Letter, 1908 September 14, Staten Island, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / George Dalton. 1908.

ArchivalResource

Letter, 1908 September 14, Staten Island, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / George Dalton. 1908.

Tells Markham he met Mr. Hones of Philadelphia who lined up a few people to edit a Juvenile Tales Series and would like him to be one of them. Sneds him also a list of the volumes so he can choose which one he would like to edit.

2 p. on 2 leaves ; 22 cm.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7547507

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v808sz (person)

California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...

Dalton, George

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6087nm5 (person)

Economist George Dalton was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 2, 1926. Much of Dalton's writing grew out of Polanyi's views on economics, especially in primitive and developing societies, and he became well known as a somewhat acerbic defender of Polanyi's approach to economic anthropology. Dalton's most widely-used book was Economic Systems and Society: Capitalism, Communism, and the Third World, published by Penguin in 1974. Dalton joined the faculty of Northwestern University...