Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library BANCROFTIANA Number 131 • University of California, Berkeley • Fall 2007

Isabel Allende’s Family Stories Amuse Mark Twain Gala Crowd

ark Twain’s spirited sense of hu- work includes 16 books of fiction and Actress Rita Moreno charmed the Mmor was in the air at the Gala on memoir, including Eva Luna, House of audience as Gala Host, demonstrating April 5 as Isabel Allende accepted The the Spirits, Paula, Daughter of Fortune, why she is one of very few performers Bancroft Library’s 2007 Hubert Howe Zorro, and, most recently, Inés of My to win an Oscar—the first Hispanic ac- Bancroft award for her “imaginative re- Soul. tor to win one—an Emmy, a Tony, and creations” of California history. The au- Her works have been translated into a Grammy. dience laughed as she explained that she 27 languages and have sold more than The display cases on view through- was somewhat embarrassed to receive 11 million copies. Ms. Allende’s receipt out the evening set the tone for “Wit, the award from such a distinguished of the award highlights The Bancroft Wine & Wonder,” the theme of the library, because she comes from a family Library’s Latin Americana collection, fund-raising event held at the Bonham of book thieves. She then went on with which includes material on Mexico and and Butterfield’s auction house in San great wit to describe the family’s miscre- Central America from Pre-Columbian Francisco. Tuba and banjo music played ant behavior as the audience listened indigenous civilizations and cultures during the reception while the crowd with amused pleasure. The stories were to the present, including the Spanish viewed the exhibition organized by Lin worthy of Mark Twain. Empire before 1821, folklore, art, Mexi- Salamo with the help of her colleagues Ms. Allende is the 10th recipient can Inquisition documents, and much at the Mark Twain Papers and Project. of the H. H. Bancroft Award, follow- more. Ms. Allende has used Bancroft in Letters, manuscripts, vintage photo- ing last year’s winner, Joan Didion. Her researching her books. Continued on page 8

Mark Twain enthusiasts gathered in San Francisco at Bonhams & Butterfields auction house. Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

From the Director “The Library is inside.”

gies to each collection to determine its efforts in Phase II of the Centennial scope and content, identify preservation Campaign, also continue to work on sig- needs, and estimate the resources neces- nificant projects. The Mark Twain Project, sary to make each collection fully acces- in collaboration with UC Press and the sible to researchers. For the first time we California Digital Library, is planning to will be able to set priorities for process- launch the Mark Twain Project Online in ing these collections on the basis of their October. Eventually this will offer every- physical condition and importance for thing that Mark Twain wrote, includ- ale’s Chief Research Archivist Judith scholarship. We can also use this in- ing his letters. The online materials will YSchiff tells a lovely story about the formation to seek additional grant and include not only the scholarly editions construction of the Sterling Memo- donor funding for the processing for which the project is justly famous but rial Library at Yale during the 1920s. of high-priority collections. also facsimiles of all of the manuscripts on Once, when the library was still in the We have two separate National which those editions are based. The other planning phase, University Librar- Endowment for the Humanities grants major Mark Twain project is his Autobi- ian Andrew Keogh, fearing that the to allow us to stabilize and process our ography, much of which he sealed until magnificent new building would over- photographic collections. Much of 100 years after his death in 1910. shadow the collections, wryly proposed one grant will go for the construction “Bancroft Recovers UC Acquisitions that the following motto be carved over of cold storage units in the renovated of Ancient Papyri” (p. 7), the article from the main entrance: “This is not the Yale building in order to keep sensitive Professor Donald Mastronarde, Director Library. That is inside.” photographic materials at the correct of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, re- I was reminded of that anecdote temperature and relative humidity. The counts the recovery last summer of more because Bancroft staff have been plan- rest of that grant and the entire second papyri, including what is now the oldest ning our activities once we get back grant will allow us to make a start on piece in the collection. inside our magnificent new building in the huge project of preserving and Finally, the Regional Oral History the Fall of 2008. In fact, we will start processing the 4.6 million prints and Office is currently working on large-scale moving back in as soon as the build- negatives in the photographic archive projects for the Rosie the Riveter World ing is finished, still scheduled for May of the San Francisco Examiner, last year’s War II Home Front National Historical 2008, a process that will take us at least major acquisition. Park, the Port of Oakland, the U.S. Forest three months. Bancroft staff under the A National Historical Records and Service in California, and the evolution leadership of Chief Cataloguer Randy Publications Commission grant will of Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s first Brandt and Archivist Alison Bridger are support the processing of our Spanish HMO (see p. 12). Upcoming but con- hard at work planning the integration of Borderlands collections. These include tingent on funding are similar large-scale collections currently held in the Allston the scholarly papers of former Bancroft oral history projects on the history of Way building, in the campus’s March- director Herbert Bolton and two of his venture capital in the Bay Area, Silicon ant building on San Pablo Avenue, students, Abraham Nasatir and George Valley, and real estate development. Few and in two different locations in the Hammond, who, like his mentor, also activities over the last 50 years have had a Northern Regional Storage Facility in served as Bancroft’s director. All three greater impact on the physical landscape Richmond—a four-dimensional jigsaw of them dedicated their academic ca- of northern California or on the economy puzzle and a logistics nightmare. reers to a study of the border regions of of the state and the nation. But even as that planning is going Mexico and the southwestern portions In the meantime the members of on, we continue to concentrate on ma- of the U.S. under Spanish and Mexican the Centennial Campaign Committee, jor initiatives funded primarily through rule until 1848. Their papers contain chaired by Mac Laetsch, will continue to extramural grants and donations: much unpublished material from Span- seek endowment funding to ensure that The Andrew W. Mellon Founda- ish and Mexican archives that comple- Bancroft’s wonderful staff has the resourc- tion has provided a three-year grant ments Bancroft’s extensive holdings of es it needs to carry out the work that goes for a complete survey of our backlog primary source materials collected by on “inside the library.” of 45,000 linear feet of unprocessed or Hubert Howe Bancroft in the nine- partially processed archival collections. teenth century. —Charles B. Faulhaber A team of four archivists will apply Bancroft’s three research programs, The James D. Hart Director standard archival appraisal methodolo- the current object of our fund-raising The Bancroft Library

