PUBLISHED OCCASIONALLY BY THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720

No. 6l May 197s

Dr. and Mrs. David Prescott Barrows, with their children, Anna, Ella, Tom, and Betty, at Manila, ig And it is the story of "along the way" that '111 Along the Way comprises this substantial transcript, a gift from her children in honor of Mrs. Hagar's You Have Fun!" seventy-fifth birthday. In her perceptive introduction to Ella Bar­ From a childhood spent for the most part rows Hagar's Continuing Memoirs: Family, in the Philippines where her father, David Community, University, Marion Sproul Prescott Barrows, served as General Super­ Goodin notes that the last sentence of this intendent of Education, Ella Barrows came interview, recently completed by Bancroft's to Berkeley in 1910, attended McKinley Regional Oral History Office, ends with the School and Berkeley High School, and en­ phrase: "all along the way you have fun!" tered the University with its Class of 1919. [1] Life in the small college town in those halcy­ Annual Meeting: June 1st Bancroft's Contemporary on days before the first World War is vividly recalled, and contrasted with the changes The twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of Poetry Collection brought about by the war and by her father's The Friends of The Bancroft Library will be appointment to the presidency of the Uni­ held in Wheeler Auditorium on Sunday IN THE SUMMER OF 1965 the University of versity in December, 1919. From her job as afternoon, June 1st, at 2:30 p.m. N. Scott California's Extension Division sponsored assistant to the personnel director of the Momaday, Professor of English at Stanford the Berkeley Poetry Conference, a two-week Weinstock-Lubin Company in Sacramento, University and author of the Pulitzer Prize- seminar featuring regularly-scheduled lec­ Ella Barrows was called home to assist her winning novel, House Made of Dawn, and tures and readings by well-known poets, in­ mother in the running of the President's of The Way to Rainy Mountain, will be the cluding Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert House, and it was here, in 1922, that she met speaker; his talk is entitled "The Native Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, her future husband, Gerald Hagar, on a blind Californian: Centennial Views of the Ameri­ Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew date. can Indian." Following the meeting there Welch, and John Wieners. This Conference, Of her forty-year marriage, largely spent will be a reception in the Library's Gallery, a tape recording of which is in The Bancroft in the handsome home built for them on marking the opening of an exhibition relat­ Library, was significant in that it provided Stonewall Road by the young architect, Wil­ ing to the history of North American In­ an appropriate forum for a gathering of con­ liam W Wurster, Mrs. Hagar relates much dians, particularly those of California. temporary poets who had already acquired of her husband's activities and the growing- Professor Momaday will also contribute recognition; the lectures of Jack Spicer, who up of her three children. She modestly sees the preface to the annual Keepsake, a re­ died not long afterward, drew much atten­ herself as wife and mother, but the reader printing of two essays by the American tion because he discussed the poet in politics. gains the sense of a vital woman deeply in­ anthropologist, Stephen Powers: Californian The Conference also served to render local volved in community affairs, most notably Indian Characteristics and Centennial Mis­ tribute to the many poets representing the in the campus YWCA, on whose board she sion to the Indians of Western Nevada and San Francisco Bay area poetry movement, and served for forty-eight years. After Mr. Ha­ California. The volume will also include a stimulated keener interest in the growth of gar's appointment as a Regent in 1951, Ella review of Powers' observations by Robert E the University Library's ongoing poetry col­ Barrows Hagar was again drawn into the Heizer, Professor of Anthropology at Berke­ lection which had been begun in 1964 by University's administrative circle, at a time ley, and will be mailed to the Friends within Allan Covici, a member of the Library's staff. of intense problems related to the Loyalty the next few weeks. "Novae Alhionis Rex" In response to the expressed concern of Oath controversy. But there were also happy mingo, and Cartagena form the upper border Professors Josephine Miles and Thomas times, often associated with the many promi­ Hondius Map of the map, while the lower border includes Parkinson of the Department of English, nent visitors who stopped at the Berkeley "Olinda in Phurnambuco," Cusco, Potosi, University Librarian Donald Coney decided campus, including Prince Philip, next to of the Americas "I[sla], La Mocha in Chili," "R. Ianeiro," to make the Rare Books Department (now whom Mrs. Hagar was seated at luncheon, and Mexico City. The side borders contain an integral part of The