Collection of brief note and panel of envelope addressed by Joaquin Miller, postcards of Miller homes and haunts, and miscellanea.

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Collection of brief note and panel of envelope addressed by Joaquin Miller, postcards of Miller homes and haunts, and miscellanea.

Collection comprises a signed brief account of weather written in New York by Joaquin Miller in 1883; the front panel of an envelope addressed to Amy Russell in care of Mrs. Edw. Russell, San Francisco, by Joaquin Miller from the New York Hotel, New York and a newspaper image of "The Poet of the Sierras" of unknown date glued on paper; 5 blank black and white post cards marked copyright Juanita Miller, one blank black and white postcard with "Oregon" written over in the upper right corner (once glued to another surface), one color post card addressed by unknown hand to Juanita Olivas of Dixon, California (postmarked Mar 5, 1907), all depicting Joaquin Miller or his mother or Miller homes and haunts, and a clipped one-paragraph printed biography of Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, known as Joaquin Miller, source unknown.

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Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913

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Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Heine Miller and known as the "poet of the Sierras," was a Calif. poet and playwright. Beginning in 1886, he built and lived in a home on his estate, "The Hights"[sic], in the hills above Oakland. From the description of Joaquin Miller letter : Dimond, Calif., to Mr. Stone: ALS 1905 May 11. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122558852 Born Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller on September 8, 1837, near Liberty, Indiana. In 18...