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Friends Gather for Sixtieth Annual Meeting

he Friends of The Bancroft Library Daphne Taylor-García re- Tmet on Saturday, May 5, 2007, at ceived the Reese Fellowship Adagia Restaurant in Berkeley for lunch Award, established by New Haven and a business meeting to discuss suc- bookseller Bill Reese to encourage cesses of the past year and plans for the research on American bibliography future. and the history of the book in the Craig Walker, Chair of the Coun- Americas. Ms. Taylor-García, a cil, reported on the Friends’ many doctoral candidate in Ethnic Stud- accomplishments during 2006-2007, ies at Cal, will study the relation- including the successful conclusion of ship between printing, colonial the Campaign to Renew The Bancroft expansion, and racial representa- Library and the successful Mark Twain tion in the 16th century, using Wit, Wine & Wonder Gala, held in San Bancroft’s superb collections. Francisco in April (see pp. 8-9). Following the business meet- Three students received the Hill- ing, Professor William B. Taylor, Shumate Book Collecting Prizes for the Muriel McKevitt Sonne Profes- Undergraduates, created to encourage sor of Latin American History, college students to build their own presented a fascinating lecture, libraries. First prize went to Sudev Jay “Trouble with Miracles in The Sheth for his collection on northern Bancroft Library: A Mexican Epi-

Indian vocal and percussion music. sode.” The Bancroft Library holds Pieces from Bancroft’s early Latin American collection intrigued Ashley Fiutko received second prize for the largest collection of original Kyle Budenz, a Bancroft student assistant, and Friend Karen her Egyptology collection. Third prize Mexican Inquisition manuscripts Steadman. went to Christopher Montes for his col- in the United States—135 dossiers istrative issues, including some of the lection on modern American military of trials, investigations, and admin- Inquisition’s most significant cases. history. Professor Taylor related the case of a young woman of prominent family in northern Mexico, gravely ill, who FRIENDS COLLECT BANCROFT KEEPSAKES prayed for a miracle to save her life; she vowed that she would become a Each year the Friends of The Bancroft Library publish a Keepsake of a unique nun if God saved her. She did recover, item in Bancroft’s collections, or a short study based on a given holding. These but her family raised questions as are rare items, handsomely printed, frequently the first published edition of a to whether her recovery was in fact unique manuscript or rare document owned by the Library. miraculous and, more importantly, Members of the Friends of The Bancroft Library who currently donate whether she was of sound mind when $250 or more per fiscal year receive these Keepsakes. The most recent Keep- she made her vow to enter the con- sakes have been beautifully designed and printed volumes, including Bancroft’s vent. In the end, the ecclesiastical centennial publication, Exploring The Bancroft Library. authorities in Mexico City decided Some titles of the publications over the years include A Kid on the Comstock that a financial contribution to the (1968), A Sailor’s Sketch of the Sacramento Valley in 1842 (1971), Church would suffice to free her from A Yosemite Camping Trip, 1889 (1990), California Indian Characteristics & the obligation. Centennial Mission to the Indians of Western Nevada and California (1975), Drawings and other illustrations Kipling in California (1989), Mark Twain, Press Critic (2003), Recollections of accompanied the lecture, which gave Old Times in California (1974), Songs of the Cowboys (2001), and The Diary the Friends a sense of the kinds of so- of Captain Luis Antonio Argüello, 1821 (1992). cial, cultural, and institutional research Bancroft saves a few Keepsakes each year. Those who have missed these that can be carried out in the enor- treasures, or wish to provide them for friends, can now purchase those that are mous treasure of Bancroft’s Inquisition still in print at the Bancroft Store. Simply go online to http://bancroft.berkeley. papers. edu/friends/keepsakes.html to see which Keepsakes and other publications are —Camilla Smith available for purchase; or e-mail a request to [email protected]. Editor, Bancroftiana

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The Arthur Brown Jr. Papers A Collaborative Success

or years, the Arthur Brown Jr. drawings, 100 oversized folders, 100 ings: Berkeley City Hall (1908), Palace Fpapers and architectural records portfolios of folded drawings, 120 of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific of Arthur Brown Jr., the architect of framed drawings, 2 cartons of glass International Exposition (1915), San San Francisco’s City Hall (and the negatives, and 1 folder of photograph- Francisco City Hall (1915), Green Doe Annex, Bancroft’s home) haunted ic prints. Library at Stanford University (1919), the tiers of The Bancroft Library. The To meet user demands and to pre- the Pacific Gas & Electric building in hundreds of rolls of drawings were in serve the collection first required the San Francisco (1925), Pasadena City heavy demand by users for projects integration of all materials into a single Hall (1925), Temple Emanu-El in San such as restoring San Francisco’s Opera collection and then their arrangement, Francisco (1925), and San Francisco House after the 1989 Earthquake and rehousing, description, and preserva- Art Institute (1925). After the dissolu- the renovation of San Francisco’s City tion. At the time, Bancroft lacked tion of Bakewell & Brown in 1927, Hall, a gem of the American Renais- the staff, space, and expertise for the Brown went on to practice as Arthur sance. Responding to a research request project, but we knew we had to do Brown Jr. & Associates, which designed for them could bring fear to the pit of something. David de Lorenzo, Associ- The San Francisco War Memorial the stomach of the unfortunate staff ate Director of The Bancroft Library Opera House and Veteran’s Building member who had to handle it. Many and Head of Technical Services, in (1932), Department of Labor and of the drawings could be served, but it collaboration with Waverly B. Lowell, Interstate Commerce Commission required a great deal of searching and Curator of Berkeley’s Environmental Building in Washington D.C. (1934), uncovering on the part of staff to do so. Design Archives (EDA), wrote a pro- Coit Tower (1933), Hoover Institu- The physical condition of the papers posal to the Getty Foundation, which, tion at Stanford University (1941), was poor, because the bulk of the draw- to the delight of all concerned, was and Sproul Hall and Doe Library ings were stored in their original tubes funded in the spring of 2005. Annex at the University of California, and portfolios, just as they had come Arthur Brown Jr. (1874-1957), Berkeley (1949). Brown’s career spans from Brown’s office, his daughter’s with his business partner John the waxing and waning of public and home, and his granddaughter’s storage Bakewell (1872-1963), formed the professional support for the Beaux-Arts unit. After the last accession in 2002, architectural firm of Bakewell & style of architecture and the growing the papers consisted of 35 unorganized Brown. Together they designed a large popularity of the Modern style. cartons, approximately 600 tubes of number of significant California build- In the summer of 2005, while Ban- croft staff were engaged in the process of moving to temporary quarters while its permanent building, Doe Annex, was being seismically retrofitted, Ban- croft contracted with the Environmen- tal Design Archives to carry out the project work, given EDA staff’s exper- tise in such works. In July 2005 Dayna Holz and Betsy Frederick-Rothwell were hired to carry out the arrangement, description, and conservation of the papers and drawings under the direction of Waver- ly Lowell and with help from student assistants, as well as the involvement of Bancroft’s Theresa Salazar, Curator of Western Americana, and Jane Rosario, Principal Processing Archivist. When processing began, Dayna and Betsy determined that the papers were in poorer condition than they had been when originally surveyed. With One of Brown’s earliest commissions, Berkeley City Hall, was designed in 1908 and completed in 1909. limited funding for conservation, the

