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Creator
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Markham
Physical description
465 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, a notebook, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Edwin Markham was an American poet, lecturer, and editor.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, a notebook, and correspondence. The manuscripts include holographs and holograph drafts of poems. There is also an incomplete review of Anne Shannon Monroe's novel "Behind the Ranges," written partly in the hand of the author and partly in the hand of Anna Catherine Markham; a holograph poem by George Sterling, "To Edwin Markham on his 70th birthday, April 23, 1922"; drafts for Markham's anthology of biographical sketches of eleven English poets; and agreements, forms, and statements from the American Play Co.; as well as other manuscript material and a notebook. The typescripts include early and later drafts of poems; an incomplete, emended typescript of the autor's introduction to "Edgar Allan Poe"; drafts of "Lincoln, the man and the martyr"; and proofs of three sketches of Markham for "Who's who in America," vol. 17, 1932-33. The correspondence includes letters from the author to Ambrose Bierce, Eugene Brewster, Babette Deutsch, Professor L. Dupont Doyle that includes materials on Ambrose Bierce; to Leonore Mackay; to Robert Mackay; to Percival Pollard, and others. There are also letters from J. T. Graves to Anna C. Markham; from Anna C. Markham to Ambrose Bierce; from S. S. McClure to Leonore Mackay; and from Bernard Shaw to Sir John Collings Squire relating to the author. There is a letter to Markham from the Madison Square Garden Gymnasium in New York City, dated 1923.

The Edwin Markham collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials is from Leonora Mackay, W. T. H. Howe, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg. Other materials are from Mrs. Marie Collins Rooney, the files of the American Play Co., and from George Sterling's letters to Edward F. O'Day.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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