BANCROFTIANA PUBLISHED OCCASIONALLY BY THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 9472O

No. IOJ January 1992

Mrs. John K. McLean and her daughter Mary McLean Olney pause during a hike along the railroad right-of-way nearMcCloud, Cal­ ifornia, site of the flourishing McCloud Lumber Mill (July/August, 1899).

and the University of California, 1880-18%, conducted by Willa K. Baum in 1963. Shasta-Siskiyou Vacation Mary McLean Olney (1872-1965) was the daughter of Dr. John Knox McLean and his Album wife, Sarah Hawley McLean. Dr. McLean Mrs. Constance Condit has recently donated was pastor of the First Congregational Church to The Bancroft Library a family photograph of Oakland from 1872 to 1895 an<^ later served album compiled by her mother, Mary McLean as trustee and president of the Pacific Theo­ Olney, documenting her family's vacation trip logical Seminary in Berkeley. A major force in to several localities in the Shasta-Siskiyou area the social, religious, and intellectual life of his of northern California during July and August, time, Dr. McLean was also a vigorous out- 1899. This compilation of 90 snapshots com­ doorsman, taking long daily walks and insist­ plements important Bancroft Library collec­ ing on six-week mid-summer vacations for tions of Olney family papers and relates direct­ hiking and family recreation in Yosemite, the ly to reminiscences in the Library's oral history Sierras, and other mountainous regions of interview with Mrs. Olney, Oakland, Berkeley,norther n California. In her memoir, Mrs. Olney

[1] describes the Yosemite jaunts and also several historian Ernst Kantorowicz who "brought childhood trips to the Mount Shasta area me to a new vision of the creative spirit and the of Jess's collages will be on display for the first and business associates. All of them exhibit his where the family was able to stay in little ho­ world of forms in which that spirit is made time. invariable gift of phrase and incomparable ear tels. "There was one called Sisson's [present manifest." In Bancroft, we will be showing a selection for speech, even as they are filled with the de­ day Mount Shasta City]. I suppose we stayed With poets Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser, of Duncan manuscripts and many of his deco­ tails of everyday life: lecture tours, proofread­ there quite as much as any... Father liked to Duncan explored the tradition of Romance in rated books. This will be the first major exhi­ ing, newspaper work of all kinds - even an oc­ move around, and we'd stay about two weeks in poetry, seeking to merge the life of the spirit bition devoted to Duncan on the Berkeley casional burst of temper. When Elisha Bliss, a place." In addition to Sisson's, the 1899 album with the minutiae of everyday reality. His first campus. Several special events are planned in for instance, failed to issue The Innocents documents visits to Shasta Springs, to Duns- book, Heavenly City, Earthly City, was pub­ conjunction with the UAM/Bancroft exhibi­ Abroad'as expected, Mark Twain fired off sev­ muir, and to McCloud. Also recorded are trips lished in Berkeley in 1947 by Bern Porter with tion, so we urge Bancroft Friends to watch for eral pages of sarcasm that are still good read­ up the Pit River, with side trips to Hedge illustrations by Mary Fabilli. forthcoming announcements. ing: "All I desire is to be informed from time to Creek and Mossbrae Falls, and an ascent of In 1956, Duncan became a visiting faculty Anthony Bliss time what future season of the year the publi­ Mt. Shasta. member at Black Mountain College in North cation is postponed to, 6c why - so that I can Mary McLean remained close to her family Carolina. He taught courses in poetics and go on informing my friends intelligently - I and childhood friends throughout her college staged and directed his play Medea at Kolchis. Mark Twains Letters, mean that infatuated baker's dozen of them who, faithful unto death, still believe that I am years at Berkeley (1891-1895) and during her With poets Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Volume j: 1869 three-year teaching career at Stanford and at and Robert Creeley, he devoted himself to a going to publish a book." (Bliss decided to Pomona College, so this vacation album of poetry which was a vehicle of experimentation The Mark Twain Project is about to publish its publish it within a few days of receiving this 1899, full of her snapshots and sprightly cap­ rather than of psychology and self-expression. third volume of Mark Twains Letters, a series letter.) tions, marks the culmination of a long National recognition came for Duncan with that has attracted an unusually broad range of Volume j was edited by three long-time McLean family tradition as well as the begin­ the publication by Grove Press of his The readers and reviewers. Professor Richard Etu- members of the Mark Twain Project: Victor ning of a new family. Mary and Warren Olney, Opening of the Field m i960. This was followed lain, writing in California History, recently Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Ar- Jr., were married later that year and they settled by other major collections of poetry, Roots and noted that while "books like this often inhabit mon. It is dedicated to the memory of Philip in Berkeley, where Mrs. Olney became active