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ANUS-LIKE, Bancroft faces forward to the ty, as the first step toward the creation of a Jpast and backward to the future. As an insti­ strategic plan to deal with the issues most crit­ tution dedicated to conserving the past as well ical to Bancroft as we head into a new century. as making it come alive for the future, we must The review committee was chaired by David every so often re-examine both our roots and Farmer, Director of the DeGolyer Library at our route, where we have come from and where Southern Methodist University; other mem­ we are going. bers were Genaro Padilla, Vice Chancellor for These thoughts are motivated by the year Undergraduate Affairs, Joe Duggan, Associ­ just past, my first as the James D. Hart Direc­ ate Dean of the Graduate Division, Bill Sim­ tor of The Bancroft Library. It has been both mons, Dean of Social Sciences, Richard Walk­ exhilarating and exhausting. I am profoundly er, Chair of the Department of Geography, grateful to the Bancroft staff and to the mem­ Ling-Chi Wang, Associate Professor of Eth­ bers of the Council of the Friends, particularly nic Studies, Elizabeth Witherell (UC Santa to Chair Tom Worth, who has been a tower of Barbara), General Editor of the Papers of strength, and to Peter Hanff, who has guided Henry David Thoreau, and Charles Weiner me through the intricacies of the management (MIT), Professor of History of Science. of a large research library. Bancroft owes Peter The committee's report served to guide our a special debt of gratitude for having led the li­ deliberations during a retreat held at the end of brary through very difficult times after the May and attended by all Bancroft staff, mem­ death of Jim Hart and during the University of bers of the Council of the Friends, library staff California's worst budget crisis. from outside Bancroft, faculty, and users. Af­ I have been impressed by the willingness of ter two days of intensive discussions, we iden­ Tom and the other members of the Council to tified three critical issues facing Bancroft: col­ invest their time, energy, and talent in helping lection policy, outreach, and the physical plant. me to carry out Bancroft's mission. I have A Strategic Planning Committee has just learned much from them and from the Ban- - finished a comprehensive plan for dealing with croft staff; but possibly the most important les­ these issues over the next five years. Collection son is the realization that I still have much to policy must reflect the dramatic demographic learn. I know that I shall receive the same kind changes of contemporary California so that of help and advice from the officers of the the twenty-first century can understand its Council, Cindy Barber (chair), Dorian Chong immediate past. Outreach is concerned with a (vice chair), and Bill Barlow (treasurer). reinvigoration of Bancroft's engagement with the campus, the scholarly community, and the STRATEGIC PLAN general public. However, neither of these ini­ One of my first actions last fall was to set in tiatives can be successful without an adequate motion a process leading to a comprehensive facility for the library. The State of California review of Bancroft's relations with the Berke­ will provide funds for seismic upgrading of our ley campus and the larger scholarly communi­ building, but for nothing else. All of the other

[1] make headway on large-scale processing pro­ jects that cannot be covered with our normal resources. • utrp tut mm"tk MtfjrA ***&?**** Currently the National Endowment for the Humanities supports our California Heritage Project to digitize and make available on the Internet 25,000 images from our pictorial col­ lections; a National Historical Publications t] 1 and Records Commission grant is allowing us jj'x* ij^ *ef**f. '$ h,f'*&*»*»*& ftt ;r*f- (fat* From the Wilkes Journal: "The Costume of the Californios is peculiar, but beautiful..." to gain bibliographical control of those collec­ tions (over three million images). We have fin­ —^__L'.. I aU;»^t-^ improvements that need to be made—climate rected toward augmenting Bancroft's donor ished microfilming the Japanese-American control, improved working conditions, com­ base. Having just completed service as the War Relocation papers, one of our most heav­ puter networking, enlarged reading room and Chair of the Council of the Friends, Tom ily used collections, and both microfilming exhibition space—must be financed with pri­ Worth has graciously agreed to head the revi­ and cataloguing the papers of pioneer Berkeley vate funds. We are faced with the prospect of talized Bancroft Development Committee, anthropologists Theodore Kroeber and raising substantial sums in order to carry out which will be working with Bancroft friends to Robert Heizer. Finally, we have just received the kind of comprehensive renovation re­ identify areas of possible interest and support. approvals of four new grant projects: a Depart­ quired to take Bancroft into the next century. ment of Education grant