December 22, 1921
Dear Mrs. Markham:
This is only a post-script. I have just seen the Bulletin, and am wondering why you did not include A CANTICLE OF PAN as one of the books withdrawn from the prize contest. What is fair to the others ought also...
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...
November 22nd, 1906.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
Westerleigh, Staten Island.
My dear Mr. Markham:-
Someone was talking to me today and happened to mention you, and I asked why you did not join the Colony. The reply was that you had not been invited. I...
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...
February 13, 1907
My dear Mrs. Markham:
The letter which you so kindly enclose opens up too many questions to be considered in a letter.
(I) It is not “an accepted theory” that the more competition the better, except of course, by the...
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...
2000 Channing Way
Berkeley, Cal.
Dec. 17, 1915
My Dear Comrade:
You, who know all things, will understand why I have hesitated to ask this of you. You have been so kind to me, I could not impose you’re your beautiful spirit of service If, without...
June 9th, 1929.
Dear Mr. Markham:
I have been keeping your letter (as I know you are not home yet,) waiting for the Bush of Brotherhood to blossom so I could send you some of the leaves. And that is well for now I can tell you more of Dr. Scott’s...
Envelope and eight-page manuscript copy of a letter from Gerrit Smith Peterboro [New York] to John Cochrane dated July 20, 1860, discussing Smith's libel suit against Royal Phelps and others.
Erie Canal; New York (State); New York; Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848; Syracuse (N.Y.); Salina (N.Y.); Packet boats; Travel and description; Forests; Mosquitoes.
Page 154 found in Chapter twelve in Volume one of Marryat's A Diary in America. Plagued by swarms of mosquitoes, the traveler arrives at Syracuse. He comments about the names of American cities: "I do detest these old names vamped up. Why do not...
The old D. & H. Canal looking west beyond a road crossing where a women and a younger girl sit along the railings and to the right a man stands in the back of an early 20th century convertible automobile. The road crossing connects travelers from...