Letter, 1904 October 27, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Elsa Barker. 1904.

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Letter, 1904 October 27, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Elsa Barker. 1904.

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Thanks for note of congratulations; says she is especially proud of her "Century" poem; asks him to come and see her when he is in the city; the Progessive Stage Society are planning to bring out a play of hers.

3 p. on 1 leaf ; 22 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 ...

Barker, Elsa, 1869-1954

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Elsie Barker was born in Leicester, Vermont in 1869 to Albert Galvin Barker and Louise Maria (Taylor) Barker. When she was 13, her father died. The following year, as she related, she put on long skirts and took a teaching job elsewhere in Vermont, but came home on weekends and played with her dolls. At 16, she left teaching and learned telegraphy. At 18, she learned shorthand by taking night courses and became a private secretary first in Boston and then New York City ...