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Brown studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the elaborate San Francisco City Hall (1913-1915) is a fine example of Beaux-Arts Classicism. archivists decided that they and their them along with their own papers to edge and expertise to the processing student assistants would do the majority other institutions. While this is a natu- of the Brown papers, but this arrange- of the work. Project staff were trained ral process for historical documents, ment also allowed them to compare by professional conservators in basic such dispersal can be quite frustrating related collections held at the Envi- treatment techniques, such as wet-paste for researchers. One of the goals of ronmental Design Archives, and in mending, adhesive removal using heat, the processing project was to gather some cases to reunite project records removal of cardboard backing using a together or establish the locations of as by transferring records from the EDA custom-made Teflon tool, removal of many of Brown’s papers as possible. to Bancroft. The UC Berkeley Capi- wax-based dry-mount with heat, and The first collaboration came tal Projects office also collaborated to removal of water-based adhesive. With before the project began when Wa- reproduce official plans for university this training, the project staff car- verly Lowell encouraged the staff of buildings and transfer the originals to ried out almost all basic conservation The Architectural Drawing Collection the University Archives. and preservation treatments necessary at the University of California, Santa Completed in June 2007, this for ensuring the longevity of Brown’s Barbara, to transfer the small Bakewell collaborative project has been a great papers. One of the biggest challenges & Brown Collection to Bancroft. success. After The Bancroft Library re- was unfolding, humidifying, flattening, Additionally, although many of the turns to Doe Annex and is open to the and rolling the fragile full-scale detail Stanford University-related projects public (in late 2008; check bancroft. drawings that often exceeded five feet had been transferred to Stanford berkeley.edu for information), the in length. by Brown’s family before the bulk Arthur Brown Jr. papers will become As with many historical collections, of the collection came to Bancroft, accessible as they have never been documents created by Arthur Brown Jr. some Stanford materials remained in before. The finding aids for the manu- were dispersed to various organizations Bancroft’s collection and vice versa. scripts and pictorial collections will be throughout his life and posthumously. Happily, the University Archivist at published on the Online Archive of Many of the early administrative and Stanford University, Margaret J. Kim- California (www.oac.cdlib.org), and financial documents of Bakewell & ball, agreed to exchange the Stanford the tubes and framed items will no Brown went with John Bakewell after drawings for Berkeley drawings, thus longer confound and daunt Bancroft the dissolution of the firm. Many reuniting projects and reducing confu- staff and patrons. drawings and other documents for sion and travel time for researchers. —Jane Rosario, large institutional projects were given Other collaborations took place Principal Archivist to the original client by Arthur Brown’s within the Berkeley campus. Not only with much assistance from widow. Colleagues and employees re- did the Environmental Design Ar- Waverly Lowell, Betsy Frederick-Rothwell, tained other materials and then donated chives project staff contribute knowl- and Dayna Holz

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The Unidentified Man at the Beginning

rom 1947 until 1982 virtually all journal of his voyage to California in which the ship was lost in a dense fog Fof Cal’s public ceremonies were 1848-1849. for several days and almost ran out of orchestrated by Garff Wilson, professor In 1877 or early 1878, Hubert fuel). of Rhetoric. Whether he was welcoming Howe Bancroft asked Willey to write It is the story of his voyage on the a king, a pope, or even the Dalai Lama, down his recollections of his coming S.S. California that is described twice, Garff was, in his own words, always The to California. Willey not only had first in the pages of his Diary and Unidentified Man on the Right. an excellent memory but also a di- Commonplace Book in which he kept While Garff is fondly remem- ary written at the time of perhaps the somewhat random notes for 50 years bered, there is an even more important most historically interesting part of (1848-1908), and later (likely using the “Unidentified Man at the Beginning” that voyage. Bancroft acquired both first as a memory jogger) in his Personal whom few of us have ever heard of. In of these documents and had the first, Memoranda. May 1910, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, the because of Willey’s less-than-excellent While his voyage ended on Feb- President of the University of Califor- handwriting, transcribed by one of his ruary 23, 1849, upon his landing in nia, speaking at the University’s Charter employees—as it turned out, not too Monterey, his Personal Memoranda con- Day ceremony in the Hearst Greek accurately. tinues until September 3, 1849, when Theater, bestowed the LL.D. degree on he gave the opening prayer at the first the Reverend Doctor Samuel Hopkins session of the Constitutional Conven- Willey with these words: tion in Monterey’s Colton Hall. Of his time in Monterey in the months after Samuel Hopkins Willey, founder, his arrival, he describes his meetings prophet, seer, beholder. It has been there with Walter Colton, Thomas Lar- given you to see the hilltop of vision kin, First Lieutenant William Tecumseh transmuted into the mountain of Sherman, Colonel Richard Barnes Ma- fulfillment, and a dim-focused future son (after whom Fort Mason is named), dissolve upon the screen into a firm, Captain Henry Wager Halleck (of, later clear present. The prayer you offered Civil War fame, along with Sherman), when the foundations of this com- and many, many more, including a monwealth were laid found its largest fascinating woman, Doña Angustias de answer through the institution you la Guerra y Noriega, the wife of Don established. Your life is a bond be- Manuel Jimeno Casarín, and after his tween our beginning and our present, death, of Dr. James L. Ord, the brother between your dream and its embodi- From 1862 to 1869, Samuel Hopkins Willey headed of Major-General Edward C. Ord, after ment, between your prayer and its the College of California at Berkeley, precursor of the whom the Monterey Peninsula’s Fort answer. Upon you, the foremost University of California. Ord is named. benefactor of California, first citizen With the exception of the footnot- When the members of the Friends of the state, I confer the degree of ed use Bancroft made of the transcribed of The Bancroft Library receive their Doctor of Laws. copy of the Personal Memoranda in copies of Willey’s Personal Memoranda, writing his History of California, no they will discover included with it an Wheeler’s words of 1910, spoken subsequent published use of these fasci- informative introduction setting the to an audience described as well over nating documents has been discovered. stage and providing brief biographical 10,000 people, were well chosen and Willey tells in crisp detail the story sketches of the several dozen historical remarkably appropriate. Willey can be of his learning of his commission to personages that Willey mentions and credited not only with the founding of California by the American Homes Willey’s on-the-spot diary of his voyage today’s University of California but also Missionary Society, of his boarding the from Panama City to Monterey. This the founding of today’s San Francisco S.S. Falcon in New York City just two never-before-published material is a public school system, Mills College, and weeks later, of a brief, hot, and humid powerful lens for looking into the story The Hamlin School, the last being more stop at Havana, of listening to the story of the founding of our state told by the of a revivification than a founding. by the “Discovery of Gold” messen- founder of the University of California. This year the Friends of The Ban- ger in New Orleans, of crossing the croft Library will publish Samuel Hop- Isthmus of Panama by canoe and mule, —Jim Spitze kins Willey’s long-forgotten Personal and of traveling on the first voyage of The Friends of The Bancroft Library Memoranda, the engaging, well-written the S.S. California to Monterey (during Publications Committee

