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August 30th, has now been documented by the Library's Regional Oral History Office in a recently-completed two-volume com­ pendium of interviews with architects, land­ scape architects, contractors, clients, and writers on gardening. Born in Boston in 1902, Church grew up in California's Ojai Valley, graduated in 1922 from the University's College of Agri­ culture, wherein lay landscape gardening studies at Berkeley, and went east to Har­ vard's Graduate School of Design. There he was awarded a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship that introduced him to the Italian and Span­ ish gardens which he considered touchstones in his subsequent career. On his return from abroad he took a job for a year at Ohio State University where he met H. L. "Punk" Vaughan, who soon thereafter came out to Berkeley to revolutionize its landscape de­ sign teaching. In 1929 Church began his association with the Pasatiempo Estates in Santa Cruz County then being developed by the golfer Marion Hollins; this fostered a vital collaboration with the architect Wil­ liam W Wurster which continued for several decades. After three years at Pasatiempo, Church opened an office in San Francisco. Of those halcyon days the photographer Roger Stur- Tommy Church, 1974, by Carolyn Caddestevant , talking with Suzanne Riess, who con­ ducted all of the interviews, says: "We all worked, for too little, but everyone, Gardner ^Gardens A re for People ?? Dailey, Tommy, all the rest of us, worked to produce something that satisfied our souls Thomas D. Church was a landscape archi­ so to speak. And our clients." And the clients tect who designed beautiful private garden were everything. Speaking at a meeting in spaces for grateful clients as well as major 1971, Tommy Church said: public spaces that are enjoyed by millions Most of my activity has been with a who have never heard his name. His dis­ personal client who has a private ob­ tinguished career, ended by his death on jective. This may be contributing [1] nothing to the general well-being of ing of their plans for a trip in 1937 that professional associate Lawrence Halprin says: nada, Tijuana, Tecate, and Mexicali. As they the country as a whole, however this would culminate in an important meeting "He has impressed on the world the notion are filmeda n on-going calendar of these ma­ is what I've been asked to do and this with the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, that people's lives are enhanced by gardens terials will be prepared in Tijuana. is the way I make my living and it's notes: "Tommy... loved Europe and would and houses which are linked together as a also the way that I get my satisfaction. like to... reach some of these other things unity — as a kind of inevitable living and J. Ross Browne Collection All of his work was not for private consump­ that were happening that weren't happening aesthetic synergy." tion, for among his public projects were the here, at least in California." Against the ad­ A remarkable collection of J. Ross Browne master plans for university campuses at Stan­ vice of a friend who counseled investing sav­ papers has recently come to the Library in ford, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz, the General ings in PG&E stock, Tommy said he was 18th and 19th Century part as a gift of Mrs. Cochrane Browne of Motors Research Center in Michigan, the going to take the money and "invest it in Kensington and Mrs. Li Browne Caemmerer du Pont family's Longwood Gardens in myself." On this trip he "connected with Baja California of Tenafly, New Jersey, with additional fund­ ing provided by Mr. Clarence E. Heller Pennsylvania, and the elegant Court of people all over the world that were thinking Four hundred sixty-four reels of microfilm Honor which connects San Francisco's War in the same terms that he was." and The Friends of the Bancroft Library. now available for research in The Bancroft The more than seven hundred letters, written Memorial Opera House with the Veteran's In the 1950's, the rich central decade of Library mark the ending of a four-year proj­ Building. his work, Church undertook consultations primarily to his wife Lucy during the years ect, begun in 1973, which has copied the from 1843 t0 I^75' are mghly detailed and In the mid-1960's the Regional Oral His­ away from California, worked with Edward Archivo Historico de Baja California Sur in tory Office first contemplated a memoir with Durrell Stone and Eero Saarinen, and said, descriptive, often enhanced by illustrative La Paz. This rich archive had been relatively sketches, and provide an almost unparalleled Church. Then an active practitioner, he de­ in 1971: "In the fifties we had enough of a unknown until 1969 when it was reviewed murred; the assumption was that there would reputation, jobs coming in from all over the contemporary account of the pioneer devel­ by Dr. Miguel Leon-Portilla, Director of the opment of the west by an accurate observer be time later to "pause and reflect." In fact country, I could have had 50 or 60 drafts­ Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas of the that was not to be. He could not retire, for men; but that didn't interest me then and and participant. The papers also include many Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, of Browne's literary manuscripts, among his drive and his vital commitment to his still