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No. 104 June 1992

Samuel H. and Eveline Auerbach (center) with their children. Photo by van Bosch, Weisbaden, ca. 1900.

New Manuscript manuscripts, maps, and pictures of the Old West he had amassed over the years. The cat Acquisitions from the alog of that 1947-1948 sale, annotated by Dale L. Morgan, reveals The Bancroft Library's in Auerbach Collection terest. One of the treasures acquired was a vari Son and nephew of the founders of the Auer ant copy of Book of Mormon, printed by E. B. bach Company, one of the great mercantile Grandin, Palmyra, New York, for Joseph companies of Salt Lake City and the far West, Smith, Jr., in 1830. and grandson of Jewish immigrants who Seventy manuscript lots were included in crossed the Plains in 1853, Herbert S. Auerbach this early sale and two sales in the 1960s offered was fascinated by pioneer lore and the history five additional manuscript lots. Now, in 1992, of the American west. After his death in 1945, the remaining manuscript materials held back the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York of by the family all these years have come on the fered for sale the great collection of books, market.

[1] Bancroft Library staff avidly read through fornia, where they tried various dry goods the world, including New York, Havana, Program at The Bancroft Library has recently the advance copy of the catalog listing 282 businesses in San Francisco and several smaller Gibraltar, Acapulco, Rio de Janeiro, and San received an important collection of papers of Auerbach lots of manuscripts, photographs, gold rush towns, including Timbuctoo where Francisco. Written between 4 July 1839 and 18 laser pioneer, Nobel laureate, and University songsheets, theater programs, broadsides, Eveline was born in 1859. During her early life, December 1861 (as he was leaving for the voy Professor Charles H. Townes. A native of mining reports, rare printed items, and other the family's business ventures took them to age to China on which he died), the letters to South Carolina, Townes earned baccalaureate materials relating to California, Utah, New Portland, Boise, New York City, and finally, in his wife are concentrated during the years degrees in both modern languages and physics Mexico, and other western states; the Mor 1864,to Salt Lake City. Throughout her nar shortly before their marriage and until she and at the age of 19, then concentarted his efforts mons; Native Americans; railroads; and other rative, Eveline is most concerned with how her their children joined him in California in 1852. on the "beautifully logical structure" of western topics. Attention focused particularly family carved out a living on the frontier and Of particular note are the series of fifteen let physics. He took an MA in the subject at Duke on manuscripts directly related to the Auer how they developed friendships with members ters written on his 1849 voyage to California. University in 1936 and followed with a PIID at bach family; those concerning La Porte, Cali of all the religious communities of Salt Lake Starting in Philadelphia in April and ending California Institute of Technology on the eve fornia, the Sierra mining town where the City. Her memoir includes background on with his first letter from San Francisco in De ofWorldWarn. Auerbachs established their first store; and historical events and the Mormon Church, cember, the letters are a chronicle of life sailing Wartime found Townes, together with other California items. By acting quickly, Ban with specific anecdotes highlighting political, around the Horn. Particularly during the first many other American physicists, occupied croft was able to secure all of its choices. social, and economic interaction between half of the voyage, his letters home are almost with the development of microwave radar. As Again, there were treasures. For the Auer Mormons and gentiles (i.e. all non-Mormons, a dailyjournal. In San Francisco, Sam Brannan a member of the technical staff of the Bell Lab bach family, there were the unpublished auto including Jews). It recounts, with an eye for bought his brother a ship for $14,000. For a oratories from 1939 to 1947, Townes designed graph memoirs of both Samuel H. Auerbach detail, specific events such as the visit of the while John worked the coast, then, finding radar bombing systems and subsequently ap and his wife Eveline Brooks Auerbach. P. T. Barnum circus in 1870 and Brigham business less profitable than anticipated, he re plied the microwave technology derived from Samuel Auerbachs memoir of his life in the Young's funeral in 1877; meetings with the fa turned to the east. But in 1852 he was back in radar research to questions of spectroscopy. He West, especially in La Porte, California, and mous; humorous stories; and the incidents and San Francisco, this time working in his broth continued to investigate microwave physics af Salt Lake City, Utah, revolves around the fam environment of everyday family life. It is a er's office, writing back instructions to his fam ter his appointment to the physics faculty at ily mercantile business. Samuel Auerbach was thoroughly interesting, entertaining, and in ily on how to make the trip west. Columbia University in 1948, and also retained born in Germany in 1847. He emigrated to the formative memoir, valuable particularly for its With these are thirty letters to Mary from ties to Bell Labs as a