Branches (1964) and Bending the Bow (1968). It only the shelves of scholars, general readers E. Allen, founder of The Pareto Fund, whose in civic affairs while Mr. Olney went on to be­ was at about this time that Robert Duncan be­ will find more than enough interesting and generous gift to the Friends of The Bancroft come president of the University of California gan to serve as poetry advisor to the Poetry lively information here to be worth their time Library, matched by the National Endowment Alumni Association and legal counsel for the Archive in the University's Rare Book Depart­ and investment.... And as citizens we should for the Humanities, made possible the prepa­ Board of Regents. Their three children were ment. After the Rare Book Department was be encouraged that some of our taxes supplied ration and publication of these letters. Warren Olney III, who was a faculty member merged into Bancroft, Robert Duncan contin­ to such groups as the National Endowment for Robert H. Hirst at the University of California Law School and ued to serve as poetry consultant, helping to the Humanities are being used to support such served on the California Crime Commission, define collecting policy for the Bancroft Poetry worthwhile projects as the Mark Twain Pa­ John McLean Olney, of St. Helena, and Mrs. Archive and reviewing cartloads of proposed pers." Mining in the West: Philip Philip K. Condit, donor of the present album. additions to the collection. Writing for Choice: Current Reviews for Col­ R. Bradley s Oral History Duncan was interested in contemporary art lege Libraries, Professor M. Thomas Inge as both a collector and an artist himself. He be­ found the first two volumes "distinguished by The oral history of Philip Read Bradley, Jr., A Robert Duncan Exhibit gan working with wax crayons, his favorite meticulous editorial standards and exacting Mining Engineer in Alaska, Canada, the West­ In February of next year, Bancroft will mount medium, in the late 1930s. Guest curator scholarship. The letters of few other authors ern United States, Latin America, and Southeast an exhibition of the work and art collections of Wagstaff explained this preference: "Duncan have been handled with such exhaustive and Asia, distills the experiences of three genera­ Robert Duncan in conjunction with the Uni­ has probably done more with children's intelligent care.... When completed, Mark tions of distinguished Californians in mining. versity Art Museum. Christopher Wagstaff, crayons than any other artist in our century. He Twains Letters will constitute a comprehensive Like his uncle, father, brother, and four Instructor in the Freshman Program on cam­ was drawn to them partly because they were autobiography of a major American author cousins, Philip Bradley studied mining at the pus, will serve as guest curator of the exhibi­ not associated with high or important art. He and as such should be a part of all library col­ ' University of California College of Mines. tion. liked working with what was casual and not lections." • "I started with the class of '25,...so I'm a Robert Duncan is widely recognized as one revered, and it often led him to make new dis­ Containing some 188 letters, most of them 'twenty-fiver,'" says Philip Read Bradley, Jr. of the most important poets in post-World coveries." published for the first time, Volume j follows "When I came back from [working at a tin War II American letters. He came to Berkeley Robert Duncan died in 1988 in San Francis­ Clemens through the production and initial mine in] Bolivia and went back to college, I in 1936 as an undergraduate majoring in En­ co. The University of California Press is now reception of his first great success, The Inno­ had no trouble with grades. I had aged, I had glish. Soon afterward, he published his first preparing an edition of his collected works. cents Abroad. "Nothing like it since Uncle matured, I was just fine...Afterworkin g at my poems in Occident, a campus literary magazine. The University Art Museum will show a Tom's Cabin, I guess," he told his fiancee, trade, I found that I knew why I was in col­ In his sophomore year, Duncan moved to An­ portion of Duncan's own art collection. Of Olivia Langdon, just fivemonth s after publi­ lege." napolis and then to New York where he was ac­ special interest will be the work of Duncan's cation. Clemens's courtship letters (certainly He tells of growing up at the Treadwell and tive in a literary and artistic scene that included companion of thirty-seven years, Jess. Several the longest letters he ever wrote) form a major Alaska Juneau mines in Alaska. "The Tread- Anais Nin and Norris Embry. After returning element of this volume, and are particularly in­ well Mine, creating all the commerce that a to Berkeley in 1946, Duncan studied under the Copyright 1991 by the Friends of The Bancroft Library formative when read in the context of the other mine can - payroll, travelers, freight back and letters he was writing - to his family, friends, forth, supplies back and forth...that was the [2] [3] real opening of the door to Alaska. That one Anthony. In the 1890s the Board of Lady Man­ ry Council, he says, "About every two years you pers. Fortunately, when they moved there re­ mine did that!...That was an important mine, agers for the California World's Fair included