthony Joseph Cussen of Berkeley and yourself?" "John Paul never discovered any­ to William Robert Hively of Santa Barbara. Mark Twain at 21 Fifth Avenue, great defect is gone. thing nor anybody," the author responded, New York City, igo6. My well-to-do relations now deride my Each of these doctoral candidates is engaged "He was not even a very good liar." homely wife, in research on subjects whose source materials Several letters of Clemens, never before Gilded Age (one page in Mark Twain's hand And pity me that I am tied to such a are in The Bancroft Library. published, are included in this gift and they and one in the hand of his collaborator, clod for life. Mr. Cussen, who received his Bachelor's will appear in the forthcoming volumes of Charles Dudley Warner), numerous photo­ As an antidote to the high-pitched expec­ degree from Indiana University, is studying Mark Twain's Collected Letters, to be issued graphs of Mark Twain, one of which is here tations from marriage fostered in sentimental in the Department of Comparative Litera­ by the University of California Press. In one reproduced, and three original pen-and-ink novels and poetry, the humorist offered a ture and plans to teach Latin Ameircan lit­ playful letter of 1873, Clemens gives a friend drawings made by Daniel Carter Beard for source of relief for repressed hostility and erature upon completion of his degree. His a "Recipe for Making a Scrapbook Upon the first American edition of A Connecticut sexuality, as well as temporary release from major interest is in the journals edited by the Customary Plan." His advice is to buy Yankee in JCing Arthur's Court. There are sanctimonious conventions. The moral tone Andres Bello and Juan Garcia del Rio and a new scrapbook and: also newspapers and magazines in which of Victorian writings has deadened most of published in London during the 1820's; these . .. labor with enthusiasm for three days, short pieces by Clemens were first printed, the wit for modern readers, but as an early represent the first serious efforts to establish heaving in poetry, theology, jokes, obit­ such as issues of the Sacramento Daily Union expression of those resentments that are still a new Latin American culture, distinct from uaries, politics, tales, recipes for pies, for 1866 containing Mark Twain's letters much alive today the works in the Koundak­ that of Spain, and indicate the influence of poultices, puddings . . . [then] while written from and about the Sandwich Is­ jian Collection offer diverse and often charm­ contemporary English thought upon the the next six months drift by, cut out lands, and fourteen numbers of the Galaxy ing views. To those interested in solving the editors. scraps occasionally & throw them loosely from the years 1868 to 1871, when the hu­ puzzle of identifying female humor as dis­ A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute in between the leaves of the scrap-book, morist edited the "Memoranda" department tinguished from male humor, the Collection of Technology, Mr. Hively, a student in the & say to yourself that some day you will of that journal. will be a worthy object for scrutiny. He or Department of History at Santa Barbara, is paste them... This welcome addition to the Mark Twain she may wish to begin by speculating on the writing a dissertation on the Group f/64 In another letter of March, 1894, Clemens Papers generously supplements an earlier gift sex of the author, one j. Taylor, who in A photographers in California. He plans to makes arrangements to meet Bram Stoker, of Mr. and Mrs. Appert, described in the Fast Life on the Modern Highway (1874) utilize the studio prints by Ansel Adams and the author of Dracula, in order to sell him issue of Bancroftiana for January, 1974. wrote the following job application: Edward Weston, as well as the extensive files stock in the ill-fated Paige Compositor Man­ My dear Sir,— I am (by nature) a fe­ of earlier photographs, in the Bancroft's Pic­ ufacturing Company. Before the year ended male — a tender, confiding creature torial Collections. Interviews with other pho­ he would return Stoker's initial payment of Lahainaluna called a female — and shut out (by ex­ tographers, completed by the Library's Re­ $100 when the mechanical typesetter com­ clusive man) from doing things which gional Oral History Office, will also provide pany, in which Clemens had invested heavi­ Old Testament fresh resource material. women can do every bit as smart as they ly, was dissolved. Among the members of that group of New can. I do not indorse Mrs. C. S., S. B. A., We shall look forward to seeing them in Among various other items in this collec­ England missionaries which arrived in Ha­ O.L., and others...but I do think I the Heller Reading Room during the coming tion are several books from the author's per­ waii aboard the brig Thaddeus on March can do something to help man in his year. sonal library, manuscript pages from The 30th, 1820 was the printer, Elisha Loomis, [8] [9: and with him he brought a worn Ramage 1836; Kekahuna Ka Mele A Solomon (Ec- "Art, Business and Public Life in San hensive Employment Training Act (CETA) press and several fonts of type. But it was clesiastes and Solomon's