consultant. United States in 1862 to join his older brothers, woman's perspective on the Jewish community other family members, including four letters of It was with colleagues at Columbia that Frederick and Theodore, in their dry goods of Salt Lake City. condolence on news of John's death in 1862, Townes built the first maser. In 1958 he and his business in La Porte. After spending four years Eveline and Samuel Auerbach's memoirs family photographs, and ephemeral material brother-in-law Arthur L. Schawlow laid the there, Samuel joined his brothers once more, exist both as autograph manuscripts and in relating to the Brannan family. theoretical foundation for the laser; the first this time in Salt Lake City where they had multiple drafts, some showing the editing Acquisition of these fine manuscript groups operating system of the laser type was accom opened another store. There he would spend hand of Herbert as he contemplated their pub was made possible through the Peter and plished in i960 by T. H. Maiman. The studies the next forty years helping his brother Fred lication. Accompanying them are an array of Rosell Harvey Memorial Fund. of the Laser History Project have recently ex erick transform a small tent and storefront photographs of both sides of the family. There Bonn ie Hardw ick amined the complicated history of masers and business into one of the most prosperous firms are also family letters, notably a group of early lasers and the contributions of Townes, in Salt Lake City. Samuel's narrative describes letters from Samuel to his teenage son, Her Schawlow, and many other scientific and tech his life from the time of his birth until shortly bert. Lasers All Around nical personnel at various universities and pub after he purchased control of the Auerbach Among the La Porte manuscripts collected In the thirty years since the development of the lic and private research laboratories. Company from the heirs of Frederick in 1904. by Herbert S. Auerbach and acquired from laser, its applications have come to surround While on leave from Columbia (and on the The memoir is rich in the detail of business this sale are several of particular interest. There us. Bar codes on nearly every product we buy, eve of practical development of the laser), practices on the frontier and chronicles the are reminiscences by early residents of Rabbit as well as on more and more of the books in the Townes' interest in military applications of sci problems of obtaining goods, pricing, barter Creek, as it was first called, as well as Herbert campus library system, take advantage of the ence and technology and in Department of ing, securing credit, and dealing with the en S. Auerbach's notes based on his interviews high-speed controllability of a laser beam. Defense funding for scientific research and de trenched power of local religion. This first with pioneers still living in the 1920s. The min Communications in a variety of forms, from velopment took him to Washington DC, where hand account is important not only for the pi ing history of the area is represented in mining fiber-optic telephone systems to laser printer he assumed the post of Vice President and Di oneer life it records, but also for its account of reports, an 1872 bill of sale for tools and a min output of personal computers, exploit the high rector of Research for the Institute for Defense the Salt Lake City Jewish community in the ing claim, and a handwritten contract selling, frequencies and programmable control of the Analysis. Townes would later serve on the nineteenth century and of frontier business for $1000, the right to work mine tailings for beam. Video disks apply the technology to in influential President's Scientific Advisory practices and development. two months in 1869 to a Chinese miner, Hop formation storage and entertainment; self- Committee, and would chair the Science and Eveline Auerbach's narrative is much more Seng, of La Porte. cauterizing surgery reconnects detached reti Technology Advisory Committee for the personal, recounting her family life, up A final surprise appeared in a group of Bran nas. Laser beams permit high-precision level Apollo lunar landing. through her marriage to Samuel in 1880 and nan family correspondence centering on John ing of rice fields (which in turn reduces water The year 1961 found Townes at MIT, with the birth of their first child, Herbert S. Auer Brannan, the seafaring older brother of San use) and alignment of tunnels (like the BART appointments as provost and physics profes bach, in 1882. Her parents, Julius and Fanny Francisco's Sam Brannan. Among the 103 let Tube); they facilitate monitoring of pollution sor; three years later he shared the Nobel prize Brooks, emigrated from Germany in 1853 and ters in the group are 73 written by John Bran levels and enemy spacecraft. for physics with a pair of Russian physicists. joined an overland train that summer to Cali nan to his wife Mary from various ports around The History of Science and Technology The award honored his fundamental work in Copyright 1992 by the Friends of The Bancroft Library [2] [3] quantum electronics that had led to masers and neering," eventually reached an out-of-court lasers. agreement granting Spectra-Physics a non He returned to California in 1967 to take up exclusive license under the maser patent. teaching and research at Berkeley, and current The Townes Papers, which cover the period ly holds the title