got a new governor in, and you had to educate cently they transferred to The Bancroft Li­ and...it was the damnedest, most beautiful both of his grandmothers, Hester Harland and them all over again. He was no damn use until brary many of their papers, including those of place for a youngster to grow up in. Gee, that Virginia Shearer Bradley. he got educated about mining, and it would his uncle Frederick Worthen Bradley. was a piece of luck that I just have to be thank­ Philip Bradley's grandfather Henry Sewall take about two years to educate him. Just as Lee Swent ful for almost every day." Bradley was born near Boston, graduated from soon as you got him educated there'd be anoth­ a forerunner of M.I.T., came to San Francisco er governor to educate." in 1850 (his journal of the voyage is in the The California Mining Board was set up by Manuscripts On-Line archives of the California Historical Society), about 260 words in the public resource code. The great success of Bancroft's conversion of and first worked on Burns Diggings above Mr. Bradley says, "If you're set up by 260 words the old card-catalog for printed books to com­ Merced before going to Yuba County to settle only, you've got lots of power - lots of room to puter-catalog format ("retrospective conver­ near Nevada City, where the family still main­ roam. I knew mining, and knew the problems sion") reported in the last issue of Bancroftiana tains a home. The other grandfather was a of miners, so I thought it was pretty good.. .You is now being followed with a similar project to storekeeper near Park's Bar, where figtree s he know how it is in Sacramento, people always convert records of our manuscript collections. planted still grow today. playing games. We weren't, we were miners, Once again, The Bancroft Library is the recip­ Mrs. Bradley (Katherine Connick) also has and we were doing the right thing...We would ient of a major grant from the United States strong California and University roots. She make policy for the Division of Mines. Which Department of Education to fund a retrospec­ graduated from the University in 1937, as did I think was a pretty good idea." tive conversion project that will greatly en­ her brother, Robert Connick, '39, now UC His oral history was the firsti n the Regional hance access to major resources. The Depart­ Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, and she has Oral History Office's Western Mining in the ment of Education has approved the project served on the Council of the Friends of The Twentieth Century series. He was presented for two years and has provided slightly more Bancroft Library. In an interview in the with his volume at an "Old Timers Night" than $200,000 for the firstyea r of operations. Robert Gordon Sproul Oral History Project, meeting of the San Francisco section of AIME We estimate that records for 15,000 collec­ Kay Bradley tells of traveling to Europe with [American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, tions will be made accessible not only through President and Mrs. Sproul and their daughter and Petroleum Engineers], who had provided the on-line catalog at Berkeley (GLADIS), Marion, who was Kay's best friend. the seed money for the oral history series in but in the on-line catalog of all nine campuses Philip Bradley's oral history shows him as 1987. Other sponsors of the series include the of the University (MELVYL), as well as in the the epitome of the California mining man, in Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, two national bibliographic utilities, OCLC the finest tradition of good mine managers: California Mining Association, Southern and RLIN. These records will join the approx­ paying good men a little extra, respecting the California section of AIME, and the Northern imately 2,000 manuscript records already workman's judgment, and "camping on it" to and Southern California sections of the Wom­ available in the computer catalog and will get the job done. "I camped on the Pine Tree an's Auxiliary to the AIME, corporations, and move The Bancroft Library one step closer to­ [Mine] because there's only one way to run a individuals. The series now comprises twenty- ward the realization of fully integrated on-line mine, and that's to camp on it....My hours at nine volumes completed or in process, includ­ access to all its collections regardless of format. that mine were about eight in the morning to ing oral histories of Plato Malozemoff and Two complementary activities will also be Frank Woods McQuiston, both UC 1931, and PhilipR. Bradley, left, withH. E. Linney in 1925(?)fromantwo at night. "out- made possible under the grant: automated ac­ ing album of the Sigma Gamma Epsilon mining honoraryHe has prid society.e in hi s profession for creating James Mack Gerstley, a former member of the cess to the index of 46,000 names of corre­ infrastructure, jobs, and good living conditions Council of The Friends of The Bancroft Li­ spondents represented in the manuscript col­ Bradley was born in 1904 into a California in opening up new places. "That's what mines brary. lections and a long-needed general survey of family associated with great mines - the do]!y he exclaims. He was manager in the 1930s The firstperso n to be interviewed in the se­ Bancroft's manuscript collections to