to record the history For acquisitions and certain ongoing opera­ ACQUISITIONS of the disabled persons independence move­ tions we rely heavily on private contributions. The generosity of our friends, both present ment, which got its start in Berkeley; an NEH Less than half of Bancroft's budget—essen­ and past, has allowed us to make some signifi­ grant to a consortium of major universities tially salary and supplies—is provided by the cant acquisitions this past year. We used en­ (Duke, Princeton, Michigan, Yale, Columbia, state of California. Eighty percent of the sup­ dowment funds to buy the journal of Dr. John and Berkeley) to preserve and process our col­ port for acquisitions comes from current con­ Fox, naval surgeon on the U.S.S. Vincennes lections of Greek papyri; a second NEH grant tributions and endowment income. during the Wilkes expedition of 1838-42, in collaboration with Columbia, Duke, Stan­ Calculating the cubic capacity of a barrel without calculus. For decades the Regional Oral History Of­ recording detailed information about the lands ford, and Virginia focused on intellectual ac­ From Regole di Geometria, ca. ipo. fice has depended almost entirely on gifts and of the Pacific, including customs of the Cali- cess to our American history collection; and a contracts for the creation of specific oral histo­ fornios and California coastal trade. In collab­ grant from the Mellon Foundation to work our activities the next day with a continuous ries. This approach must continue, but RO­ oration with the Mathematics 6c Statistics Li­ with Columbia University on digitizing our showing of selected Beat Films in the Pacific HO has also begun to build endowments with brary we acquired for the History of Science respective collections of medieval manu­ Film Archive and the 49th Annual Meeting of support from Ruth Teiser, Edmund and Ber- and Technology Collection a late-i5th-centu- scripts. All of the finding aids and inventories the Friends of The Bancroft Library. The nice Layne Brown, Mina Schwabacher, and ry Italian manuscript containing a set of created by these projects will be made available business meeting was followed by a reading by the Class of 1931. This, we trust, is just the be­ anonymous treatises on geometry, algebra, and to scholars and students around the world via Ferlinghetti himself to a standing-room-only ginning: ROHO needs a much larger endow­ weights and measures. Berkeley resident Elise the Internet, using the Encoded Archival De­ crowd of over 500 people. After the annual ment base to give it the flexibility to undertake White gave us the letters of her great-grandfa­ scription format developed at Berkeley and meeting, we formally opened the exhibition on worthy projects that cannot otherwise find a ther, Edward P. Reed, that record his life in now accepted as a national standard. "Ferlinghetti, City Lights, and the Beats in sponsor. California from 1849to ^76. Perhaps our most San Francisco," drawn from Ferlinghetti s pa­ The Mark Twain Project, Bancroft's ongo­ important acquisition, however, is the series of ACTIVITIES pers as well as Bancroft's rich holdings in ing effort to edit all of Mark Twain's works in sixty-one trial records from the Mexican In­ Last spring we held three events: at the end of manuscripts and letters from other writers of impeccable scholarly editions, counts on quisition, dating from 1595 to 1817. The most March we reprised our workshop on rare books the period. The next keepsake will serve as a grants from the National Endowment for the extensive and spectacular of these trials, from and book collecting, with talks by Tony Bliss," permanent record of these events. Humanities for almost half of its budget. Most the end of the 16th century, deal with the In­ Peter Hanff, and the Library Conservation This past fall we mounted a special exhibi­ of the rest must be raised privately in the form quisition's attempts to suppress the secret prac­ Department's Lynn Jones; at the beginning of tion, "California Arrivals: the International of matching funds. Bancroft is unique among tice of Judaism by Jewish converts, Spain's cris- May, we joined forces with the Friends of the Heritage of the State," at the bookfair of the Berkeley campus libraries in its reliance on pri­ tianos nuevos; but there are also rich resources Botanical Garden for a lecture by horticultural International League of Antiquarian Book­ vate funding for a majority of its budget. for studying many other aspects of colonial historian Tom Brown, "California Gardens, sellers. In October we had a reception for Hal Volunteers and staff are working to increase Mexican society. Coupled with our existing 1769-1915." Our most exciting event, however, Holbrook to celebrate his performance of the level of annual donations. We have reorga­ materials, this collection gives Bancroft the was a symposium organized around poet "Mark Twain Tonight" at Zellerbach Hall. nized our fundraising procedures and have es­ largest such holdings outside of Mexico. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the City October also saw our special visit and tour of tablished a schedule of activities which is di- Lights Bookstore and Publishing Company in the De Young Museum's exhibit "Beat Culture GRANTS San Francisco. We put together a day-long and the New America," and in November we Editior, Bancroftiana: Anthony S. BlissWhil e most gifts and donations are channeled symposium, with three panel discussions and a sponsored a lecture by Stephen Tobriner, Pro­ Copyright ippy by the Friends of The Bancrofttowar Libraryd acquisitions , grant support allows us to poetry reading on April 12th, and wound up fessor of Architectural History, entitled "The

