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Number 27 • November 1^61

nent historians, a good friend of the Bancroft Wagner Award to Library, and a key member of the group that revived and reorganized the California His­ Dale Morgan torical Society in 1922. The award, one of the DALE MORGAN'S ACHIEVEMENTS as a scholar important marks of recognition in the field of the American West were honored at a ban­ of American history, is made to the author quet on September 27 when the California Historical Society bestowed on him its Henry R. Wagner Memorial Award. Morgan is well known for his many books, which include The Humboldt, Highroad of the West (1943), The Great Salt Lake (1947), Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (1953), fedediah Smith and his Maps of the American West (with Carl I. Wheat, 1954), and Rand McNally's Pioneer Atlas of the American West (1956). The award recog­ nized these achievements but was specifically granted for his notable editions of The Over­ land Diary of fames A. Pritchard (1959) and California as I Saw It by William McCollum (i960), in which his lengthy commentaries, placing these works in their historical con­ texts, represent significant scholarly contri­ President Francis Farquhar of California Historical Society, Dale Morgan, and Acting Director James butions in themselves. D. Hart at Wagner Award Ceremonies Since 1954 Morgan has been a valuable member of the Bancroft Library's staff, pri­ of a major work or works published within marily concerned with the compilation of its the preceding two calendar years in the areas monumental guide to manuscript collections of history, cartography or bibliography which of the Pacific Coast and the Western United Wagner himself pursued with distinction. States. His services go far beyond this project, Dr. James D. Hart, Acting Director of the however, for in many ways he has assisted the Bancroft Library, told the audience at the Library on its program of manuscript and third annual Wagner Memorial Award dinner book collecting. Through his interest, the ac­ in San Francisco: "Dale Morgan has consid­ quisition of Mormon materials by the Ban­ erably enriched our understanding of various croft Library has been greatly increased within facets of the Western United States and of the past seven years. that entire frontier itself through his diverse Henry R. Wagner, in whose honor the kinds of research and publication which in­ award is named, was one of the West's emi­ clude basic bibliographies, scrupulously and intelligently compiled; carefully annotated Norris, Albee has caught and understood the is the first major collection on the Mexican ful life in Nevada County, California, and editions of primary documents; knowing car­ tremendous, undisciplined vitality which Revolution to become available in the United died at French Corral in 1894. tographic studies of important early maps; flows deep in the veins of San Francisco." Mr. States, and it is an important one, indeed. Miller was intelligent and articulate, and and his own firmly based historical studies Albee's most recent work, By the Sea, By the Much more detailed information will be pre­ his letters, written in the years 1849-1862, marked both by breadth of treatment and Sea, was published in i960. sented in Bancroftiana when the collection is cover one of the most important decades of depth of interpretation." Aside from the file of Hemingway corre­ opened for use. California's history. In March of 1852, writ­ spondence, there are letters from John Stein­ ing from Foster's Bar, he told his sister that beck, William Saroyan, Louis Kronenberger, he now planned to settle in California per­ George Sumner Albee Newton C. Miller's Letters and Benjamin H. Lehman, and what may manently, and reassured her: EACH GENERATION, it is agreed, writes its own You write that you had been to a lecture upon Papers well be the last letter written by the novelist Malcolm Lowry before his death in March, history, for to each generation, the people California by a clergyman who had been here and events of the past have a new and differ­ some three years. If the impression conveyed in "SOMEHOW I've never cared about going to 1957. Copies of Albee's letters written during your letter was the same as received from his California — too late. Would have been fine the years 1929-1958 enable the reader to ent significance. Take, for example, the Forty- lecture, I should say that the three years he anytime before the Iowa migration. Maybe "hear" both sides of the frequently fascinat­ niner, who deserves more thoughtful study. spent in the country were to very little purpose. I'm wrong and will have to go sometime to ing dialogues on the role of the "serious" He has been depicted as a wild, red-shirted It is a matter of fact that the restraints of society rowdy, a dedicated tosspot who spent day are not felt at all in the mines, and very slight in see." writer, and on the nature of art itself. the cities. And it is