of University Professor. He from the early 1960's through the late 1970 s has taken an active role in the life of the Uni and occupy some five cartons, deal with nu versity as well as in the life of science. In par merous lawsuits and license negotiations for ticular, he has exploited the technological pos both the maser and the laser. As Townes him sibilities of quantum electronics for astronom self has observed, patent litigation about the ical research, and with Berkeley colleagues dis laser has spurred the collection of important covered the first polyatomic molecules in in and revealing documentation from sources far terstellar space. and wide. These documents and depositions, The term "maser" is an acronym for Mi in Townes' words, "represent a systematic ex crowave Amlification by Stimulated Emission amination of the origins and significance of of Radiation; likewise, "laser" means Light specific inventive ideas." Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Ra The Bancroft Library looks forward to re diation. Both are devices designed to produce ceiving more of Professor Townes'papers over electromagnetic energy, indeed a unique kind the course of time, and expects these materials of radiation, from molecules. to illuminate diverse aspects of his distin The Oakland-Berkeley Fire, October 20,1991. Auxiliary fire companies from northern California wail It has long been known that atoms and guished career and scientific accomplish called into action (photograph by HaroldAdler). molecules could be viewed as vibrating bodies, ments. Staff of both the American Institute of which, suitably energized, would emit electro Physics and the Laser History Project have magnetic energy at high frequency. But where, surveyed Professor Townes' papers and have the original photographers. We wish to ac ly the reverse of printing from raised letters. in the case of the ordinary light bulb, the energy urged their preservation at Bancroft. We are knowledge the generous photographers as well The etched or engraved lines below the level of is emitted at random, at many frequencies and happy to oblige, and to make the papers avail as the John Barr Tompkins Memorial Fund the plate are filledwit h ink and the surface is in all directions, the maser and laser provide en able to scholars investigating the complex his which helped defray expenses for incidental wiped clean. The plate is then placed on the ergy of essentially a single frequency. Not only tory of science and science-based technology processing and archival storage. bed of the press with the paper over it and spe are emissions all of the same color, but also each in the late twentieth century. Robin E. Rider An anniversary exhibition of photographs cially woven blankets on top of the paper. Then wave is "in step" with every other wave. The selected from the Oakland-Berkeley Fire Col it is cranked through the press with the aid of product, in the case of the laser, is a "coherent" lection is planned for October 1992 in the a large spoked wheel on one side. The machine beam of extremely high-intensity light. In East Bay Fire Pictures Rowell and Sheldon Cases of the Main Li is essentially an iron and steel laundry wringer deed, the intensity of light in a finely focused After the initial shock of the East Bay brary along with an annotated checklist. capable of exerting 2,000 pounds of pressure laser beam can be as much as a billion times the Firestorm had passed and personal snapshots Lawrence Dinnean where the roller touches the plate. The paper is intensity of the sun; the beam is capable of de had begun to circulate, Steven Black, Acting forced down into the lines in the plate to pick livering this intense energy at a tiny spot. Head of the Acquisitions Division, and up the ink, thus producing the fine raised lines The potential of the laser for varied and Lawrence Dinnean, Curator of Pictorial Col News from the Press Room typical of etchings and engravings. profitable application has resulted in a history lections, decided to form a permanent archive Readers oiBancroftiana familiar with the small When students hear intaglio printing de punctuated by litigation. For example, the suit devoted to pictorial documentation of the fire. size of the Library's Press Room will be sur scribed, they find the whole process highly im against Spectra-Physics brought by the Re A press release was sent out in early December prised to learn that we have acquired yet an probable. Now we will be able to demonstrate search Corporation looked at "the validity of which stated that "as part of its ongoing effort other printing press. Through the generosity it for them and give them a greater apprecia the maser patent and its application to lasers." to document the history of our times, The of Karl Kasten, Professor Emeritus in the Art tion of the etcher's art: from Diirer to Rem Research Corporation, a non-profit founda Bancroft is looking for pictures that emphasize Department, we have received a small etching " brandt to Callot to Oudry to Whistler to, yes, tion that had also supported some of Ernest O. the course of the fire, the work of the fire com press manufactured in the 1890s by M. M. Kel- Kasten. For the moment, Prof. Kasten's press Lawrence's cyclotron research at Berkeley, panies, the actions of individuals, or other sub ton in New York City. Prof. Kasten has pre is compelled to wait on a landing until we can owned the maser patent issued in