[2] [3] scurvy, the scourge of all seafarers in the days tory of California is the statement "The Santi­ before refrigeration. ago returned to San Francisco in 1779, but we One of these hitherto unsung heroes was have no further information about her trip Esteban Jose Martinez. Born in Seville in 1742, than that several of her officers served as god­ he attended a school there to learn pilotage. fathers at the baptism of natives on the 6th of His first voyage about which we have specific July. The officers included Captain Estevan information was a commercial voyage in 1758, Jose Martinez, Piloto Jose Tobar, and Chap­ from Cadiz, Spain, to Peru. He next appears lain Nicolas de Ibera" (1:328). The information late in 1773 in San Bias, between Mazatlan and on which Bancroft based his statement is to be Puerto Vallarta, and left on his first voyage of found in the extract his workers made of the exploration, as second pilot, only a few months baptismal register entry for Mission San Fran­ after his arrival. Its primary purposes were to cisco on July 6,1779 (Bancroft manuscript C- claim land for Spain and to determine the C 39). The name of the chaplain was actually presence of Russians on the northwest coast of Nicolas de Loera, as is shown in other docu­ North America. Maritime historians have giv­ ments. The priests present were Fathers Fran­ en quite a bit of attention to this voyage, but cisco Palou and Pedro Cambon. more for what it did not accomplish than for The frigate Santiago did not sail until April what it did. It was not able to claim any new 9, late in the year for such a voyage, probably lands, nor did it see any Russians. because the workers at the San Bias shipyard From 1775 to 1787 Martinez made at least one were busy outfitting two other ships for a voy­ voyage per year from San Bias carrying people, age of exploration. Martinez, whose official food, clothing, animals, and military equip­ rank was first pilot, commanded the ship and ment to the presidios and missions on the the voyage. He attempted to sail the usual coasts of both Californias. He received a pro­ route out of San Bias between the mainland motion in 1777 to first pilot, in 1781 was com­ and the Tres Marias Islands, but was unable to missioned ensign (alferez de fragata), and in do so because at this late date the prevailing 1787 became a lieutenant (alferez de navio). San winds were from the north. He worked north Bias had been established as a shipyard and almost to Cabo San Lucas but was then forced supply base in 1770, only one year after the mis­ by winds back south of San Bias, where he was sion and presidio of San Diego were founded able to set a westerly, then, as winds permitted, The Mexican Inquisition documents: legal cases in their original leather a and the same year as the foundation of Mon­ a northwesterly, and finally northeasterly terey. It was much faster, less expensive, and course. His first stop was to be in San Francis­ Phoenix Rises: the Aftermath of the 1906 safer to supply these new establishments, not co. He sailed into San Francisco Bay on the af­ Earthquake and Fire." at all self-sufficient, by sea than by land. ternoon of June 26, two and one-half months Un Gran Marinero In 1993 The Bancroft Library purchased the out from San Bias. (A Great Mariner) original autograph diary of Martinez's voyage The next day he was greeted by the com­ I look back on the past year with a good deal of of 1779 with revenues from the Peter and Rosell mandant, Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga, satisfaction. I think that because of the Much has been written about the great Span­ Harvey Memorial Fund. The purpose of the and Father Cambon. Moraga had led the set­ groundwork laid, Bancroft is well poised to ish navigators who explored unknown waters voyage was to take supplies to the three Cali­ tlers there three years earlier, accompanied by meet the challenges of the future. As we put in­ on the Pacific Coast of North America and fornia presidios: San Francisco, Monterey, and Fathers Junipero Serra, Palou, and Cambon. to effect the strategic plan, the Friends of The claimed land for Spain. Much has also been San Diego. The history of the original Martinez completed unloading the clothing Bancroft Library can expect to see a height­ written about the great Spanish soldiers who manuscript is not fully