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Title: Henry Meade Bland Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1907-1951
Collection number: Mss67
Creator:
Mildred Bland McCormack & Robert L. Breeden
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Henry Meade Bland Collection, Mss67, Holt-Atherton Department
of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Henry Meade Bland (1863-1931), was a native California poet who succeeded Ina Coolbrith
as the state's Poet Laureate (1929). After graduate study at the University of the
Pacific (1890-91), Stanford (M.A. 1895) and the University of California, he taught
English at San Jose State Teachers College(1899-1931), the forerunner of San Jose State
University. During the early years of the twentieth century, Bland penned reviews of the
works of California writers for Town and Country. He was the friend of Joaquin Miller
(his daughter married Miller's grandson), Jack London, John Muir, Edwin Markham, and
other California literary figures. His verse was published in Sierran Pan & Other Poems
(1924) and six other volumes. His prose writings include Stevenson's California (1924)
and Prose & Poetry for Children (1914). Edwin Markham wrote of Bland's poetry that it
contained "lines of true beauty and mystic music." David Starr Jordan noted that Henry
Meade Bland's poetry was "always sane."
This Bland collection contains copies of the poet's works with annotations in his own
hand, Bland obituaries and a study of the poet's work (1951).