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Bancroft Recovers UC Acquisitions of Ancient Papyri

hy has UC benefactress Phoebe have been sent to Berkeley in the 1930s spring 2006 I was able to visit the MFA WApperson Hearst been a repeated and 1950s. With the cooperation of the personally and, with the cooperation recipient of posthumous thanks at Egypt Exploration Society and Professor of Lawrence Berman, MFA Curator of Bancroft events more than 85 years after Alan Bowman of the Oxford papyrus Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near her death in 1919? The answer lies in collection, three boxes containing about Eastern Art, to study and copy docu- the tangled history of the materials from 1,000 pieces were carefully packed and ments there about the history of the Egypt she acquired for Berkeley’s muse- shipped to Berkeley in 2005. Reisner Papyri. This correspondence ums and libraries over 100 years ago. Research into the T-numbers contin- revealed the delays were because George Among her other gifts to the ues, since it is apparent that the remain- Reisner was distracted by other projects University, Mrs. Hearst founded study ing gaps may reflect items still in Oxford and finds and because Hugo Ibscher, the collections by underwriting archaeo- or pieces incorrectly transferred to other famous papyrus conservator to whom he logical and anthropological expeditions owners. Reuniting the 2005 pieces with entrusted the Middle Kingdom rolls, was and acquisitions, including a papyrus- the rest of the collection both serves notoriously overextended. hunting excavation at Tebtunis in winter the needs of researchers, who now have The mounted plates from one roll 1899-1900 and the Hearst Expedition related pieces in closer proximity, and were shipped to Boston in late 1937, at Naga ed Deir and other sites from fulfills the terms of Mrs. Hearst’s original but poor communication, the war, the 1901 to 1904. The written material from agreement. deaths of Reisner in 1942 and of Ibscher Egypt is now in the custody of The Ban- Dr. Hickey came upon an even in 1943 prevented any effective com- croft Library, and since 2001 has been greater surprise when he found the evi- munication with UC. The remaining receiving intensive scholarly study and dence for a second failure of delivery. rolls were kept at Ibscher’s house outside conservation through the Center for the Yale Egyptologist Kelly Simpson had Berlin, hidden from the East German Tebtunis Papyri (CTP). published from 1963 to 1986 four splen- authorities after the war, and secretly Upon his arrival as Curator of Pa- did volumes of The Reisner Papyri, pre- moved to the American Sector of Berlin pyri and Assistant Professor of Classics, senting an important group of Egyptian and stored “in the home of an old lady Dr. Todd Hickey delved into the history Middle Kingdom accounts written in who owns a small stationery store not far of the collection, and the work done hieratic script regarding laborers pressed from the R.R. station of Zehlendorf,” as by Hickey and the graduate student into service for royal projects. These pa- the story was later reconstructed when researchers he supervises revealed two pyri were at the Museum of Fine Arts in Yale professor Karl Pelzer met with major failures in the delivery of Mrs. Boston. Correspondence in The Bancroft Ibscher’s son Rolf, also a conservator, to Hearst’s UC acquisitions. Library showed that George A. Reisner, arrange for completion of conservation The first failure came to light from a famous American archaeologist who and shipment of the papyri to Boston. research into the numbers penciled onto spent more than 40 years excavating sites By combining the information here many Tebtunis pieces, each preceded in Egypt, was under contract to Mrs. with that in Boston, we could establish by a capital T. Within the last 10 years Hearst at the time these 4,000-year-old our claim to these papyri and so came to scholars have realized that during their scrolls were discovered lying on top of a an agreement for the delivery of the Re- excavation the Oxford papyrologists stone coffin. isner Papyri and about 40 other Hearst Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Expedition papyri to Berkeley, where Hunt reviewed their latest discoveries their arrival was celebrated in November each evening, separated out promis- 2006 with appropriate thanks to Mrs. ing pieces, and labeled these sequen- Hearst. tially starting at T-1 (T for Tebtunis). We hope to be able to display some The numbers were thus prima facie of the Reisner pieces and other treasures evidence that a piece came from the in the papyri collection in a display case expedition financed by Mrs. Hearst, in the renovated Library Annex when and not from any of the subsequent the papyri and CTP move back there in explorations at the site. The Reisner Papyri scrolls were photographed lying on 2008. By sorting through thousands of the coffin as discovered. For more on these two adventures pieces to locate those with T-numbers, Our archives also showed that UC in recovery, see http://tebtunis.berkeley. and by following up on reports of faculty had tried both in 1924 and 1963 edu/new.html. T-numbers on pieces in collections to arrange for the delivery of these valu- elsewhere, we determined that several able papyri. Renewed correspondence in —Donald Mastronarde boxes of papyri still in Oxford should 2003 did not produce any action, but in Director, Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

