ALS, 1898 August 2 : the Tompkins School, Oakland, to Mrs. Briggs.

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ALS, 1898 August 2 : the Tompkins School, Oakland, to Mrs. Briggs.

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Markham introduces himself as a school principal with one of the best libraries in California, naming the best writers on New Church thought. "I have been a student of Swedenborg, and ... find him the Copernicus of religious thought." Signed Charles Edwin Markham.

3 p. ; 20 x 15 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

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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 ...