Bancroft Library) an and President Kennedy, to whom she said, As a memorial to Francis P Farquhar, Mr. ten vignettes of native Americans from vari­ official repository for materials in the field of "Have fun," as he prepared to address 90,000 and Mrs. Robert Power of Nut Tree have ous locations as well as European figures. Of contemporary poetry. Since the variety of people in Memorial Stadium. presented to the Library one of the eight special interest to Californians is the vignette forms in which contemporary poetry is issued She had been told by Mrs. Chester Nim- known extant copies of the first issue of here reproduced entitled "Novae Albionis ranges from mimeographed sheets of paper itz, the wife of another Regent, "You just Todocus Hondius' America Noviter Delin- Rex," apparently depicting the greeting by bound as booklets to hard-cover volumes accept everything you're asked to do." Mrs. eata, published in Amsterdam about 1624. the Coast Miwok Indian Chief of Sir Francis which are beautifully designed, illustrated, Hagar recalls that "I haven't accepted every­ Considered by many cartographic historians Drake when the latter landed on the coast and issued in limited editions, from broad­ thing but I've done what I could." What to be the most beautiful map of the Ameri­ in 1579. side sheets to phonograph discs and tapes of she has done since her husband's death in cas designed by Dutch engravers, the map Aside from its great historical significance readings, a guarded storage area was consid­ 1965 is a great deal, including quiet behind- measures eighteen by twenty-two and one- to cartographers and Californians, the map ered to be imperative. Too, much of the new the-scenes work on the Council of The half inches and is colored in tones of brown, is of interest to students of the history of poetry is distributed through non-commer­ Friends of The Bancroft Library and, as Vice yellow, green, and blue. It shows the entire printing, since it includes the names of the cial channels, and "underground" publica­ Chairman, publicly officiating at the dedica­ Western Hemisphere excepting the then- two rival Dutch map-makers, Hondius and tions are likely to disappear before they can tion ceremony for the remodeled Library in unknown parts of North America, as well Jan Jansson, the latter as publisher in this be collected through normal procedure. 1973. On that occasion President Hitch as much of the Atlantic Ocean with portions case. Hondius' map is a welcome addi­ Mr. Coney also, in 1967, appointed the prefaced his remarks by saying to Mrs. Ha­ of Europe and Africa; two insets include the tion to the Library's growing Map and Atlas prominent San Francisco poet Robert Dun­ gar: "Having you introduce me is a real North Pole and Greenland, and the South Collection, and it will be included in the can to the post of poetry consultant to the treat." And for the people who will come Pole. exhibition scheduled to open in the Gallery Library. Since that time his assistance in de­ to the Library to read Continuing Memoirs, Bird's-eye views of "Pomeiocc," "Caro­ on the afternoon of the Annual Meeting of veloping the collection has been indispens­ there is also a real treat in store. lina," St. Augustine, Havana, Santo Do- The Friends of The Bancroft Library. able; his close ties with the contemporary >] [3]

©Copyright 1975 The Friends of The Bancroft Library scene and his comprehension of new literary material in their research. Not only are they which now includes over one million photo­ primary resource for original research, espe­ directions, quickened by catholic taste, have employing the collection for literary studies, graphs as well as thousands of prints, posters, cially in the subject areas of Californiana and made him an ideal advisor. His basic scheme but they are exploring many psychological and original works of art in all media. These Western Americana. for collecting has two aspects: first, the re­ and sociological facets of contemporary visual documents are not mere adjuncts to For example, the collection includes origi­ gional, whereby poetry written in the San American life revealed in the works of these scholarship exemplified by written works, nal watercolors and drawings from all early Francisco Bay area is obtained for itself and poets. For, as Robert Duncan has said, "... but comprise in themselves an unparalleled expeditions to California for which pictorial in relation to cultural studies of this locality. words are, like men themselves, fields of life." Secondly, the collection is to keep abreast of contemporary movements regardless Recent Exhibitions of locale, paying special attention to avant- Realizing that its Gallery is often crowded garde and counter-culture poetry. At first with visitors who have come to view the spe­ Mr. Duncan intended to build a comprehen­ cial exhibitions, the Library has begun to sive collection embracing both aspects, but keep an attendance record and thinks it financial limitations have made this goal im­ might interest the