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A highlight of the evening was the game that Rita Moreno and Bob Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Papers, played with the dinner guests, inviting them to guess whether or not Mark Twain really said some of the pithy quotes attributed to him. First on the list was everybody’s favorite, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” Unfortunately, Twain appar- ently never said that about San Francisco, but rather made the statement about a summer in Paris! The broad appeal of Mark Twain brought people together from many walks of life. Guests included notable authors (Amy Tan), historians (Kevin Starr), Nobel Prize winners (physicists Amy Tan joined Isabel Allende and her husband Gordon at the gala. Charles Townes and George Smoot, Twain, houses virtually every document economist Daniel McFadden), University Continued from page 1 in Mark Twain’s hand known to survive, administrators (Chancellor Robert Birge- graphs, and other artifacts demon- as well as an ambitious scholarly pub- neau and UC President Robert Dynes), strated “Mark Twain at Play.” His lishing program. along with members of the Friends of leisure pursuits, from amateur theat- ricals to yachting, were the subject of the exhibit. He loved music and song, cats and cigars, charades and games. As Salamo says, “[H]e was an enthusiastic inventor, an obsessive billiards player, a charismatic raconteur, a mischievous correspondent, and a sought-after luncheon and dinner guest.” The Bancroft Library’s Mark Twain Papers and Project, the world’s largest archive of original manuscripts and documents by and about Mark

Bob Hirst pointed out amusing Mark Twain artifacts on display.

Cal Chancellor Robert Birgeneau welcomed the crowd. Gala chair Camilla Smith thanked Rita Moreno for hosting the event. Page 8 / spring 2006 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

Gala chair George Smith discussed Mark Twain with Jim Flack.

Rita Moreno perused the program with Isabel Allende.

Jim Bancroft shares a light moment with Jim Brennan. The Bancroft Library and the Mark for the Humanities, for a grand total Twain Luncheon Club. of more than $300,000. Chair Beverly The gala evening was successful Maytag and the other members of in raising over $150,000, which was the Gala Committee deserve heartiest matched by a grant to the Mark Twain congratulations —Camilla Smith Friendly competition reigned as bidders vied for auction Project from the National Endowment items. Editor, Bancroftiana

Michael and Leslie Krasny joined John De Luca and UC President Robert Dynes in congratulating Isabel Allende. Page 9 / Spring 2006 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

An Excerpt from Isabel Allende’s Acceptance Speech I grew up in the house of my grandfather, with several crazy uncles. One of them, Uncle Pablo, always wore, even in summer, a heavy black coat with big pockets to hide the books he stole in his friends’ houses, bookstores, and libraries. He taught me at an early age that books belonged to humanity in general and to him in particular. He was a collector. Like Bancroft, he collected anything that was printed on paper: books, maps, old photographs, letters, journals, travel logs. His stuff was all over the house. In his bedroom the walls were covered with book- shelves and the only furniture was a soldier’s cot in the middle illuminated by a light bulb hanging from the ceil- ing, where he slept and read. One night, during one of those famous Chilean earthquakes, we heard a terrible noise, as if a train was loose in the house. We ran to Uncle Pablo’s bedroom, where the noise came from. The bookshelves had collapsed on top of the bed, burying my uncle under a mountain of volumes. We dug into the cloud of dust and pulled out books desperately until we managed to rescue him bruised but alive. “It would have been an elegant literary death…” was all he said when he was able to speak.

What Mark Twain Said “[The Bible] is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some Charles Faulhaber delighted Isabel clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good Allende with the Hubert Howe Bancroft morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.” Award. “Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be “It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it other to get the news to you.” would deteriorate the cat.” “Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man “When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people the biography of the man himself cannot be written.” who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.” “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief de- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence nied even to prayer.” of fear, except a creature be part coward it is not a compli- ment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And of the word. Consider the flea: incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.” suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosper- ous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference “He [Adam] invented sin he was the author of sin and I between a dog and a man.” wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.”

“In Boston they “Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit you would stay ask, How much out and your dog would go in.” does he know? in New York, “The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that How much is the lightning ain’t distributed right.” he worth? in Philadelphia, “On the whole it is better to deserve honors and not have Who were his them than to have them and not deserve them.” parents?” Rita Moreno and Bob Hirst quizzed the audience about “Only one thing is impossible for god; to find any sense in Mark Twain quotes. any copyright law on the planet.” Page 10 / Fall 2007 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