Song), 1836; and Francisco" by the late Harold L. Zellerbach for work in schools and community agencies. almost two years before the press was set up Wanana A Isaia Ka Wanana A Jeremaia is the first of the full-length memoirs. As a Series memoirists have been selected for in a grass hut provided by the local govern­ (Prophecy of Isaiah and Prophecy of Jere­ patron of the arts and for many years presi­ their significant leadership and participation ment in Honolulu, and its first imprint, a miah), 1836-38. dent of the San Francisco Art Commission, as well as for their varied personal insights broadside "lesson of Owhyhee syllables," The printing was done by Lorrin Andrews Zellerbach gives a zestful account that links and experiences. Each also expresses convic­ appeared on January 7th, 1822. Loomis and and his students at the high school which a failed bond issue to a study by Nancy tion of the crucial importance of the arts to his successors had to endure a great many was established in 1834 at Lahainaluna on Hanks, who later headed the National En­ the quality of public and private life. These difficulties, among them scarcity of paper, the island of Maui. Andrews not only pro­ dowment for the Arts, and tells how that taped and transcribed interviews are only a broken equipment, and ill health, but print­ duced much-needed text books but also study, in turn, led to the concept of the sample of the wealth of information which ing became an integral part of the Hawaiian trained his young Hawaiian scholars in the pioneering Neighborhood Arts Project. He has been provided by San Franciscans con­ Mission. art of printing. He was, as well, an energetic also traces the Performing Arts Center from cerning art and artists, and are intended to The New Englanders felt that the Ha- translator of the Old Testament from Greek inception to its present construction. supplement earlier series in such fields as waiians needed to be instructed and con­ into Hawaiian, finishing his work on it in The celebrated sculptor and arts commis­ "Books and Fine Printing," "Arts, Archi­ verted, so readers and tracts were produced. February, 1839. A complete Bible was pub­ sioner Ruth Asawa provided the memoir, tecture and Photography," and "Social His­ Under the direction of Hiram Bingham they lished in 1843. "Art, Competence and City wide Coopera­ tory of Northern California," all of which worked tirelessly both to learn the Hawaiian The parallel histories of the development tion for San Francisco." She has combined are available in The Bancroft Library. language and to teach the natives to read it. of printing in Hawaii and the production of her personal philosophy of the role of art in At the same time they translated works from an Hawaiian language Bible merge in the public and private life with vivid episodes of other languages, notably English and Greek, larger study of the cultural imperialism cooperative creation of paintings and mosaics Desiderata into Hawaiian so as to satisfy the need for which the New England Calvinists brought in schools, the genesis of her "crocheted" In the past we have listed, from time to time, literature that their instruction had created. with them to the Islands. The Bancroft is wire sculpture, and "dough-ins" that con­ certain titles which have been difficult to Textbooks and hymnals could not be printed uniquely equipped to document this history tribute to such public arts as the fountain procure, and our readers have been generous quickly enough or in great enough numbers. through its excellent collection of early Ha­ at the Hyatt Union Square Hotel. in their response. We now note a few items All this activity was merely a prelude to waiian printing, including twenty-two major The third major memoirist, Philip S. which the Library would like to add to its the printing project that, in the eyes of the examples from the first two decades of the Boone, is an eloquent and unique aficionado collections. missionaries, was the most important of all— Mission press. These include the earliest vo­ of the San Francisco Symphony, from his Cooper, James Fenimore. Ned Myers: Or the production of the Bible in Hawaiian. So cabularies, readers, hymnals, tracts, govern­ pre-World War II college days through his A Life Before the Mast. Philadelphia, anxious were they to accomplish this that ment broadsides, and, of course, Bibles. long term as president of its Board. In "The Lea & Blanchard, 1843. as soon as a portion had been translated it San Francisco Symphony, 1940-1972" he Eliot, T S. The Dark Side of the Moon. was published; these different parts, trans­ The Arts considers the question of excellence in a sym­ London, Faber & Faber, 1946. lated by various hands, issued separately, phony orchestra, recounts the rise of student Faulkner, William. The Wishing Tree. were later gathered and bound together, fre­ and the Community interest until Opera House boxes became New Y>rk, 1964 quently without the luxury of so much as a jammed with university undergraduates, and Howells, William Dean. An Imperative title page or a table of contents. The New Ever since San Francisco's earliest days artists gives his interpretation not only of the way Duty. New