Friends to know how pop­ possible, and in recent years only the best- ular the Bancroft displays have become. Dur­ known poets have been included. But Mr. ing December and in the first week of Janu­ Duncan's judgments were so good that the ary, even though the Library was closed on young poets he selected ten years ago have Saturday afternoons and for the four days proven to be of lasting concern. To cite but of the Christmas and New Year holidays, one example, in 1964 Diane Wakoski was a more than 1,400 people visited the Gallery student on the Berkeley campus, today she to view the Gifts Exhibition. is an established poet with a national repu­ tation. On January 19th, members of The Friends of The Bancroft Library, along with others During the last few years, with financial of his admirers, gathered in Wheeler Audi­ assistance provided by Regent William M. torium to hear William Everson (Brother Roth, important manuscript collections have Antoninus) read his poems, following which been obtained. In 1971 The Bancroft Library a reception was held in the Gallery to honor acquired the City Lights Archives (described the poet and to open an exhibition of his in Bancroftiana, Number 58, June 1974), work. During the following two months including records relating to both the book more than 2,100 persons came to see this shop and publishing company during the exhibition, "William Everson, Poet and years 1953 to 1970 and containing corre­ Printer." spondence from many well-known poets. Also acquired in that same year were the archival Most recently, on March 23rd, the Friends records of the Auerhahn Press of San Fran­ hosted a reception to mark the opening of cisco, constituting another very important "George Stewart, Historian, Biographer and collection of manuscript material relating to Novelist: An Exhibition in Honor of His the San Francisco Bay area poetry movement. Eightieth Birthday" which was attended by Spanning the years 1959 to 1967, this archive more than 300 guests, some coming from as includes correspondence with, among others, far away as Reno and Pasadena to congratu­ William Burroughs, Robert Duncan, Allen late the distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, and Michael Mc- English. During the first ten days after the Clure. Other collections which the Library opening another 553 people had visited the has acquired include the records of the Un- Gallery. tide Press of Waldport, Oregon, and manu­ scripts of William Everson, Thorn Gunn, Pictorial Collections Michael McClure, Josephine Miles, Daniel The importance of a Library such as the Moore, and those of Mr. Duncan himself. Bancroft depends not only on written and Although it is by no means as comprehen­ transcribed texts but also on pictorial repre­ sive as it might be, the contemporary poetry sentations of people, their social environment collection is of inestimable value, for it has and the natural scene. Over the past several "Unidentified" San Francisco street, c. igoi. Photograph by Arnold Genthe. Through internal evidence attracted an ever-increasing number of grad­ decades the Library has amassed a large and the location of this view has been identified by the Library, but before including this information, in the uate students into the Library to use this growing collection of pictorial materials next issue of Bancroftiana, we thought that the Friends might like to try their hands at detection. 4] [5] ; material is known to exist. Outstanding his­ Rodolph Collection of Oakland in the 1880's. of publications and activities of the Friends. eral areas of the Library, including the Mark torically are some of the earliest surviving Illustrated here is one of our most recent We need only point out that in 1971 the Twain Papers, Regional Oral History Office, representations of any scene in California— acquisitions — an original Arnold Genthe fifteen dollar membership paid for 250 first- Manuscripts Division, Map Room, and Uni­ four drawings by Spanish artists of the Mala- photograph, one of fourteen which were pur­ class postage stamps, whereas today this sum versity Archives, where they might sense spina Expedition to Alta California in 1791. chased, once again, with the assistance of will purchase only 150 such stamps. The something of the day-to-day activities of A Choris watercolor of 1816, "Dance of the the Friends. It is hoped that this small group Council is grateful to those who have re­ these units. Inhabitants of California," is the first depic­ will form the core of a growing archive of newed their memberships for 1975 and tion of the Mission of San Francisco; it shows original materials documenting Genthe's ca­ pleased that they feel rewarded by the spe­ Borax: an Indian ceremonial dance and a large audi­ reer and the turn-of-the-century years dur­ cial Keepsake of a handsome marble and ence assembled in front of the then flourish­ ing which he was active in recording the look enamel paperweight. At the same time the California to Europe ing Mission. of the San Francisco Bay