[Letter] 1909 September 9 [to] Mrs. Markham
Title
[Letter] 1909 September 9 [to] Mrs. Markham
Subject
Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938
Earle, Ferdinand Piney
Herts, B. Russell (Benjamin Russell), b. 1888
Description
Abbott sends Mrs. Markham a photograph from the Westfield lunch party. Abbott also writes of Earle and is disheartened that Markham's name was mixed up in the situation.
Creator
Abbott, Leonard Dalton, 1878-1953
Source
Edwin Markham Archive, Horrmann Library
Date
9/9/1909
Contributor
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
Rights
Please contact the Horrmann Library at Wagner College for rights to use this digital image.
Format
image/jpeg
Language
eng
Type
Text
Identifier
AbbottL15
Text
Sept. 9/09
Dear Mrs. Markham,
Here is a little souvenir of the Westfield lunch-party. If you would like more of these photographs, either mounted or unmounted, I can get them at 25¢ apiece.
I am very sorry that Mr. Markham’s name was mixed up in this last Earle racket. Again, I must plead, Not Guilty! I would not talk to the reporters at all this time. Herts says he did not mention Mr. Markham’s name, so the reporters must have gotten their information from a little news item seen in the “Times Sat’y Review” in which it was noted that Mr. Markham had been “invited” to Haag’s party.
As for Earle, my feelings are very mixed. There is much that is lovable in him, but he is irresponsible and impossible. Yet I cannot disown him entirely; my relation to him has been too close.
He is the blundering creature of a transition epoch in which sex standards are changing.
Very cordially,
Leonard D. Abbott
Dear Mrs. Markham,
Here is a little souvenir of the Westfield lunch-party. If you would like more of these photographs, either mounted or unmounted, I can get them at 25¢ apiece.
I am very sorry that Mr. Markham’s name was mixed up in this last Earle racket. Again, I must plead, Not Guilty! I would not talk to the reporters at all this time. Herts says he did not mention Mr. Markham’s name, so the reporters must have gotten their information from a little news item seen in the “Times Sat’y Review” in which it was noted that Mr. Markham had been “invited” to Haag’s party.
As for Earle, my feelings are very mixed. There is much that is lovable in him, but he is irresponsible and impossible. Yet I cannot disown him entirely; my relation to him has been too close.
He is the blundering creature of a transition epoch in which sex standards are changing.
Very cordially,
Leonard D. Abbott
Data Digital
2009
Digitization Specifications
IBM ThinkCentre Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz running Windows XP Professional Version 2 Service Pack 2; Epson Expression 10000XL scanner; Master Scanner Settings: 24-bit RGB, 400 dpi resolution; File Format: TIFF; Compression: none; Reference Images resized and converted with Adobe Photoshop CS2 version 9.0.2: 8-bit RGB; 400 ppi resolution; Compressed jpeg.
Collection
Citation
Abbott, Leonard Dalton, 1878-1953 , “[Letter] 1909 September 9 [to] Mrs. Markham,” Edwin Markham Digital Archive, accessed May 8, 2024, https://markham.omeka.net/items/show/442.