Letter, 1919 August 22, Garden City, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin]Markham, [Staten Island] / Russell Doubleday. 1919.

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Letter, 1919 August 22, Garden City, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin]Markham, [Staten Island] / Russell Doubleday. 1919.

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Sends royalty statement and states that the new book would stimulate the interest and hopes that he does work on a new book.

1 p. ; 22 cm.

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949

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Doubleday, Page & Co.

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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 ...