evaluate Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine in Idaho, the of the Harvard Mine in Jamestown, Califor­ ries was ninety-six-year-old Horace Albright- processing and preservation needs. Alaska Treadwell and Alaska Juneau - at a nia, and still consults on this recently revital­ (College of Mines, 1912), who had already been Using our excellent experience with the last time when mining was a premier industry, and ized ore body, a case which illustrates the cycli­ extensively interviewed concerning his career conversion project, we have once again con­ great personal fortunes were to be made in it; cal nature of mining as well as the durability of as a conservationist, superintendent ofYellow- tracted with a private vendor (OCLC) to han­ Bernard Baruch, Herbert Hoover, John Hays Mr. Bradley. He served on the California stone Park, and head of the National Park Ser­ dle the basic work of creating machine records Hammond, and Daniel Jackling are some of Mining Board for thirty-two years under four vice. His career as mining lawyer, president of from our card records. OCLC is able to use our the acquaintances and associates mentioned in governors; for most of that time he was chair­ the U.S. Potash Company and director of U.S. detailed specifications to capture all the bibli­ the memoir. man. He founded the California Mine Oper­ Borax 6c Chemical Corporation, and his role ographic elements we require. Once they re­ All four of Philip Bradley's grandparents ators Association, now the California Mining in establishing Death Valley National Monu­ turn the master magnetic tapes containing the lived in the California Gold Belt. His maternal Association; he founded the Western Gover­ ment on land long owned by Pacific Coast Bo­ converted records, we then undertake internal grandmother, Hester Harland, was bom on the nors Mining Advisory Council; he was on the rax Company, was not so well known. editing and upgrading to bring the records into Bidwell Ranch near Chico, and later was one board of governors of the American Mining The October 20 Oakland-Berkeley fire de­ their finalfor m in our computer catalog. of the founders of the PTA, and as an active Congress. stroyed the Bradley home on Vicente Road, Once again, Bancroft is at the forefront of suffragist was California secretary for Susan B. Of the Western Governors Mining Adviso- with many irreplaceable photographs and pa­ computer applications in special collections li-

[4] [5] brary operations. We are fortunate in having AN INFORMAL MEMOIR my knowledge, I was the first female page in trons or other staff as I kept getting my em­ generous support from The University Li­ At the end of my freshman year (spring of The Bancroft Library, and that was my great ployment extended. In January of 1951 Dr. brary, and particularly from the Library Sys­ 1947), I applied at the Bureau of Student Place­ experience. Adams told me that she was returning to New tems Office which has undertaken special pro­ ment in South Hall annex for a part-time job Mexico. She had been frustrated in dealing gramming to adapt the GLADIS catalog to for the summer and hopefully for the following with Main Library administration for space provide a significant array of special access year. I listed my major as English and my mi­ and equipment for working with microfilm. points needed by The Bancroft Library. Once nor as Spanish. I heard nothing and eventually Such essential items as rewinds, roll labels, a the conversion project of our Manuscripts forgot about working. Late in my senior year moistener for labels, a splicer, and film cement, Collection has been completed it will be pos­ (May of 1950), I got a postcard from the place­ not being standard library items, required sible for computer users throughout the world ment office telling me to come in if I were still months and months to get. For the first six to have direct access to our cataloging of books interested in working. When I went, I was months or so, I typed on red-bordered labels, and manuscripts. asked if I had continued my minor in Spanish. trimmed them to size, and licked them to paste Peter E. Hanff I said that I had switched to a Spanish major. them on. Bonnie Hardwick The woman asked if I were interested in work­ Quack Fisher replaced Dr. Adams as my su­ ing in The Bancroft Library with microfilm for pervisor in February of 1951 as I was starting my six weeks. I said, "Sure. What is microfilm?" student teaching. She had managed to increase She explained that it was like pictures I took my hours from fifteen to eighteen per week, Vivian Fisher Retires with my camera but on longer rolls. I told her that semester I did well to work twelve. She With the retirement of Vivian C. Fisher in that I didn't have a camera and did not know was very patient with me. Just as I had decided October 1991, The Bancroft Library lost one of how to take pictures. She said that Dr. Adams that I was really not suited to teaching, I heard its last direct links with the George P. Ham­ would teach me about microfilm. As I planned that Ann Reed, who had meanwhile replaced mond era at The Bancroft Library. Vivian was to work for my teaching credential during the Frances Buckland, would be transferring to curator of Bancroft's microforms, sound following year and had been thinking of a sum­ Newspaper Room on June 1.1 asked