Letter 1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Victor Robinson. 1900-1910.
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De Cleyre, Voltairine, 1866-1912
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Voltairine De Cleyre was an anarchist poet, lecturer, writer and teacher and a significant figure among the radicals of her day She was born in Leslie, Michigan on November 17, 1866. She lived in St. Johns, Michigan until 1880, when she was sent to a convent school in Sarnia, Ontario. After graduating from convent school, she became active in freethought circles, and then became interested in political change, moving from socialism to fervent anarchism. From the late 1880s until her death in ...
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 ...
Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947
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Victor Robinson (1886-1947), son of a Russian physician, was born in the Ukraine. He studied pharmacy at New York University and the New York College of Pharmacy and law at Columbia University. Robinson received his doctor of medicine degree from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (now Loyola University) in 1917. He founded the journal Medical Life, the first in the English language on the history of medicine, and helped organize the History of Science Society in 1924. In 1932 he photog...