Townes' jects of personal interest," and we expressed the sented the press to Bancroft on behalf of the make space for it inside the Press Room. It will name. Royalties received through the Re hope that "individuals who were present will California Printmakers Society, a group he take a giant shoehorn to get it in, but we will search Corporation program for licensing in send copies of their favorite pictures to be in helped to found. prevail. ventions derived from academic research were cluded in this community album.'" Bancroft has wanted an etching press for * 5f Sf then plowed back into universities by Research Six months have now passed since the Oc many years to complete its collection of print Corporation grants for scientific research. The tober fire, and the library has been able to ac ing equipment. Kelton presses were made for From time to time we have reported on the Corporation and Spectra-Physics, the latter quire prints in a variety of formats from over the printing of embossed cards, but they have course taught in the Bancroft Press Room. To described as a manufacturer of "laser and opti fifty individuals. These images will be available long been a favorite among etchers for the our students, it is Visual Studies 185, "The cal products used in scientific research, infor for research and study at The Bancroft Library, printing of intaglio plates in sizes up to eight Hand-Produced Book in Its Historical Con mation technology, and construction engi although copyright is retained in all cases by by ten inches. The intaglio process is essential text," offered under the aegis of the College of

[4] [5: Environmental Design. Wesley B. Tanner be landscaping in the area north of Bancroft and The Bancroft Library staff and patrons will Crowley Hart (maritime history), Marion gan teaching the course in 1982, but last year he the Main Library, and east of the Moffitt Un be considerably less affected by the project Sproul Goodin, Carl and Betty Helmholz, moved his printing and design business to dergraduate Library, have been removed in than our colleagues in the Moffitt Undergrad and Adrian Kragen (University history); Sally Michigan. Berkeley's loss is Ann Arbor's gain, preparation for construction of an enormous uate Library. Staff and patrons there will be Lilienthal (Bay Area philanthropy); Sylvia but we could not offer the Press Room course underground addition to The Library. The relocated for many months while the seismic McLaughlin (conservation); and Sidney in the Fall 1991 term while we searched for new suffusion of new light is a harbinger of a ven reinforcement of the building is carried out. Roger (labor). Representing The Bancroft Li instructors. ture that will be affecting Bancroft and its Primary services for Moffitt will be moved into brary were Bancroft Library Interim Director Early this year Peter Rutledge Koch and readers for an extended time. the Main Library as will a significant number Peter Hanff; Willa Baum, Head of the Re Lester R. Ferriss were appointed to share the The construction project, designated the of its reader stations. The Library is rapidly de gional Oral History Office; John W. Rosston, teaching duties. Koch is teaching the course Doe-Moffitt Seismic Renovation, is the single veloping plans for re-location of study halls, Chairman of the Council of the Friends; this Spring, and Ferriss will take over in the largest library building project in the history of reader spaces, and services in other parts of the Council member Cindy Barber, and sixteen Fall. They will alternate teaching the course in the University of California. Formal ground campus.WeatBancroftmayexpectsoseesome ROHO interviewers. the future. breaking will take place on May 20, marking increase in the use of our collections by under Hanff told how Hubert Howe Bancroft, the Peter Koch has been printing in the Bay the beginning of a major five-year program graduate readers, but our collections are so Library's founder, initiated the Library's oral Area since his arrival from Montana in 1974. that will provide a massive underground li specialized we do not anticipate a major history program in 1859 as a part of his ambi His Black Stone Press was based in San Fran brary building for 1.5 million volumes and per change in service demands. tious attempt to document the history of west cisco until 1984 when he moved to Oakland mit the removal of the seismically unstable We are committed to maintaining our ser ern North America. Bancroft identified and changed the business name to Peter Rut- book stack from the core of the Main Library. vices as well as we can during the construction prominent westerners from many walks of life ledge Koch, Typographic Design. Peter also The project will strengthen the Doe (Main) project and welcome suggestions from our who were unlikely to write their memoirs. He teaches in the Book Arts Program at the New Library and Moffitt Undergraduate Library readers for changes that may make their and hired aides to record their recollections and the College of California and is Master Printer of buildings against earthquakes, relocate service our lives somewhat easier during the general resulting documents became a part of the li the Press in Tuscany Alley, a teaching press as and delivery points, and ultimately free up disruptions. brary. These stenographic accounts came to be sociated with San Francisco State University. sorely needed space for The Bancroft