Letter, 1929 October 23, New York City [to] [Mr. Edwin Markham], Beloved bard, Staten Island / Alice Hunt Bartlett. 1929.

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Letter, 1929 October 23, New York City [to] [Mr. Edwin Markham], Beloved bard, Staten Island / Alice Hunt Bartlett. 1929.

Tells him that the poems are going to the judges today ... It is a beautiful sonnet and a winner. Signs off as a devoted disciple.

1 p. ; 28 cm.

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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 ...

Bartlett, Alice Hunt, 1870-1949.

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