Sloan Foundation Funds Digitization of Bancroft Special Collections Providing Open Access to “The World’s Most Important Recorded Knowledge” n December 2006 The Bancroft tury, originally selected by the Zamorano ILibrary was awarded funding through Club, a group of Los Angeles bibliophiles, the Open Content Alliance to digi- as the cornerstone of any serious col- tize historic California materials from lection of California history. The titles its collections. The effort is part of a include rare imprints and more readily multi-institutional project generously available volumes, but all are considered funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Founda- key documents on topics related to Cali- tion. The goal of the million-dollar grant fornia history and literature. is to “foster the building, acceptance and Bancroft is also digitizing early implementation of universal, open access California serials, such as the Overland The Internet Archive Scribe Scanner is one of eleven to the world’s most important recorded Monthly and the Argonaut, the Archives stations at the Richmond facility. knowledge.” The other project partners of California, and Bancroft Dictations. regular books being scanned from UC include the Internet Archive, the Boston The Archives of California include de- library collections both in Northern and Public Library, the Research Library at scriptions and transcriptions Southern California. the Getty Research Institute, and Johns of early California documents that The digitized materials from Bancroft Hopkins University Libraries. The result- formed part of the Spanish and Mexican will be available through the Internet ing digitized materials will be available archives for Alta California that were Archive’s “American Libraries” website through the Internet Archive as part of housed in the San Francisco City Hall; (http://www.archive.org/details/ameri- the Open Content Alliance. the originals were lost in the 1906 San cana) and will be linked to Bancroft li- The Open Content Alliance (OCA) Francisco earthquake and fire. brary catalog records. The digital files will is a partnership between the Internet The Bancroft Dictations comprise be submitted to the California Digital Archive, Yahoo, and Microsoft. The narratives from important early resi- Library Digital Preservation Repository OCA is seeking to digitize public domain dents of California and the West that for long-term preservation and access. (pre-1923) publications and make them were recorded by H.H. Bancroft and In keeping with our mission of gath- “. . . available to all pursuant to OCA his assistants. These include personal ering and disseminating historical infor- principles, meaning that they will be narratives from pioneers, political leaders, mation, The Bancroft Library is pleased freely viewable, downloadable, shareable, and individuals who experienced events to be participating in the Open Content printable, indexable and navigable by any in California in the 19th century. The Alliance project and sharing in their com- individual or entity.” dictations also include dictations from mitment to universal access. With the The project was envisioned by Californios, or Mexican Californians, generous funding from the Sloan Foun- Internet Archive Founder and Digital 12 of which were taken from women. dation, the Bancroft’s important historic Librarian Brewster Kahle, who has been The Bancroft Library materials will collections, seen here in the original the driving force behind the OCA. Kahle, be scanned by the Internet Archive, Bancroft reading room in the 1880s, will a long-time friend and advocate of The which has been actively involved in mass be made even more openly accessible to Bancroft Library, is pleased to have the digitization and book-scanning research the world than they have been in the past. Bancroft involved in the project, “The and development since 2003. They have —Mary W. Elings Internet Archive has been thrilled to developed book-scanning workstations Archivist for Digital Collections work with the Bancroft team and the called “scribes” that gently and efficiently The Bancroft Library collection, both of which are top of the capture images and field. We have enjoyed working with full text of each book the thousands of beautiful books that scanned. Bancroft is interested in bringing to the The Internet Archive public. We look forward to helping bring currently has 11 scribe more books, periodicals, and one-of-a- stations in operation kind materials to a world wide audience at the Northern Re- through the Internet.” gional Library Facility in The first items to be scanned will be Richmond. The Bancroft volumes cataloged as part of the Zamo- materials will be digi- rano 80, eighty significant books relating tized under specialized to the history of California dating from working conditions and The Bancroft building was located at 721 Market Street, San Francisco, before it the colonial period to the early 20th cen- will be added to the moved to Berkeley in 1906.

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of new technologies on health care de- Regional Oral History Office livery and information systems. Kaiser Permanente was a great place in which to study this impact because leaders The Kaiser Permanente Project within the organization tested the fea- sibility of using computers for medical hile medicine is most surely a of interviews currently underway at record keeping as early as the 1950s (in Wscience, the delivery of medical Bancroft’s Regional Oral History Of- contrast, even today most hospitals, let care is often thought of, and indeed fice (ROHO). The anticipated five-year alone independent doctors, do not have practiced as, an art. After all, tradi- project—we’ve just completed year robust electronic medical records; they tionally it has not been the science of one—looks at the history of Kaiser continue to rely upon paper charts). clinical trials and up-to-date research Permanente, and U.S. medical care Dr. Morris Collen, who was that guides the hand and sways the overall, since 1970. We expect to con- interviewed both for the founders mind of the physician in the examining duct interviews with about 75 doctors, series in the 1980s and for the new room; rather, it has been the influence nurses, health plan leaders, researchers, series on EBM, recalled that innova- of tradition and the accumulation of and other experts for a total of at least tion was driven by need. After reading individual experience, even intuition, 350 hours of recordings. Interviews that the U.S. Public Health Service that drives what happens between in each of the five years will focus on recommended periodic health exami- primary care provider and patient. a specific theme. In the first year we nations and under pressure from the Since the 1970s, however, the so-called examined “evidence-based medicine,” legendary Harry Bridges to provide art of medical care has been placed or EBM. This year, year two, we are them to members of the International under much scrutiny and has received exploring the meaning of “core val- Longshore and Warehouse Union, much criticism from physicians seeking ues” within the organization. And in top Kaiser Permanente doctor Sidney to deliver it based upon research and years three through five we’ll look at Garfield asked Dr. Collen to establish evidence-based guidelines rather than “diversity/culturally competent care,” a logical procedure for conducting just personal experience or the authority “government relations,” and “medical health checkups for thousands of health of tradition. Nowhere has this move- economics.” This substantial collection plan members. Not much pressure was ment toward evidence-based medicine will augment ROHO’s already impor- needed, however, since the notion of been more important than in the na- tant series of 22 interviews conducted health checkups included with health tion’s largest nonprofit HMO, Kaiser in the 1980s and 1990s with Kaiser plan membership fit neatly within Kai- Permanente. Permanente’s founding generation. ser Permanente’s model of care: prepaid The study of this movement to- One of the ways in which we group practice. In contrast to tradition- wards evidence-based medicine forms explored the role of EBM at Kaiser al fee-for-service practice in which the one of the core themes of a new series Permanente was to look at the impact physician is rewarded when patients get sick as they remit fees for procedures, tests, and so forth, the idea of prepay- ment reversed the equation, rewarding the doctor instead for keeping his patients healthy and out of the hospital. Still, the pros- pect of scheduling and providing regu- lar health checkups was a daunting one. And if physi- cians alone were to conduct them and screen test results individually, it would have been Evidence-based medicine encouraged the use of new technologies for health care delivery and information storage. prohibitively expen-