doesn't." He had close associations with who recognized its great research potential. clients would not let that happen. When Sunset and later House Beautiful and was them his "Journal of a Whaling Cruise," as All of the Californias prior to 1848 are repre­ well as scrapbooks and photographs and ROHO, prompted by members of the land­ encouraged by the editors of these publica­ sented in the documentation, which further scape architecture profession, approached tions to articulate his garden philosophy. In other family materials. This new collection covers Baja California to the beginning of the greatly augments Bancroft's prior holdings him again in 1976 he was then a victim of 1955 he set down his thoughts in Gardens twentieth century. the disease which would cause his death, and Are For People, and to revise that book, of Browne papers. now out of print, was the principal task of The Government of Baja California has it was apparent that his remaining energies published a limited edition Catalogo for the would go to work in progress. Thus, the in­ the last months of his life. Walter Doty, a veteran Sunset editor, recalls one revolution­ first section of the archive, La Colonia, 1744- terviews were done with many of those who 1821, a copy of which is held by the Ban­ had known him best. ary concept of this period, the "breaking out of the box:" croft. Presently the staff of the Archivo is Robert Royston, an associate of Church's working toward eventual publication of a in 1938 and 1939, says of that time: "The There was a headiness, an extreme sort catalog of the entire collection, and the Li­ friendship between the architect and the of feeling as if it were a crusade we brary now holds typescript copies of that por­ landscape architect was very strong and I were on—these guys were not plants- tion covering the period from 1822 through cannot help feeling that a great deal of the men, they were architects, in the sense 1832. Under preparation at the Centro de success of the work came because of that that their landscapes were not 'reme­ Investigaciones Historicas in Tijuana is a relationship." Clients found in Church a dial' but creative. Tommy was a 'be­ catalog of land grant documents, while one totally-developed designer who was more havioral' landscaper, to use a modern of maps is in press at La Paz. A listing of Pagoda Hill" Oakland, c.1875 than an adjunct to their architect. He fol­ term; gardens to live in... Baja Califbrnia imprints is also being pre­ J. Ross Browne was born in Dublin in 1821 lowed through every aspect of the gardens It was a revolution, and to read this com­ pared. he was designing in those early days, even pleted oral history is to reflect on the excite­ and came to the United States with his pa­ doing his own contracting. Interviewee ment generated by these new concepts then Professor W Michael Mathes of the Uni­ rents who settled in Louisville, Kentucky in Floyd Gerow, a contractor, recalls: "Every coming from California and from Harvard, versity of San Francisco has directed the 1832. He shipped as a common sailor on a time I go up and down a poorly built set of from the pressures of the Depression and the project, which was noted in Bancroftiana for whaling vessel out of New Bedford in 1842: stairs I think 'Church didn't do these.' " He theorists of the Bauhaus. The ideas that then September, 1975. He recently observed that "A Mutiny occurred at the island of Zan­ always earned the respect of the workmen, were arguably radical have now become catch "there are virtually unlimited theses, disser­ zibar, where I sold myself out of the vessel which meant that he knew how to lay bricks phrases of the trade. These two volumes pro­ tations and publications for research here, for thirty dollars and a chest of old clothes; as the mason did. vide a context for the study of Church's using heretofore untouched documentation, and spent three months very pleasantly at gardens and a guide to understanding the particularly in nineteenth-century Baja Cali­ the consular residence, in the vicinity of his While committed to a career in California, fornia history, an untapped field." In addi­ Highness the Imaum of Muscat." In 1846 Church knew that he needed to stay close history of landscape architecture, particu­ larly as it applies to our California environ­ tion, he is making arrangements for Bancroft he recorded these experiences in Etchings to developments in architecture in Europe. to film complementary records, primarily of of a Whaling Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn His widow, Elizabeth Roberts Church, speak­ ment. Of Church's contribution, his close land title registrations, in the cities of Ense- on the Island of Zanzibar. The book became [•*] [3]

