PUBLISHED OCCASIONALLY BY THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720 Number 39 November 1^66 Heyns held court. Everyone received the de­ A nnual Meeting lightful "Keepsake," Charles Camp's Desert Rats, designed and printed by the Kennedys, of The Friends, 1 g66 father and son; and viewed a stunning exhi­ On MAY FIFTEENTH, The Friends of the Ban­ bition, prepared by the staff members, of croft Library gathered together in California Bancroft pictorial and documentary material Hall on the Berkeley campus to hold their dealing with the Sierra Nevada. The exhibit nineteenth annual meeting. Dr. Albert was based on chapter headings of the Shumate, Acting Chairman of The Council, Farquhar History, augmented by Mrs. Far­ welcomed the SRO audience, particularly quhar's superb photographs of the moun­ Chancellor and Mrs. Roger Heyns, the hon­ tains. As in the past, the exhibit was a "one ored guests. Quoting Chancellor Heyns' night stand," because of lack of exhibition benison for The Friends: "It is a fact of aca­ space within the Bancroft Library. The staff demic life that a great university relies very works so hard and effectively to display rari­ heavily on the intelligence, understanding ties, yet so few people are able to see and and support of different segments of society, study these annual exhibitions. Que lastima! and by all odds is most dependent, I think, upon people like yourselves. This kind of support is, of course, partly financial, but probably more important than anything else, it is support for the intellectual enterprise and a willingness and desire to continue to participate in the academic life. You are, by your support for the Bancroft Library, not only aiding a great library, but you are aid­ ing a great university in its effort to continue to be great." Speaker of the Day, Francis Peloubet Far­ quhar, was then introduced by Dr. Shumate. Mr. Farquhar is known to all of you as a founder and first Chairman of The Friends, beloved scholar of the Sierra, a man to match Chancellor Roger Heyns, Council members his mountains. He spoke of the Sierra Francis P. Farquhar, Donald McLaughlin, Nevada, an hour's polished presentation de­ f. S. Holliday talking to Harold Gilliam. livered without notes nor pause. To remind readers of Bancroftiana of the University's ig6yig66 recent publication of Mr. Farquhar's History THE LAST ISSUE OF Bancroftiana described of the Sierra Nevada would indeed be redun­ some of the year's major happenings: the dant. And he is the '66 recipient of the Wag­ completion of the fund-raising drive for the ner award, highest the California Historical acquisition of the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr., Society has to offer. Collection of Pictorial Western Americana; After the meeting a reception was held at the publication of Captain Charles M. Web­ Bancroft Library, where Chancellor and Mrs. er; the resignation of Professor A. Hunter Dupree as Director of the Bancroft Library; of the San Joaquin and Founder of Stockton, the summer of 1919 he married Helen Mills- the Transmississippi West, 154.0-1861, which and the awarding of the LL.D. degree to California, prepared for the Library by paugh, then went to Harvard to complete was published at intervals from 1957 to 1963. Director Emeritus George Hammond at the George P. Hammond and Dale L. Morgan, the studies which made him a Bachelor of This definitive study of Western mapping Charter Day ceremony. was sold out shortly after publication this Laws in 1920. was completed under almost unimaginable Dr. and Mrs. Hammond flew over to summer. Copies may now be obtained only Returning to California, Carl inaugurated difficulties, for Carl was assailed by a first Berkeley from Spain in order to receive the as they turn up in antiquarian book stores. a long and successful law career, begun in stroke in the summer of 1956, and by a suc­ degree, returning to Madrid where Dr. Ham­ Printed in Lawton Kennedy's character­ Los Angeles, and later pursued in San Fran­ cession of others involving progressive paral­ mond will continue for another year as Ful- istically handsome style, and with a colored cisco and Washington, D. C. He served early ysis. It was after a fifth stroke that he died bright Professor at the University. The frontispiece depicting Stockton as painted in as chief counsel of the Railroad Commission at his home in Menlo Park on June 23, un­ Friends and the Library were particularly 1849 ky W. H. Cressy, the book describes of California, became public utilities coun­ defeated and undefeatable. gratified at this recognition of the man who Captain Weber's papers, maps, books, pic­ sel for the City of Los Angeles, and still later DALE MORGAN, has been in such large part responsible for tures, and memorabilia. It is prefaced by a was special