Scope and Content Note
The papers of Edwin Markham (1852-1940) span the years circa 1893-1937. Included are correspondence, autobiographical notes, drafts and published versions of poems, an annotated typescript with a cover note by H. L. Mencken and page proofs from the American Mercury of "The Ballad of the Gallows-bird," printed matter, and notebooks containing handwritten notes on poems and religion. Notable correspondents include Amelia Josephine Burr, Frederic Lathrop Colver, William Griffith, Robert Underwood Johnson, Anna Catherine Markham, and George Sylvester Viereck.
The 2019 Addition comprises correspondence, poems in fair copy and working draft form, broadsides, photographs, a book of Markham's poetry, and other printed matter. Many of the fair copies have dedications; inscriptions include Andrew Carnegie, Charles Gallup, Mary Hurst Gould, John McSweeney, Jr., and Bromley Oxnam. Notable correspondence includes a letter from John Burroughs.