Letter,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. 1900-1910.

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Letter,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. 1900-1910.

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Martha is telling Markham she would like be there for the Poet's Birthday. He is going to be askes as a special gues of honor at the Gasrden Theatre. He will be notified. Mrs. Bass is going to seat us together. Martha wants Markham to be prepared with a speech or poem. She will be in "Ecstatic Island" next week to visit Mrs Little and she is hoping to see Markham then. She was sorry to hear about Mrs Kingsley's eyes and discusses her new apartment. Martha will be having a Shakespeare meeting.

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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