PUBLISHED OCCASIONALLY BY THE F'RIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 4, CALIFORNIA

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1 PUBLISHED OCCASIONALLY BY THE F'RIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 4, CALIFORNIA N4mber Golden 13 DECEMBER Anniversary THE BANCROFT LIBRARY his holiday season is celebraing he Golden Anniversary of is acquisiion by he Universiy of California. On November 25, 1905, Huber Howe Bancrof signed an agreemen for he sale of his magnificen library o he Regens of he Universiy for a quarer of a million dollars, a he same ime making an ourigh gif of $100,000 oward he purchase price. On November 25, 1955, he Friends of he Bancrof Library gave he Library a rare volume of basic imporance, worhily marking a proud occasion. This "new" book is one of he earlies of Mormon publicaions, as well as he scarces. I is he Book of Commandmens, conaining he "revelaions of God" o Joseph Smih, founder of he Church of Jesus Chris of Laer-Day Sains. I was small, could almos be carried in a ves pocke, and was of such a naure ha i would be used coninually. I was prined on he fronier, a he own called Zion by he Mormons, in This own, beer known as Independence, was he poin of deparure for wesern ravelers in subsequen years. Our copy of he Book of Commandmens is he one ha originally belonged o John Whimer, one of he eigh special winesses o he Book of Mormon. The priceless volume will be on display in he Bancrof Library, and we hope ha many of you will be able o drop in o see i. In he fify years ha have elapsed since he purchase of his collecion a bold and imaginaive sep in 1905, when California was more concerned wih fuure expansion han he preservaion of is hisory he hopes of he men who conceived he plan o acquire BOOK ± l 0MMAN»MEMT ff wm THE GOVEENMEKTOF THE C h u r c h of Chris, * OS*?AJ*IZE» ACC0RIXO TO AW? ON? S' 6 h o r A p r i l, ± * ZIOX: % PVBLMHKB BV \V. VV. Pr^fc^'^co, ± I \nm. OOT?$?r^^Wfff?^ yw?fo he Bancrof Library and saw i become a realiy have been abundanly realized. Such leaders as Regen Rudolph J. Taussig, Presiden Benjamin Ide Wheeler, and Professor Henry Morse Sephens believed ha a he Universiy his Wesern Americana Collecion would become he founain-head of a srong program of graduae sudies in hisory and a magne ha would draw scholars from all over he world o consul is resources. Boh predicions came rue in he succeeding half cenury, especially under he leader-

2 ship of he lae Herber E. Bolon, who made he Bancrof Library a dynamic cener of invesigaion and wriing for hundreds of scholars, no only from he Unied Saes bu from Lain America and elsewhere. The presenaion of he Book of Commandmens in 1955 marks an appropriae sep as he Library begins is second half cenury of growh, wih he faih of is founder and he Universiy in is richness fully confirmed. We wish o hank he Friends for commemoraing he occasion by his memorable gif. Briish Ineses in Texas BRITISH INTEREST in Texas over a cenury Officers for AT A MEETING of he Council of he Friends held a he S. Francis Hoel in on May 23, 1955, he Council eleced officers for he coming year and ransaced oher business. Reeleced chairman was Carl I. Whea, of Menlo Park, and secreary, Miss Adele Ogden, of. George L. Harding, of Palo Alo, was chosen vice chairman, and Michael Harrison, of Sacrameno, became he new reasurer. The Council considered publicaion of a keepsake volume, and purchase of he Mormon Book of Commandmens, of which here is furher noice in his issue of Bancrofiana. Publicaion of an annual volume presens financial difficulies ha have no ye been resolved. ago was inense. There was diplomaic scheming, during he conroversy over slavery, o make Texas a par of he Briish Empire. As a producer of coon and oher raw producs, Texas would keep he facories of England humming, and Texas, in urn, would con- Piy he Tyran sume manufacured goods, according o he HANS OTTO STORM, one of California's