Quack if recordings, and motion pictures, but her mer job, I made an appointment for an inter­ she thought I would qualify as Supervisor of breadth of knowledge about the Bancroft col­ view with Dr. Adams, thinking I would prob­ the Manuscripts Reading Room. A few days lections, particularly those having to do with ably not qualify. Dr. Eleanor B. Adams ex­ Vivian Fisher later she told me that Dr. Hammond had given Mexico, Spain, and Latin America made her a plained in the interview that I really did not his approval. Ann trained me while she was be­ central resource for those parts of The Ban­ need to know about microfilm as long as I The staff I can remember at that time were ing trained for her new job and as I was taking croft Library. Staff and scholars alike relied on could read titles in Spanish. She hired me for the following: Dr. George P. Hammond, Di­ my last finals. As soon as my finals were over, I her phenomenal memory to aid them in get­ six weeks, making it quite plain that funds rector; Eleanor A. Bancroft, Assistant Direc­ started working full-time and stayed on for ting to just the right part of a collection or an would run out on June 30. tor and Acquisitions Librarian; Eva Romero over three years. About a month later, we got a archive. At the same time she developed an My job involved counting microfilm expo­ Jacques, Secretary; Matilde Bierbower, Secre­ new Reference Librarian, Robert H. Becker. I outstanding series of indexes and findingaid s sures, checking that the film was in focus and tary; Elizabeth (Tex) Euphrat, Reference Li­ do not recall if he replaced someone, or if it was to guide the staff and scholars to the content of of complete pages, splicing short strips into brarian; Helen H. Bretnor, Reference Librar­ a new position. I think it was the latter. About collections. Her boundless patience and in­ full reels, typing and pasting labels on boxes, ian; Frank Brezee, Reference Librarian; Julia a year later Frank Brezee retired and Richard tense love of the collections for which she was and shelving the film. About mid-June I asked H. Macleod, Acting Head of Manuscripts; Bernard was hired for that position. responsible gave her the energy to train (and Dr. Adams if there were a chance of my staying Mildred Corson, Cataloger; Sue Stubbs, Seri­ Meanwhile, Sue Stubbs had left, and Beat­ re-train) all of us in the intricacies of complex on during the summer. She was doubtful but als; Dr. Eleanor B. Adams, Microfilm; James rice Nolds, who later became a medical doctor, and ancient archival collections. While we can would ask Dr. Hammond, the Director. A few V Mink, Assistant in Manuscripts; Doris was appointed as Serials Librarian. When Bea rely on the access tools she developed for us days later she asked if I could set my schedule Wright, Editorial; Maxine Chappell Bethel, left for medical school, Jean Trulson came in over the years, we cannot replace her intimate so I could work on Thursdays from eleven to Editorial; Mary Ann (Quack) Fisher, Editori­ ' that position. After Jim Mink finishedLibrar y knowledge of the many collections for which twelve and would be willing to page for six al; Constance Thompson, Assistant in Cata­ School and left Bancroft, Natalia Ruiz, wife of she was responsible. We count ourselves fortu­ weeks as all the pages had classes at that time. loging; Frances Buckland, Supervisor of the a graduate student, was hired to work in nate that she lives nearby and is willing to re­ I had only a vague idea of what that entailed Manuscripts Reading Room. Manuscripts. Shortly after his return from a spond to our occasional calls for help. We also but agreed. She said I would be told how to Shortly after I started working (possibly July year in England in the Foreign Microfilming wish her a long and travel-filled retirement. page when I needed to know. I was called upon 1,1950), Dr. John Barr Tompkins replaced Tex Program, Dr. Robert E. Burke was appointed She has earned it. only once and was told to go up to the reading Euphrat, having the title of Head of Public as Head of Manuscripts. Several years ago, recognizing that she had room and get a book truck, take it down the el­ Services. There was quite an uproar as he set As Supervisor of the Manuscripts Reading the longest connection with The Bancroft Li­ evator to tier 3, and get the cards from Mrs. new policies, such as no briefcases in the Room, I had a three-fold job. In order of im­ brary of any staff member still present, Vivian Macleod. I was met by Julia Macleod who had stacks, pencils only for note-taking with rare portance were (1) circulation and security of Fisher prepared an informal reminiscence of miraculously already paged all the manuscripts books and manuscripts, screening people be­ manuscripts and rare books, (2) writing photo her wonderful career here. We are pleased to and sent me with the book truck up the eleva­ fore they were granted stack access, and only orders, and (3) typing manuscript catalog share that with readers of Bancroftiana. tor. She even pushed the right button to take one rare book or manuscript at a time for pa­ cards. I was soon given an additional responsi­ Peter E. Hanff me to the reading room on tier 4. To the best of trons. I had relatively little association with pa­ bility, which I can't seem to lose: proofreading.

