UPTON SINCLAIR
LOS ANGELES WEST BRANCH
CALIFORNIA
May 1933
Dear Friend:
I didn't expect to send you another circular this spring; but it appears that I have written another book!
So many persons have been asking me for something on the...
April 22, ‘30
Dear Edwin Markham,
Greetings on your 78th birthday! I read with real pleasure the interviews with you in the “Telegram” and “Times” and rejoice that you are still active and forging ahead. I am still a member of the Poetry...
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...
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...
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...
Willard, N.Y.
Atwell NY July 18/22
Dear Comrade Markham:-
Your splendid article and your gracious letter came just as I was about to leave for a few days (”between Sundays”) at my little Adirondack cottage. So I have had no opportunity to write...
June 4, 1915.
Prof. Edwin Markham
West New Brighton, N.Y.
Dear Comrade:-
I have been thinking of you a great deal during the last three months. We were extremely sorry you could not come to the Conference at Baltimore. While it was a small...
2024 Spruce Street
How lovely and how like you, dear Mr. Markham to send me that charming letter! I wish I could tell you how much I appreciate it – and you.
Affectionately always,
Florence Earle Coates
May the twenty-third.
Oct. 31 1906
My Dear Sir:
I am glad to get your encouraging word concerning my articles on the evils of Child Labor. Perhaps you may feel like sending in your name as a member of our Child Labor Federation. No financial obligation in becoming a...
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...
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,...
September 26 ‘29
My Dear Markham:
Thought you might be interested in the enclosed letters. I hope it was all right for me to tell him of your first reading of The Man With The Hoe. I was full of it only a day or two after you had told me the very...
October 19, 1901
Dear Mr. Markham:
Your welcome letter came several days ago and I have been awaiting the proof sheets of this book. Ferguson, who was to review it, must, I fear, be headed off, as I now see that he is radically opposed to anything...
1419 Bolton St.,
Baltimore, Md., Apr. 30, 1917.
Dear Mr. Markham,
It was, indeed, a great disappointment to see that you were obliged to take today an earlier train than you had expected to take. For I was looking forward with most pleasant...
La Primola,
5 Via Benedetto da Maiano,
S. Domenico di Fiesole,
Florence, Italy.
September 2, 1912.
Prof. Jno Ward Stimson,
“The Uplands”,
Redding, Connecticut.
Dear Friend:-
I cannot tell you how sorry we were not to have come to you in...
Nov. 1, 1911.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton,
Staten Island
Dear Mr. Markham:
I am taking the liberty without asking your permission, of sending you a little book of poems which has been submitted to us in manuscript by their author, Herbert...
July 1st 1918.
Edwin Markham Esq.,
92 Waters Avenue
West New Brighton
New York
Dear Sir-
We took great pleasure in mailing you some copies of our May number six weeks ago. In it we published your beautiful poem “Slaves of the Drug.” We made it...
