Letter 1900, December 14, Boston, Mass. [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Benjamin Orange. 1900.

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Letter 1900, December 14, Boston, Mass. [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Benjamin Orange. 1900.

Benjamin recieved pages of the New York Journal containing his to poems. I would like some data on your life.I have enclosed a letter from my frend Prof. Stimson from the Art & Science Institute of Trenton N.J.

1 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-25 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7541206

Wagner College, Horrmann 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 ...

Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange), 1858-1918

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