Library. Peter E. Hanff called Bancroft "dictations." Peter apprenticed with Adrian Wilson in 1978, Foot and vehicular traffic have already been af The idea of continuing Bancroft's dictations so he feels quite at home in Tuscany Alley. fected, for the entire site, including two major was revived in the 1940s by Professor George Les Ferriss has taught at Mills and at Par parking lots and University Drive, has been Regional Oral History Office R. Stewart with support from Professor James sons College of Art. He is editor, designer, fenced off, all but one of the World War 11 tem D. Hart, who arranged a series of interviews in production manager, and printer at the Lapis porary buildings have been removed, and staff Reception Honors History Paris in 1952 with Alice B. Toklas. Two years Press and has been involved in many important and patrons must findne w routes to get to and later, President Robert Gordon Sproul estab projects. Les is a 1983 graduate of the Press from Bancroft. Makers lished the Regional Oral History Office "to Room course and recalls it fondly: "That Although we all look forward to future More than 300 interviewees, friends, donors, tape record interviews with persons who have semester Mr. Tanner opened the door to the benefits, we recognize that there will be nu and advisors filled The Bancroft Library's contributed significantly to the history of Cal source of his own inspiration; the volumes he merous disruptions and annoyances during the Heller Reading Room November 3 to cele ifornia and the West." passed through our hands were brought to life process. Probably the most persistent problem brate the 1200 eyewitnesses to history who Hanff explained that oral histories increase by his commentary. I learned that the hands will be noise and vibration from construction. have been interviewed by the Regional Oral the variety and value of the Library's collec that made those books were the hands of To help mitigate that, sound barriers will be in History Office (ROHO) since 1954. Sponsored tions by providing crucial interpretation for scholars, artists, and visionaries, and that the stalled over the windows on the north side of by the Friends of The Bancroft Library, this existing papers and attracting valuable study of printing encompasses literature, his the Heller Reading Room. Special precautions first-ever event underscored the importance of archives. Kurt Herbert Adler's papers came to tory, and art; the sciences, politics, economics, will also be taken to protect the air quality oral history in building The Bancroft's out the Library as companion to the Kurt Herbert and theology." within Bancroft during construction. standing collections and acknowledged the Adler/San Francisco Opera Oral History Pro Bancroft is committed to the continuation Bancroft staff are planning a number of ser substantial contribution interviewees make to ject. The Sierra Club papers have come to of the Press Room Course. In our age of spe vice changes in the Heller Reading Room that the historical record. It also allowed the narra- " Bancroft with an ongoing collection of oral cialization, it is difficult to think of a course will make the day-to-day work of staff and pa tors a chance to admire exhibits of memorabil histories with David Brower, Norman Liver that relates to more disciplines than this one trons somewhat simpler. We have already in ia from oral histories completed or in progress, more, Richard Leonard, Will Siri, and Edgar does. We are fortunate indeed to have found troduced direct delivery of printed materials to sample vintage wines donated by fourteen Wayburn, to name a few. not one but two worthy successors to Wesley individual readers to reduce the need to call pa wineries in the California Wine Industry Oral Oral histories lend added dimensions to Tanner. Anthony S. Bliss trons to the reference desk. Additional com History Series, and to get acquainted with Bancroft's collections of photographs by Ansel puter terminals will be installed to increase ac their fellow history makers. Adams, Paul Bishop, Imogene Cunningham, cess to the GLADIS and MELVYL online catalogs. Welcoming the steady stream of guests were and Dorothea Lange. The papers of Governor The Doe-Moffitt Project We are also planning to simplify access to interviewees from some of the many worlds Edmund G. "Pat" Brown are supplemented by manuscript collections, through our retrospec documented by the oral history office. The a full memoir with Pat himself and eighty-five and Bancroft tive conversion of catalog records and new pro honorary hosts for the party included Gover interviews with persons prominent in his ad The Heller Reading Room has been strangely cedures for access to finding aids and manu nor and Mrs. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (state ministration. brighter in recent weeks. All the trees and script containers in the Heller Reading Room. government); Mark Adams (art); Constance In the tradition of Hubert Howe Bancroft,

