June 26, 1913
My Dear Markham:
Mrs. Markham wrote me a while ago about “Tiger”, my one-act play in the May Forum that you joined her in a message of commendation. She went on to say: “it carries its lesson with more of art than any of the...
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968. An ode to Harvard and other poems.
6 Ash St
Dear Mr. Edwin Markham:
Did that second copy of my book of poems ever reach you? In hopes that some time you may read and like them, I am faithfully yours
Witter Bynner
April 4 1908
Witter, Bynner, 1881-1968. Epithalamion and Elegy.
March 31, 1925
Dear A.C.M.:
I thought my Epithalamion and Elegy was “first” one evening. I know it was. Shouldn’t it have been printed with the rest? Though I was in New York, I saw almost no one. I stayed away from everything – after that ...
January 18 1908
Dear Mr. Markham:
I am very glad I wrote you inquiring, and have at once ordered another copy of this book sent you. I had not thought of the possibility of your noticing it in your department, though that would be a gratification...
May 14 1913
Dear Mrs. Markham:
Bless your hearts for promptly reassuring me as to Tiger! Your letter came when I was still wondering whether my friends and readers would understand my writing and printing it. As far as I have heard, the attacks...
December 22, 1921
Dear Mrs. Markham:
This is only a post-script. I have just seen the Bulletin, and am wondering why you did not include A CANTICLE OF PAN as one of the books withdrawn from the prize contest. What is fair to the others ought also...
Hotel Carlton
Berkeley, California
April 30, 1919
Dear Mr. Atkins:-
I shall be happy to send you something for the Whitman Celebration. Do you want a poem of twenty or thirty lines or just a message of so many words? And how soon must you have it?...
Nov 21 1921
Dear Mrs. Markham:
The 29th will be quite all right. I’ll be there. If Squires accepts for the 29th, ask him to dine with us that evening and let me know his telephone –number, that I may reach him promptly. If we have Anderson...
Jan 10 1919
Dear Mrs. Markham:
Your letter written a month ago has wandered about after me, reaching me incredibly late. I’d come for you gladly – but you see where I am: teaching verse-writing and other things in the University of California....
Box 1061 Santa Fe NM
Dear Secretary:
You have not acknowledged my regretful resignation but I suppose it reached you. I had another copy of this note made for you here it is:
Fondly yours
WB
(Mrs. Ford[?] who is offering a prize for the best...
October 2, 1922.
Dear A.C.M.,
I’m enclosing you a note which you may or may not read as you choose, at the October meeting. I feel sure that I have already sent you, either in my letter of resignation, or in some other, a message concerning Mr....
July 11, 1906
Dear Mr. Markham:
Besides our interest in “The Poetry of Jesus”, I now hear that you are doing some very remarkable work for the Cosmopolitan of which a book ought to be made. Won’t you surely let us have a chance at it?
Very...
May 1st, 1906
Dear Mr. Markham:
The package about which you have been written, came to light and is going to you today. Two copies of each of your books “The Man With The Hoe” and “Lincoln and Other Poems” are going to you by this post,...