aleconomic heory of he day. The records of his diplomaic campaign, ened wriers of he 1930's, will be rememconsising of 23 large volumes (Foreign Office- bered hrough wo collecions of papers and Texas records F.O. 75), conain he corre- correspondence, relaing o him, recenly spondence beween he Briish Foreign Office given o he Bancrof Library. David Greenand is represenaives in Texas and have been hood, graduae of he Class of 1922 a he filmed for he Bancrof Library. A brief de- campus, presened o he Library an scripion of he series is given in Charles O. exensive accumulaion of Sorm's correspondpaullin and Frederic L. Paxson, Guide o he ence wih publishers and agens; manuscrips Maerials in London Archives for he Hisoryof his books, sories, and aricles; diaries, of he Unied Saes since 1783 (Washingon, noes, and clippings; and all of his wriings published in he "lile magazines" of weny 1914), pp years ago. Greenhood, now associaed wih a This is anoher produc of Bancrof's coninuing research program in England. Oher New Y)rk publishingfirm,is lierary execuor Briish Foreign Office Series filmed in full o of Sorm's esae. dae include hose for he Hawaiian Islands, The second group of Sorm papers is he Mexico, and he Cenral American area. gif of his siser, Mrs. Clarence Schuber, of. They consis of 63 personal leers wrien by Sorm o his siser. Togeher, hese The California Grizzly papers form an impressive collecion of he THE CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY BEAR, which was lierary and personal effecs of a man who, he subjec of Mr. Frank F. Laa's address o ill his accidenal deah in 1931, was considhe Friends a year or wo ago, has now be- ered one of he mos promising noveliss of come he subjec of a learned publicaion. he ime. His book, Piy he Tyran, a poliiauhors of he book are wo faculy members cal saire based on experiences while working from he Davis campus of he Universiy of in Peru, led o his being oused from ha California Tracy I. Sorer, professor of zool- counry. The book received a Commonwealh ogy, and Lloyd P. Tevis, Jr., assisan special- Club gold medal award as he bes work of a is in he deparmen of zoology. California auhor in [2] Joseph Henry Jackson paron of he Library, boh in his use of is resources and in his zeal o augmen hem. Much has been wrien of Joe Jackson's remendous record as lierary criic of he San Francisco Chronicle. His column, "A Bookman's Noebook," was one of he sparkling feaures of is pages. His earlier weekly NBC radio broadcass on books, and his own books, especially Anybody's Gold and Bad Company, hi a high noe of excellence and public appeal. A he ime of his passing, he was devoing himself wihou reserve o one of his favorie diversions, rue crime sories, by wriing a book-lengh sudy on he Theodore Durran-Blanche Lamon murder ha mysified and he whole counry in He was ever ready o encourage or assis anoher wrier, sriving for higher achievemen, and he gave freely of his unparalleled knowledge of California and he Wes o hose who sough his counsel. We Miss Them IT HAS BEEN wih sorrow, oo, ha we have JOSEPH HENRY JACKSON'S career as a book- learned of he passing of several of our valued man, scholar, and lierary criic gave him a friends of long sanding. naural love for he Bancrof Library, wih is Elizabeh Keih Pond, member of a Calimany reasures of California's olden days. I fornia family of much disincion and unusual also led him o become one of he saunch achievemen, and whose gifs o he Bancrof supporers of he Friends of he Bancrof Li- Library have been numerous and noable, brary. A he firs meeing of he Council died on Sepember 6, Her faher was July 1, 1948, of which Jackson had been Rear Admiral Charles Fremon Pond, comchosen a member, he was seleced as Vice- mandan of he Twelfh Naval Disric, San Chairman. I was ypical of his modes and Francisco, from 1914 o Her uncle was unassuming ways ha he preferred o remain William Keih, world-famous California landin