Depositions--Delaware; Slavery--Delaware; Fugitive slaves--Delaware; Fugitive slaves--New York (State)--New York
One-page deposition of Richard Colgate of Kent County, Delaware, regarding his runaway slave James Winham. Includes detailed description and account of Winham's escape to New York, where he "inlisted [sic] in his Majesties Service in Capt. Langdons...
Sepia postcard of a canal in Durhamville, N.Y. Two connected barges piled high with lumber are heading up the canal; a sign on the stern announces that the barge is the "Charlie S Floy". There are decorative swirls on both sides of the name. A...
241 East 201st St., New York City.
Feb. 15, 1916.
It is long –too long-- since I have seen you. I have been thinking for some time of coming over to Staten Island to get a glimpse of you and to talk over old times. Now my young friend, Jacob...
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 ...
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...
2 Holworthy Hall,
Cambridge, Mass.
May 7, 1912
My Dear Mr. Markham:-
I am writing without shame to ask a very great favor of you. Our Socialist club at Harvard is planning to have its annual dinner on or about Tuesday, May 21, and we are very...
September 6, 1920
Dear Mary:
Your letters, all fillied with tender concern for me, reached my hand and thouched my heart. I understand your point of view. You think doubtless that my happiness depends upon my relation to some church, especially to...
May 20
Dear Mr. Markham,
Thanks for the poem, which we had already taken from the “Journal” and which will appear in next week’s issue.
I think that it is far away the best and truest picture of this phase of modern Mammonism that I ever...
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. California the wonderful
1419 Bolton St.,
Baltimore, Md.,
May 31, 1917
Dear Mr. Markham,
When I got home yesterday from my work, I found “California the Wonderful” awaiting me. I should have written you last night but I was away from home on a delightful tour of the...
Sept. 19/07
Dear Mr. Markham,
Herron, Gorky, now Earle – not to mention Jack London, J. William Lloyd, Elbert Hubbard - it fairly takes one’s breath away!
This whirlwind burst over me as suddenly as over everybody else. I knew nothing of the...
January 31st, 1907.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
Westerleigh Park, West New Brighton, Staten Island.
My dear Mr. Markham:-
One of the two rooms we have in mind is big enough to hold five or six thousand books, and you have no idea how blue the skies are out...
June 12
Dear Mr. Markham,
I have been wanting to ask you for a portrait of yourself for my room. Won’t you please send me one? I liked that San Francisco photograph (used in The Comrade); also one I saw in Rockwood’s the other day. Please send...
NY Oct 10
My Dear Mr. Markham,
I have not heard from you about the verses, which I suppose means that you do not think any thing can be done with them. I suppose that is the case. I sail for Europe the last of this week. If you could send them to...
Transparency of a news clipping, undated and unidentified, from World War Two with the headline “Queens College Buddies Together on Guam”, with a photograph of three servicemen. “Some of our classmates found each other in strange places far...
A hand-colored postcard with an aerial view of Medina, N.Y. On the right bank of a canal that bends to the left is a collection of houses and factories or warehouses in the foreground and center of the card. There are working smokestacks dotted...
Bridges; Truss bridges; Awnings; Buildings; Chimneys; Electric lines; Embankments; Fences; Houses; Masonry; Porches; Railings; Reflections; Roads; Signs (Notices); Stairways; Towpaths; Trees; Utility Poles; Waterfronts; Black & white postcards;...
The black & white postcard shows a view of the Erie Canal, presumably as seen from the right bank. The left side is featured prominently; a towpath that runs alongside the canal is lined by a row of houses. Various stairways lead up to the porch...
