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...
View of towpath, canal, and lock [#55] in Lyons, New York photographed from the towpath looking down the canal toward the trestle bridge and the lock. Dilapidated wooden fence and low wooden buildings line the towpath on the near side. A field and...
A sepia postcard featuring the South Side Retaining [sic] Wall. The postcard seems to be capturing preparations for the construction of a possible canal as shown by the trestles supporting the sides of the embankment. A wide ditch houses countless...
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...
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...
Box 264
Monroe N.Y.
Dear Comrade Markham,
I am trying to take advantage of your regretted absence at our “meeting”, which lacked only your crowning presence, by working daily on new sonnets, so that, with many more delays, you will find a...
West Brighton, N.Y., June 25, 1923
My Dear Darwin J. Meserole:
My hearty thanks for the copy of The Decay of Capitalistic Civilization, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, those two explorers who see deep into our social chaos. I am glad to get this news,...
That was a good article on your work – where did I see it? In the arena, I think. (Crossed out at the top of the page)
West New Brighton, N.Y.
Nov. 30, 1906
To Mr. N. O. Nelson
My Dear Nelson:
It is very good of you to want to keep me right on...
West New Brighton, N.Y. June 7, 1923
Dear Mr Carl Schurz Lowden:
Capital Punishment? No, I do not stand for it. First, I do not think that severe punishment necessarily acts as a strong deterrent. It is certainty of punishment, not severity of...
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. The Forgotten Purpose of Jesus.
March 1, 1939
Mr. Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton,
New York
Dear Edwin Markham:
Don’t you think, because I fail to write you, that I do not often think of you, and wish that I could see you and talk over conditions in the world – conditions...
UPTON SINCLAIR
PASADENA
CALIFORNIA
Dear Friend :
I wish to inform the readers of "Upton Sinclair's" concerning "Jimmie Higgins".
Last spring it appeared that the war was going to last a long time, 'and that "Jimmie Higgins" would have to stand...
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...
September 7, 1908.
Edwin Markham,
Landing, N.J.
Dear Comrade.—
Under separate cover we are mailing you a copy of the last edition of my “Songs of Socialism” I trust that you may find this work interesting and quite an improvement upon the...
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 commemorative postcard celebrating the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River, with portraits of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton superimposed over a daytime aerial view of the Hudson River. Prominently featured are a sailing ship...
A panoramic view of the Harbor in Whitehall, N.Y. The silk mill appears on the left and connects to the right side by a bridge that crosses the harbor over a spillway and lock house. On the right side there are a number of commercial buildings and...
