Letter 1917, May 17, New YorkCity [to] Mrs. Edwin Markham, [Staten Island] / Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson. 1917.

Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938

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Wife of Edwin Markham and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. From the description of Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184905008 ...

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962

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Poet. Married Una Call Kuster in 1913. From the description of Papers of Robinson Jeffers, 1924-1941 (bulk 1924-1926). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130961 Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was an American poet and dramatist. Born in Pittsburgh in 1887, he graduated from Occidental College in 1905. He married Una Call Jeffers (1884-1950) in 1913, and they had three children. His inspiration came from his wife, their home that he built in 1919, Tor House, and the rugged Big Sur...

Porter, Bruce, 1865-1953

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Bruce Porter was a San Francisco writer and artist. He founded and edited the literary magazine "The Lark." As an artist he worked as a painter in oils, printmaker, and stained glass windows. He was also a photographer and a landscape architect. Porter was one of the original Russian Hill Bohemians. From the description of Bruce Porter papers : additions, 1883-1976. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 52692794 American author. From the descr...

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

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American author and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was educated as an engineer and worked briefly for a railroad. He taught topographical drawing between 1891 and 1894 at the University of California, Berkeley until he lost his position after deliberately toppling a campus statue he found to be an eyesore. Burgess founded the Lark, a humour magazine based in San Francisco, published from 1895 to 1897. Burgess created nonsense rhymes and cartoons such as "The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Myt...

Gayley, Charles Mills, 1858-1932

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Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881

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American Congregational clergyman, father of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, 1830-1907 From the guide to the Leonard Bacon letters and carte-de-visite, 1842, 1845, 1861, 1881, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Wilkinson, Marguerite, 1883-1928

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Marguerite Wilkinson was a Canadian-American poet and anthologist, also well-known as a commentator on the work of other poets. From the description of Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson correspondence, 1912-1928 (bulk 1919). (Middlebury College). WorldCat record id: 695094456 Author. From the description of Letters of Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson [manuscript] 1924-1926. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805908 ...

Millard, Bailey, 1859-1941

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Bailey Millard (1859-1941) was born in Markesan, Wisconsin. Much of his education was obtained as a printer's devil and tramp printer. He worked his way west through a succession of newspaper and printing shops. In the 1890s he was city editor or literary editor of the San Francisco Call and the Examiner, and in 1918-1919 was managing editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin . From 1913-1914 he was managing editor of Munsey's of NY. In San Francisco he was acquainted with and published a suc...

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...

Smith, Clark Ashton, 1893-1961

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Clark Ashton Smith was an author of poetry and later of fantastic fiction in pulp magazines. He began correspondence with another author Samuel Loveman in 1913 that would last until 1941. Loveman also acquired skills in book dealing and eventually set up his own shop, the Bodley Gallery (Bodley Press) in the 1930's. From the description of Clark Ashton Smith letters : to Samuel Loveman, 1913-1941. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 50825411 Clark Ashto...

Phillips, Charles, 1787?-1859

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Keeler, Charles Augustus, 1871-1937

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Poet, adventurer, naturalist, and artist Charles Augustus Keeler was born in Milwaukee, and spent his teen-aged years in California. He attended the University of California, and took a position with the California Academy of Sciences; he joined the Sierra Club, and published books on natural sciences. He next focused on poetry, and published several books of verse, as well as drama. He made a trip around Cape Horn, and in 1899 took part in the Harriman Expedition to Alaska, where he befriended ...

Sterling, George, 1869-1926

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California poet. From the description of Papers of George Sterling [manuscript] 1910-27. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944409 American poet. From the description of To Ruth Chatterton : typed poem signed, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445441 From the description of Letter, San Francisco, Ca. to Norbert Hyatt, Hartford, Ct. [manuscript] 1922 March 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944413 George Sterli...

Irwin, Wallace, 1876-1959

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Author. From the description of Wallace Irwin papers, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983978 ...