Letter, 1899 March 14, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Ambrose Bierce. 1899.

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Letter, 1899 March 14, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Ambrose Bierce. 1899.

Explains to Markham that he doesn't know whether Macmillan or McClure is better, because they all try to dictate to authors; says if he would have known that he wanted to put his book into the papaers before publications he would have gladly complied.

4 p. on 1 leaf ; 22 cm.

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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 ...

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

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Ambrose Bierce was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio, on June 24, 1842. After military service in the Civil War, he settled in San Francisco, where he met Mark Twain and became a columnist and writer. Bierce became known for his sharp, sarcastic wit while writing for the "Argonaut," the "Wasp," and the "San Francisco Examiner." A member of the Bohemian Club, he became acquainted with many of the prominent San Francisco authors. After his retirement Bierce traveled into Texas and toward Mexico, at a...