he background, o suppor a worhy cause scape painer, whose porrai of George Dawih encouragemen and help, bu more han vidson, he geographer and hisorian, is in once he refused o be considered a candidae he Bancrof Library. Her aun, Mary Mcfor Chairman. Henry Keih, was an acive feminis and suf"joe" Jackson no only became a charer fragee. Her grandfaher was Judge John member of he Council and ook he ime o McHenry, who came o California during he ake an acive par in is deliberaions, bu Gold Rush. Miss Pond herself was founder was made Honorary Curaor of he Library's of he Keih Ar Associaion and an enhucalifornia Ficion Collecion in In his siasic member of he Friends of he Bancrof new aciviy he ook especial saisfacion in Library. gahering his ype of maerial, helped o dereuben L. Underhill, auhor of Cowhides vise a se of rules for a fuure collecing policy, o Golden Fleece (1939), he sory of Thomas apped unsuspeced sources for gifs of im- O. Larkin, American consul in California, poran documens, and hus made i, by his passed away afer a long illness on January 7, vision and uniring effors, an ousanding 1955, a he age of 85. Mr. Underhill, wih par of his Library. Joe was ever a "working" singular devoion, organized he Herber I. [3]

3 Priesley Fund as a memorial o Dr. Priesley, Librarian of he Bancrof Library for many years and is Direcor from 1942 o Peer Van Valkenburgh, he well-known Bay Area aris, died on Augus 25, 1955, a he age of eighy-five. A naive of Greenbush, Wisconsin, Mr. Van Valkenburgh came o he Wes Coas in Many of his original porrais are in he Bancrof Library, which also has an exensive file of phoographs of his work. Griffing Bancrof, son of Huber Howe Bancrof, founder of he Bancrof Library, and himself auhor of he book, Lower California: A Cruise; he Fligh of he Leas Perel (1932), died in San Diego on May 3, He ook grea pleasure in his work on Lower California and gave he Bancrof Library an inscribed copy of The Leas Perel. James K. Moffi, a Regen of he Universiy of California for 36 years, leader in numerous business enerprises of he San Francisco Bay communiy and generous benefacor of he Universiy, died on Augus 16, 1955, aged 86. Mr. Moffi's collecion of incunables was willed o he General Library of he Universiy. Diary of 's Birh SAN FRANCISCO was founded in 1776 by Juan Bauisa de Anza, as is known o mos Californians. Anza, a ough fronier capain who had kep order among Indians and Spanish coloniss on he Sonora-Pimeria Ala fronier for many years, no only had opened a rail overland o California from Sonora in 1774, bu also, in 1776, brough o he new province he coloniss men, women, and children who were o become he firs selers of he new ciy of. The rail, over he Yuma deser, had been hard, bu Anza comfored he sick and weary and encouraged he enire colony by his able leadership. The diariss of he expediion were Anza himself and Fray Pedro Fon, he chaplain. Boh kep excellen diaries. Dr. F. J. Teggar published he firs English ranslaion of Fon's Diary in Volume III of he Academy of Pacific Coas Hisory Publicaions in When Professor Herber E. Bolon was doing his famous work on he "Spanish Borderlands," he ranslaed and edied all of he Anza and Fon diaries known o him. These were published by he Universiy of California Press in 1930 as Anza s California Expediions, in Rye large volumes. One of hese was republished by Knopf in 1931, wih he ile, Oupos of Empire. The Fon Diary appears in several versions, some more complee han he ohers. The copy ranslaed and published by boh Bolon and Teggar was finished a he Mission of Ures on June 23, A beauifully drawn conemporary copy, one of he fines examples of such work ha we have seen, was given o he Bancrof Library by Mr. Edmond D. "Cobbie" Coblenz, disinguished journalis. The copy was made by Anonio Marinez Velasco a Querearo, November 23, Sill anoher Fon Diary came o ligh afer Bolon had published his grea work. This copy, a varian of he ohers, is