area and portraits Council realizes the predicament of many of In addition to its rich documentation of of its outstanding residents. our "older" Friends who are now living in In the beginning there were eight mules Gold Rush scenes, the Bancroft owns the The beginnings of the pictorial collections retirement but with whom we do not want to a team, then the teams increased to twelve, first drawing of Yosemite Valley, "The Yo- actually date to the collecting and publishing to lose touch. We sincerely want to hear and twice as much borax was carried in the Hamite" by Thomas Ayres (1855), and rare activities of the Library's founder, Hubert from all our members in the hope that they same wagon. So, the teams increased to six­ Currier & Ives lithographs of Western Ameri­ Howe Bancroft, who began assembling ma­ ts reatest will continue to express support for Bancroft teen, and finally to twenty (actually, eight­ cana. Also represented are significant works terials for research in 1859, but * g and be entitled to receive the paperweight een mules and two horses), hauling two by early California lithographers, such as acquisitions have been made in the last fif­ in addition to the 1975 Keepsake. wagons, each, with its load, weighing 31,800 Britton & Rey, the Nahl Brothers, George teen years and very recently we have also pounds, and a water tank, carrying 1,200 Baker, and Kuchel & Dresel. The most im­ collected pictures unrelated to the American Archivists Meet gallons — a total weight of approximately portant single acquisition of pictures was West but pertinent to our Rare Books Collec­ thirty-seven tons — sixteen to eighteen miles made in 1964 when the Library, with the tion and the History of Science and Tech­ in Heller Reading Room a day for up to ten days over the trails of generous assistance of The Regents of the nology Project. To provide improved con­ Death Valley. No wonder then that they University together with The Friends of The trol over and utilization of Bancroft's picto­ Director Emeritus George P Hammond and the men who drove them have taken on Bancroft Library, purchased the Robert B. rial resources, Dr. John Barr Tompkins, long welcomed sixty members of the Society of a sense of legend in post-Gold Rush Cali­ Honeyman Collection of Pictorial Western Head of Public Services for the Library, was California Archivists at their Fourth Annual fornia history. Americana, a choice collection numbering made Curator of Pictorial Collections in Meeting, held in the Library's Heller Read­ Also legendary were the fortunes made by almost two thousand items, including oils, 1971. Following his retirement last year, Mr. ing Room on Saturday, April 5th. Organized William T Coleman and Francis M. "Borax" watcrcolors, drawings, lithographs, engrav­ Lawrence Dinnean, a former member of the in 1971 by a half-dozen archivists and cu­ Smith from the borax beds of California and ings, etchings, early photographs, pictorial staff" of the University Art Museum, was rators, including those at the Huntington Nevada. The careers of these two men were letter sheets, and a miscellany of scrapbooks, appointed to this post. In addition, two Library, California State Archives, Stanford curiously parallel insofar as each made a for­ sheet music, advertising cards and other ma­ members of the Public Services staff: with University, California Historical Society, tune from borax and each lost it in real estate terials issued by pioneer business firms. specialized knowledge of photographs and of UCLA, and The Bancroft Library, the So­ schemes. When Coleman's San Francisco- In collecting photographs and other origi­ portraits, Mrs. Suzanne H. Gallup and Mr. ciety now numbers more than 170 members based empire collapsed, Smith gathered the nal works of art, the Library's primary ob­ William Roberts, contribute to general col­ and is presently engaged in preparing a Coleman borax enterprises into his own jective has been to document the people, lection management. statewide inventory of holdings for inclusion newly-organized company, making it, in places, events, and scenes which form the In spite of this significant level of staff in the National Union Catalog of Manu­ 1890, the largest borax operation in the substance of western American history. The commitment, State funding provides no script Collections. United States. To this new venture he gave Bancroft has been able to acquire many pic­ budget allocation for augmenting or restor­ Following Dr. Hammond's remarks, Mrs. the name Pacific Coast Borax Company. tures over the years which, however, are not ing pictorial materials, and future growth Lois Rather, who with her husband Clif From Coleman he also inherited another only invaluable sources of visual documen­ and development continue to be dependent comprises The Rather Press of Oakland, asset: William Lovering Locke. As part of tation but fine examples of the photogra­ on private support, including that of the spoke of her more than forty years of re­ its continuing interest in the