Page 12 / Fall 2007 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library sive too. Searching for a solution to the Bancroft Testimonios: problem of soaring costs, Dr. Garfield sent Dr. Collen to what he described as “the first international meeting on Californio Perspectives on Life in medical electronics” in 1958. The latter became a quick convert to the rational 19th Century California use of computers in a medical set- ting and soon contracted with a New n the 1870s, 80 people York technology company to build an Iof Mexican ancestry who automated chemical analysis machine had lived in California to test blood samples and then generate before the Gold Rush were the data on punch cards—in essence, interviewed by the staff of creating some of the first electronic Hubert Howe Bancroft. medical records. The data was then au- The written transcripts of tomatically cross-referenced with early the interviews amount to clinical guidelines; and the test admin- over 5,000 handwritten istrator would schedule additional tests pages and they are now if needed or would retain the data as among the most precious part of the patient’s medical record if gems of the collection of the patient appeared healthy. The Bancroft Library, an These records, interviewees have extremely important set told us, now form the basis of a vast of historical and literary medical database upon which hun- documents. As historical dreds of studies have been published sources, these first-hand and on which many clinical guidelines accounts of life offer an un- have been established. Still, the quarry paralleled view of Hispanic of a fully functional and easily acces- life in California before the sible electronic medical record, dy- US conquest. As literary namically linked to care guidelines and texts, these documents drug formularies, has remained elusive can be termed testimonios, to Dr. Collen and many of his succes- which are in the words sors. Serious attempts were made in the of one scholar “mediated late 60s and early 70s, but the technol- narratives by a subaltern ogy failed and funding dried up. It was person interviewed by an especially interesting, then, to con- outsider.” They offer vivid duct interviews on this topic in 2005 examples of a subjugated A collection of Testimonios from Bancroft was recently published by Heyday and 2006, just as Kaiser Permanente people attempting to re- Books. HealthConnect, their first electronic claim their historical voice medical record system, was in the in a time and place that was increasingly Bancroft realized that Mariano process of being rolled out. Time will inhospitable to their culture, heritage, Guadalupe Vallejo, the last military com- tell if HealthConnect succeeds and is and experiences. mander of Alta California, would be a adopted by other providers. The inter- Two decades after California pivotal figure in this endeavor. After the views that are part of the new series of became a state in the American union, conquest, Vallejo had collected a large Kaiser Permanente, however, reveal the San Francisco bookseller Hubert Howe quantity of documents and had begun challenges of the past that might just Bancroft decided to compose a large to write a history of Alta California. His help guide the hands of those working multivolume history of California. unfinished manuscript and notes, how- in the present. To his credit, Bancroft realized that ever, were destroyed by a large fire that The Kaiser Permanente Oral His- the experience of California before consumed his house in Sonoma in 1867. tory Project webpage, which includes the American conquest had to be an In 1874, one of Bancroft’s staff transcripts to the interviews on evi- integral part of this total history. As a members, Enrique Cerruti, persuaded dence-based medicine, can be found at: way of including this perspective in his Vallejo to cooperate. Vallejo donated a http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/ work, Bancroft decided to try to collect considerable number of documents to projects/kaiser/index2.html as many surviving textual documents Bancroft and also gave Cerruti an exten- and first-hand reminiscences from the sive interview. Largely on the strength —Martin Meeker residents of pre-United States California of Vallejo’s reputation, Cerruti was then Academic Specialist as he could. Continued on page 14

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able to conduct interviews with 17 ad- The interviews also sketched to hear some American refer to a well- ditional Californios. Four other Bancroft out many aspects of popular culture. known mountain in the East Bay region staff members, Emilio Piña, Rosendo Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo recounted of San Francisco as “San Diablo!” V. Corona, Vicente Perfecto Gómez, a series of décimas (Spanish poems For others, the criticism was more and Thomas Savage, participated in this with 10-line stanzas) that were current personal. Rosalía Vallejo, Mariano Gua- textual recovery and interview project. when he was growing up. Eulalia Pérez dalupe’s sister, poured out her bitterness Piña conducted six interviews; Corona, recited the songs and music to which at the treatment her brothers and hus- two; and Gómez, ten. Savage, who be- she had danced in her younger days. band had received at the hands of the came the principal agent in this project, Inocente García recalled some popular Bear Flag insurgents who imprisoned conducted or supervised a total of 50 songs that had been composed in the them for two months at Sutter’s Fort in interviews. wake of the Bouchard invasion in 1818. 1846. Josefa Carrillo, like many land The interviews sometimes con- Guillermo Zúñiga remembered some owners, found herself faced with a new tained information about California verses that had been composed about and unfamiliar legal system, an 1851 that was not readily available from other the Chumash Indian revolt of 1824. federal law that imposed heavy bur- sources. For instance, Lorenzo Asisara Juana Machado described how the dens on those who sought to prove the told Savage a story that he had heard Pastorela nativity play was celebrated in validity of their land titles, and a host of from his own father about the way in San Diego. squatters staking out their own claims which the Indians at Mission Santa The interviews, however, were not on her property. She was forced to Cruz had killed the resident priest. only about the past. The testimonios mortgage some of her land to pay legal Apolinaria Lorenzana and Eulalia Pérez reveal quite clearly that many members fees to try to retain the rest of it. In her offered intimate glimpses into the daily of the community were acutely aware interview, she was extremely resentful life of both the indigenous and Hispan- that their own culture and experiences that she lived in a town, Healdsburg, ic population of the missions and gave were routinely denigrated by the Ameri- that was named for a man whose rela- many details that never made it into the cans who had taken over their country tives had been able to buy a part of her official ecclesiastical reports. in 1848. Teresa de la Guerra vigorously rancho very cheaply at an auction. The interviews also contain a con- insisted the Alta California was “civi- These remarkable testimonios are siderable amount of information about lized” well before the Anglo-Americans important for the alternative perspective domestic life at the ranchos, which arrived. Vallejo at times tempered his they offer on the social development of dominated the California economy criticism of the Americans with humor. California and the entire U.S. South- from the 1830s until the American He said that the newcomers had very west. For instance, the Indian voice conquest. For example, José del Carmen little knowledge of Spanish and little in- represented in some of these testimonios Lugo described the daily schedule of clination to learn it. In their ignorance is much more direct than the voice rancho life in great detail, while Antonio they would simply take a Spanish place that too often has to be teased out of Coronel gave a full account of social name and put the word “San” in front political or ecclesiastical documents. and gender roles on the ranchos and in of it. He quipped that he expected soon The women’s testimonios are also highly the pueblos. significant because they offer a different view of public life from that encoun- tered in many historical narratives. The California that emerges from all these testimonios was a complicated place in which the familial normally intersected with the political and in which the pub- lic sphere creatively interacted with the private sphere to create a different and more humane society than the one the Americans brought. In these interviews we genuinely encounter history “from the bottom up.”