©Copyright 1979 The Friends of The Bancroft Library a great success and Browne received flattering about the imperial government led to his ings consists of an album of seventy-six pen­ notices from every part of the country. Her­ recall two years later, and until his death in cil and watercolor sketches on wood-pulp man Melville, reviewing it in Literary World, 1875 he lived at his Oakland home, "Pagoda paper. Because untreated wood-pulp paper compared Browne's work to Richard Henry Hill." A contemporary article on local villas is inherently impermanent, it was crucial Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, noting wondered about its style: that the paper be washed and deacidified, that "what Mr. Dana has so admirably done Whether Chinese, Tartaric, Slavonic, gently bleached, mended, and prepared for in describing the vicissitudes of the merchant Mahometan, Grecian or Russian, we proper storage; the deacidification process sailor's life, Mr. Browne has very creditably are at a loss to say. Mr. Browne, we was designed to leave buffering salts within achieved with respect to the hearty whale­ believe, does not claim that it is any­ the paper to retard or arrest further deteriora­ man's." thing more than a few rough remini­ tion. Early in 1849 Browne sailed from New scences of his travels. The treatment of the McMurtrie draw­ York on board the Pacific on his way to ings not only greatly improved their appear­ California. When arrangements were being Library Conservation ance and prolonged their accessibility to made for the convention which drew up Cali­ scholars, but in the process of lifting some fornia's first state constitution later that A major responsibility of rare book and of the drawings from modern backing paper year, Browne was in Monterey and wrote manuscript libraries is the preservation of Mr. Lorenz uncovered certain bits of inter­ to his wife on September 21st: their holdings. In recent years there has been esting documentation written on the backs The Convention has this day made me growing recognition that traditional library of the drawings. Thus, the Library now an appropriation of ten thousand dol­ maintenance must be augmented by special knows something more about the iconogra­ lars for reporting its proceedings. It approaches that will assure the conservation phy of the sketches. will be four or five months work, but of special materials. then I shall have the pleasure of doing The National Endowment for the Arts, First Editions of the work at home. If nothing happens matching a grant made by the Eldorado Wright Morris at Princeton, New Jersey, igji to prevent me, I shall take passage in Foundation of San Francisco and a gift of Wright Morris the steamer of the 1st of November Mrs. Edward H. Heller of Atherton, under­ one of the great things Made in USA. for Panama. Look out for me about wrote a grant for 1978 to support a conserva­ In keeping with his wishes and in memory (If not ripe, let set in cool spot for iYA the middle of December. What a tion program for Bancroft's Pictorial Collec­ of her husband, H. Richard Archer, who died or 3 wicks.) Bon appetit! Cool-itch glorious Christmas we shall have! tions. The funds provided by the two agen­ last February in Williamstown, Massachu­ wd. make a great name for a Soft-trink. Following the successful completion of this cies were used to secure the services of Rich­ setts, Margot Archer has presented to The Bless yr. hearts for the support to assignment, Browne returned to New York, ard Lorenz, Chief Conservator of the San Bancroft Library his superb collection of LOVE AFFAIR. and from there went on to the Near East, Francisco Museum of Modern Art. During published works by the American novelist Ciao, all the while collecting material for his next 1978 Mr. Lorenz has spent one week each Wright Morris. Formed by Mr. Archer over Wright book. Yusef; or, the Journey of the Frangi: month working with the picture collections. a period of thirty-five years, this assemblage H. Richard Archer was born in Albuquer­ A Crusade in the East was published by His first task was to survey drawings and consists of first editions, complete with dust que on September 13th, 1911, and was on Harper and Brothers in 1853, and before the paintings on paper, primarily those in the jackets, most of the volumes bearing inscrip­ the Berkeley campus during the period 1938 end of the century was reprinted eight times. Robert B. Honeyman Collection; then in tions. These, as well as letters and postcards, to 1941, attaining both a Bachelor's degree Throughout the 1850's Browne served as a consultation with Lawrence Dinnean, Ban­ document a close friendship between two and a Certificate in Librarianship. For a short confidential agent for the U.S. Treasury De­ croft's Curator of Pictorial Collections, Mr. families, extending over four decades and period he worked in the campus' General partment, and traveled throughout the west. Lorenz determined conservation priorities across a continent. One such card, sent by Library, and later was on the staff of the His employment ended in February, i860 and established appropriate treatments for Morris on July 9th, 1972, is illustrative of William Andrews Clark Library at UCLA. and he spent several weeks in the Washoe items to be restored. Following that, Mr. the way in which he nourished this friend­ In 1954 he earned a doctorate in librarianship gathering notes for a projected magazine Lorenz began the work of restoration. ship. from the University of Chicago and three serial describing life in Virginia City. "A One of the major groups of drawings DearHR&M: years later assumed the position of Librarian Peep at Washoe" became a classic of early treated during the year is a suite of twenty- Don't waste more than a bite of that at the Chapin Library, Williams College. Nevada. five watercolors by William B. McMurtrie, Blue on a party. Check to see that it Thereafter he pursued a distinguished career Browne published many of his California depicting views along the Pacific Coast from is ripe—well marbled and easily spread in his field, eventually serving as a