Letter 1899 October 24, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Geneviene Lucile Farnell. 1899.

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Letter 1899 October 24, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Geneviene Lucile Farnell. 1899.

She loved his poem "The Muse of Brotherhood". She discusses her feeling about the poem. She wants him to meet Mrs. Morgan and wants to make arrangements.

3 p. on 2 leaf ; 15 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7541542

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 ...

Farnell Geneviene Lucile.

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