The Poets’ Garden
B.B.B.
Thanksgiving Morning
1933.
Beloved “Edwin of the Song”
Hail! on this my happiest Thanksgiving. My heart overflows with gratitude for the great gifts you have given. I shall try always to be worthy and to carry on for...
Dec 9 1903
Mrs. Catherine Markham
West New Brighton N.Y.
Dear Mrs. Markham:
Your valued favor was received during my absence from the city. Each word has been noted with interest and appreciation. I certainly must confess to having misinterpreted...
Sept. 9/09
Dear Mrs. Markham,
Here is a little souvenir of the Westfield lunch-party. If you would like more of these photographs, either mounted or unmounted, I can get them at 25¢ apiece.
I am very sorry that Mr. Markham’s name was mixed up in...
Dec. 3rd, 1907
Prof. Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton, N.Y.
Dear Comrade and Brother:-
Your generous letter containing draft for twenty-five dollars and the promise of an equal amount for our next three special editions was received. We are very...
July 31st., 1912.
Dear Comrade Mras:-
Your note is received. Answering I regret to say that I do not have a copy of Markham’s poem at hand at this moment. Let me suggest that you write to the author himself for it and he can doubtless furnish it...
N.Y., Jan. 24/02.
Dear Mr. Markham,
I was more than pleased to get your kind note, - the more so because I feel I hardly deserved it. The article is very superficial, and was written during a stress of other work. I am not particularly proud of...
April 16th, 1920.
Mrs. Robert Mackay, Treasurer,
202 West 108th Street,
New York City.
Dear Madam:-
I take pleasure in sending my check for $1.75 for an autograph copy of Mr. Markham’s new volume of poems. I am also sending reservations for the...
1419 Bolton St.,
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 22, 1915.
My dear Mrs. Markham,
When we were arranging for the coming general conference of the Christian Socialist Fellowship, I begged the Hospitality Committee to give Mrs. Tappan and me the pleasure of...
June 19, 1940
Dear Dr. Hampton;
I wrote last year an article in the Sunday American on Mr. Markham’s poem, Russia, Arise, which he dedicated to me and what it brought about in Russia today. I hope you read it. I have same subject more elaborately...
I wish to contribute twenty five dollars to the fund of the Russian Revolutionists. Where ought I to send it? E.M.
Oct 26, 1906
Dear John Martin:
It was blessed to get your ringing word approving my child-labor articles in “The Cosmopolitan.”...
Jan. 7/08
Dear Mr. Markham,
I am sending you under separate cover a letter from Mrs. Henry S[?], of Philadelphia. She is a Russian-Jewish lady – a great heart in a little lady.
They want to give you a hint of reception over there. There will be...
March 3rd 1903
My Dear Mr. Markham:
Need I say how much we appreciate your kind response to our “fair” circular? The gift of your two books will, I know, be greatly appreciated all ‘round by our friends – in their name – Thanks! I had not...
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...
THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIALIST SPIRIT
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. TEN CENTS A COPY
184 WILLIAM STREET
New York, Sept. 29/01
Dear Mr. Markham,
Mr. LeGallienne disappointed us on his poem for THE COMRADE at the last moment, and we were compelled to use your...
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. The man with the hoe, and other poems
Dec. 23, 1912
Prof. Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton, N.Y.
Dear Comrade:-
Please send one copy of “Lincoln and Other Poems” and one copy of “The Man with the Hoe and other Poems” to A.W. Calhoun, Hopkinton, Iowa. Enclosed find $1.50 for...
Socialism, Christian -- United States -- Meetings.
April 21, ‘32
Dear Mr. Markham,
I read, with appreciation, the full – page article about you in last Saturday’s “Journal” and the column in yesterday’s “Herald Tribune.” It is good to know, old friend, that you are still so active,...
February 5, 1916.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
92 Waters Avenue,
West New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York.
My dear Markham:-
I thank you for your beautiful letter and I assure you that it is deeply appreciated. There are only going to be a few who will...
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...
Nov. 28th., 1911
Mr. Edwin Markham
West New Brighton, N.Y.
My Dear Comrade Markham:-
I received your marked page of the “American” and your Swedenborgian leaflet, in your own good right hand, and I am thanking you warmly for your kind...
November 30th, 1916.
My dear Mr. Markham:
We take pleasure in handing you the December copy of the Humanitarian Magazine and we call your attention to Page 30, which features your poem.
Sincerely Yours,
Misha Appelbaum
Edwin Markham, Esq.,