consultant and Nevada essays in Crusoe's Island . . . San Diego to British Columbia and com­ and it will go from plain splendid to and lecturer. He was the author of several With Sketches of Adventures in California pleted during an expedition covering the marvellous over the next four months. scholarly essays reflecting his major interests and Washoe in 1864, and during the follow­ years 1849 to 1853. These had to be removed We have an ounce or so 3 or 4 times in rare books, typographic design, and book ing years published several other works deal­ from deteriorated backing boards, treated a week. Beautiful on celery. Please collecting, especially first editions of con­ ing with his travels in Germany and in Ari­ for discoloration and stains, deacidified, DONT blend it. A mouthful of good temporary American authors. zona and Sonora. He was appointed Minister mended, and then rebacked with Japanese red sets up the palate. Excuse these Wright Morris, born in Central City, Ne­ to China in 1868, but his outspoken views tissue. Another group of McMurtrie draw- directions, but you are about to share braska on January 6th, 1910, lived with his 4] [5] father in various small Nebraska towns as Aside from essays and short stories, Morris well as Omaha, until 1924 when the family has published eighteen novels, several of moved to Chicago. Eventually they came which are to be read as sequels. Ceremony to California and Morris enrolled in Pomona in Lone Tree (i960) is a sequel to The Field College in 1930, but withdrew three years of Vision (1956), for which he received a later to travel in France, Germany, and Italy. National Book Award in 1957. Although the Upon his return to California he began his setting is Mexico City, the chief characters writing career. Although he has lived in in The Field of Vision are a family group of many parts of the United States and spent tourists, accompanied by an old friend, all several years abroad, Morris' Nebraska prai­ originally from western Nebraska, who spend ries and the people who inhabit that region an afternoon watching bullfights. Five of furnish the settings and personae for several these same characters are brought together early novels. Eventually his range of locale again in Ceremony in Lone Tree, the "cere­ and characterization moved far beyond that mony" being a celebration of the ninetieth state to Mexico, South America, and Europe. birthday of the family's patriarch, the sole Since the publication of his first work, My inhabitant of the Lone Tree Hotel. The Uncle Dudley, in 1942, Morris' literary repu­ reader becomes more knowing of these peo­ tation has steadily grown. In 1942, 1946, ple first assembled in the earlier novel and and again in 1954 he received Guggenheim seeing them in their native environment pro­ Fellowship awards; in 1957 he won a Na­ vides yet another "field of vision." tional Book Award; and he was honored by In 1963 Wright Morris joined the faculty View in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California by Alexander H. Wyant, 1865 a National Institute Grant in Literature in at San Francisco State University to teach ample, there is now a second watercolor view which he produced this painting at his new­ i960. creative writing and lecture on the novel. of Mission San Juan Capistrano by J. Fox- ly-established New York studio. Asked about his association with Archer, Now retired, he and his wife live in Mill croft (1837-1892). Taken from a different In 1864 another landscape painter, Lemuel Morris recently wrote: Valley. This welcome acquisition of his pub­ point of view, it gives further information Maynard Wiles (1826-1905), opened a studio I met Archer in Los Angeles in 1935 lished works complements the Bancroft's about the condition of the mission buildings in New York, where he produced views de­ when he was working in the Argonaut definitive collection of Morris' papers and in 1886, and it also provides a fascinating veloped from studies made on sketching Bookstore on 6th Street. Books were correspondence, begun in 1954 when the study of how a professional artist emphasized expeditions, paralleling Bierstadt's practice in our common interest and we were both author presented for deposit his drafts, type­ and subordinated particular aspects of this this regard. Thanks to Mr. Honeyman's gift, avid collectors. During the next few scripts, and other manuscripts in the Rare motif to produce interesting landscapes. the Bancroft now owns six paintings devel­ years we saw each other frequently. Books Department of the General Library. Another important work is a beautifully- oped from sketches made when Wiles visited When I moved east, we occasionally Now located in The Bancroft Library, these detailed panoramic drawing of Mission San Panama and California in 1873-1874. They corresponded. Archer became one of materials have been and continue to be aug­ Jose which can safely be attributed to H. are all signed and dated "NYC 1876" and my first readers with the publication mented from time to time by later manu­ M. T Powell on the basis of style, format, include views of the missions at San Luis of My Uncle Dudley and I believe it scripts which, since 1969, have been pur­ and personal quirks of composition. It joins Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and Carmel; was Archer who called this novel to chased with the assistance of The Friends a unique collection of twenty drawings by Mount