[6; [7: erase a landscape. Now more than ever, it the Department of Rhetoric on the Berkeley seems important to listen to those who re campus. member and act in time to preserve those rec Kimberly Massingale ollections." Julie Shearer Increased Support Annual Meeting of the We are always grateful for the generous sup port of our many Friends. Your ongoing spon Friends set for June y sorship has made possible the purchases of rare This year's Annual Meeting of the Friends will and unique books, manuscripts, maps, pictures take place on Sunday, June 7 at 3 o'clock in and other significant materials that maintain Bechtel Auditorium on the Berkeley campus. The Bancroft Library as a major research in Our guest speaker is Wilcomb E. Washburn, stitution. Now we look to you for further assis Head of the American Studies Program at the tance. We have not raised our rates in over ten Smithsonian Institution. He has chosen as his years, but due to growing library costs, we must title "Montezuma's Dinner: Hubert Howe increase the levels of membership in the Bancroft and the Debate over the Nature of Friends. Beginning this Spring, renewal no the American Indian in Nineteenth Century tices will reflect this increase. The level of pa America." Following the meeting, there will be tronage at which you have contributed in past a reception in the Bancroft Gallery for the years will be marked and we hope that you will Friends to preview our new exhibit. We en continue to give at this level (or higher if you courage all Friends to join us on June 7. can). The annual meeting exhibition, ElEncuen- We sincerely hope that you will not findthi s tro: Early Sources in The Bancroft Library, wiltool great a burden and trust that you will con display manuscripts, books, and maps from the tinue to share in the pleasure that comes with Bancroft collections selected to give a broad helping to maintain the vitality of one of the Katherine Bradley, Professor Adrian Kragen, and Tom Worth, Vice Chairman of the Council of the Friends atvie Thew oBancroft'sf the "encounter November" of th e Spanish with the world's great rare book libraries. j reception for oral history interviewees, donors, and advisors. indigenous peoples of North America. The showpiece of the exhibit will be the Codex Fer nandez Leal, the Mayan historical codex (dat Dreams of a Bancroft Page the oral histories are created not to serve a par for their support of The Bancroft's oral history ing from about 1400) which formerly hung in Rrrrrrrring! Rrrrrrring! Rrrrrring! Rrrrring! ticular research project, but as primary re program. Such help, he explained, will be cru Bancroft's Administrative Offices. Concerns Mmm. I'm so sleepy. What time is it? Only sources for present and future users. Judging cial in maintaining the program as state budget over its preservation led to the removal of the seven? Don't have to be at Bancroft 'til eight. from the heavy use its oral histories, ROHO has cuts are implemented. Rosston announced the Codex from display two years ago, and there I'll just sleep for five more minutes succeeded in anticipating the needs of re endowment of an interview series on Califor are no plans to reinstall it. The upcoming ex "Young man, I sort of run things around searchers. Washington Post writer Haynes nia government and social issues by Governor hibit will undoubtedly be one of the last times here. You had better be on time to shelve those Johnson cites a "treasure trove" of oral histories and Mrs. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown. Recent that this landmark will be available for public books." The Director? What are you doing in in his book on the Ronald Reagan presidency, deferred bequests from Verne Gleason for so viewing. The balance of the exhibit will focus my dream? I didn't mean to ask you if you were Sleepwalking through History. Dorothea cial welfare and Ward Downey for mining will on 16th-century sources available in The Ban registered, really, even if it is myjob. Of course, Lange's interview, produced in 1968, is still help provide sorely needed stable funding in croft Library for the study of Spanish expan a distinguished gentleman like yourself head used by museums and galleries for quotations these areas. sion in the New World. ed straight for the reading room must be regis to accompany exhibits of her photographs. Many of those attending the November 3 This year's annual keepsake for the Friends" tered. I was just following the appropriate pro Tape excerpts are used as "voice over" in films event have since joined or increased their level will be the first full English translation of the cedures. "I appreciate the invaluable contribu on the Warren Court and the Reagan presi of membership in the Friends of The Bancroft diary of Luis Antonio Argiiello. Argiiello's di tion you have made to the library." Please, don't dency. Library, and ROHO'S Opportunity Fund has al ary documents the last exploring expedition in fire me! Reception speaker Vice Chancellor John so benefitted from their generosity. The Op California under the flag of Spain. The expe Rrrrrrrring! Rrrrrrrring! Heilbron praised ROHO which, under the lead portunity Fund allows ROHO to move quickly dition left Sonoma in October 1821, and trav Oh, that dumb snooze button ership of Willa Baum, "has become a national to interview subjects while their health and re eled north and west toward the Russian settle Phtat! Ouch! That hurt! Don't shoot rub and even an international leader in its line of call are still sound. According to Willa Baum, ments, documenting the Indians and their vil ber-bands at me you, you... you library assis work." Citing the care with which ROHO does "History is slipping away every day. Death of a lages found along the route. The manuscript tant! I am not "the lowest form of life at this li oral history, he noted that "good oral history is parent or a spouse, divorce, a series of corpo diary is held by Bancroft and has been carefully brary!" Just you wait, I'll get even! costly as well as important." rate moves - all rob us of those who remember translated by Vivian Fisher, recently retired Yawn. That welt on my leg sure does hurt. I Chairman of the Friends Council Rosston how it used to be. A disaster the scope of the head of Bancroft's Microforms Division. The can sleep for just five more minutes. Hm- commended interviewees and Library friends October 20 fire can obliterate a community - introduction will be by Prof. Arthur Quinn of mm