also true that there are many The letter is to George Sumner Albee. The Among Albee's literary manuscripts are after day half-immersed in icy Sierra creeks, persons, not all young and inexperienced, upon date: November 18, 1932. The correspond­ those for two novels, numerous short stories, living on whiskey and sow-belly, and even­ whom California may be said to exert a bad in­ fluence, but they are not even a respectable (in ent: Ernest Hemingway. and the scenario for the film The Next Voice tually losing his gold, if not his life, in the bagnios and deadfalls of San Francisco's point of number) minority. The great mass of A significant addition to Bancroft's grow­ You Hear (1950). the miners with whom I have come in contact ing collection of manuscripts of Western au­ Sydney-Town, the precursor of the Barbary are of good habits and upright and honorable in thors, the George Sumner Albee Papers, was Coast. "Sturdy and sinful" was the phrase their dealings —not only men, but gentlemen. presented to the Library last year by Mr. Judge Goodman used for him by such a dispassionate scholar It would be as unfair to judge of society at home as Josiah Royce, and even the Forty-niners by the character of a dozen unprincipled indi­ Albee, through the good offices of Professor WE NOTE WITH REGRET the sudden passing viduals as it would be to do the same here. Cali­ Benjamin H. Lehman. Consisting of corre­ on September 15 of a revered Friend, Louis E. themselves, in their declining years, looked fornia, as I take it, shows a person in his true spondence to and from Albee, as well as Goodman, Chief Judge of the U. S. District back upon their youth as a time of riot and character, and any one made of the stuff of themselves as inordinately raffish fellows. which men are made will be a man here as well many of Albee's own literary manuscripts, Court in San Francisco. He was a graduate of as elsewhere. the collection offers a revealing picture of the the University of California in 1913, and one Flamboyance was indeed a characteristic of aspirations and problems of an American of the great benefactors of this University, the Gold Rush; there were many who took In the following years, he became a pioneer writer during the late 1920s and 1930s. Stanford, and the University of San Fran­ advantage of their freedom to indulge in fol­ in the development of hydraulic-mining tech­ Mr. Albee was born in Wisconsin in 1905, cisco. We shall long remember and miss him. lies and excesses. Yet the successful Forty- niques, a member of the State Legislature, grew up in Southern California, and attended niner was more often sturdy than sinful. He and later, in 1878, took part in the establish­ the University of California (Class of 1927). worked hard; sometimes he made his "pile." ment of the world's first long-distance tele­ He started writing short stories when he was The Terrazas Collection He returned home with enough to buy the phone line — extending 60 miles from French twelve, and his first novel, Not in a Day, was MR. CORT MAJORS, Chairman of the Coun­ neighborhood butcher shop or to go to col­ Corral to Milton, in Sierra County. His re­ published in 1935. Since that time he has cil of the Friends, announced at the Annual lege; or he stayed in California, perhaps to ports to his family not only tell of life in the written several novels, and his short stories Meeting last April that President Kerr and become one day a United States Senator, or diggings, but also demonstrate that many of have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, the University's Regents had approved the the owner of a farm, a saloon, a bank. Among the Forty-niners were sensitive and cultured Prairie Schooner, Scribners, and Cosmopoli­purchase of the correspondence, papers and these successful ones was Newton C. Miller, men, who worked in the creeks and tunneled tan. "Fame Takes the J Car" was reprinted by library of Don Silvestre Terrazas, of Chihua­ ninety-two of whose letters to his family re­ in the hillsides by day —but who planned li­ Edward J. O'Brien in The Best Short Stories hua, Mexico. This great collection on the cently came to the Bancroft Library as a gift braries and read poetry at night. of 1933, and later in Fifty Best American Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the years of the Friends. Short Stories. following is now part of the Bancroft Library, A New Englander who served in the Mex­ The Partington Papers Although he has lived in the East since and is being processed to make it available ican War, Miller returned to his home in Hanover, New Hampshire, for about a year AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, San Fran­ 1934, much of Albee's fiction is set in Cali­ for scholarly research by the time of the next or fornia. His novel, The Boys (1957), recreates Annual Meeting in May 1962. It is too soon before he sailed, in the fall of 1849, ^ Cali- cisco was the center of a great upsurge of his own life in Los Angeles at the end