­—Rose Marie Beebe Professor of Spanish Literature Santa Clara University

—Robert M. Senkewicz Professor of History Santa Clara University General M.G. Vallejo helped reconstruct from memory the groundplans of the destroyed missions of Santa Cruz, La Purisima, San Rafael, and San Francisco Solano. Page 14 / Fall 2007 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library Desiderata Bancroftiana from time to time publishes lists of books that the library needs. We would be particularly pleased to receive gifts of any of the books listed below. If you can help, please telephone Bonnie Bearden, Rare Books Acqui- sitions Assistant, 510-642-8171, or you may send a fax to 510-643-2548, or email to [email protected].

African Americana Imamu Amiri Baraka Towards the creation of political institutions for all African peoples Jihad Productions, 1972.

David Bryant Fulton, Recollections of a sleeping car porter. Jersey City, 1892.

Sutton Elbert Griggs [His press National Public Welfare League, Memphis] The story of my struggles, 1914 (pamphlet) A Gentleman Guide to racial greatness, 1923 Stepping stones to higher things, 1925 and a Scholar The winning policy, 1927 Cooperative natures and social education, 1929 Rare book dealer Jeffrey Thomas fought a long battle with cancer with dignity and impressive June Jordan courage that was the admiration of all his friends New days, a book of poems (or New days: poems of exile and return) and colleagues. He died at his home in San Fran- NY: Emerson Hall, 1973 or 1974 cisco on Saturday, June 2nd. Jeffrey had been a fixture of the San Francisco Anna Maria Mackenzie, Slavery, or, The times. Dublin: 1793 English novelist. Mixed marriages approved in this early novel. antiquarian book trade for decades. He opened his own shop in 1982. Before that, he had worked James Ephraim McGirt for the legendary Warren Howell on Post Street. Triumphs of Ephraim. Philadelphia: McGirt, 1907 Jeffrey subscribed to Howell’s notion of book selling: he didn’t sell books, he “placed” them. He Clarence Major, Dark and feeling: Black American writers and their work was born in New York, had a B.A. from Yale and a NY: Third Press, 1974

Ph.D. in English from Berkeley. In the 1960s, he James W. C. Pennington served as an Army intelligence officer in Italy. A textbook of the origin and history of the colored people. Hartford: 1841 Jeffrey will be remembered by friends and colleagues as a true gentleman who shared his ex- Ann Plato, Essays. Baltimore, 1850, or Hartford, 1841 traordinary knowledge without bravado or preten- sion. His taste in books was eclectic and he refused Joel Augustus Rogers to specialize in any one field. Visiting his shop or Gems of Negro history. NY : 1937- (Serial publication) The Ku Klux spirit, 1923 his stand at the book fair, one never knew what World’s greatest men of African descent, 1931 to expect. It was essential to go see what treasures he had and to hear what he had to tell you about Women Writers them. Friends and colleagues spoke of his ability Eliza Farnham, Woman and her era. NY: Davis, 1864, 2 volumes to connect with librarians, collectors, dealers, book A milestone by an early exponent of feminism. scouts, and even book people fallen on hard times. He was a patron of the San Francisco Opera Charlotte Perkins Gilman and of the Symphony, and was serving on the Women and economics: a study of the economic relations between men and Council of the Friends of The Bancroft Library at women as a factor in social evolution. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1898. the time of his death. [Hogarth Press] Laura Riding. Voltaire, 1927 We shall all miss this quiet, gentle, knowledge- able man whom we all considered a friend. Our Virginia Woolf, On being ill. 1930 condolences go out to his wife Evelyne and their The Lily; a ladies’ journal devoted to temperance and literature two children. Edited by Amelia Jenks Bloomer. Seneca Falls, NY: 1849-1856. —Anthony S. Bliss The first newspaper owned and edited by a woman that focused solely on Curator of Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts feminist matters. The Bancroft Library Little Review. Edited by Margaret C. Anderson

Page 15 / Fall 2007 Fall 2007 Calendar The Council of the Friends exhibition ROUNDTABLES of The Bancroft Library Extended until January 12, 2008 An open informal discussion group featuring 2007–2008 Past Tents presentations by scholars engaged in Bancroft Richard C. Otter Amy McCombs research projects. Sessions are held in the Chair Sylvia McLaughlin California Historical Society Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club on Connie Loarie Alan Mendelson 678 Mission Street, San Francisco the third Thursday of the month at noon. Vice Chair Velma Montoya The book Past Tents: The Way We Camped, Charles B. Faulhaber Katherine Schwarzenbach co-published by The Bancroft Library and Thursday, September 20 Secretary Catherine Spieker Heyday Books in 2006, is now an exhibit. Donald M. Scott, Independent Scholar Gregory Price James M. Spitze Hosted by the California Historical Society, Treasurer Robert Gordon Sproul III the exhibit is a humorous look at America’s The Man Who Named the Storms Hans Baldauf Charles G. Stephenson infatuation with the great outdoors. Paul Bancroft III John B. Stuppin Thursday, October 18 Narsai David Elaine Tennant eVENT James R. Smith, Author John A. De Luca Cindy Testa-McCullagh San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks Richard P. Fajardo Robert R. Tufts Thursday, November 15, at 6:00pm Daniel P. Gregory Daniel Volkmann Fred Gregory Craig Walker Lecture by John Aubrey Douglass Thursday, November 15 Robert Hirst Christopher Warnock International Students and the Roots Jean Pfaelzer, Professor of English, Alexandra Marston Kirsten E. Weisser of Diversity at Cal University of Delaware Dorothy Matthiessen Midge Zischke Beverly Maytag Library Reading Room Driven Out: The Forgotten Wars Against 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley Chinese Americans Bancroftiana John Aubrey Douglass, Senior Research Number 131 Fellow at UC’s Center for Studies in Higher Editor Camilla Smith Education, will discuss the history he re- Managing Editor Elizabeth Gardner searched for his new book, The Conditions for Copy Editor Ben McClinton Admission: Access, Equity and the Social Con- Digital Images Peg Skorpinski tract of Public Universities (Stanford University Designer Catherine Dinnean Press, 2007). Printer Minuteman Press

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