in he Franciscan Archives in Rome. There is a phoocopy of i in he Bancrof Library. Humor 'round he Horn AMONG he livelies and mos original diaries of he voyage from New England o California around he Horn are wo wrien by Isaac W. Baker, he one eniled, "Journal of he Proceedings on board he Barque, ," and he oher, "Journal of Some of he Sayings Doings on board he Ship John Q. Adams, " Inerspersed among he descripions of daily evens, usually humdrum in naure bu which Baker makes humorous and wiy, are numerous clever illusraions, good doggerel, and even waer color skeches of evens on board ship as well as in California. The 1849 Journal has an excellen pencil skech of Bay, anoher of he enrance o he Golden Gae, a waer color of Telegraph Hill, hen called "Prospec Hill," charming waer color views of Suer's For and he Hospial near Suer's For, and numerous oher scenes ha appealed o he aris-diaris. [4] 1 The 1852 Journal has several waer color Firs Yosemie Touris skeches of he Big Trees and oher naural MRS. IRENE D. PADEN, noed wrier on he wonders of he woods, ogeher wih a delighwes, has reached an ineresing conclusion in ful skech of Alviso, on Bay. Boh journals have numerous verses and sudying he diary of William Penn Abrams. doggerel, of which an "Ode o My Old Sock- This diary was given o he Bancrof Library recenly by Mrs. Ruh A. Frazier of Los ing" is characerisic: Angeles. Heeless and oeless work of ar On a page wrien in pencil and almos obalas! hcu'r geing old, So worn and orn I scarcely know lieraed is his passage: The relics I behold! Ocober 18h. Reurned o S.F. afer visi o SavThy foo, sore scrach'd by many a nail age propery on Merced River prospecs are none In many a place worn hin, oo good for a mill Savage is a blaspheming fellow Indeed 'would be a darned hard ask who has five squaws for wives for which he akes his To make you whole again! auhoriy from he Scripures. While a Savage's The skech of he said sock suggess i would, Reamer and I saw grizzly bear racks and wen ou hun him down geing los in he mounains and indeed, ake a lo of darning "To make you o no reurning unil he following evening found our way o camp over an Indian rail ha lead pas whole; gain! These journals are he gif of he grandson a valley enclosed by supendous cliffs rising perhaps of he diaris, Frederick S. Baker, Dean of he 3000 fee from heir base and which gave us cause wonder. No far off a waerfall dropped from a School of Foresry a he Universiy of Cali- for cliff below hree jagged peaks ino he valley while fornia,. farher beyond a rounded mounain sood, he valley side of which looked as hough i had been sliced wih a knife as one would slice a loaf of bread and Bancrof's Direcor which Reamer and I called he Rock of Ages. Mrs. Paden recognized his passage for wha Honored i is an unmisakable word-picure of YoAT THE ANNUAL MEETING of he Uah Sae semie Valley, as seen from he old Indian Hisorical Sociey in Sal Lake Ciy on Oco- Trail on he souh cliffs. Mr. Weldon F. Heald ber 22, 1955, Bancrof's direcor, George P. wroe a brief accoun of his same inciden in Hammond, gave he feaured address, en- he Sierra Club Bullein for May, Mr. iled "The Search for he Fabulous in he Heald summed up his shor aricle wih he Hisory of he Souhwes Ques for he senence, "The imporance of he Abrams Seven Ciies of Cibola, Quivira, andteguayo." Diary is ha hihero here had been no evithe aricle will be published in he Uah His- dence ha any whie man visied he valley or knew of is exisence beween 1833 and orical Quarerly for January, " Mrs. Paden akes issue wih Mr. Heald's Wine Collecion saemen. She is convinced ha, on he basis RESEARCH MATERIALS on he California wine of recen research, Joseph Reddeford Walker indusry, gahered in he course of wriing his did no see he Yosemie Valley in 1833, as Guide o California Wines, have been pre- has been concluded from Zenas Leonard's Narsened o he Library by John Melville of raive, published in 1839, ^ u ^ la