of the to attempt a detailed description; but at least fornia aboard the Richmond. He only hoped creative talent in all phases of the arts. The First World War. An earlier novel, Young one can now announce that there are 42 cubic to make enough from the venture to return artists and writers —such as Jack London, Robert (1937), describes the life of a young feet of manuscripts, substantial files of news­ to his family, and "... buy a little place in Frank Norris, Ambrose Bierce, Gelett Bur­ poet in San Francisco. In reviewing this work, papers from 1902 to 1935, and several thou­ Hanover, and we will all live there together gess, George Sterling, Edwin Markham, Wil­ Archie Binns said: "Better perhaps than Frank sand books and ephemeral printed items. This once more." Instead, he spent a long and use­ liam Keith, Arnold Genthe, Joaquin Miller [*] [3] and Xavier Martinez —who made up her busy-ness of entertaining. "So you see no credible wealth of information about famous pared as a report to her family. Daily entries, growing artistic colony, found the city's in­ matter how quiet you are your kind seeks writers, artists, musicians, and actors. Addi­ detailed even to recording latitude, longitude tellectual climate and exuberance hospitable, you," she wrote after one particularly hectic tional papers of this truly remarkable family and distance, were written in a firm clear hand. stimulating and infectious. week of visitors. About one of the newcom- will soon be added to the collection; in all, Even in a storm, sitting on the deck between Close friends to many of the literati of the they will afford an intimate view of a great two large, fastened down chests, "with ink in period were the members of the Partington and creative era. one hand and pen in the other," she faith­ family. John H. E. Partington, a well-known fully kept up the diary of the long voyage she and her husband made to seek his fortune English painter, came to San Francisco in Keepsake Distribution 1890, bringing his wife and six children. With in a new land. a daughter, Gertrude, and a son, Richard, tal­ THE 1961 KEEPSAKE publication of the Daughter of a sea-faring family and niece ented artists themselves, he opened the School Friends—The Ralston-Fry Wedding Party — of the Andalusia's Master, Ann Booth en­ of Magazine and Newspaper Illustration. The was distributed during October to all mem­ joyed a somewhat favorable position to be a oldest daughter, Blanche, an accomplished bers in good standing. This year members diarist of the voyage. Knowing something of pianist, became music and drama critic on were offered a choice of either paperbound the routines and problems of shipboard life, the San Francisco Call; and the youngest or hard-cover books, the latter available at she could better adapt herself to them. Housed daughter, Phyllis, rose to operatic stardom, the publisher's binding cost of $2.50. The re­ in an upper cabin she was spared some of the singing under the name Frances Peralta. sponse to our notices of sale of the hard-cover inconveniences of life below decks. Most for­ How the Partingtons gained entree into edition was both immediate and beyond our tunate of all, she was a good sailor. Moreover, the literary circle is not known, but within expectations, with the result that every one life aboard the Andalusia seems to have been two years of their arrival in San Francisco, JbmS^' of the 200 books that we had ordered in hard singularly free from the discomforts and dis­ Ambrose Bierce was their friend, and more covers was very quickly sold. We regret that contents experienced by many Argonauts. than a casual friend. Helpful to both Gertrude we had no stock to fill requests received after Toward the end of their voyage the passen­ and Richard, who were illustrators on the San October 1. gers united in praise and tribute to Captain Francisco Examiner, and advisor to Blanche's Our thanks to Francis P Farquhar for his Willson and the "happy ship" he created de­ literary aspirations, Bierce appears engagingly delightful preface and fine editing and to the spite the rigors of the passage. warm and human in his letters to the family. Grabhorn Press for its usual beautiful print­ The five-month voyage that ended Sep­ Cynical he could be, too, as he discouraged ing. We are sure that each of our members tember 21, 1849, was often tedious but not will treasure his copy. Blanche's ideas of achieving social reforms Blanche Partington posing as ship's cook without a tense moment when, shortly after through the power of the pen. Such ends aboard Jack London's boat, the Snark. Paperbound copies of this charming diary leaving Valparaiso, the ship was dismasted in were a "prostitution of art," he wrote, and are still available to those who wish to join a storm. After this near disaster the crew furthermore, helpful writing made dull read­ ers, Sinclair Lewis, she commented, "This the Friends and, upon payment of this year's voted and the passengers volunteered to make