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...
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...
3/25/15.
Edwin Markham,
Editorial Dep’t.,
N.Y. Journal,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Comrade:
We hand you herewith the first Book-list (“A”) and graded groups of the best Radical books for Circulating Socialist Libraries which the People’s College...
Jan. 7/08
Dear Mr. Markham,
I am sending you under separate cover a letter from Mrs. Henry S[?], of Philadelphia. She is a Russian-Jewish lady – a great heart in a little lady.
They want to give you a hint of reception over there. There will be...
Poems----Autographed
20 copies The Man With The Hoe
10 Lincoln
Books Autographed
5 copies The Man With The Hoe and Other Poems
5 Eighty Songs at Eighty
(I want to start in a small way and see what I can do. The people like the books but they...
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...
Postcard is an embossed frame depicted as stage with a red curtain that is pulled up by gold ropes, with a raised American flag and an eagle at left. The border of the postcard is raised in red, while the background is colored in with pinkish beige...
View of packet dock, with a trolley crossing a bridge along with several buildings and a clocktower in the background. Some packet boats carrying cargo appear in the right foreground and people are walking nearby. To the right are more people and...
Feb’y 23rd, 1912.
Dear Comrade:
In response to many requests for publication we have now on the press Comrade William A. Prosser’s Open Letter and Challenge to Mr. Raymond Robins in answer to his attack on Socialism, as published in the...
March 9, 1910.
Under our present social system, all gifts, like the Rockefeller gift, are commendable. For they recognize the obligation of men to society, and the idea of social obligation is the most important of all ideas that can be impressed...
February 23, 1915.
Mrs. Catherine Markham,
West New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York.
My dear Mrs. Markham:-
Thank you for your kind letter with its information about Mr. Markham. I am glad that he is able to be in California to help with the...
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...
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...
Friday
Beloved Edwin Markham, Comrade of The Dawn, Brave Dreamer of Brave Dreams, Courageous Champion of The Oppressed, and World’s Greatest Living Poet,
Hail Brother:
Thank You! It is too good to be true that you are with us once more and that...
C/o Psychology Publishing Company
17 West 60th Street.
New York City.
June 15, 1926
Dear Mr. Markham,
A new monthly magazine is about to be born. Henry Knight Miller and Arthur H. Howland are behind it, and I am helping them to get it out. It is...
June 6/07.
Mr. Edward Markham,
Westerleigh, S.I.,
New York City
Esteemed Friend and Fellow Worker: I am sending you under separate cover a copy of Oklahoma’s New Constitution which I hope will meet with your approval. I have heard that the Boston...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc; Libraries; Reading; Military uniforms; Clothing & dress; Hats;
Transparency of a photograph of several students reading, one in uniform. It was believed to have been taken in the library in Jefferson Hall during World War II. It was published in People's College on the Hill: Fifty Years at Queens College,...
This postcard is dominated by a gathering of people on a dock adjacent to a passenger terminal on Lake Champlain. There are about 30 people, apparently in formal attire, and several carriages waiting to transport them. Printing information: card...