Abrams, Carmel, in compliance wih a promise made who was here in 1849, was hefirsamerican o Joseph Henry Jackson before his deah. acually o look ino he Valley. Mrs. Paden Included in he collecion are several drafs bases her judgmen on he descripion quoed of he manuscrip, full noes, pamphles, bro- above and on her own inimae knowledge of chures, labels, and exensive correspondence he Yosemie. wih he principal figures in he indusry, as This year Mrs. Paden holds a Guggenheim well as wih he publisher. Melville's Guide Fellowship and is engaged in preparing an was published, wih an inroducion by he annoaed bibliography of he manuscrips lae Joseph Henry Jackson, by Doubleday relaing o he exploraion and colonizaion and Company in he summer of of California and Oregon. [5]

4 Morgan, Dale L., and Whea, Carl I. Friends in Prin Jedediah Smih and His Maps of he American Wes, by Dale L. Morgan and Carl I. Whea. KEEPING UP wih our Friends in Prin is no, California Hisorical Sociey, J always easy, bu we are reminded, as we go o 954press, of some recen lierary and hisorical Rudkin, Charles N. conribuions by various members. If we have Camille de Roquefeuil in, , ranslaed and edied by Charles N. Rudmissed a good book, le us know, so we can kin., Glen Dawson, make amends. Suar, Reginald R. Burke, Rober E. A Hisory of he Fred Finch Children's Home "Die Demokraie der Wessaaen," in Der... by Reginald R. Suar and Grace D. Suar. Wabler, published in Frankfor, Germany, Oakland, Fred Finch Children's Home, Bynum, Lindley Sullivan, Joseph A., Ed. California Wines and How o Enjoy Them. Los The Firs California Troubador, by Sephen C. Angeles, Homer H. Boeler, Lihography. Masse. Prologue by Joseph A. Sullivan. OakCorle, Edwin land, Biobooks, Glances ino California, by Waler Col on.wagner, InHenry Raup roducion by Edwin Corle., Glen The Firs American Vessel in California. MonDawson, erey in 1796., Glen Dawson, Cross, Ralph Herber Whea, Carl I. The Early Inns of California, San Mapping he American Wes, ; a Francisco, Lawon Kennedy, preliminary sudy. Worceser, Mass., American Aniquarian Sociey, Dunne, Peer Masen facobo Sedelmayr, Missionary, Froniersman, Woodward, Arhur, Ed. Explorer in Arizona and Sonora. Phoenix, Ariz.,The Russians on he Pacific Ocean (California, 1845), by Alexander Markoff; he Ivan Peroff Arizona Pioneers' Hisorical Sociey, ranslaion wih a foreword by Arhur WoodEvans, Henry Herman Bohemian., The ward., Glen Dawson, Porpoise Bookshop, Fisher, Lillian Eselle A Benefacor Champion of Reform, Manuel Abad y Queipo. New York, Library Publishers, OUR GOOD FRIEND, Joseph M. Bransen, has Giffen, Helen Smih California Mining Town Newspapers, helped 18^0- us so much and so ofen in recen 1880, A Bibliography. Van Nuys, Calif., J." years E. ha we would like o make public noe Reynolds, of his benefacions. Casas Couryards; Hisoric Adobe Houses Heoflaunched our Frank Norris Collecion California. Foreword by W. W. Robinson, Phowih his gif of wo leaves of he manuscrip ographs by Guy J. Giffen. Oakland, Biobooks, of McTeague. Single-handedly he very nearly J955filled several of he wan liss published in Graff, Evere D., Ed. noably hose of Mary Ausin Skech of a Trip from Omaha o Salmon Bancrofiana, River, and Gele Burgess. Among his recen gifs by Daniel McLaughlin. Chicago, Hammond, George Peer are four inscribedfirs-ediionbooks of George On he Ambiious Projecs of Russia in Serling regard and a highly ineresing leer of o Norh Wes America., Book John Muir. Club of California, To "Joe" Bransen go our heary hanks Howell, John The Friendship of Books; A California and Bookhe firm assurance ha our wans are, man., (Book Club of Cali- properly enough, quie insaiable. fornia, quarerly newsleer.) Jackson, Joseph Henry The Life and Advenures of Joaquin Muriea, Annual Repor he Celebraed California Bandi, by Yellow EACH YEAR he Saff of he Bancrof Library Bird (John Rollin Ridge) wih an inroducion by Joseph Henry Jackson. Norman, Universiy