telephone counsel for the Federal Associate Research Specialist, growth and development of Bancroft over long biographical sketch of the Captain and Communications Commission in Washing­ Bancroft Library. the past two decades. his family, which illuminates the whole, and ton, to say nothing of his private practice. Moreover, it is pleasant to report that the is graced by reproductions of many daguer­ Carl's interest in California historically Californian—Special Issue Hammond tradition of energetic acquisi­ reotypes of early Stockton scenes, besides and geographically was triggered in his RECENTLY, during the sorting of a small tion, devoted friends, and sheer good for­ two maps unknown to exist before coming childhood by his father, but accelerated group of printed ephemera from the T. W. tune, are continuing. Gifts and special pur­ to light in the Weber family collection. In only after his coming to the Bay Area in Norris Collection a special issue of the Cali­ chases for the year will total more than his preface, Dr. Hammond describes the gift 1922. Here he fell in with Henry R. Wagner, fornian for October 24, 1846, was discovered. $250,000 when the final appraisals are made of the Weber papers by the Captain's grand­ Francis Farquhar, Charles L. Camp, and A single leaf printed on both sides, at first including an instalment on the Honeyman daughter, Mrs. Helen W. Kennedy, as one other kindred spirits who had just resusci­ glance it appeared to be incomplete; how­ Collection; the San Francisco News-Call- of the outstanding events in the history of tated the California Historical Society and ever, comparison with another copy of this Bulletin pictures, described in the last Ban­ the Bancroft Library; and those who even soon he was contributing to the Society's issue in the Library showed this was not the croftiana; a superb collection of early Tahi- browse through the volume will understand Quarterly, eventually becoming its editor. case. Although the regular edition was four tian imprints from the estate of the late why. (Thereafter, before going off to Washing­ pages in length, the Norris copy consists of Thomas W. Streeter, whose generosity was In view of the signal reception accorded ton, he transformed the annual publication pages one and four only, containing the inspired by an earlier gift of similar materials this venture, the Friends may find it possible of the Historical Society of Southern Cali­ report of the Public Reception held at Ports­ from Mr. George L. Harding; and a magnifi­ to embark upon further publications that fornia into a quarterly, editing this journal mouth Square, 5th October, 1846, in honor cent collection of magic lantern glass slides, exhibit the majestic sweep of the Library's for two years.) With a lively interest in of Commodore Robert F. Stockton, Com­ painted by the renowned Indian artist, holdings. people, immensely gregarious, fun-loving, mander of the Pacific Squadron and Gov­ George Catlin, whose papers were given to and with a profound feeling for organiza­ ernor General of California. Regular issues of the Library by Mrs. Marjorie Catlin Roehm, tion, Carl made an extraordinary impression The Wheat Legacy California's first newspaper are rare, let alone a Catlin descendant and author of The Let­ on the society in which he moved. He was a such a special issue. ters of George Catlin and His Family. ON A BLUE AND GOLD DAY at the end of June, prime force, when not the actual founder, in such a day as he had loved through all his such institutions as the Roxburghe and The Friends, too, continue to benefit from Election of the Hammond years. Their first venture into years as a Californian, Carl I. Wheat's Zamorano clubs and E Clampus Vitus; and friends said farewell to all that was mortal of in his two-year term as Chairman of the commercial publishing, Captain Charles M. Council Officers Weber, proved to be a smashing success. The him. He must now live in their memories, in Council of The Friends of the Bancroft subvention generously provided by Mrs. his books, in the cultural forces he stirred Library, he did much to give forward impul­ ALBERT SHUMATE will serve as Chairman of Helen Weber Kennedy will constitute a fund into being, and in his papers, which by the sion to the library. It is impossible to cite The Council for the coming year. A life­ for further publications of quality. decision of his family will be preserved in the here all his cultural and civic contributions. long San Franciscan, a doctor specializing in All in all, 1965/1966 was a good year. Bancroft Library. His true lifework, historically, turned out dermatology, Dr. Shumate is a graduate of George Hammond built strong and well, and Carl Irving Wheat was born in North­ to be his twenty-five-year struggle to organ­ the University of San Francisco.