San Bernardino from the mission the attention of Jim Hart. of The Bancroft Library and the Chancel­ Powell documenting California towns and ruins; a view in Panama; and a highly-col­ While living in Wellfleet, Massachusetts lor's Opportunity Fund. missions as they appeared in 1850 which ored view on the Chagres which suggests the during the summers of 1938 and 1939, Morris came to the Bancroft in 1954 from the li­ exoticism of Norton Bush. became interested in photography and soon Additions to the brary of T W Norris, and adds to the For all those who have looked in vain developed professional skill in this art. Sub­ works known through The Grabhorn Press among Bancroft's catalogues and lists for a sequently he produced several books which Honeyman Collection edition of The Santa Fe Trail. mention of William Hahn (1829-1887) the combined photographs and text: The In­ New to the pictorial collections is a repre­ Library is pleased to report that this gift habitants (1946) presents a visual commen­ Through the generosity of Mr. Robert B. sentative work by the important landscape includes a charming painting of a China­ tary on the American scene, mostly rural, Honeyman, Jr. of San Juan Capistrano, The painter Alexander H. Wyant (1836-1892), town alley, Sing Yuen Washing & Ironing, and The Home Place (1948), with a Ne­ Bancroft Library has recently added twelve View in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Cali­ signed by Hahn and dated 1885. The verti­ braska setting, was conceived as an illustrated items to its outstanding collection of pictorial fornia, signed and dated 1865, which depicts cal format of the picture is filled with inter­ novel. The essential subject matter in these western Americana. These works of art will a prospecting party locating mines and camp­ esting detail and will repay careful study by works is the author's response to childhood "feel at home" among the hundreds of others ing for the night. The lush coloring and the viewer; the composition is quite unusual, memories. God's Country and My People, which in 1964 came to the Library from Mr. interest in highly-detailed genre reflects featuring a strong spatial recession. Of par­ published in 1968, also contains photographs Honeyman's comprehensive private collec­ Wyant's training at the National Academy ticular interest is the suggestion of spherical of objects from the author's youth in Ne­ tion, largely through the efforts of The in Washington, D.C. as well as his studies projection, a sort of visual correction of one- braska. Friends of The Bancroft Library. For ex- at Dusseldorf which ended the very year in point perspective distortion which is clearly [6] [7] visible in the pavement at the bottom of the political picture. Francisco I. Madero, in his unsettled conditions in Yucatan and else­ photographic archive created by the San picture. revolt against the quasi-dictatorship of Diaz, where. Francisco commercial photographer, Roy The Friends and other visitors are invited enlisted the assistance of General Pascual Perhaps the most exciting group of these Flamm. During the 1950's and early 1960's to see these "new" paintings which have Orozco and Francisco ("Pancho") Villa, manuscripts covers the career of Carranza, Flamm took approximately twenty-five hun­ been placed in the Heller Reading Room, both of whom later turned against him. His whose earliest correspondence, in 1912, pro­ dred pictures of various buildings throughout the Exhibition Gallery, and in the adminis­ short reign, undermined in part by conflict vides documentation on rebel activities and the state, ranging in date of construction trative offices of the Library. with Emiliano Zapata's plans for agrarian on movement of troops in various localities, from Mission Santa Ynez to the Environ­ land reform, ended on February 22nd, 1913 as well as highlights the difficulties experi­ mental Design Building (Wurster Hall) on Microfilmed Mark Twain with his assassination, engineered by Victori- enced by individuals whose property had the Berkeley campus. There are extensive ano Huerta, whom he had recently appointed been unjustly confiscated by municipal and files of well-known early twentieth century The first grant made to the University's military commander of the armed forces. military authorities. The bulk of his cor­ architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Greene Berkeley campus under a new program estab­ Then Venustiano Carranza, a former mem­ respondence, however, centers in the years & Greene, George Herbert Wyman, and lished by the National Historical Publica­ ber of Madero's cabinet, formulated his "Plan 1914 and 1915 when Carranza, following Willis Polk, as well as more recent practi­ tions and Records Commission (NHPRC) de Guadalupe," whereby he refused to recog­ Madero's death, had assumed leadership of tioners. In all there are forty subject groups was received by the Mark Twain Papers in nize Huerta's regime and with the aid of the so-called constitutionalist government. of pictures representing in-depth treatment July. This award of over fourteen thousand Villa defeated him and created his own He had, by August, 1914, defeated the rival of major architects and individual structures. dollars has made possible the microfilming government. Soon, however, differences forces led by Huerta and soon faced battles Flamm's pictures of Maybeck's buildings of all the original manuscript materials