ing. Literature, he contended, had nothing Lewis is a Yale graduate and homely as Broad­ dues, to those who let their membership lapse. repairs from the wreckage that could be sal­ to do with reform and when used as a means way in Oakland." vaged and the extra spars carried below, with­ of reform suffered accordingly. It is an inter­ Also convinced of Blanche's critical ability, out putting into Callao. In little over a week, esting comment by an author known for his especially in the field of playwrighting, was A Lady's progressing under a jury rig, the top masts journalistic social criticism. were in place, and the ship under way again Jack London. Blanche was his frequent thea­ Cape Horn Journal George and Carrie Sterling were very close ter companion, and they had long heated with only her sky sails lacking. to the family. Friendship aside, Sterling re­ discussions on Shaw's plays, London claiming THE BANCROFT LIBRARY has scarcely a dozen Mrs. Booth faithfully recorded all the ac­ garded Blanche as an able critic and often that she found Shaw irritating because truth women's diaries among all its varied collec­ tivities aboard ship: the Sunday services, the solicited her comment on his writings. The was "the most irritating thing in life." To tions. Only two of these record journeys to concerts (there were three violins, a flute, Sterlings were invariably included in family Blanche, several times, he confessed his desire California in the early 1850's and these were clarinet, guitar and tambourine, as well as a parties and outings, and after they moved to to write plays. "I'd like to write half a dozen kept on the overland trek. The Library is number of fine voices), the Fourth of July Carmel, the Partingtons were their frequent real plays, even if they were unactable and therefore fortunate to have acquired recently celebration (with its oration, salutes, and spe­ guests. Indeed, Richard Partington witnessed were never acted." The friendship with Lon­ an account of a voyage around the Horn in cial dinner for passengers and crew), the ex­ the founding of that bohemian settlement for don continued after his marriage to Char- '49 by an observant and vivid writer, Ann change of greetings with passing vessels, the he helped Sterling put up the tent on the mian Kittredge, and Blanche became her Willson Booth. portrait painting and other artistry, and the day, June 30, 1905, that marked its begin­ confidante. On April 19,1849, Mrs. Booth commenced lecture series and "gazette" organized to help ning. Carrie's gossipy letters to Blanche paint In 1954, the Bancroft Library purchased her journal on board the Andalusia, setting dispel the tedium. a vivid picture of life in Carmel —the parties, the papers of Blanche Partington, and they sail from Baltimore for San Francisco. The For almost two months, while the Andalu­ the visitors and the new arrivals — and some­ have proved a very valuable source for some 250-page quarto volume, bound in maroon sia was at anchor among some three hundred times voice her complaints about the constant of California's cultural history, with an in­ morocco with gold tooling, was specially pre­ other ships in San Francisco Bay, Ann Booth [4 [5] lived aboard as the cargo was discharged and get a vegetable-hawker's license," "You ask Charles L. Camp's lames Clyman, Frontiers­ her husband made provision for their life on Riverside, Cal. jfl^ '^ too high a price," "He assaulted me without man, Champoeg Press, i960; William H. land. Her descriptions now turn to the fast- Rnckitn, Cal. ^%^$L provocation," "He squatted on my lot," "He Goetzmann's Army Exploration in the Amer­ growing city with its tents and campfires on &•* tries to extort money from me," "He cheated ican West, Yale University Press, 1959; the hills and bustle of people on the crude, Rose burg, Or. me out of my wages," "I could not help it," Martin H. Hall's Sibley's New Mexico Cam­ muddy paths and roads. She marvels at the Rosevtlie. Cal. and "I did not intend to break it." The book paign, University of Texas Press, i960; Rob­ general orderliness of behavior and the num­ obviously affords an insight into the situation ert L. Kelley's Gold vs. Grain, The Arthur H. ber of ladies already making homes here al­ Rough & Ready. Cal. "$$*4$ of the Chinese in California at the time. Clarke Co., 1959; Oliver Knight's Following though she is shocked at the exorbitant prices, Rutherford*. Cal $MT*nf The second section, which lists the Wells, the Indian Wars, University of Oklahoma the gambling, and the filth and bad water. Fargo & Co. offices, has its own Chinese title Press, i960; W Kaye Lamb's The Letters and Using timber that had been part of the Rye Patch. Nev.' 4* ^ ** page. Literally translated it reads: Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808, Mac­ below-deck accommodation for the Andalu­ Sacramento, Cal. V "*£ ***/*** Place Names of the Gold Mountain for Back and millan, i960; Mark Schorer's Sinclair Lewis, sia's passengers, with a sail, the mizzen top­ Forth Letters. McGraw-Hill, 1961; Mellier Goodin Scott's gallant, as a roof, Mr. Booth completed the Saint George, U. T. *^4Jtv* Some of the postoffices thus described are de­ The San Francisco Bay Area, University of small cottage ashore; and Ann Booth filled Saint Helena, Cal &!