[8] [9] I don't want to go to work. Shunt and grunt Why can't you be one of those patrons who were caught by heavy snows and could get no reprinted numerous times and remains a major gets tedious and monotonous, but I guess it can bring in candy for the pages when they finish farther than the Sierra lake that now bears historic record of the subject. be enlightening, even fun every so often. At their research, who send a postcard from wher their name. The fourth selection is from Harry Laurenz least the pay is not so bad, and those occasional ever they went back to with a Thank You for They set up a good-sized camp there and Wells's History of Nevada County, California fascinating moments are, well, fascinating, the pages....the ones who include us in the ac James Reed traveled ahead to Sutter's Fort. published in Oakland by Thompson 8c West and it is nice to be around our friendly, efficient knowledgements in their books...even the Unfortunately, the snows continued and he in 1880. We will show a copy of the original staff. Would I get a raise for saying that out ones who say a simple 'thank you'? could not return until March 1. Over the ensu lithographic illustration of the Donner Camp, loud? I wonder if it is time to get up yet ing months, all those trapped at the lake began 1846. The drawing was based on accounts sup Rrrrring! Rrrrring! Rrrrring! Things are usually slow at eight in the morn to starve and many died. Finally the survivors plied by survivors of the Donner Party. O gimme just two more minutes. I still have ing. That's when I get to see everything in the were reduced to eating the flesh of their dead. The final item in the display will be the dust time... library: things such as The Iliad, papyrus from Three relief parties reached the stranded trav jacket from the first edition of George R. I'm rather fond of this job for, what seems to ancient Egypt or more recent pamphlets about elers by the end of March, and the last of the Stewart's Ordeal by Hunger; the Story of the me, its very timeless quality. As a page, I re the Black Panthers during the sixties. I never forty-seven survivors got out late in April 1847. Donner Party, New York, Henry Holt and trieve books that I've shelved earlier and shelve knew such things existed. Bancroft will be displaying selections from Company [1936]. Distinguished California books that I've retrieved previously. I know it It's eight o'clock! I'm late! (Again). five items in its collection. The first is a repro writer and novelist, and professor of English at may sound cliche, but with the frantic pace of Neha Paleja, Marina Czekaj, duction of a page from the famous Breen diary. Berkeley, Stewart undertook a major review of student life, it's nice to zen (zone?) out hop Gregg Drinkwater, Dan Kim, Patrick Breen kept a daily record of the Don all the sources on the Donner Party amassed at ping from tier to tier on the elevator looking for Malcolm James, Christine Gomez, ner Party's experiences from November 20, The Bancroft Library and at other research in books. You know, the paging never ends. Sisy Steve Hines, & Dan Mendoza 1846 until March 1,1847. His entries are gener stitutions to prepare his account of the ill-fated phus would have made a great page. ally quite brief, recording the weather, any un journey. Stretch. Gosh, I'm so comfortable. I don't usual events, and the efforts to cope with the So if you findyoursel f in SFO'S International want to get up The Donner Party dead and dying. The desperation of the situa Terminal this summer, scan the display for Wait! My new job! I now work in the NRLF tion and the numbing quality of the party's Bancroft's portion of the "Welcome to Cali department in Bancroft. I have to send out and Reaches SFO plight are readily indicated by the entry of fornia" exhibit. One is tempted to wonder pickup materials that are stored off-campus in From late May and through the summer, Tuesday, February 23: "Froze hard last night. whether our contribution will have an effect on our Richmond facility. What if I have to re members of the Northern California Special Today fine and thawey. Has the appearance of immigration rates. trieve forty-odd cartons from a pick-up on Fri Collections Libraries are participating in a Spring, all but the deep snow. Wind S.S.E. Shot Peter E. Hanff day afternoon? It will take nearly three hours special joint exhibition at San Francisco Inter Towser today 6cdressed his flesh. Mrs. Graves to process and discharge all that stuff. Maybe national Airport. The Airport's International came here this morning to borrow meat: dog I'll just stick to paging. Terminal has an exhibition program that or ox. They think I have meat to spare, but I Grrmble. Grrmble. I'm so hungry. It wants itmounts s displays of interest to travelers and know to the contrary they have plenty of breakfast.... Northern Californians alike. The theme of [hides]. I live principally on the same." Uncontrollable urge for ice-cream. I want this exhibition is "Coming to California," and The second selection is a copy of Virginia my fix. My turn next at the registration desk. Bancroft's contribution draws on our remark Reed's letter to her cousin, dated May 16,1847, 5f Sign in the scholars. There's time to make a run able holdings relating to the tragedy of the photographed from the original for The Ban for it! Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough in a cone Donner Party. croft Library in 1913. Virginia Reed, one of the or a dish? A pint. Mmm. Aahh. About twenty Our part of the exhibition emphasizes that survivors of the Donner Party, at age eleven million people are registering, and here comes the appeal of California was strong even before wrote to a cousin just weeks after being res a staff member from the reading room. Certain the Gold Rush of 1849. The captions explain cued. Her account is simple and direct, and al to catch me with my face buried in the pint that before the flood of immigration following though it emphasizes the hideousness of the COUNCIL OF THE FRIENDS container. No Food Allowed. My mind is the discovery of gold, the routes west were not ordeal, nevertheless concludes on a remarkably John W. Rosston, Chairman scrambled, ice cream coursing through my fully developed or known. The most tragic optimistic note, revealing the strong attraction " William H.Alsup Janet S. Hermann Betty G. Austin Lawrence W. Jordan, Jr. veins and now this! I consider myself a fairly consequence of pioneering new routes to Cal of California. ' Cynthia A. Barber Jennifer S. Larson good, maybe even above average, page. Noth ifornia was experienced by the Donner Party, a One of the most popular accounts of the William P. Barlow, Jr. Nion T. McEvoy ing stands between me and my job, except my group of eighty-seven men, women, and chil Donner Party was C. F. McGlashan's History Barbara Boucke Daphne Muse weak spot, my Achilles' heel, the bane of my Alexander L. Brainerd James E. O'Brien dren in twenty wagons that followed George of the Donner Party; a Tragedy of the Sierras,June A.Cheit Rollin K. Post existence, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice and-Jacob Donner westward from Illinois in published in Truckee by Crowley &c Mc- Jerry C. Cole Connie J. Pyle cream. 1846. Glashan [1879]. A professional journalist, Mc- John C. Craig Robert Setrakian Come on, wake up! You're going to be late Arriving at the Continental Divide in July, Glashan made the firstseriou s attempt to sur Carol H. Field Willis S. Slusser Launce E. Gamble Katharine S. Wallace again they were persuaded to try a new route south vey all the correspondence and manuscript Edwin V. Glaser Thomas B. Worth Don't yell at me! Just because you don't want of the Great Salt Lake. This led them over material relating to the Donner Party in order James C. Greene Norman H. Strouse, to observe Library rules or are upset because of difficult mountain passes and a desert so dry to prepare a well-balanced account. So grim Peter E. Hanff Honorary the waiting list doesn't mean you can yell at me. that it cost them oxen and wagons. The delay was the actual history that there was no need to Editor, Bancroftiana: Anthony S. Bliss One guy says this is what people get shot for! proved even costlier, for in November, they sensationalize. McGlashan's work has been Wesley B. Tanner, Designer

[10] ["] Desiderata Bancroftiana from time to time publishes lists of books that the Library needs. We would be par ticularly pleased to receive gifts of any of the books listed. Dealer quotations are also invited. Please telephone Bonnie Bearden, Rare Books Assistant, in the Acquisitions Division (510-642- 8171) or write her a note if you can help us.

Bukowski, Charles. The Curtains are Waving and People Walk Through the Afternoon Here and in Berlin and in New York and in Mexico. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1967. One of 125 copies. Burroughs, William S. The Naked Lunch. Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston. Berkeley, Calif: Banyan Tree Books, 1975. . Ecotopia Emerging. Berkeley: Banyan Tree Books, 1981. Kerouac, Jack. The Town & the City. NY: Grosset ccDunlap, 1950. First paper ed. . . London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. First British hdbd. ed. Is sued June 1951. Reprinted 1970. . . London: Eyre 6c Spottiswoode, 1973. . On the Road. London: Andre Deutsch, 1958. . . London: Pan Books, 1961. First Brit, paper ed. . Pic /The Subterraneans. London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. First uniform ed. . Doctor Sax /Faust Part Three. NY: Grove, 1959. Hdbd ed. , New York: Grove, 1959. Deluxe ltd. ed. 26 signed copies lettered A through Z and 4 signed copies, hors commerce, numbered 1 through 4. . Excerpts from Visions of Cody. New York: New Directions, 1959. 750 numbered copies. Lonesome Traveller. London: Andre Deutsch, 1962. Desolation Angels. London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. Satori in Paris. London: Andre Deutsch, 1967. APunforAlGelpi. Cambridge: Lowell House Printers, 1966. (6 x 9" broadside). Vanity of Duluoz, An Adventurous Education, 1935-46. London: Deutsch, 1969. . London: Quartet Books, 1973. Visions of Cody. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Paper ed. • . London: Deutsch, 1973.

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