Letter 1917, July 1, Lyndonville, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Katherine Wellenkamp. 1917.

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Letter 1917, July 1, Lyndonville, New York [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Katherine Wellenkamp. 1917.

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Katherine is thanking Mr, M for his poem France in Battle-Flame. She would love for him to give it before the French Commission. She loved The Shoes of Happiness and Miss Helen Gray Cove was so delighted what you had written on the front page. She continuing her letter about Miss Grace Mills of the neighborhood Playhouse hearing Mrs. M speak there, About Miss Mills in a play, giving an out door play for the soldiers at Fort Niagaara, Mary Roberts Rhinehart was in the audience(she is writing an article for the gov't about life on a fort and asking for a Russian poem.

2 p. on 1 leaves ; 15 cm.

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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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 ...

Wellenkamp, Katherine.

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