of arose between the two new leaders, Villa against Villa in the north and Zapata in the show not only the development of his par­ Clemens in the collection, including his cor­ withdrew to Chihuahua where he continued south. to I I ticular contribution to the "Bay Area Tradi­ respondence from 1853 9 °5 holograph a life of banditry, and Carranza governed In December of that year Carranza ap­ tion" of residential architecture, but also the versions of literary works such as The Mys­ until his death by murder in 1920. pointed Eliseo Arredondo as his confidential mixture of vernacular and historic styles in terious Stranger; and notebooks covering his In order to complement the documenta­ agent in Washington, D.C. for the purpose the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in long literary career. tion of this period now held by the Bancroft, of establishing recognition of the new gov­ Berkeley and the creative interpretation of Under the direction of Frederick Ander­ much of it in the Terrazas Collection de­ ernment by the United States and thus re­ classical forms in the Palace of Fine Arts in son, Editor of the Mark Twain Papers, the scribed in the issue of Bancroftiana for April, newing diplomatic relations between the two San Francisco. The southern California work work of preparing the collection for filming 1962, funds provided by The Friends of The nations. A frequent exchange of telegrams of Greene & Greene is well documented by and of producing a finding guide for the Bancroft Library, the Chancellor's Oppor­ ensued in which Arredondo reported on the photographs of the Blacker and Gamble films has been completed by two members tunity Fund, and the Heller Charitable and status of these delicate negotiations and on homes, with their imaginative exterior shin­ of the Bancroft staff, Michael Griffith and Educational Fund have enabled the Library his contacts with the State Department. He gle style and interior "craftsman" detailing Marlene Keller. The microfilm copies will to acquire several groups of informative man­ also kept the president informed of attitudes for which these brothers were so famous. permit greater access to information in the uscripts. Included is a small file of correspon­ of the American press towards him, Villa, Wyman's Bradbury Building in downtown archive, both in the Library and through in- dence between Zapata and his fellow-revolu­ and the Mexican nation, and advised on Los Angeles is a fusion of a somewhat un­ terlibrary loans, while preserving the original tionary, Antenor Salas, in which Zapata matters relating to diplomacy and publicity. interesting Romanesque revival exterior along manuscripts from excessive use. spells out in considerable detail his implemen­ These new materials also include miscel­ with an interior fantasy of space and iron tation of the "Plan de Ayala" to redistribute laneous single items such as a diatribe against work. And Willis Polk's Hallidie Building, agrarian lands. His assistant, Manuel Pala- Revolutionary Mexico Madero and his associates penned by Jose an early example of a glass curtain structure fox, in a letter of September 13th, 1914, while Sabas de la Mora on January 8th, 1910; an designed for The Regents of the University Under the lengthy benevolent rule of Presi­ explaining Zapata's position, also states that exhortation to the Mexican people by Jose of California in San Francisco, is also hand­ dent Porfirio Diaz from 1876 to 1911, Mex­ the revolutionaries aspire to carry the Plan G. Macias on June 22nd, 1913, concerning somely photographed by Flamm. ico flourished and enjoyed a semblance of much further than Carranza projected and the agrarian problem with suggestions for There are many views of the work of more that they do not propose to support a govern­ order: new railroads were constructed, tele­ its solution by repartition of lands; and an modern architects, including Joseph Esherick graph wires criss-crossed the country, foreign ment unwilling to fight to the death for article by Miguel Diaz Lombardo outlining these reforms. and Jack Hilmer. Esherick has produced investors capitalized local industry, finances the causes of the 1910 revolution during the buildings of great variety and originality, improved and banks were established. Prog­ Jorge Vera Estafiol, a lawyer and govern­ presidency of Porfirio Diaz. All are a rich including many residences showing a revital- ress in education, however, lagged, with ment official in the Diaz and Huerta regimes, addition to the Bancroft's impressive docu­ ization of the Bay Area style, such as the much of the population remaining illiterate. in 1911 formed his own party, El Partido mentation of early twentieth century Mexi­ McLeod House in Belvedere, completed in And there was still great poverty throughout Liberal Evolucionista, in an attempt to es­ can history. 