% *L$L* picted in the accompanying facsimile of a California Press, 1959; Clark C. Spence's Brit­ the final pages of her journal on November 6, page. ish Investments and the American Mining 1849, so that her uncle could take it to Balti­ Saint Joseph, Or. l*f4V$^" Frontier, 1860-10,01, American Historical As­ more. Except for the great loneliness she felt Saint Louis, Cal $Mt &** sociation, 1958; Thomas W Streeter's Bibli­ for her family, particularly for her small son The Results ography of Texas, 170,5-1845, Harvard Uni­ left behind with her parents, she gives the Salem, Or, ^ THE GREATNESS of a research center such as versity Press, 1955-1960; and Carl I. Wheat's impression that she had thoroughly enjoyed i the Bancroft Library is measured not only by Mapping the Transmississippi West, The In­ her adventures and looked forward to new ex­ Ssalmas, Cal S ' the extent and rarity of its books and manu­ stitute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1960. periences in California. However, from notes script collections. It is in a large part to be Space does not permit us to include many that accompany the diary, we learn that she seen in the published works that emanate other similarly significant authors and works. returned to the East in 1850, and that Mr. the Bancroft Library to add lustre to its grow­ from it. To select Western Americana, com­ The above are cited as a sampling to show the Booth died in San Francisco in 1852, presum­ ing collection of materials relating to the Chi­ ing from but one part of our field of interest, nature of published research that has been ably without the fortune that his "reverses" nese in California. we note that in the past three years more than substantially assisted by this Library. had led him to seek in the Land of Gold. The English title page reads: fifty works have appeared whose authors have An / English-Chinese / Phrase Book / together given credit to the Bancroft Library and with the / Vocabulary of Trade, Law, etc. / members of its staff for significant contribu­ Phelan and Sullivan The Chinese in California Also, / A complete List of Wells, Fargo & Co's / Offices in California, Nevada, Etc. / Compiled tions to their research. ON JANUARY 15, 1877, there appeared the by / Wong Sam and Assistants. / San Fran­ These range from local histories to exhaus­ Pap ers following notice in the Oriental, a Chinese cisco: / Cubery & Co., Book and General Job tive bibliographies, from picture books to Printers, / 414 Market Street, below Sansome. / OF GREAT INTEREST to students of California newspaper of San Francisco: 1875. scholarly studies. Among their publishers are history —political, social, and cultural—will CHINESE-ENGLISH PHRASE BOOK FOR SALE university presses at Duke, Harvard, Okla­ be the James D. Phelan papers, the gift of (Printed by J. Hoffman, 821 Washington St., S.F.) The Chinese title page is slightly different: homa, Southern Methodist, Washington, which was announced in Number 22 of Ban­ A newly published Chinese-English phrase Chinese-English Phrase book / 1875 / First book is now on sale. Contains various types of Yale, and our own university. The publishing croftiana, December, 1959. The collection, Year of Kuang-hsii / in Ching Dynasty / Com­ trade itself is represented by Doubleday & now arranged and ready for use, superbly conversation and a list of chief California city piled by Huang, Wu-ti / [Seal] / Hoffman, names. It is very useful for the Chinese. Those Printer, Washington and Kearny [streets] Co.; Harper's; Little, Brown & Co.; Long­ documents the many facets of Phelan's ca­ who wish to have a copy, please come to the mans Green; McGraw-Hill; Simon and Schu­ reer—his role in state and national politics, Congregational Church School in Portsmouth Clearly this book of 299 pages had two ster; and closer to home by Arthur H. Clark Plaza. The price is reasonable. S. WONG his interest in the arts, his participation in printers, one responsible for the English text of Glendale, the Champoeg Press of Portland, the social life of San Francisco, his extensive Thus was announced what appears, on the in letter press, and the other, a lithographer Howell-North of Berkeley, John Howell business and financial affairs and his close basis of the research of our good friend and for the Chinese characters, for which no types Books of San Francisco, and the Talisman ties with his immediate family, particularly bibliographer, Mr. Yuk Ow, to have been the were then available. Press of Los Gatos. Then too, there are such his sister, Mary Louise, and his nephew, Noel first Chinese printing in book form in Cali­ The first section of this intriguing volume special publishers as the Huntington