known, but it was ap- ~ and food (he was carrying corn, beans, rice, ened program of events and exhibitions and a explored by land from Sonora and about the parently always in private hands. It is sewn into flour, cheese, tallow, lard, and unrefined sugar) strengthened publication program. Just one priests who accompanied them and founded a contemporary sheepskin cover and is on good but after taking on ballast and filling his fresh example: our annual meeting this coming missions in California. Even the men, women, paper with relatively little damage except water water barrels quickly enough, he had difficulty spring will feature Chancellor Chang-Lin and children who were brought to settle in stains, considering the fact that it is over two in putting to sea again because of adverse Tien as the speaker, reflecting on his years at California have had their moments of glory in centuries old. winds and dangerous ebb tides. While waiting Cal. Fittingly, it will be held on Cal Day, April print. But very little has been written about the From service records of 1787 and 1790, copies to set sail, he found the time to write a narrative 19th, 1997. The accompanying exhibition, cu- men who took the essentials of life to these new of which are in the Archivo General de Indias, description of the presidio, mission, troops, rated by University Archivist Bill Roberts, will settlements, the navigators of the Spanish sup­ Seville, modern maritime authors have known buildings, armaments, gardens, and domestic be dedicated to the Berkeley chancellors, 1952- ply ships. While these mariners were not sail­ that Martinez made a supply voyage to Cali­ animals. 1997, the men responsible for this remarkable ing in uncharted waters, they still faced the fornia in 1779, but not much more. The only The description of the presidio gives the period in Cal's history. dangers of uncertain or contrary winds, rough mention our own Hubert Howe Bancroft number of settlers there in the summer of 1779: Charles Faulhaberseas , storms, injuries, and illness, particularly made of Martinez and this voyage in his His­ one lieutenant (also commandant), one

[4] [5] sergeant, three corporals, fourteen soldiers, logs: "At the same time, gathering together the they had harvested wheat and barley from the seventeen women, twenty-five boys, and sev­ ballast and stowing the water barrels continued mission gardens, though the corn had not been \fX enteen girls. The domestic animals were forty in order to leave space for the timber that the tfus, i.mm. C\ " weph picked as yet. He described the river as flowing tamed horses, fifteen mares, 124 head of cattle, governor insists that I take to San Diego. I can­ well during winter and spring but having only eleven sows, and fifty-six mules. There were not do it without having the ship well bal­ a few small pools left by summer. It provided eighteen wooden houses, a church, and aware- anced" (f. 53V). Again, while in Monterey, he only enough water for domestic use and the house. The presidio had two four-pounder wrote descriptions of the presidio and the mis­ livestock during summer and fall, but not for cannons. sions. irrigation. The Santiago sailed out of San The mission had two priests and a garrison The captain's depiction of the presidio of Diego Bay on October 6, arriving at San Bias of one corporal and five soldiers, with six sea­ Monterey is less detailed than that of San on the 25th. Between San Diego and San Bias, men as servants and one hundred new Chris­ Francisco. It was built in a large square with the captain again described the landmarks and tian Indians. There were six wooden houses four bastions and had two cannons. The gov­ gave useful sailing advice. The entire voyage "beautifully arranged, especially the house of ernor's house was still under construction. He had taken five and one-half months. the reverend fathers" (f. 43V-44). He listed the detailed the thickness and height of the walls 70jLeu>y tittter, jftl&r ftfcCAf Sje^daxfy ^Him^^m tm>tlIn additio n to delivering clothing and food, number of mares, tamed horses, oxen, cows, and gave a count of the cattle, goats, sheep, '7773- the Santiago also carried official correspon­ sheep, sows, goats, and mules. Crops included cows, and mules, but not of the troops or dence to each presidio. At each stop there was cabbage, lettuce, mint, parsley, onions, radish­ Christianized Indians. Martinez did not have some rotation of personnel as sick seamen were es, turnips, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, hazel­ the opportunity to visit the three closest mis­ left ashore to recover and serve in the missions nuts, strawberries, pears, cherries, apples, or­ sions (Carmel, San Antonio de Padua, and San 1 while others, presumably left behind from pre­ anges, and grapes. He apparently did not go to Luis Obispo), but learned that they had had vious voyages because of illness, were returned Mission Santa Clara, but he did say that there good harvests of wheat, beans, fodder, peas, to San Bias. This was