1962. He also designed academic buildings, the land. tablish a firm government and backed Fran­ one of which, the Harold Jones Child Study By 1910 many forces had been set in cisco L. de la Barra as candidate for the presi­ Roy Flamm's Photographs Center in Berkeley, is here reproduced. With motion which threatened the fragile stabil­ dency. His papers contain information on Vernon DeMars and Donald Olsen he de­ ity, and there began to emerge various prom­ the revolutionary activities, imprisonment, Materials in The Bancroft Library for the signed Wurster Hall on the Berkeley cam­ and death of Madero; they also reveal per­ inent figures whose paths would frequently study of California architecture have been pus. Jack Hilmer, whose studio residence in sonal political motivations, and portray the intersect in what was to become a complex greatly enhanced by the acquisition of the Belvedere has been called by David Gebhard [8] [9. extensive holdings of twentieth century au­ Not surprisingly there appeared in 1931 The George Bernard Shaw. In addition there are thors. The collection comes from the library Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in fifty-three autograph letters of Wilder to of Norman Unger, a New York business One Act, in the Unger copy of which the Unger, the topics of which range from the man, to whom many of the volumes have playwright remarks: author's travels to his literary views, as well been inscribed by Wilder, his long-time You're always asking me . . . which as thirty-two letters and Christmas cards to friend. of my works I like best. Well, it's in Unger from Wilder's sister, Isabel. Related Born in Madison,Wisconsin on April 17th, this book ... In it I feel I most nearly to these are seven lengthy letters, in part 1897, Wilder graduated from Berkeley High did what I set out to do. concerning Wilder, written to Unger by Alice School in 1915. He received his A.B. from Wilder later adapted this play as an opera B. Toklas. Yale in 1920, and for several years thereafter libretto, and a German language version with Norman Unger was also interested in ma­ taught French at the Lawrenceville School music by Paul Hindemith was produced at terial concerning Wilder and his work, and in New Jersey. His first novel, The Cabala, Mannheim in 1961; both libretto and piano- thus the collection contains sixteen playbills, appeared in 1926; by 1929 it had become vocal score of this work, signed by the com­ eight of them for performances of Our Town popular enough to be included in the Mod­ poser, are included. and several for other productions, including ern Library series, and the Unger copy of Thornton Wilder was widely-known The Matchmaker. The libretto for Hello, The Harold Jones Child Study Center, Atherton abroad and a variety of translations of his Dolly, the Broadway musical adaptation of Street, Berkeley, by Roy Flamm this edition bears the inscription: "My first effort—all so young—and recommended to work reflect his popularity. The playwright's The Matchmaker, is among the theatrical you as such by your now old friend." The concern for the style and quality of transla­ items. Furthermore, there are a number of "one of the most impressive pieces of archi­ collection also includes one of twenty-one tion is underscored by his remark in a copy critical works about Wilder, and many an­ tecture to be found in California," is particu­ copies of the preliminary issue of the first of Gentiane Gebser's German translation of thologies and periodicals in which his work larly well-documented in the Flamm collec­ edition of his following novel, The Bridge The Skin of Our Teeth (1944) : appeared. tion. Every aspect of this exciting structure of San Luis Rey (1927), distributed by A. This play is now being re-translated This Thornton Wilder collection is a major has been photographed, from the pouring of C. Boni to secure copyright, since the Lon­ into German. Not because this is a bad addition to Bancroft's literary materials, offer­ the foundation through interior finish work don trade edition of Longmans appeared translation, but because the translator ing personal insights into the playwright and to the completed, furnished residence. This several days before the New York trade edi­ —like most of even the best European novelist, and provides numerous rare items is truly a remarkable series of pictures for the tion. A copy of Grosset & Dunlap's edition translators — knows only the English for textual study. It should prove to be of study of design and construction techniques. of this same novel is annotated by Wilder: language. But more and more I write value to both scholar and enthusiast of an The Flamm collection comes at a particu­ I imagined the bridge—but now it is in the American language — there is important figure in American letters. larly appropriate time for the growing inter­ pointed out to tourists. I thought I scarcely a speech of some length in this play which does not reflect shades of est in architectural history has been reflected imagined the Pericholi's smallpox — Hutchings' & the Overland by demands made upon Bancroft's holdings. but it turns out to have been an his­ American usage. And that's what I These excellent photographs serve as a lucid toric fact. But I said that the Pacific am — awfully American. We wish to picture California and visual documentation of California's archi­ is visible from Lima—that is not true In Szollosy Klara's Hungarian version of California life: to portray its beautiful tectural history. and nothing can alter that. The Cabala (1947) the novelist's inscription scenery and curiosities; to speak of its Rockwell Kent's illustrated edition of the reads: "A closed book if ever there was one." mineral and agricultural products; to same novel, issued in 1929, has this illumi­ Wilder's work has also appeared in Arabic, tell of its wonderful resources and com­ Croatian, Danish, French, Polish, Spanish, The Complete nating inscription by the author: "But al­ mercial advantages; and to