[6] [7] Dr. Hammond was starting the publication of itorial staff had also changed, although I don't Director. Mary-Ellen Jones came from Main Hammond. Someone (I believe Quack) the Larkin Papers. At eight o'clock Maxine remember who was doing that work. It may Library in 1964 as an assistant in Manuscripts. looked out the window and said, "He's on his Chappell Bethel, who was assisting Dr. Ham­ have been Doris Rivera or Teresa Vigil. They The rest is modern history which does not way to the Student Union for coffee." Dr. mond, would come to the Manuscripts Read­ were here at some point. Dick Bernard left in concern me at this point. Almost anyone else Bolton strode over to the window, looked, and ing room armed with manuscripts, typescripts, the late 1950s as I recall. I believe it was J. R. K. currently on the staff can tell that part as well said, "There goes George, strutting like a pea­ and sharp red pencils. We would alternate who Kantor who replaced him. Lee Chase came in or better than I can. My object is to cover the cock with his two peahens." Dr. Hammond read aloud as our voices gave out. When the the summer of 1961. Patricia Howard came at part for which there aren't many of us left. was walking with Eleanor Bancroft and room started to get busy, usually about nine- the same time as Serials Librarian to replace However, I can't quit writing before relating Eleanor Adams. During my firstyea r in Public thirty or ten, we would quit reading. Later we Elizabeth Hamilton Glasfield. some anecdotes about the crusty old Dr. Services Dr. Bolton came into the Manu­ read typescript to galleys, then galleys to page I don't remember the succession of Refer­ Bolton. scripts Reading Room to see a map. I went to proofs, then back to manuscripts for the next ence Librarians after Jim Kantor. The next five My firstmeetin g with him was in the eleva­ help him find it. He asked me since when volume. More than ten years later, Dr. Ham­ years or so was a period of fairly rapid turnover, tor as I was going to work as a student assistant George was hiring child labor, to which I mond asked me to help him read volume ten. I with some of them being women who almost one day. He asked me where 1 was going. replied testily that I was a graduate student and missed out on some of the middle volumes but immediately got married and changed their When I told him, he replied, "Oh, yes, I know that just because I was small did not mean that got in on the first few and the last one. names. I barely knew at the time which were George well. I got him his job." Shortly after I wasn't old enough to work in Bancroft. I'm During the more than three years of my the maiden and the married names. I leave it that I went up to room 276 to give Dr. Adams still small thirty-five years later. Maybe I'm still tenure, I became acquainted with many of the up to others like Pat Howard to document that the exposure count of some new film from not old enough. "regulars" of The Bancroft Library, faculty, period. I remember Fred Lynden, Janice Mexico. Dr. Bolton had come looking for Dr. Vivian C Fisher University administrators, and graduate stu­ Koyama, Linda Schieber, William M. dents. We had very few undergraduates in Roberts, and Irene Moran from the mid- to those days. Among the regulars were Carl O. late-i96os. Gifts to the Library 1990-1991 Sauer, Woodrow W. Borah, James F. King, Dr. Dale L. Morgan was still at Bancroft Herbert E. Bolton, Helen Rand Parish, when I went back to work. He had been here The University Library will not publish its Christmas Exhibition catalogue and list of library George R. Stewart, Charles L. Camp, Sher­ only a few months before I had left in 1954. donors this year. In its place, library supporters will receive an expanded annual report with a few burne F. Cook, Engel Sluiter, Pinky Bynum, During my first year back I wrote numerous highlights of gifts to the Libraries over the past year. Bucking this trend, Bancroft wishes Patricia Bauer, Lois Chambers Stone, Fred B. photo orders to