evidently a common had been a flood the past winter, which had and corn. He was apparently too busy with the practice. The only two illnesses specifically cit­ obliged the fathers to move the mission. pine logs to take note of much else, although ed on the 1779 voyage were jaundice and malar­ While Martinez was preparing to leave San he did record his advice on the best time for en­ ia. Scurvy was mentioned only at Monterey Francisco, the ebb tides were so strong that the tering and leaving Monterey Bay. where Governor Neve asked the captain for a frigate pulled loose from her moorings, and "... After lading, the Santiago was windbound jar of pitahaya juice syrup, because some of his we ran over the point that is the lowest part of in Monterey B ay for over a week. Martinez was First page of the Martinez diary. troop had the disease. The diary makes fre­ the cliff of San Carlos [Lime Point in Marin distraught at the delay and wrote in his diary, quent references to injuries. County], which we hit three times but without "The concern that attends me is not thinkable, with him on the 1774 voyage. Father Amurrio The diary of a supply voyage can provide damage" (f. 45V). The next day the force of the considering the necessities and scarcities I would return to San Bias aboard the Santiago valuable information beyond mere nautical current twisted the rudder. There was no contemplate in the presidio of San Diego, but when it left San Diego on the present voyage. and meteorological details if the author was blacksmith or forge at the San Francisco pre­ without my being the means of aiding the in­ Martinez did not describe the port of San observant and interested in more than his sidio to repair it, so they used the cooking stove habitants" (f. 58V). Diego because he said it was already well compass and cargo. The descriptions given by on the ship to make temporary repairs. While The ship finally sailed at noon on August 28, known, but did mention the troops, buildings, Martinez provide more information about life the captain and the boatswain were recovering and the voyage to San Diego was very quick: and domestic animals. The presidio had some and conditions than a dozen official letters or the lost anchors and cables, the second pilot thirteen days. Again Martinez described the buildings of adobe with flat roofs. Two were reports. One could wish that he were as precise was fighting to keep the frigate from capsizing. coastal landmarks and recorded sailing direc­ whitewashed in the interior. The garrison of in naming his crew, the missionaries with Once out of San Francisco Bay, Martinez tions for future pilots. Arriving in San Diego fifty-one soldiers, with one lieutenant, one whom he conversed, the names of personnel at took only four days to sail to Monterey, arriv­ on September 9, he was welcomed by the com­ sergeant, and two corporals, also defended the presidios (other than the commandants), ing there on July 28. While sailing, Martinez mandant of the presidio, Lieutenant Jose Missions San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, and even perhaps the settlers as he was in made observations about the landmarks and Francisco de Ortega, who had served on the and San Gabriel. There were two four- telling us how many cows, pigs, and goats each the best sailing route between the two bays. expedition led by Father Serra and Captains pounder cannons. There were only eighteen- mission had. Nevertheless, we now have much The stay there was much longer than the cap­ Fernando de Rivera y Moncada and Gaspar de mules, of which seven were too old to work. more information about that 1779 supply voy­ tain would have liked because the governor, Portola, which had resulted in the founding of There were also cows and horses. Martinez de­ age than Mr. Bancroft had. Felipe de Neve, had had seventy-three pine San Diego. Unloading there was even more scribed Mission San Diego as being "in a for­ The captain's style of writing and spelling trees cut, averaging over twenty feet long and difficult than in Monterey because the mule tified square and free of invasions by heathens" make translating the diary somewhat of a chal­ over four feet in diameter, which he expected string was old, worn out, and insufficient in (f. 68v). The pine trees, carried from Monterey, lenge, but his handwriting was very good, es­ the Santiago to deliver to the presidio at San numbers. Martinez had to make arrangements may have been for expansion of the presidio or pecially considering that the ship was always Diego. The unloading of clothing and food to borrow mules from Fathers Antonio Cruza- to replace the mission buildings that had been rocking to and fro and at times in San Francis­ was interspersed with the loading of logs, da and Miguel Sanchez at Mission San burned in a revolt late in 1775. In the summer of co, at the ebb tides, "shivering from stem to which were tied together into rafts and pulled Gabriel and Fathers Pablo Mugartegui and 1779 there were 730 Christian Indians at the stern." When published, this diary will give re­ to the ship by a launch. Apparently Martinez Gregorio Amurrio at Mission San Juan Capis- mission. The mission had the usual assortment searchers many useful details of the missions had already started taking on a fresh supply of trano. The last two missionaries were well of livestock. and presidios of California in 1779. Attempting water and ballast when he learned about the known to the captain because they had sailed Martinez wrote that this was the first year to piece together Martinez's career during this

