Canal Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Page 4 of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This page includes a table of tolls...
Canal Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Page 6 of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This page compares the seven year...
January 14, 1918.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
92 Waters Ave.,
West New Brighton, New York.
Cher maître,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law! It has been very remiss of me not to write to you for so long. I have had a spell of creative work (of...
A scenic view of Cranston's Hotel (upper right corner) at West Point on Hudson. Cranston's, among the most prominent nineteenth-century resorts in America, was later converted to a school for girls (Ladycliff Academy) in September, 1900, under the...
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...
J. William Lloyd and Leonard D. Abbott
West New Brighton N.Y.
July 7, 1910
Dear Friends:
I enclose check for two years’ subscription to your thoughtful chap-book “The Free Comrade.” I am not going to agree with all your pages, but I am...
92 Waters Avenue
West New Brighton N.Y.
January 7, 1912
Dear Mr. Martin:
I thank you heartily for sending me an inscribed copy of your volume, “The Passing of the Idle Rich.” It is a strong, useful and convincing work, one that will have a...
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...
23 Belmont Terrace,
Yonkers-on-Hudson N.Y.,
Jan’y 7 – 1905
My Dear Mr. Markham:
There has been established here in Yonkers lately a “People’s Forum”. It is absolutely non-partisan and unsectarian and it’s chief aim if the maintainance...
West New Brighton, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1932.
My dear Mary Steward:
At last, after many adventures in the world of affairs, I have reached your welcome letter of April 23rd. I am glad that you included your reply to my poem The Man with the Hoe. I never...
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...
Dams; Grasses; Hills; Rural; Shrubs; Towpaths; Trees; Black & white postcards; Panoramic views; Canals; Rivers; Spillways;
This black and white postcard shows a falls [presumably a dam] and spillway on the Mohawk River at Lock 7 which is not in the picture. The canal [presumably Erie] is in the foreground along with grasses and trees. The terrain in the postcard shows...
Canal Fund; Commissioners; Report; Financing; Revenue; Tayler, John; De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834; M'Intyre, Archibald, 1772-1859; Dox, Gerrit L.; Yates, J. V. N.; Oakley, Thomas J.; New York (State); Erie Canal; Report
A three page report of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund presented to the New York State Legislature In Assembly, January 7, 1820 and submitted by John Tayler, Simeon De Witt, Archibald M'Intyre, Gerrit L. Dox, J. V. N. Yates, and Thomas J....