microfilm manuscripts which nonetheless to acknowledge the hundreds of people who have participated in maintaining the Rogers, Donald Page, Irene and William he borrowed for filming, and many orders to quality of the Library. On December 9, we will open our usual "Christmas" exhibit of gifts to the Paden, Erwin Gudde, Ramon Ruiz, J. S. Hol- have positives made from negatives he had had Library and we include in this issue of Bancroftiana a list of donors for the fiscalyea r 1990-1991. liday, Donald O. Fisher, Richard Frost, Vir­ made of manuscripts at Missouri Historical Charles F. Adams Berta M. Bascom ginia Thickens, Margaret Mollins, Marion Society and similar institutions. These films Harold Adler Bechtel Corporation Parsons, Edith M. Coulter, Rena Vassar, Peter form the nucleus of the categories of "Over­ Dr. Thomas H. G. Aitken S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Buzanski, Ruth Axe Frey, Henry Raup Wag­ land Diaries" and "The West." Dale and Dr. Toru Akiyama Bellcore Matching Gift Program ner, Rudolph Lapp, Lawrence Kinnaird, A. P. Hammond worked together to build our re­ Agnes Albert Paul Berkowitz Nasatir, France V Scholes, and many others. search materials, both manuscripts and books, Donald M.Allen Mr. 6cMrs. Stanley Berman In August of 19541 resigned from The Ban­ for the westward movement, Mormonism, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority House of Bernstein, Inc. croft Library to assume the career of mother Gold Rush, and fur trappers and traders. Dale American Institute of Mining Engineers, San Ursula Bingham and housewife. In June of 19571 returned to my was also working on his own publications as Francisco Mildred Bissinger old job, which I held for almost a year. Quack well as on volume one of A Guide to the American Rock Garden Society Edith Douglas Black Manuscript Collection of The Bancroft Library. Mr. 6cMrs. Adolphus Andrews, III D. Steven Black Fisher, as she was ready to become mother and Lemoise Angier Mary Boewe housewife, made arrangements with Dr. In the early 1960s Dr. Gwladys Williams Kathy Smith Anthenat Mr. 6c Mrs. Travis Bogard Hammond for me to take on the responsibili­ was working her way methodically through Ivan Arguelles J. Dennis Bonney ties of the microfilm position. I have been there the Mexican manuscripts, verifying names, Katharine B. Arnstein • Woodrow Borah since, advancing step by step on the rungs of dates, and other bibliographic data, for volume Mrs. Paul E. Arnstein Harold I. 6cBeula Blair Boucher the ladder and broadening my scope. two of the Guide. After her retirement, the Dr. 6cMrs. Robert L. Arnstein Philip E. Bowles The most significant change in staff on my work was continued by Dr. Hammond and Mr. 6cMrs. John P. Austin Philip R.Bradley, Jr. return was that Mrs. Bancroft had died the Quack Fisher. Gwladys retired at the same Annt Avakian Edward Bransten previous year. Mrs. Elizabeth Gudde, who had time as Julia Macleod and Mildred Corson Mr. 6cMrs. Peter Avenali John Bransten been on the staff of the Main Library, was han­ (1963). Mrs. Gudde retired the next year, and Barbara Avery Robert 6c Daphne Bransten dling Acquisitions. Bob Burke had also left, I Dr. Hammond the year after. Estelle Rebec Mr. 6cMrs. John B. Bates Mrs. George Briggs believe to teach at the University of Hawaii. took over Manuscripts, with Marie Byrne as Anne Baeck Mrs. B. H. Bronson her assistant. Elizabeth G. Todd came from Matthew Bailey Edmund G. 6cBernice Layne Brown Shortly after I changed jobs, Dr. J. S. (Jim) Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr. Mrs. Alan K. Browne Holliday came as Assistant to the Director and Orange County as Cataloger. Bob Becker, Paul Bancroft, Jr. Ava Jean Pischel Brumbaum Head of Manuscripts. Estelle Rebec was as­ who had been Assistant to the Director after William P. Barlow, Jr. Stanley Bry sisting Julia Macleod in Manuscripts. The ed­ Jim Holliday's departure, took over as Acting BBC Enterprises Bob 6c Bobby Bryand

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