Coleman and pher's art. Included are collections of work Friends. At present, new funds are being search activity in The Bancroft Library, Smith enterprises, as well as in the history by pioneer photographers such as Timothy sought for archival preservation of photo­ begun during the Directorship of Professor of mining in the western United States, The O'Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton graphic negatives, for necessary professional Herbert E. Bolton, and exhibited many of Bancroft Library recently acquired a collec­ E. Watkins, Charles L. Weed, and William conservation treatment of original works of the books which she has written and which tion of Locke's correspondence, as a gift from Henry Jackson. This material is supple­ art, and for photographic documentation of she and Mr. Rather have produced on their the estate of his daughter, Florence Locke. mented by a number of well-known special­ fragile and special items. hand press. As a special gift for each of the William Locke, a mariner born in Ver­ ized collections, including the Graves Col­ attendees, the Rathers printed a keepsake, mont in 1853, arrived in San Francisco in lection of Transportation, the McKay Col­ Membership Renewals An Amateur in the Archives, the text of 1875 and three years later he began working lection of Early Daguerreotypes, the Oliver Announcement was made in the February Mrs. Rather's talk. After luncheon, mem­ as a clerk in Coleman's office; by 1883 he Collection of Marine Photographs, the Hills issue of Bancroftiana of the increase in mem­ bers of the Bancroft's staff, many of whom had acquired private interests in borax in Collection of San Francisco Views, and the bership dues necessitated by the rising costs are also Friends, guided the visitors to sev­ San Bernardino County. With the failure [6 [7; R. C. Baker and they deal with the trans­ mission of supplies from the United States to England, negotiations for German borax, acquisition of refining facilities in the United Kingdom either through buying or renting, accounting and technical processing details, and interactions among the various promot­ ers— Smith, Baker, and Charles Pfizer, among others. Locke returned to the United States in 1905 and served as Secretary of the Pacific Coast Borax Company until his death in 1915. This correspondence is indeed rich in documenting the effect of California's borax production on the international mar­ ket and it provides further detail of the his­ tory of borax mining so picturesquely em­ bodied in the "Twenty Mule Team."

Clemens Letters Sought As most of The Friends of The Bancroft Library probably know, the Mark Twain Papers is editing the previously unpublished William hovering Locke manuscripts and correspondence of this ma­ of Coleman's company, Locke and Frank S. jor American writer, for publication by the Johnson established the Johnson-Locke Mer­ University of California Press. Recently work cantile Company which arranged contracts has begun on the first of a multi-volume for shipping goods around Cape Horn. Sub­ edition of Clemens' collected correspondence sequently, they became interested in the con­ and since it is intended to produce as com­ struction of the San Francisco and San Joa­ plete a chronology as possible the editors are quin Valley Railroad, the famous "Valley" soliciting information about any Clemens Road." At the same time, Locke apparently letters that might not have come to their entered into an association with Smith's Oak­ attention. Such knowledge will be welcomed land firm. by the Editor, Frederick Anderson, of The In 1896 Smith sought a European outlet Bancroft Library, who may be reached by because the American market in borax was telephone at 642-6480. falling. Fortunately, an English firm, Red­ wood & Sons of London, needed a source of COUNCIL OF THE FRIENDS supply and joined with Smith to form a new William P. Barlow, Jr. Warren R. Howell Chairman John R. May company, The Pacific Borax and Redwood's Kenneth K. Bechtel Joseph A. Moore, Jr. Chemical Works, Ltd., which marketed Henry Miller Bowles Warren Olney III borax world-wide. Smith became managing Mrs. John E. Cahill Atherton M. Phleger director of the American interests of the firm, E. Morris Cox Harold G. Schutt Charles de Bretteville Norman H. Strouse while Richard C. Baker assumed the same Mrs. Vernon L. Goodin Mrs. Calvin K. Townsend post in England. Liaison men were trans­ Mrs. Gerald H. Hagar Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. ferred from each country and Smith chose James D. Hart George P. Hammond, Locke to represent him in England. Mrs. Edward H. Heller Honorary The correspondence in the Locke Collec­ Preston Hotchkis tion dates from his first three years in Eng­ to J Editor, Bancroftiana: J. R. K. Kantor land, 1897 ^99' where he was attached Contributors to this issue: Lawrence Dinnean, Bruce to the firm of Mear & Green Limited of T. Hamilton, R. Philip Hoehn, Irene Moran, Arthur Kidsprove. Most of the letters are from L. Norberg, Eloyde Tovey.