Primarily published and typescript copies of poems by American poet George Sterling. Also includes three letters from Sterling to fellow poet Joaquin Miller, a brief note from Mary Austin to Sterling, a photo portrait of Sterling, a Bohemian Club midsummer jinks programme from 1926, a program for the Western Drama Society quarterly performance in Carmel, California (1913), commemorative writings about Sterling by Milo Mosier and Mary Austin, and a letter from John Howell discussing Sterling's poem "Yosemite."
Writings contained in the collection consist of: The abalone song (3 printings); The ballad of the ghost-arrow; Ballad of the swabs; The black hound bays; The evanescent city; A first-class fighting man (essay); Forenoon on the Pacific; The guerdon of the sun; Lilies of stone; Lonely beaches; Nora May French; Pavement; The sailing of Keats (includes some of Sterlings thoughts on Keats); The shadow maker; Sierran dawn; Song of friendship; The song of Henry Maxwell; Sonnets to Craig; Stars of the noon; Together; Under the rainbow; Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO (essay); Yerba Buena, July 9, 1846. Writings are poems unless noted otherwise. Most were published in Sunset Magazine and The American Mercury.
(OHC MSS STERLING)
3 folders (.1 linear feet)
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Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.
