Edwin Markham papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Correspondence; Religion; American mercury (New York, N.Y. : 1924); American poetry
Description: Correspondence, autobiographical notes, drafts and published versions of poems, notebooks of writings on poems and religion, and printed matter.  Includes an annotated typescript with a cover note by H. L. Mencken and page proofs from the American Mercury of Markham's poem, The Ballad of the Gallows-bird.  Correspondents include Amelia Josephine Burr, Frederic Lathrop Colver, William Griffith, Robert Underwood Johnson, Anna Catherine Markham, and George Sylvester Viereck.
Notes: Open to research.

Gifts, various donors, 1952-1956.

Transfer, various offices within the Library, 1929.

Reproduced with permission, Decca Lamar West, 1940.

Purchase, 1944-1987.

Poet and educator.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009215