Library, Sullivan. fornia, and, presumably, in the United States. contains phrases in English, with their Chi­ the Book Club of California, and the Ameri­ Supplementing this rich collection, we now An excellent copy of this rare volume (only nese equivalents; it was apparently assumed can Historical Association. have the papers of Noel Sullivan, the recent the Huntington Library is recorded as hav­ that the immigrant Chinese would find these We are pleased to have had a hand in works gift of Professor Benjamin H. Lehman. Al­ ing one, and we found no bookdealers aware most useful in his daily social and business such as: Leonard J. Arrington's Great Basin though Sullivan was not active in politics like of its existence) has just been acquired by life. Thus he would learn to say, "I want to Kingdom, Harvard University Press, 1958; his uncle, he continued Phelan's tradition of [6] [7 ] hospitality to the arts, and his home became descriptive of its scenery [etc.]. Oakland, Calif., one of the notable "salons" in California from Thompson & West, 1882. KINGS the mid-1920's to his death in 1956. A cur­ Small, Kathleen Edward. History of Kings County, sory examination of the papers reveals corre­ California. Chicago, Clarke, 1926. 2 vols. spondence with such illustrious persons as Los ANGELES Gertrude Atherton, Sara Bard Field, Roland Burdette, Robert Jones. Greater Los Angeles and Hayes, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Southern California. Chicago, Lewis, 1906. (Anotherf edition, 191 o.) Kathleen Norris, Elizabeth Rethberg, Law­ McGroarty, John Steven. The County of Los Ange­ rence Tibbett and Charles Erskine Scott les. Chicago, American Historical Society, 1923. Wood. There will be more news on the col­ MERCED lection in a forthcoming issue, when arrange­ Radcliffe, Corwin. History of Merced County. Mer­ ment of the papers progresses, and has made ced, Calif., Cawston, 1940. it ready for scholarly use. MONTEREY Watkins, Rolin G. History of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties. Chicago, Clarke, County Histories Wanted 1925. 2 vols. ORANGE THE TRADITIONAL COUNTY HISTORY has fre­ Pleasants, Adalina (Brown). History of Orange quently been the butt of humorous comment County, California. Los Angeles, J. R. Finnell, and ridicule; nevertheless, it offers much in­ 1931. 3 vols. formation on early local history which is not SAN BENITO See MONTEREY otherwise readily available. To be sure, factual SAN BERNARDINO See SAN DIEGO errors occur; the biographical sketches are ad­ SAN DIEGO Black, Samuel T. San Diego County, California; a mittedly idealized and the pictures of homes, record of settlement [etc.]. Chicago, Clarke, farms, and other establishments are romanti­ 1913. 2 vols. cized to please the vanity of the subscribers. History of San Diego County [and San Bernardino Yet for the discriminating historian the county County]. San Francisco, Elliott, 1883. history remains a useful source of obscure SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco; its builders past and present. Chi­ data. cago, Clarke, 1913. 2 vols. The Bancroft Library has a good collection SAN LUIS OBISPO of these histories of California counties, in­ Ballard, Helen M. History of San Luis Obispo cluding many of the volumes that have now County. Los Angeles [?] 1939. become rare; but some titles are still lacking SAN MATEO Cloud, Roy W History of San Mateo County. Chi­ on our shelves. Therefore we are providing a cago, Clarke, 1928. 2 vols. list of our lacunae by counties and we now Stanger, Frank Merriman. History of San Mateo appeal to you as Friends to help us by finding County. San Mateo, Calif., Cawston, 1938. the needed histories of the counties in which SANTA BARBARA you reside. If you live in Orange County, Gidney, Charles Montville. History of Santa Bar­ bara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties. however, and wish to present a volume on Chicago, Lewis, 1917. 2 vols. Colusa County, you may be assured that your Phillips, Michael James. History of Santa Barbara offer will not be rejected. Please address your County. Chicago, Clarke, 1927. 2 vols. communications to Dr. James D. Hart, Act­ Storke, Yda (Addis). A Memorial and biographical ing Director. history of the counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura. Chicago, Lewis, 1891. COLUSA SANTA CRUZ See MONTEREY Green, Will Semple. Colusa County, California.SONOM A Illustration descriptive of its scenery, fineTuomey resi­, Honoria. History of Sonoma County. Chi­ dences [etc.]. With historical sketch. Oakland, cago, Clarke, 1926. 2 vols. Calif., Pacific Press, 1887. VENTURA CONTRA COSTA Ritter, Elizabeth Kreisher. History of Ventura History of Contra Costa County, California, withCounty. Los Angeles [?] H. M. Meier, 1940. biographical sketches. Los Angeles, HistoriSheridanc , Solomon Neill. History of Ventura Record Co., 1926. County. Chicago, Clarke, 1926. 2 vols. History of Contra Costa County. With illustrationsSee also SANT A BARBARA [8]