[6] [7] period is even more of a challenge because the career, said in conversation with another mar­ Rhoda H. Goldman MAGMA Copper Company Jean Stone official correspondence is largely silent. Of itime historian, "jEra un gran marinero!" ("He Richard & Rhoda Goldman Estate of John McCone John E. Swett him, the late Spanish naval captain and histo­ was a great mariner!"). Fund Joan Merrill Wesley B. Tanner in memory of rian, don Roberto Barreiro-Meiro, who wrote Vivian C. Fisher one of the brief sketches of Martinez's life and Mr. CifMrs. Vernon L. Goodin Jeanne T Miller Roger Levenson Graham Foundation Ed & Harriet Nathan Marie Tilson Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund National Association of Social Hatherly B.Todd Mr. CifMrs. Peter E. Haas Workers, California Chapter Helen R. Tremble Robert D. Haas Newgita Phi Delta Sorority King 6c Mary Ann Tuck The Bancroft Qbrary Mrs. Walter J. Haas Friends of the Novato Regional Phillip G.Twitchell Robert M. 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Todd Barbara Andrews Ernest Gallo Foundation Jewish Community Mr. CifMrs. Rudolph Peterson King Cif Mary Ann Tuck Chemical - The Private Bank The Wallace Alexander Endowment Fund Richard T Pettijohn UC Berkeley Class of 1928 With our Grateful Thanks Chemstar Lime Company Gerbode Foundation Jewish Community Foundation Phelps Dodge Foundation UC Berkeley College of Mr. CifMrs. Michael N. Mary Ann Johnson Thomas & Elizabeth Pigford Engineering [10] ["J Desiderata Bancroft is seeking to build up its holdings of the works of Edward Abbey. If any Bancroftiana readers have copies of the following Abbey titles to present to the Library, we would love to hear from you. Please call Bonnie Bearden at (510) 642-8171.

Abbey, Edward, 1927- . Black sun; a novel. New York: Simon and Schuster [1971]. . The brave cowboy: an old tale in a new time, introduction by Neal Lambert. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1977] C1956. (Series title: A Zia book). . Confessions of a barbarian I Edward Abbey. Red Knife Valley /Jack Curtis. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1986. (Capra back-to-back series; v. 7). . Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness I by Edward Abbey; drawings by Edward Abbey; photos, by Gibbs Smith. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1981. . Down the river; with drawings by the author. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, C1982. . Down the river; with drawings by the author. New York: Plume, [1991]. . Fire on the mountain I Edward Abbey; introd. by Gerald Haslam. Albuquerque: Uni­ versity of New Mexico Press, 1978, C1962. (Series title: A Zia book). . Thefool's progress, an honest novel. 1st ed. New York: Holt, C1988. . Good news. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, C1980. . Hay duke lives! A novel. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, C1990. Jonathan Troy. New York, Dodd, Mead [1954]. . The monkey wrenchgang.ist ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975]. . The monkey wrench gang I Edward Abbey; illustrations by R. Crumb. 10th anniversary ed. Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. . One life at a time, please. 1st ed. New York: Holt, C1988. . Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader I edited and illustrated by the author. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, C1984. . A voice crying in the wilderness: notes from a secretjournal= Vox clamantis in deserto I Edward Abbey; illustrations by Andrew Rush. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Blaustein, John, 1947- . The hidden canyon: a river journey I John Blaustein; a journal, Edward Abbey; introduction, Martin Litton. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Gaede, Marc. Images from the Great West I photographs by Marc Gaede; essay and quotations by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.; tribute by Edward Abbey; foreword by Charles Bowden; edited by Marnie Walker Gaede. 1st ed. La Canada, Calif.fChaco Press, C1990.

THE COUNCIL OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY I996-1997 Cindy Arnot Barber, Chairperson

William P. Barlow Rita Fink Martin Huff George Sears Peggy Cahill Ann Flinn Lawrence Kramer Julia Sommer Kimo Campbell Victoria Fong Allan Littman Katherine Wallace Dorian Chong Roger Hahn Robert Livermore Thomas B. Worth Gifford Combs Peter E. Hanff William Petrocelli Charles B. Faulhaber, Carol Hart Field E. Dixon Heise Bernard Rosenthal Secretary