Letter : Detroit, Mich., to Robley Durham Stevens, Baltimore, Md., 1936 April 13.

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Letter : Detroit, Mich., to Robley Durham Stevens, Baltimore, Md., 1936 April 13.

Sends autograph; admires Edwin Markham and Carl Sandburg.

1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Stevens, Robley Durham,

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Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert), 1881-1959

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Guest was born Aug. 20, 1881 in Eng., the son of Edwin and Julia Guest. He graduated from Central High School in Detroit (Mich.) in 1897. He started writing when age 14. Guest worked as a newspaper man for the Detroit Free Press, 1895-1959. He did radio presentations and his verse was syndicated across the country. Guest married and had two children. He was frequently referred to as "The Poet of the Plain People". Guest died in 1959. (Information from Michigan Authors, pp. 146-147.) The Clarke H...