York, Harper & Brs., 1892. Testament was the first to be completed in have congregated in the city and made it a conductor stands and moves on a podium Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. Mt. this piecemeal fashion, with Luke appearing their home; the city, in turn, has provided but of what an audience can deduce from Vernon, Printed for the Limited Editions in 1827, the Sermon on the Mount in 1828 appreciative audiences and, occasionally, that posture. Club by A. Colish, 1975. and later that year the complete book of generous patrons. In recent years, the area's Harriet Nathan conducted these three long Moore, George. A Flood. New York, Har­ Matthew. The first complete edition of the performing and visual artists have increased memoirs, while Suzanne Riess, also of the bor Press, 1930. New Testament was printed in 1835. in numbers and diversity, appealing to wider ROHO staff, is now taping the shorter ses­ Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of My Landlord. The missionaries then turned immediately constituencies, which in turn have provided sions with Martin Snipper, Director of the Fourth and last series. Edinburgh, Ca- to the Old Testament, and five of these new sources of financial support. "The Arts San Francisco Art Commission, and with dell, 1832. earliest printings, gathered together in one and The Community," a series of the Li­ Stephen Goldstine, president of the San Fran­ Taggard, Genevieve. Long View. New volume, still in its original cloth binding, brary's Regional Oral History Office, captures cisco Art Institute, who was in charge of the York, Published by the Author, 1940. have recently been purchased by The Ban­ some of these experiences through interviews Neighborhood Arts Project in its period of Wells, H. G. The Illusion of Personality. croft Library with funds provided by Mr. with participants: artists, lay leaders, politi­ greatest expansion. Ms. Riess is also inter­ London, 1944. Kenneth E. Hill, a new member of the cal experts. Comprising three major, and four viewing Maruja Cid, a former community Should any be available as gifts to the Friends' Council. This volume contains Oi- briefer, sessions, these interviews also explore organizer for NAP in the Mission District, Library, please communicate with Miss Pa­ hanaalii II (Second Chronicles) which was some of the newer developments in federal, and John Kreidler, who provided the concept tricia Howard, by letter or telephone (642- printed in 1836; Ka Moolelo Estera (The state, and local support for the arts during of hiring artists under the federal Compre­ 3781). History of Esther), 1835; ^a Olelo Akamai the past two decades, particularly as they A Solomona (Solomon's Wise Sayings), affect the San Francisco area. [ 10] [11] Vanished Campus the circumstances under which it disap­ peared, the University Archivist would be An unusually enthusiastic response to the delighted to have this information. University Archives' spring photographic exhibition, "Vanished Campus," has led to J. Taylor- Unmasked an extension of its showing in the Joseph C. Rowell Case, located in the second floor cor­ The J. Taylor, author of A Fast Life on the ridor of the Library Annex, through the Modern Highway, cited on page 8, was month of August. The exhibition highlights Joseph Taylor. campus buildings which either no longer exist or whose functions have changed. In COUNCIL OF THE FRIENDS the first class one will find Bernard May- William P. Barlow, Jr., James D. Hart beck's Hearst Hall, the first women's gym­ Chairman Mrs. Edward H. Heller nasium, which burned in 1922; in the second Miss Mary Kenneth E. Hill category are views of exhibitions held in the Woods Bennett Preston Hotchkis Henry Miller Bowles Warren R. Howell Power House Gallery during the 1950's. Mrs. Jackson Chance John R. May Such displays are meant to be entertaining A. Lindley Cotton James E. O'Brien as well as didactic; this one puts out a call E. Morris Cox Norman Philbrick for information, as well. One of the struc­ Henry K. Evers Atherton M. Phleger tures shown, College Hall, can be called the James M. Gerstley Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. Mrs. Vernon L. Goodin Brayton Wilbur, Jr. first women's dormitory at Berkeley. Con­ Mrs. Richard P. George P. Hammond, structed in 1909 with private funding, it Hafner, Jr. Honorary stood on the corner of Hearst and La Loma, across from Founders' Rock. In the early Editor, Bancroftiana: J. R. K. Kantor 1930's it was known as Hansford Hall, but Contributors to this issue: Dahlia Armon, Law­ there is no documentation readily available rence Dinnean, R. Philip Hoehn, Timothy Hoyer, concerning its demise, which occurred prior Harriet Nathan, Annegret Ogden, Ann Pfaff-Doss, to 1948. Should any of our readers know of Suzanne Riess, Patrick J. Russell, Jr., Eloyde Tovey.

Interior of A. M. BosseVs grocery store at the corner of Grant and Francisco Streets, Berkeley, c.igoo, with Bertha Bossel, at right, and her sister, Anna L. Ogden, behind counter. The gift of Mr. Paul Ogden of Walnut Creek, this photograph typifies many which turn up in family attics and are of great value to the Bancroft's historical picture collections. r -. [12]