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...
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...
October 2, 1922.
Dear A.C.M.,
I’m enclosing you a note which you may or may not read as you choose, at the October meeting. I feel sure that I have already sent you, either in my letter of resignation, or in some other, a message concerning Mr....
May 1st, 1906
Dear Mr. Markham:
The package about which you have been written, came to light and is going to you today. Two copies of each of your books “The Man With The Hoe” and “Lincoln and Other Poems” are going to you by this post,...
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...
July 11, 1906
Dear Mr. Markham:
Besides our interest in “The Poetry of Jesus”, I now hear that you are doing some very remarkable work for the Cosmopolitan of which a book ought to be made. Won’t you surely let us have a chance at it?
Very...
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...
11 Cambridge Parade
Twickenham, April 26th 1910
Dear Mr. Markham,
As I am not in the mood for writing my next New Age article, I shall now send you a line, having, this morning received your letter of the 19th night. I am glad you sent me that...
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...
1501 S. Grand Ave
Los Angeles California,
March, 10, 1916
To My Dear Comrade Who Knows All Things:
I am so happy, happier than I have ever been in all my life, to think that my message is to reach the people; and that you are to write the...
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...
c/o Y.M.C.A., Baltimore, Md
23.5.14
Edwin Markham,
Dear friend & comrade,
Let me first thank you for the privilege & inspiration of hearing & meeting you here. As you spoke I seemed to see myself in a new light, & to know that at least I had found...
Unsigned and undated poem addressed "to the Rev. W. McLain," [probably Rev. William McLain, Secretary of the American Colonization Society] on the subject of slavery.
Random Thoughts, the annual literary journal of Queens College. 1998-1999. Published by the Queens College English Club. Presented in a single and dual-column layout mixing poetry and short prose, all of which are original works by Queens College...
Landscapes, 1959, Spring. A literary anthology mixing poetry, short fiction and plays in a single column layout with black and white illustrations. Published by Magazine & Periodical Printing & Publishing Co., Inc., 33 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn...
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...
N.Y., Jan. 24/02.
Dear Mr. Markham,
I was more than pleased to get your kind note, - the more so because I feel I hardly deserved it. The article is very superficial, and was written during a stress of other work. I am not particularly proud of...
February 5, 1916.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
92 Waters Avenue,
West New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York.
My dear Markham:-
I thank you for your beautiful letter and I assure you that it is deeply appreciated. There are only going to be a few who will...
Feb. 20, 1957
Dear Mr. Markham:
Thanks for your kind letter. I am glad to be in touch with you. I loved your father, and I defend his poetry whenever I have the chance..I have several of his poems autographed. I don’t need my letters to him, but...
UPTON SINCLAIR
PASADENA
CALIFORNIA
April 23, 1925.
To FRIENDS OF THE RADICAL AND LABOR MOVEMENT:
The American Fund for Public Service has voted to finance the publication of a series of standard works of literature and education in the service...