akes sock of he year's evens in an Annual of Oklahoma Press, Repor, signalizing he various phases of he Lewis, Oscar Library's aciviies. Copies of his year's regeorge Davidson, Pioneer Wes Coas Scienis., Universiy of California Press, por, compleed in November, may be had by Town Tha Died Laughing: The Sory ofsending Aus- he direcor a posal card wih your reques. in, Nevada... New York, Lile, Brown, [6] New Friends IT IS always a pleasure o welcome new Friends, among whom we coun he following: Abel, Richard Porland, Ore. Benne Marshall, Aniquarian Booksellers Bosshard, R. E. Boucher, Mrs. Beulah Blair Brown, Mrs. Edmund N. Sonoma Chapman, Mrs. Chrisina A. Oakland Chensoff, Eugene V. Coas, William R. San Maeo Davidson, Mrs. Charles S. Day, Henry L. Wallace, Idaho Delareuelle, R. R. Walnu Creek Dolley, Dr. Frank Sephen Eccleson, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Oakland Elkus, Mrs. Charles de Y. Gollan, Gordon D. Gould, Charles P. San Marino Harrison, Mrs. Michael Sacrameno Heron, Alexander R. Holden, Mrs. S. George Ivancovich, Byron Tucson, Ariz. Ken, Arhur H. LeBlanc, Berrand Lyon, Mrs. Hazel Knox Moore, Mrs. Edna U. Nuing, Franklin P. Oakley, Judge James H. Sacrameno Parmann, William B. Pond, Mrs. Inez Henderson Sockon Rosekrans, John N. Rudkin, Charles N. San Marino Sayre, Mrs. Edgar A., Jr. Sacrameno Sinsheimer, Paul A. Smih, Colonel Waddell F. San Rafael Souhwes Museum, Inc. Highland Park Seinmez, George E. Danville Sephens, W. Barclay, M.D. Alameda Tyler, S. Lyman Provo, Uah Vog, Ernes A. Piedmon Wes, Herber F. Baker Library Darmouh College Hanover, N. H. Whiney, Miss Jean Marian Sana Rosa Wiseman, Miss Georgea A. Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. William Carmel Valley Bes Wishes, Carl CARL I. WHEAT, Chairman of he Friends, was aken ill during July while preparing o aend he annual Grove Encampmen of he Bohemian Club of wih his gues, Conrad L. Wirh, direcor of he Naional Park Service. Carl is convalescing saisfacorily a his home in Menlo Park. "Rip"Ruble Gif THE NAME of Henry Morse Sephens was, a generaion ago, one o conjure wih on he campus of he Universiy of California. Popular wih sudens and ownsfolk alike, he lecured o he larges classes on he campus and was in consan demand as a speaker a off-campus funcions. Sephens was, a ha ime, head of he Universiy's Hisory Deparmen, and one of he mos disinguished members of is faculy. Abou him he gahered a selec group of graduae sudens, apprenices in he profession of hisory, who absorbed his enhusiasm for hisorical sudy, wheher as a hobby or as eachers. One of hese was Francis William Rubke, always known o his friends as "Rip" Rubke, suden of hisory, capain of he baseball eam, and above all a friend of his favorie professor, Henry Morse Sephens. "Rip" Rubke was deoured from he sudy of hisory as a professional, bu, as a business man, he enjoyed more and more he leisure hours wih he manyfinebooks of his library. When he was suddenly sricken in May, 1955, his moher and siser presened his California and Wesern books o he Bancrof Library as a memorial o heir son and broher. Holderman Collecion THE CORRESPONDENCE and papers of Colonel Nelson Miles Holderman, much-decoraed hero of he Firs World War and long-ime Commandan of he Veerans Home of California, have been presened o he Bancrof Library by his widow, Mrs. Marguerie A. Holderman of S. Helena, California. Holderman was born in Hasings, Nebraska, in He was brough as a child o Orange Couny, California, where his faher became a rancher. Joining he California Naional Guard, Holderman rose hrough he enlised ranks and was commissioned. Afer serving under General Pershing on he Mexican border, Holderman wen o France wih he American Expediionary Force as a capain of infanry. In France he was ransferred from he 40h Division (California Naional Guard) o he 77h Division as a company commander. In he Bale of he Argonne For- [7]

