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Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1852-04-23 - 1940-03-07

Edwin Markham (1852-1940), American poet.
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Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Bangs family papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 47
Overview: Scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries. letters, and personal papers documenting the lives and careers of American humorist John Kendrick Bangs and his son, Francis Hyde Bangs.
Dates: 1881-1964
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bangs family papers

Basil Davenport papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 489
Overview: The Basil Davenport Papers consist chiefly of correspondence, including a substantial number of outgoing letters from Davenport to his family. The collection also contains Davenport's diaries, drafts of his writings and translations, printed material documenting his career and critical work, and personal papers including genealogical material.
Dates: 1899-1964
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Basil Davenport papers

Stuart Wells Jackson collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 957
Overview: The major part of these papers consists of a collection of facsimilies of letters, documents, and memorabilia by and about Abraham Lincoln collected by Stuart Wells Jackson (1875-1957). Several items are original, among them holograph poems on Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant and Edwin Markham. There is also a small amount of Jackson's personal correspondence from 1902-1949.
Dates: 1771-1949
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Stuart Wells Jackson collection

Letter : 201 West 108 St., N.Y.C., to Mrs. Elizabeth Meeker, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking her for a birthday gift and discussing a reading he has just given at the Arts Association of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : 261 Steuben Street, Brooklyn, to Henry Troth, 1899 November 9

 Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 28
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Autograph letter, signed, from Markham agreeing to take 10% of the sales Troth earns from selling photographs of him. Accompanied by a black and white photograph of Markham with ink stamp on verso: “International, 226 William St., New York”.
Dates: 1899 November 9
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : 261 Steuben Street, Brooklyn, to Henry Troth, 1899 October 23

 Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 29
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Autograph letter, signed, from Markham telling Troth he likes the idea of selling photographs of himself.
Dates: 1899 October 23
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : 545 Third Street, Brooklyn, New York, to Mrs. Ward, 1900 February 20

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-9
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS concerning some of Markham's poetry set to music. With clippings.
Dates: 1900 February 20
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : 545 Third Street, Brooklyn, to Herbert F. Gunnison, 1900 February 14

 Part of Collection — Box: 98, Folder: 14
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates: 1900 February 14
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : 92 Waters Avenue, West New Brighton, New York, to Professor Leon Feraru, 1917 October 6

 Part of Collection — Box: 96, Folder: 3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates: 1917 October 6
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : Doremi Manor, Northport, Long Island, to Elizabeth, 1928 December 25

 Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 31
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Autograph letter, signed, expressing his love to Elizabeth.
Dates: 1928 December 25
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : Landing, New Jersey, to Hamilton Holt, 1904 Oct 7

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-8
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS asking for the latest deadline for sending a poem, and inviting Holt to spend a weekend later in the month.
Dates: 1904 Oct 7
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : Landing, New Jersey, to Joaquin Miller, 1906 September 12

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-10
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS, on printed letterhead of the Child Labor Federation, 1789 Broadway, New York, inviting Miller to visit him in Landing.
Dates: 1906 September 12
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : Swanee, Oklahoma, to Ann [Markham?], 1935 Jan 11

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS written during a lecture tour, probably to his wife, discussing his health, the recipient's health, and the need to lay by money for their old age.
Dates: 1935 Jan 11
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : West New Brighton, New York, to Mr. Hagedorn, 1925 February 24

 Part of Collection — Box: 98, Folder: 13
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates: 1925 February 24
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : West New Brighton, N.Y., to Marjorie Browne, 1929 Aug 7

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS offering advice to a young poet, thanking her for sending him her poems and a drawing.
Dates: 1929 Aug 7
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, to Elsa Barker, 1926 October

 Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 30
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter, signed, from Markham asking if he can include Barker's poem "When I Am Dead and Sister to the Dust" in a book of poetry he is compiling and editing. Includes a manuscript note at the bottom of the sheet.
Dates: 1926 October
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : Westerleigh, Staten Island, N. Y., to Robertus Love, 1905 June 19

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-11
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS declining an invitation.
Dates: 1905 June 19
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter : Westerleigh, Staten Island, N.Y., to Dr. Frederick W. Speirs, Editor "Booklover's Magazine", 1905 Mar 29

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking him for sending a copy of "Booklover's Magazine."
Dates: 1905 Mar 29
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letter: 92 Waters Avenue, West New Brighton, to Elbert Hubbard II, 1922 May 22

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-7
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Typed note making plans to attend the Roycroft Convention in July.

Accompanied by a photograph of Markham in [Dawson's?] Book Shop, 1933 Nov, with an unidentified man.
Dates: 1922 May 22
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940

Letters : to Walter Blackburn Harte and to Mrs. Walter Blackburn Harte, [18]95-1903

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 496, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Three ALS to Walter Blackburn Harte from Tompkins School, Oakland, 1895-98, regarding Harte's literary periodical ventures, mentioning briefly "The Man with the Hoe;" one TLS to Mrs. Harte from Wester- leigh, Staten Island, 1903 Dec 1, discussing W. B. Harte's manuscript, "Pan and the Puritan," and Harte's work in general.
Dates: [18]95-1903
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MARKHAM, EDWIN, 1852-1940