give utter­ ways with the reservation that illustrations Swedish, and Urdu, all editions in the Ban­ ance to the inner life and experience to novels bring more harm than help." In croft collection. Thornton Wilder of its people, in their aspirations, hopes, the first American edition of Heaven s My A small but significant group of manu­ disappointments and successes — the Edmund Wilson, commenting on Thornton Destination (1935) Wilder remarks: "The scripts complements the books in the Unger lights and shadows of daily life. Wilder, observed that he "occupies a unique better you come to know me the more clearh Collection. Most important of these is the With this introductory note, James Mason position, between the Great Books and Pari­ you'll see that this book comes very closely time-table Wilder used for writing each sec­ Hutchings, in 1856, launched one of Cali­ sian sophistication one way, and the enter­ towards being an autobiography." tion of The Ides of March (1948). It is fornia's earliest literary and pictorial journals, tainment industry the other way, and in our Equally well-known for his plays, Wilder's accompanied by one hundred five closely- Hutchings' California Magazine. He had culture this region, though central, is a dark first volume in this genre was The Angel written pages of text from the same work, begun his career in 1853 when as stand-in and almost uninhabited no man's land." that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays with books III and IV in early draft form, editor of the Placerville Herald he published This aptly states the significance of the Li­ (1928). In a copy of the first trade edition including sections later deleted. A four-page the witty "Miner's Ten Commandments." brary's acquisition of a virtually complete he comments to his friend: manuscript (apparently never published) of Subscriptions to the Herald soared, and Hut­ collection of first and other important edi­ This book includes some of the earli­ Wilder's radio broadcast, "This is Thornton chings issued the Commandments as a let- tions of the recently-deceased American est things I ever wrote. Some day soon Wilder," on February 1st, 1950, has been tersheet, selling more than ninety-seven writer, together with related book and manu­ I hope to write a new batch of "Three heavily corrected by the author. A seven- thousand copies. His profits from the sales script material, which augments its already Minute" plays — and a new preface. page holograph contains a draft essay on of this and other lettersheets were in turn [10 [11] :,l^i^^i;!!!l!!ii;'i:'ii|!,;ii^i:|i:^

Chinese Gambling House by C. C. Nahl used for the new periodical, which reached dition. The journals are both so important a circulation of eight thousand during the in the study of early California cultural life five years of its run. Hutchings featured that surviving sets, like those previously in articles on such local topics as Yosemite and the Library, are very worn. Now Bancroft "Snowshoe" Thompson, with early pictorial has copies very well cared for so that future views of the Chinese, Irish, Jews, and other exhibitions will allow visitors to view them local ethnic groups, as well as scenes of as though just off the press. mining activities and of towns. The works of artists such as C. C. Nahl and D. Van Vleck appeared throughout the volumes. In 1868, seven years after the last issue of COUNCIL OF THE FRIENDS Hutchings, Anton Roman, a San Francisco William P. Barlow, Jr., James D. Hart publisher and bookseller, brought out the Chairman Mrs. Edward H. Heller Miss Mary Kenneth E. Hill Overland Monthly, a regional literary maga­ Woods Bennett Preston Hotchkis zine that became more famous because its Henry Miller Bowles Warren R. Howell editor, Bret Harte, printed "The Luck of Mrs. Jackson Chance John R. May Roaring Camp" and his other early local A. Lindley Cotton James E. O'Brien color stories and poems in it. Other promi­ E. Morris Cox Norman Philbrick Henry K. Evers Atherton M. Phleger nent authors included Charles Warren Stod­ James M. Gerstley Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. dard, J. Ross Browne, John S. Hittell, and Mrs. Vernon L. Goodin Brayton Wilbur, Jr. Ina Coolbrith, while Henry L. Oak described Mrs. Richard George P. Hammond, the library of Hubert Howe Bancroft in its P. Hafner, Jr. Honorary pages. The Overland Monthly suspended publication in 1875. Editor, Bancroftiana: J. R. K. Kantor Through the generosity of Mrs. Elizabeth Hay Bechtel of Montecito, The Bancroft Contributors to this issue: Marie Byrne, Lawrence Dinnean, Vivian C. Fisher, Suzanne H. Gallup, Library has received complete files of both Michael Griffith, Peter E. Hanff, Marlene Keller, of these important publications, in parts and Suzanne Riess, William Roberts, Patrick J. Russell, with original wrappers in nearly pristine con­ Jr., Eloyde Tovey. One of our Friends, John Levinsohn, has generously offered us some copies of his interesting and attractive little book, Cow Hollow, Early Days of a San Francisco Neighborhood from I77^. A copy of this local history, printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy in 1976 with twelve illustrations, will be given to each person who enrolls a new member in the Friends during 1979. A copy will also be sent to any person who requests one on the grounds of having obtained a new Friend during 1978, including those who contributed a Christmas membership.