Letter, 1904 October 17, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Elsa Barker. 1904.

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Letter, 1904 October 17, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Elsa Barker. 1904.

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Asks if he is familiar with "The Progessive Stage Society" and goes on to explain; she was the first member besides the president, Julius Hopp; wants to have a big reading session and include Hauptman's dream play "Hansel", also wants to have a reading with just Markham's poems; sends her most recent poem.

9 p. on 3 leaves ; 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 ...

Hopp, Julius, 1819-1885

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First performed in 1864; German libretto and music by Hopp; performed in Czech as Doktor Fousek a Markétka at the Švandovo Theatre in Prague, 23 March 1882. Cf. Grove music online; Urbánkúv věstník bibliografický, v. 3. From the description of Fousek a Markétka / arangoval Anges kaplnik [i.e. kapelnik] : manuscript, [1879?] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 778967310 ...