5 "Go ahead, Phil, and presen he bills o me." es, Capain Holderman's Company K, 307h Under his "conrac" we rendered monhly bills Infanry, was he righ flank of he "Los Mr. Maher liquidaed by personal checks. Baalion." Holderman, severely wounded, which There was no bond or oher complexiy conneced was awarded he Congressional Medal of wih he underaking. I was a verbal agreemen Honor for his heroic deeds in he Argonne, wih a man of honorable purpose. His word was good enough. Ocober 2-8, Afer he war he served in he army of occupaion in Germany, a he presidio of San Coronado Beach Francisco, and in several oher places. In 1926 THE DEVELOPMENT of Coronado Beach in San he reired from he regular army on perma- Diego and he early years of he operaion of nen disabiliy and became Commandan of is famous Hoel Del Coronado is old in a he Veerans Home of California a Youn- collecion of he records of several Spreckels ville, Napa Couny, a posiion he held unil family enerprises recenly given o he Lihis deah in Sepember, As Comman- brary. dan, Holderman inspired, and saw hrough Coronado Beach, described in is publiciy o virual compleion, an elaborae building brochures as "our New Ialy wihou malaria," program for he Home, involving he erec- was he cener of real esae aciviy during ion of modernfireproofbuildings and a dam he decades around he urn of he cenury. and reservoir o provide adequae waer. The immense hoel, covering four and a half The Holderman collecion includes corre- acres, he larges resor hoel in he world, spondence, phoographs, miliary decoraions, adverised o ouriss (in a way ha mus clippings, and personal miscellany. have sounded agreeable a he ime) ha i was a place "where sick people ge well and well people ge fa." This was obviously bemaher and fore he emergence of he ever-presen nonfa milk of oday! he Naional Parks WHEN MR. DAN GUTLEBEN, one of Ban- crof's devoed friends, learned ha he Se- Welcome phen T. Maher Papers, comprising so much AGE DOES NOT WITHER nor cusom sale he of he hisory of his counry's Naional infinie variey and aciviy of Bancrof's Parks, had been given o he Bancrof Li- Friends, if we may coin a phrase, and he livbrary, i reminded him of an experience, and ing ex for our heme is provided by he dehe sa down and wroe Dr. J. B. Tompkins of voed couple, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar N. Carer. he Bancrof Saff and he donor, Mrs. Ed- Ocogenarians boh, hey were never more ward R. McPherson, Maher's daugher, he vigorous of mind or of ineress, and we are following leer: happy o coun hem wihin he circle of May 27, 1955 Bancrof's inimae friends. Mr. Carer is he Dear Dr. Tompkins: Menion of he Maher Memorial in he Decem- sole surviving son of W. A. Carer, pioneer ber 1954 "Bancrofiana" reminds me of a lile ex- suler of For Bridger, and has aken he iniperience in which Sephen Maher was implicaed. iaive in building up an imposing collecion Broher Phil and I, operaing under he syle of Gu- of Carer family papers a Bancrof. Long leben Brohers, Conracors, were doing a good deal of work in Yosemie a he ime Mr. Maher was ac- residen a Souh Pasadena, he Carers have ive as Direcor of Naional Park Service abou 40 now locaed a Burlingame, on he Peninsula, years ago. He was, of course, ineresed in making where forunaely hey will be more immehe parks available and aracive o he greaes diaely available o Bancrof for consulaion. number of visiors bu his hear also wen ou o he For several years pas Mr. Carer has been long-suffering rangers who sacrificed heir comfor for he benefi of he guess. One day he presened engaged in building a scale model of For a layou of a club house which he proposed o build Bridger as an Army pos, which has now been for he rangers and he sa down wih Phil and he compleed and is hereafer o be a feaure of head ranger o whip he plans ino shape for consrucion. When heir minds had me on he plans he sae museum display a his Wyoming and an approximaion of he cos, Mr. Maher said, birhplace. [8]